As CNN International, the English news and current affairs channel, owned by the Turner Broadcasting System has not gotten a licence that will allow its content to be edited by Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC), it might be soon discontinued by all cable operators in the country. Currently due to domestic demand, the channels are being broadcast by some pay TV operators but even that might be discontinued, claimed the ministry.The problem lies because the Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has come to the decision that the content presented by CNN would first be edited by the Vietnam National Television (VTV) before broadcast. However neither party has reached any consensus on how that could take place.As CNN follows a police where it does not allow outside interferences when it comes to the broadcast of its content, the Department of Broadcasting and Electronic Information has found itself in a dilemma. If it discontinues the channel, then the public would be dissatisfied but if CNN is broadcast, then it would be against state law. It was announced on March 15, 2013, that channels have to obtain an editing licence in order to continue broadcasting in the country.
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