Court to Discuss Maestro TV’s Lawsuit in June
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The staff of Maestro TV stood with bandanas over their mouths outside the Parliament on April 14 to protest against the decision of GNCC not to give the station licence for political programming. Photo: InterPressNews
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The Tbilisi City Court has decided to launch consideration of Tbilisi-based small TV station Maestro’s lawsuit against the Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) on June 26, head of the TV station, Mamuka Glonti, said on May 30.
He said that his TV station had sued against the commission’s April 4 decision, according to which the TV station was denied issuing a license for political programming. Glonti said that the lawsuit was filed to the court a month and a half ago.
Maestro TV, which goes out on cable in the capital Tbilisi, as well as in Rustavi, Telavi and Gori, has a license for airing entertainment and music programs.
Several months ago the TV station, however, also launched three new projects, which deal mainly with politics – Journalism as a Profession, a talk-show, which hosted invited guest, very often politicians; No Comment – covering news stories through live footage and without commentary; Polling – call-in talk-show, wherein only viewers were speaking live and expressing their views.
On March 20 the TV station has received a letter of reprimand from GNCC warning that the station had no right to air political programming, which triggered the Maestro TV to suspend airing those three programs. Then the TV station applied for a license for political programming. But GNCC refused citing that the television was once already reprimanded.
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