Current customers of the HOT and YES cable and satellite TV services have been jamming the companies' phone lines since Thursday morning, after a ruling by the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Forum that customers have a right to cancel their service for the next three weeks without having to pay a substantial cancellation fee. The fee has been waived because of the closure of the Hallmark Channel, which has decided to stop broadcasting in Israel.

It should be noted that the number of those seeking to cancel the services substantially outnumbers the customers of both services who actually watched the channel.