On August 9, the Prosecutor’s Office charged Nika Gvaramia over abuse of power. A part of journalists who quit Rustavi 2 TV moved to Mtavari Arkhi. It prompted almost all members of the newsroom to quit the channel. Key figures, including the head of newsroom, producer, hosts of political and entertainment talk shows were dismissed as part of staff changes carried out at Rustavi 2 TV. Nika Gvaramia announced his plans to found a new television shortly after he quit Rustavi 2 TV, when new owner of the TV channel, Kibar Khalvashi dismissed him on July 18 and appointed Paata Salia as the new director. 51% of Mtavari Arkhi’s shares are owned by Nika Gvaramia and 49% – by Kakhaber Anjaparidze, one of the shareholders of Inter Media Plus LLC. The new TV channel was granted general broadcast license on September 5. Mtavari Arkhi launched broadcasting on the basis of Iberia TV owned by the Omega Group company, which was closed down last October. We will not keep silent or yield to occupation neither will we live under the Kremlin’s will,” Paata Iakobashvili said. We do not agree and will not tolerate clannish rule, corruption, return of criminal values in the country. “We rejected guaranteed and comfortable future at Bidzina Ivanishvili’s television, because we do not agree and will not tolerate Georgia’s return to the past. Rustavi 2 case: is Georgia’s media pluralism in peril?.Interview with Marc Behrendt: Independent Journalism Still Possible in Georgia.We have returned with the same determination – the team, whom you trust and who has not given up even for a minute,” she said. “We have returned to create an independent television that will be free of censorship and government’s influence. “We are starting with a clean sheet,” Diana Jojua addressed the audience. The new pro-opposition television “Mtavari Arkhi” (Main Channel), founded by Nika Gvaramia, former director general of Rustavi 2 TV, went on the air on September 9 with a news program “Mtavari at 9.”ĭiana Jojua and Paata Iakobashvili, former anchors of Rustavi 2 TV’s Kurieri news program, welcomed the audience of the new TV program.
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