The Danish Maritime and Commercial Court delivers a judgment on restrictive conditions imposed by a TV provider to its distributors (Viasat)

On 6 January 2012, The Danish Maritime and Commercial Court delivered its judgment in the long running Viasat case. This note gives a brief overview of the process and facts of the case, and then comments on the perspectives on the case. Background The case concerns Viasat Broadcasting UK Ltd.'s ("Viasat") business terms in regards to the transmission and supply of its Danish TV channels, TV3, TV3+ and TV3 Puls to cable television associations and commercial distributors of cable TV in Denmark. The business terms included a placement condition which entailed that the distributors could only distribute TV3 and TV3+ if the channels were placed in the same package as other commercial TV channels (i.e. the so-called medium TV-package); in Denmark