Minister of Telecommunication Boutros Harb held a meeting on Tuesday with a delegation of cable providers to discuss the recent issue with Lebanese TV stations. Following the meeting, Harb said that there is a new approach to solve the current issue, adding that both parties must hold dialogue over the technical and commercial problems in a bid to find common grounds that serve the interests of both the TV stations and cable providers. As of last Friday, all those willing to watch the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (LBCI) with the blue logo will have to subscribe to the services of Cable Vision, or Econet, or via the Lebanese Diaspora Corporation (LDC). The 8 Lebanese TV channels; Tele Liban, Future TV, LBCI, NBN, Al-Jadeed, Al-Manar, OTV, and MTV, stressed that any attempt by cable providers to broadcast or rebroadcast any of their programs, prior to or after this declaration, is a breach to laws 382 and 75 and a violation to the circular issued last month by Economy Minister Alain Hakim. TV channels announced that those who seek to rerun their programs must contact lawyer Wassim Mansouri’s office, between the 1st of May and the 1st of June, to sign official documents that grant them aforementioned broadcast rights. The channels explained that cable providers will have to pay 4 dollars for each subscriber, adding that those who sign these documents within the mentioned delay will be made exempt from previous violations.