The Knesset Economics Committee delayed a vote Wednesday on whether to give financially ailing Channel 10 an extra year to repay NIS 60 million in debts.Channel 10 CEO Yossi Varshavsky appealed for a repeat vote after the committee decided last week to hold television broadcasters to their agreement to repay debts by the end of 2011.Committee chairman Carmel Shama-Hacohen (Likud) said the vote was postponed to give Channel 10 more time to arrange some sort of compromise on the matter.var ord = window.ord || Math.floor(Math.random() * 1e16);document.write('');He said Varshavsky had shown him data that gave hope of a solution next week. But even if the debt repayment was postponed, Shama-Hacohen said, “a network that requests the goodwill of politicians each year is not an independent network.
