To those of you who tried unsuccessfully to view major events for this year’s carnival season via “TRINITV.NET”, we wish to state that TRINITV.NET was not responsible for streaming the 2010 carnival events.  This was done by CNMG through their website “CTNTWORLD.COM”.

Trinitv simply provided access to their stream for those of our customers who were already familiar with our site.

In past times we, along with a partner website, implemented a small charge for viewing specific events, however, CTNTWORLD.COM came into being, spending government money, decided to stream the same events for free, forcing us out of the live streaming business for carnival.  Now that we are out of it because we cannot match their uncapped capital, this year, they implemented a charge for specific events; a plan similar to what we implemented years ago, the only difference is that we charged much less.

Their plan backfired, since they were misled about the capacity of their servers.  Some people who paid to view the events were unable to logon because their servers were not able to authenticate the traffic, thereby prompting demands for refund. 

CNMG has challenged Gayelle TV over rights for the parade of the bands broadcast. Gayelle has been promoting our culture since inception while CNMG as a government owned station has been broadcasting less than fifty percent local content.  Given this scenario, it will seem that CNMG’s management has no qualms about trampling on smaller businesses with less capital though they are paid by the taxpayers of this country. 

I hope that they continue to promote Trinidad & Tobago Culture to the world after Carnival.

I hope the relevant government minister looks into this issue as a form of abuse office.

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