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Monday, July 7, 2025

DirecTV responds to TATT directive

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Di­recTV has changed its pro­gramme line up even though it has not had to pull out il­le­gal chan­nels. This fol­lows re­cent moves by the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of T&T (TATT) to en­sure that sub­scrip­tion tele­vi­sion providers are com­pli­ant with in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty tights for this re­gion

Di­recTV gen­er­al man­ag­er Bernard Pan­tin told the T&T Guardian the com­pa­ny "has al­ready be­gun re-pack­ag­ing our pro­gramme line-ups to re­flect the more than 20 ad­di­tion­al chan­nels we have added dur­ing 2015. We ex­pect that many cus­tomers will now find this at­trac­tive."

Pan­tin was crit­i­cal of TATT's ac­tions, say­ing it was eight years too late. He said Di­recTV had been ful­ly com­pli­ant since Oc­to­ber 2014 and this means "there are no chan­nels which are be­ing broad­cast il­le­gal­ly or re­quire re­moval."

He added: "Many cus­tomers have al­ready ex­pressed pub­lic out­rage for be­ing mis­led by the providers. We ex­pect that there will be a lot of switch­ing in the mar­ket and we look for­ward to pro­vid­ing cus­tomers with an al­ter­na­tive qual­i­ty choice."

In a pub­lic ad­vi­so­ry last week, TATT said the clamp down was nec­es­sary to en­sure T&T is com­pli­ant with in­ter­na­tion­al prop­er­ty treaties and agree­ments. Pan­tin said T&T has been placed on a Unit­ed States Trade Re­port (US­TR) Spe­cial 301 watch list.

"We have made the point to TATT that all il­le­gal broad­cast­ing should cease im­me­di­ate­ly. We there­fore be­lieve that the chan­nels should be tak­en down no lat­er than Sep­tem­ber 15," he said.


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