Shortly after the general manager of the leading cable TV company, Telecable Nacional announced the Comisión Nacional de Espectáculos Públicos y Radiofonía had no jurisdiction over the cable companies and thus could not ban their placing national advertisements on their international cable channels, the commission revoked its ban. The measure had primarily affected Telecable Nacional, the leading cable station in Santo Domingo. Hoy newspaper commented in the Coctelera column that RD$40 million a year was at stake in advertisements. Cable TV has been gaining a large share of the television advertising market in detriment of local channels. The CNEPR director, Laureano Guerrero had motivated the ban because he said cable TV was unfair competition to the local stations. The director of CNEPR complained that the local television stations did not defend his ban. The local television stations apparently cannot afford to risk the wrath of the cable TV station that carries their channels together with the package of international channels. TeleAntillas and Telesistemas and Colorvisión did support the measure as per news items in Hoy newspaper, which is owned by the same company that owns Tele Antillas and Telesistemas. In an editorial in Hoy newspaper, comments that the US government has protested the use of local advertising in the cable TV channels as a violation of intellectual property. José Florentino, general manager of Telecable Nacional met with Danilo Medina at the National Palace. Laureano Guerrero was later invited to the meeting, subsequently revoking the measure.
