{"id":9582,"date":"2018-06-13T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T14:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/viasat-world-scores-upc-carriage-epic-drama-channel\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T16:38:59","slug":"viasat-world-scores-upc-carriage-for-epic-drama-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/viasat-world-scores-upc-carriage-for-epic-drama-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat World Scores UPC Carriage for Epic Drama Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viasat World is rolling out its pay-TV channel Epic Drama on UPC\u2019s platforms in Poland, Romania and Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>The carriage pact with UPC adds 1.5 million subscriptions to the brand&#8217;s footprint across the CEE region. Epic Drama launched in December 2017 and has more than 60 operators now carrying the pay-TV channel and SVOD offering on their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>In Poland, Epic Drama will join Viasat World\u2019s other channels\u2014Polsat Viasat History, Polsat Viasat Explore and Polsat Viasat Nature\u2014in the Max package (but will be available to a wider audience by virtue of an open window at launch). In Hungary, it will reside in the Digital Gold package, with Viasat History\/Nature HD and Viasat Explore also in the lineup. Subscribers to the DVBC tier in Romania are also set to receive the channel, in addition to Viasat History, Viasat Explore, Viasat Nature and TV1000. An Epic Drama SVOD offering will be available in all three markets at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Groocock, acting VP of commercial affairs at Viasat World, said: \u201cWith its expertly curated programming, Epic Drama has already been a huge success with audiences in Poland, Romania and Hungary and we look forward to building on this success by also making it available to UPC\u2019s customers in each of these territories going forward. Our long-standing relationship with UPC is set to flourish further still with Epic Drama joining our other channels on the UPC platforms. With more fantastic content deals in the pipeline, we are confident that audiences will continue to be blown away by the top-quality programming they find at their fingertips.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viasat World is rolling out its pay-TV channel Epic Drama on UPC\u2019s platforms in Poland, Romania and Hungary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":9583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[2155,2544,1571],"class_list":["post-9582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-epic-drama","tag-upc","tag-viasat-world","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Viasat World Scores UPC Carriage for Epic Drama Channel - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/viasat-world-scores-upc-carriage-for-epic-drama-channel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Viasat World Scores UPC Carriage for Epic Drama Channel - 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