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Zagreb, March 21 (CP) – It has been confirmed that Robert Sveb the director of Croatian Radio Television (HTV) has resigned following the scandal in which HTV lost the rights to live broadcasts of the World Handball Championships in January of 2009 in Croatia.

In explaining his resignation Sveb said that he had resigned due to disagreement over the principle stance that HTV should take in tenders for broadcast right and production of signal for large sports events like the World  Handball Championships in 2009.

He also mentioned that rival RTL which captured the bid had offered a sum five times of what was offered by HTV and stressed that his position was that of the person who needed to make sure finances were spent rationally and was not supporting the over the top prices demanded for the broadcasting rights of any event including those to do with sports.

He said that, sadly, such views were not supported by the HRT leadership.

Meanwhile, at officials of the Croatian Handball Association are fearing that RTL does not have the facilities or the means to secure top broadcast quality saying that they would be happiest if the two televisions were to collaborate on this.

RTL officials, meanwhile have stated they had no intention of cooperating with HRT claiming they were able to do the job without a glitch.