This unprecedented decision was due to political advertisments aired by the channel for one party.

The licence should have expired on 1 April 2013, but CNA concluded that OTV is functioning merely as an advertising platform for the People's Party (www.partidul-poporului.ro). Dan Diaconescu, the head of OTV, says he is not a member of PP-DD and he has no connection on paper with PP-DD. However, he is the candidate from the People's Party for the presidential elections in 2014.

The Audiovisual Law states that a channel's licence can be reduced by half if the channel was already fined twice. Two weeks before this decision, CNA fined OTV for interrupting the broadcast schedule for three hours with a political advertisement for PP-DD.

OTV received a licence for a term of nine years in 2004. In order to extend it, OTV will have to reapply to the CNA.