Joiz does not start until the end of March
The youth television channel Joiz will go on the air later than planned. The launch has been postponed from February 28 to March 28. The reason for this is the lack of a fiber-optic connection in the station’s building in Zurich-Oerlikon, which is necessary for streaming.
With the postponed start of broadcasting, the channel will lose advertising revenue for a month. Co-founder Kurt Schaad told the Sonntag newspaper that this time will be used to prepare even better for the launch. "We're not entirely happy about it," CEO Alexander Mazzara told the Sonntagszeitung. However, he did not want to say what costs are associated with the postponement. Swisscom and Cablecom are in the process of installing the fiber optic network, Mazzara continued.
These are not the first distribution problems the channel has had to contend with. At the end of last year, Cablecom announced that it wanted to include Joiz in its digital offering, but not in its analog offering. The Federal Office of Communications (Bakom) issued the cable network operator with a Connection concession to also distribute the television channel on the analog network. Cablecom then submitted a Appeal to the Federal Administrative Court. The dispute is pending.
