Following repeated violations of the broadcast rules, most significantly broadcasting propaganda for Diaconescu's political party, the National Audiovisual Council decided to diminish the remaining timespan of the broadcast licence of OTV at that time to half of its length, meaning that OTV would have had to end its broadcast on 28 September 2012. Diaconescu claimed that the decision was commanded by president Băsescu and his show in the evening featured a relatively large number of people gathered in the studio, many of them members of Diaconescu's "People's Party", waving the Romanian flag and singing party anthems. Nevertheless, the show did not bring much attention from the public, placing OTV only on the 9th place in the rating top.