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Style and 13th Street to depart Fetch TV

NBC-U owned channels are winding down.

Two channels will be leaving the Fetch TV platform at the end of December.

NBC-U owned channels Style and 13th Street will be discontinued. This follows similar changes at Foxtel around NBC-U content.

A Fetch TV spokesperson told TV Tonight, “Style and 13th Street will be exiting the market at the end of the year, so will no longer be available on Fetch.

“We are still looking into what we do next with the channel packs, so don’t have any update on that just yet.”

There are no changes advised to Universal and Syfy.

19 Responses

    1. Greedy? They have invested billions of dollars in their platform and last year made a half a billion dollar loss. They are simply trying to reposition and reduce costs so they can make some return on their investment. I could understand them being called greedy if they were making significant profits, but they aren’t.

  1. I spoke to syfy today they said they are closing down aswell December 31st on fetch and will no longer be broadcasting due to Foxtel creating there own channel. They are keeping there Facebook only for syfy news apparently

    1. Oh that’s annoying, the reason I went to fetch originally was because Foxtel removed syfy from their steaming version and Fetch still had it available.

  2. As far as I, concerned, Foxtel rebranding everything to Fox this and Fox that in a move to block out competitors is anti-competitive, and the ACCC should take a hard long look at this. What next Fox Earth, Fox Discovery, Fox Nat Geo,

    1. It’s Foxtel’s platform that they have invested billions of dollars in. They can do whatever they want within the law. Nothing anti competitive about renaming channels. There are plenty of non Foxtel owned channels on the platform …. Sky Racing, ESPN, BeIn, EuroSports etc etc

      1. Yes, they can do what they want within the law, however it’s not always the case just renaming the channels, sometimes they bring the whole operation in-house (movies) to cut costs and have more control over what is put on (more repeats) and that’s not good for the consumer paying a premium.

        1. There are plenty of other choices available i.e. plenty of competition if you are not happy with the direction Foxtel is heading. We aren’t and used to pay Foxtel $165 per month for Platinum and 3 boxes. We now pay them $74 and pay separately for Hulu, Disney +, Netflix and Amazon Prime. Gives us pretty much everything we watch for around $110 per month across a family of 4 (plus a few hangers on) with a lot more choice, variety and better picture quality than what we were getting from Foxtel. Next logical step is probably to drop Foxtel and get Kayo instead once the current contract expires.

      2. Telstra invested the billions of dollars in the platform and got shafted, they are looking to recover what they can from the sale. And the platform is going; the NBN has the cable. Foxtel is moving to contracted satellite and streaming delivery.

        There are a declining number of independent channels. And Disney is now streaming EPSN. Eurosport is mostly cycling, and now snooker. BeIn has European soccer that Optus hasn’t locked up. There isn’t enough margin to fund Foxtel, independent channels and content rights, so the middle has to go.

    1. Foxtel is starting up its own crime and SF channels with rights bought form Universal. Most of the first run stuff on 13th Street e.g. Vera and Endeavour which Seven passed on, has gone to the ABC. Reruns of Frankie Drake are on 72, reruns DCI Banks, Midsomer Murders etc. are ubiquitous (Gem, 72, ABC, UK TV, probably others).

      I won’t miss 13th Street.

  3. I waited years for fetch to have 13th Street now it’s going didn’t foxtel have to share those channels after licensing agreements ended, (some accc list 2012) so a new agreement with nbcu and a foxtel rebrand of 13th Street to fox crime channel or whatever, makes that list nullified, I just don’t get it.

    1. Foxtel aren’t allowed to exclusively licence certain channels (including 13th street) unless a competitor seeks an exclusive licence to those channels. I’ve seen nothing in the coverage of the NBCUniversal deal to suggest the content previously on 13th street has been licenced exclusively.

      There was never anything stopping NBCUniversal scrapping their channel.

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