HIC TV leaving Globecast on Feb 28th

[croat]

Appearantly, HIC is leaving Globecast platform at the end of this month

Anyone have info about what's going ?

[Darkman]

ya.. seems to be like that .. looking at the info i posted in this thread:
http://www.sadoun.net/forums/croatia...-7-2006-a.html

[HRT-America]

March 2006

Announcement by the Croatian Information Center Regarding HIC’s Satellite Program.

The Croatian Information Center has temporarily stopped broadcasting the HIC satellite TV program for the United States and Canada as of February 28 2006. We began broadcasting our program on December 23 2003 and broadcasting has been continuous throughout the entire period.
The basic reason for the temporary stop to program broadcasting is insufficient protection (coding) of the signal, which GlobeCast has failed to implement on time. Therefore, we found ourselves in a difficult and unfavorable position with regard to the collection of subscription fees, which were inadequate to finance the program.

The Croatian Information Center is an independent, non-government and non-political organization whose only revenues are those from subscription fees and donations.

We hope that these technical problems will soon be resolved and that we will be back together with you in a short while. Until that time, we can keep in touch thanks to the 24-hour Hrvatski Narodni radio program, brought to you by the Croatian Information Center and Narodni radio.

Sincere Regards,

HIC Management

CROATIAN Verision:
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Ožujak 2006.

Objava Hrvatskog informativnog centra o satelitskom programu HIC-a
Hrvatski informativni centar je privremeno prestao emitirati HIC-satelitski TV program za Sjedinjene Države i Kanadu 28. veljače 2006. god. Program smo počeli emitirati 23. prosinca 2003. god. i naše emitiranje kroz sve ovo vrijeme je bilo kontinuirano.

Osnovni razlog za privremenu obustavu emitiranja programa je nedovoljno zaštićenost signala (kodiranja) koje GlobeCast nije uspio na vrijeme napraviti pa smo time došli u poziciju teške i nedovoljne pretplatničke naplate čija je svota svakim mjesecom postajala sve niža od one koja je potrebna za samofinanciranje programa.

Hrvatski informativni centar je nevladina, nestranačka i samostalna organizacija čiji su jedini prihodi pretplate i donacije.
Nadamo se da će uskoro ovi tehnički problemi biti riješeni i da ćemo ponovno biti s Vama. Do to g vremena neka naša veza bude 24-satni program Hrvatskog Narodnog radija koji za Vas zajednički emitira Hrvatski informativni centar i Narodni radio.

Uz pozdrav do ponovnog i skorog viđenja,

Uprava HIC-a

For more information about CroatianTV in America, please visit www.croatiantv-america.com

[vj9999]

I understand that brodcasting the signal cost money, but asking for coding of signal for programming like this is ridiculous. Programming HIC has to offer should be free. I understand HTV programming being scrambled since they show movies, sports, etc. HIC however benefits more from being FTA and offereing Croatian people in diaspora a free way too keep in touch with their homeland.

Just my 2 cents.

[vj9999]

Scratch that. I missed the "The Croatian Information Center is an independent, non-government and non-political organization whose only revenues are those from subscription fees and donations." in the post

I thought it was a goverment founded entity. I can see why they would want a subscription.