TBILISI, DFWatch — A handful of media experts are calling for legislative reforms to address problems with media freedom in Georgia, and have prepared a draft bill as a first step.
The bill would amend the law on broadcasting, and was presented by its authors
TBILISI, DFWatch — A TV company affiliated with the governing Georgian Dream coalition is going to become a general broadcaster.
Thursday morning it became known that TV 9 will become a general broadcaster, which means that it will have the right to broadcast
TBILISI, DFWatch — Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili claims he is ready to give his TV channel to Georgian Public Broadcaster or transform it into a public broadcaster. He will even finance it for next 20 years with no strings attached.
TV 9 was set up about ten
TBILISI, DFWatch — A new report shows that Georgian TV companies have problems with bringing balanced and objective information.
Channel 9, which belongs to Prime Minister Bidizna Ivanishvili, is now positive to the new government, but before the election
TBILISI, DFWatch — A former owner of a Georgian TV station claims that he was forced to sell it by the former government.
TV Mze (which in Georgian means ‘Sun’) was launched by millionaire Vano Chkhartishvili, a member of parliament before the Rose Revolution in 2003
TBILISI, DFWatch — A TV channel controlled by the former Saakashvili’s government on Wednesday got a new director, who used to be former government official.
Rustavi 2 is considered to have played a major role during the Rose Revolution in 2003 and used to be
TBILISI, DFWatch — A former editor of Forbes Georgia has been appointed as new director of Imedi TV, which used to be one of the government-controlled channels during the previous government.
Shortly after the parliamentary election, the former owners of Imedi made
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian TV viewers will get a new channel in the near future, to be produced by the owners of the magazine Tabula.
The new channel will be focused on news and will probably go on air in January 2013.
The editor of the new channel will be Tabula
TBILISI, DFWatch — The audit agency in Georgia wants the chair of the Public Broadcaster to be changed, while groups demand reforms in GPB to return it to people and free broadcaster from government control.
Online newspaper Ambebi.ge conducted a
TBILISI, DFWatch — It is still unknown what will happen to a Russian language TV channel based in Georgia.
PIK TV is one of the channels run by the Georgian Public Broadcaster.
Since October 12, PIK has been had reduced programming, broadcasting old material