TELEVISION BUSINESS
Foul Play?
The partnership between Lippo and Astro in Direct Vision is in danger of breaking up. The two business giants take turns reporting each other to the police.
August 26, 2008
JOHANNES Leonardo Gessing was extremely annoyed. The British football Premier League was no longer broadcast by the television station that he subscribed to, Astro Nusantara. Without it, the employee at a private company in Jakarta started to unsubscribe. He didn’t care about the other channels. “Without the Premier League, what’s the point of continuing the subscription?” he said, last week.
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