NTV-Plus to end 3D broadcast in 2016

TVBEurope.com reports that Russian DTH platform NTV-Plus is to cease broadcasting of its 3D channel NTV-Plus 3D on January 1.

It will also stop offering its subscribers five other channels: Fight Club on December 25 and Kinosoyuz, HD Kino 2, Kinoreys 1 and Kinoreys 2 on January 1.

DTH reportedly did not see any prospects for further developing the 3D channel.

The news comes after the head of Gazprom Media announced that the company had decided to reduce the number of sports channels in its portfolio from 20 to 12. Following this, there were plans to use all possible synergies through a unified purchase system and the use of TV rights.

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