The Consumer Electronics Association has issued a press release awarding the Dish Hopper with Sling DVR the coveted "Best of Show" award at CES 2013. As The Verge reported and CNET later confirmed, the Hopper had been voted to win CES's top award by the editors of CNET, before executives at CNET's parent company CBS vetoed the vote due to CBS's ongoing lawsuit against Dish.
Yesterday, CEA president and CEO Gary Shapiro sharply criticized CBS's editorial interference with T's technology coverage in an op-ed in USA Today , and announced the CEA would be "considering [its] legal options under [its] agreement with CNET." Today, the CEA officially ended CNET's role in choosing the Best of Show award at CES, and announced it would issue a...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/31/3937476/cnet-loses-ces-awards-following-dish-hopper-controversy-dvr-named
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