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The fallout from the TV Nova drama continues to dominate the papers: the
personnel changes following the departure of director Vladimir Zelezny
make the front pages today. Also making the papers is planned industrial
action in protest at the government's budget reforms.
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Today's papers are all dominated by domestic stories ranging from Dominik
Hasek's aggressive fit during a hockey game to the government's
unsuccessful clean hands campaign. NATO's plan to have the Czech Republic
establish a new multi-national battalion to protect the alliance against
weapons of mass destruction is one of few international stories making the
front pages.
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What looks like the final instalment in the TV Nova saga dominates the
front pages today - all the papers lead with news that the Czech Republic
finally paid 335 million dollars in compensation to the station's former
investors on Thursday, after the country lost a final appeal in an
international court of arbitration. The papers also carry more details of
Vladimir Zelezny's dramatic departure from the post of General Director.
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Two domestic stories share the limelight on today's front pages - they are
the dismissal of TV NOVA boss Vladimir Zelezny and the continuing search
for a blackmailer who has threatened to poison hospital food with cyanide
unless he receives 300 million crowns.
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Current AffairsTV Nova boss sacked by new owners
The Czech media scene will never be the same again. After nine years at the
helm of the country's first commercial television station TV Nova -
general director Vladimir Zelezny has been sacked by the company's new
owners. The fifty-eight-year old Mr Zelezny, the man behind TV Nova's
astounding success, and a Senator since last November, was always a
controversial figure on the Czech media scene after making TV Nova the
best performing station in the region and then pushing his Bermuda-based
partners out of the business. Now it looks like his career at Nova, marked
by business triumphs and legal scandals, may be over once and for all.
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Current AffairsTime running out for TV Nova?
In just a few days parliament is due to appoint a new Council for TV and
Radio Broadcasting, to replace the previous Council which was sacked over
the TV Nova arbitration affair. But the government appears to be putting
pressure on the new body even before it's come into existence: Culture
Minister Pavel Dostal was quoted as saying on Monday there were clear
grounds for the Council to revoke TV Nova's licence - something the
previous Council stubbornly refused to do. With such a politically
sensitive appointment just days away Mr Dostal's comments certainly appear
to be ill-timed, but commentator Jiri Pehe believes there are grounds for
pulling Nova off the air.
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A mix of headlines on the front pages - Mlada Fronta Dnes leads with a new
opinion poll claiming support for Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla has
fallen from 75 percent in September to just under half that today.
Meanwhile Lidove Noviny says flat prices have risen by 25 percent in the
first quarter of this year. And Hospodarske Noviny warns of a brain drain
to Brussels as the nation's finest look for new jobs with the European
Union.
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Current AffairsJiri Rusnok vacates parliament post
Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla has fought plenty of battles to preserve his
party's unity in recent months. Now he can breathe a sigh of relief. The
former industry and trade minister Jiri Rusnok, whom he clearly considered
the biggest trouble maker within the Social Democratic Party has vacated
his parliament post - and the political arena.
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