Sentence examples for closed broadcasters from inspiring English sources

"The [Chávez] administration has also blocked critical coverage, closed broadcasters, sued reporters for defamation, excluded those it deems unfriendly from official events, and harassed with the help of government allies and state-run media critical journalists," CPJ wrote in a report last year.

This has unlimited power to close broadcasters and newspapers, confiscate equipment, withdraw licenses and impose fines.

• To the Sports Editor: I have been listening to Yankees baseball games since the 1940s, and John Sterling is the closest broadcaster to Mel Allen I have heard.

The government has closed pro-Zelaya broadcasters.

"We and our broadcasters closed down 700 during last summer's series against India.

The decision to close the broadcaster had initially risked breaking apart the deeply divided coalition, with Mr Samaras's key allies threatening to revolt.

The decision to close the broadcaster rattled Greece's weak governing coalition, and talks Wednesday evening to avert a collapse were inconclusive.

Political tensions in Greece, where the government made the controversial decision to close state broadcaster ERT, and in Turkey added to the general uncertainty.

Evangelos Venizelos and Fotis Kouvelis, the socialist and leftwing leaders who are junior partners in the coalition, have demanded he revoke the legislative decree used to close the broadcaster and start a new restructuring process.That is unlikely to happen.

11.24am BST EC issues statement on ERT closure Back to the closure of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), and the European Commission has issued a statement on the attempts to close the broadcaster.

ERT journalists, who refused to allow prime minister Antonis Samaras to silence the broadcaster for the first time in more than 70 years, have been able to keep an unbroken news service going since Tuesday when the Conservative-led coalition government announced it was closing the broadcaster with immediate effect.