AMENDMENTS ARE DIRECTED AGAINST A1+
Support A1+!"The authorities mostly focused on TV Companies and seemed to have completely forgotten about radio stations. Only now they confessed their forgetfulness. They didn’t dare to do it earlier and publicly,” Yerevan Press Club specialist Mesrop Harutiunian said with regard to the recent draft amendments to the RoA Law on “Television and Radio.”
Reminder, under the disputed amendments which came into effect on 27 September a moratorium was introduced on granting of broadcasting licences until 20 July, 2010. All TV Companies whose licences expire by 21 January, 2011, should apply to the National Assembly to extend the licence terms. Thus, there was no mention about radio stations in the amendments proposed and ratified within a day.
Generally, Mr. Harutiunian agrees to the prevalent belief that the amendments further prevent the TV station A1+ from returning to air. “Surely, the amendments are directed against A1+ and Noyan Tapan no matter how hard Nerses Yeritsian and Tigran Sargsyan try to prove the contrary. The authorities could think of no other way to restrain these companies.”
