SCRIPPS NETWORKS INTERACTIVE, INC. 
WARSAW (Reuters) - U.S. Scripps Networks Interactive (SNI) (>> Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.), which agreed to buy control in TVN (>> TVN SA), wants to call on other shareholders at the Polish broadcaster to sell it the remaining shares all at once, SNI was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
"We want to do it in one shot, but this will depend on whether investors are interested in selling us the shares at the proposed price," SNI's development director Joseph NeCastro told daily Parkiet.
"We already have the price that we want to propose and if investors don't accept it we will buy only those shares we can, and decide what to do next."
SNI is awaiting regulatory approval for its March purchase of a 52.7 percent stake in TVN, one of Poland's two largest private broadcasters, for 584 million euros ($654 million).
Scripps is required under Polish law to launch a tender to increase its stake to at least 66 percent within three months of completion of the stake buy.
It has said it wanted to buy all the remaining shares and delist TVN, but investors were not certain SNI would do it in one call.
SNI's takeover deal valued TVN at around $1.84 billion, or around 20.5 zlotys per share, according to Reuters calculations.
Scripps, a newcomer to the Polish market which owns the Travel Channel and the Food Network, said it assumed a price of 20 zlotys per TVN share in the planned tender call, but has not set the price officially.
(Reporting by Adrian Krajewski; Editing by Christian Lowe)
