Armenian Media 2010: Pluralism on TV Decreasing More and More
In the morning of January 21, 2011, TV viewers in Armenia had to once again arrange their TV channels. “ALM” and “TV5” are no longer functioning among the list of channels permanent since 2002. Instead of the two TV channels – “Hayrenik” and “Ar” – belonging to businessman Hrant Vardanyan, “Ar” remained on air with logo, but “Hayrenik” with the content. “Shoghakat”, too, lost its channel. It will henceforth be broadcasted on the channel “Ararat” of Public TV.
Such kind of changes among the TV channels is a consequence of the digitalization process commenced in 2010 with the amendment to the ‘Law on TV and Radio’.
TV channels actually providing pluralism were excluded as a result of the changes taken place in 2010 in the field of Armenian television. Moreover, now the experts don’t even rule out obstacles that may be created for the internet broadcasting.
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