PBS illegally forced Claudette Buttigieg off-air, tribunal finds

A PBS decision to stop Claudette?Buttigieg?from hosting her popular TV show Sellili?in 2012 was unfounded and illegal, a tribunal found today.?
Ms Buttigieg, who is now a Nationalist Party MP and deputy speaker, was told she had to go off-air two weeks after she declared her intention to run as a PN?candidate in the 2013 general elections.?
The former TV personality had declared her intention to run on September 17, 2012. The very next day, she was informed that the PBS editorial board had sent an email to deemedia.tv, who were responsible for airing her matinee programme, telling them that Ms Buttigieg?would not be allowed to host the show as of October 1.?
Ms Buttigieg's contract with deemedia.tv?ran for that entire season, up to June 2013.?
She subsequently took PBS, its editorial board and deemedia.tv ltd to court, seeking compensation for damages suffered as a result of the decision.
During proceedings it was pointed out that Sellili had nothing to do with politics or current affairs, that Ms Buttigieg had been informed of the decision without being given a chance to air her views and that the cancellation caused her great financial stress as it was her only source of...

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