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Sep 30, 2011 News
– To go off air from Monday; workers to be laid off
CNS TV Channel Six has been ordered off the air for four months starting Monday, owner Chandra Narine Sharma said today after meeting President Bharrat Jagdeo.
This means that what is arguably the country’s most watched television station would be off the air during this elections season. National and general elections are constitutionally due by December 28, and Sharma said he would seek an early meeting with the new president to see if the ban could be cut short.
The suspension came on the advice given to the President by the Advisory Committee on Broadcasting regarding a commentary by Anthony Vieira, which was aired on the station on May 4.
The ACB had originally recommended an eight-month suspension, Sharma said, but Jagdeo said he was being “lenient” by cutting the recommended suspension time in half. President Jagdeo holds the portfolio of Minister of Information.
Sharma said the President told him and his wife that they were responsible for the suspension since they knew of the contents of the offending programme, but was only suspending the station’s license for a month given consideration to their financial obligations.
When he emerged out of the meeting, Sharma said his staff, which numbers over 30, would be out of a job.
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