Leo Kirch’s digital pay-TV package Premiere World is to get some unexpected competition: Dusseldorf-based media house Rheinische Post plans to enter the German pay-TV market. Media company Deutsche Fernsehnachrich-ten Agentur (DFA), in which Rheinische Post owns a large stake, has applied for several licences for digital pay-TV channels at regional media authority Landesanstalt fur Rundfunk Nordrhein-Westfalen. No details are known about the content of the pay-TV services. DFA already owns stakes in several TV channels, including n-tv, NBC Europe/GIGA-TV and CNN Germany.
