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        "id": 1179353,
        "msgid": "customers-irate-over-kabelvision-fiasco-1447893297",
        "date": "2005-07-18 00:00:00",
        "title": "Customers irate over Kabelvision fiasco",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Customers irate over Kabelvision fiasco JAKARTA: The decision made by pay-cable TV provider Kabelvision to acquiesce to the government's energy conservation recommendations by cutting its broadcasting hours has been met with widespread criticism from its paying customers. Most customers accused the company of using it as an opportunity to skim extra profits by lowering the cost of production, without lowering the monthly fee that everybody must pay.",
        "content": "<p>Customers irate over Kabelvision fiasco<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA: The decision made by pay-cable TV provider<br>\nKabelvision to acquiesce to the government's energy conservation<br>\nrecommendations by cutting its broadcasting hours has been met<br>\nwith widespread criticism from its paying customers.<\/p>\n<p>Most customers accused the company of using it as an<br>\nopportunity to skim extra profits by lowering the cost of<br>\nproduction, without lowering the monthly fee that everybody must<br>\npay.<\/p>\n<p>\"We still have to pay fees for 24-hour cable access. If the<br>\nbroadcast hours are reduced by four hours, the company should<br>\ngive us a 16.7 percent discount per month,\" one customer Suryadi<br>\nSetianegara was quoted as saying by Detikcom on Friday, the first<br>\nday the company cut its broadcast hours from 1 a.m to 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether the company had decided to recommence its 24-<br>\nhour broadcast, a staff member said, \"no, not yet\".<\/p>\n<p>President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on TV stations to<br>\ncut their broadcasting hours from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. in a bid to<br>\nconserve energy. -- JP<\/p>",
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