I wasn’t a frequent user of Zattoo, as the channels available and their quality were simply to poor. Today I was cleaning up my app folder on my Mac, and decided that I would give it a try. A link appeared in the application window:

We’re sorry to have to inform you that we have temporarily closed access to Zattoo in Norway as of February 13. Here are the reasons for why we’re taken this step:

In Norway, Zattoo is not yet big enough to allow us to make enough revenues from advertising to cover the costs of running Zattoo there. In the current economic climate we don’t have the resources to grow the service sufficiently to make it more attractive for advertisers. This is unfortunately no time for losses and for experiments. Rather, it’s a time to calculate one’s earnings and expenses and consolidate. We calculated and realized that keeping our service up and running in Norway would cost us too much money for the time being. Just like all other companies we plan to get through this difficult year intact, in order to bloom again in 2010 and do all the things that we are so excited about doing, which includes offering online TV in your country.

To our users from Norway.