Open Source "TV Browser" project drops 16 channel listings in face of usage fees
{{date|December 22, 2007}}

The electronic programme guide, TV-Browser, announced their intention to remove 16 private tv-channels on January 1st, 2008. These include the German channels [[w:ProSieben|ProSieben]], [[w:RTL Television|RTL Television]] and [[w:Sat.1|Sat.1]].

According to a press release by the TV-Browser team, the collecting society VG Media plans to collect a usage fee for channel-program-data in EPGs beginning next year. Users will be charged between 0.02 and 0.04 € cents per page-view with a minimum fixed fee of at least 2000€.

The Open-Source-project can not and does not wish to pay this fee; developers are considering showing certain programme highlights from the channels in question.

A petition has been started to convince VG Media to abandon this charge fee.

== Sources ==
{{Translated Wikinews|wiki=de|title=Nutzungsgebühren für Programmdaten: Open-Source-Projekt TV-Browser  entfernt Privatsender|language=German}}

*{{source|url=http://www.tvbrowser.org/content/view/122/1/lang,de_DE/
|title=Eine gute und eine schlechte Nachricht...
|author= TV-Browser-Team
|pub=tvbrowser.org
|date=December 16, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/100663
|title=Open-Source-Projekt nimmt 16 Sender aus seinem "TV-Browser"
|author= anw/c't
|pub=heise.de
|date=December 16, 2007}}

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The electronic programme guide, TV-Browser, announced their intention to remove 16 private tv-channels on January 1st, 2008. These include the German channels ProSieben, RTL Television and Sat.1.

According to a press release by the TV-Browser team, the collecting society VG Media plans to collect a usage fee for channel-program-data in EPGs beginning next year. Users will be charged between 0.02 and 0.04 € cents per page-view with a minimum fixed fee of at least 2000€.

The Open-Source-project can not and does not wish to pay this fee; developers are considering showing certain programme highlights from the channels in question.

A petition has been started to convince VG Media to abandon this charge fee.

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