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Head of News at Georgian Public Broadcaster resigns

by OC Media

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Giorgi Putkaradze, the head of news at the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) resigned on 18 July months after a controversial shift in the channel’s administration. ‘Today, I am saying goodbye to this team. Good luck to them! It is time for new challenges in my life’, Putkaradze wrote on his private Facebook profile, stressing that it was a difficult decision for him. ‘Many interesting, difficult and challenging working days connect me to this channel and my old and new colleagues’, he ad

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Concerns grow at cancellation of ‘critical’ shows at GPB

by OC Media

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Tens of demonstrators gathered in front Georgia’s Public Broadcaster (GPB) in Tbilisi to protests against their recent decision to cease broadcasting joint programmes with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Media watchdogs have condemned the move. Popular TV programmes Tsiteli Zona (Red Zone) and InterVIEW will no longer be aired on the broadcaster, GPB and RFE/RL have confirmed. The contract between two media outlets will expire in July, and GPB does not intend to renew it. ‘Ever

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Georgia’s Public Broadcaster shuts down joint shows with RFE/RL

by OC Media

•2 min read

Georgia’s Public Broadcaster (GPB) has announced that they will cease broadcasting joint programmes with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). In an interview local media outlet Netgazeti, the head of RFE/RL in Georgia Davit Kakabadze said that TV programmes Tsiteli Zona (Red Zone) and InterVIEW will no longer be aired on GPB. ‘According to our contract we should be given a month’s notice. We have been officially informed. So everything is OK in legal terms’, Kakabadze said. GPB annou