Thursday, November 1, 2007

HOT pulls the plug on CNN

In a surprise move, HOT Television terminated its contract with CNN on Thursday, despite saying on Tuesday that it would continue to broadcast the international news channel at least until November 10th.
"The decision to end our contract with CNN comes after the network's chief executive in the Middle Eastern region, Ron Ciccone, refused to come to Israel to negotiate with us," said Yossi Lubaton, HOT's Vice President of marketing. "We feel that they never took seriously the negotiations and did not make an offer reasonable enough to allow us to enter into serious negotiations." For the full article, click on the link below...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380704761&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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