Fifteen years ago on May 20, 1997 we, a group of active leading journalists founded the National Press Club, in the statement adopted by founding meeting it was declared, “After obtaining of independency,Armeniafaces the problem of building of a new system of standards, which is inseparable from the standing of [...]
Does the National Commission on TV and Radio (NCTR) accept the criticism of the Human Rights Defender that the commission hasn’t offered antimonopoly guarantees provided for by the law by omission, hasn’t performed supervising functions to prevent monopolization of the broadcasting market? “It is an incomprehensible accusation. I think that [...]
“Nothing has changed in this country during the past 10 years,” Mesrop Movsisyan, the president of A1+ has concluded, as a result of 10 years’ vigorous and consistent struggle. Let us remind that ten years ago today A1+ was deprived of broadcasting and the Armenian journalistic community has been struggling [...]
Today Armen Mkrtchyan, a member of the National Commission on TV and Radio, talking about the news spread in the press that the NCTR had banned showing Shushan Petrosyan, as she had been included in the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) list, said during a Seminar called Reporting on Electoral [...]
Yerevan Press Club presented the results of monitoring carried out in 9 mass media in the period from March 1 through March 10 at Urbat Club today. The Club has noticed some progress as compared with the results of November-December. According to Yerevan Press Club president Boris Navasardyan, as a [...]
Soon TV channels will have to publish what tariffs they will fix for political advertisement at the pre-election campaign in the run-up for the upcoming parliamentary election. As we know, at every election, regardless of assurances of TV companies that they have fixed rational prices, broadcasting prices arouse displeasure of [...]
The presentation of the bilingual – Armenian and English – book Violence, Pressure and Legal Cases Against Journalists and Mass Media in 2010-2011: Cases and Analyses took place at Urbat (Friday) Club today. The book was published by the Investigative Journalists NGO with the support of the OSCE Yerevan Office [...]
Says Artur Sakunts, the Chairman of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office. - Mr. Sakunts, what do you think about the independence of mass media in Armenia? - There is no independent mass media in the field of TV information, since the National Commission on TV and Radio that holds contests [...]
The fact that we see not ԱԹՎ, but ATV or not ԱրմՆյուզ, but ArmNews is not a violation of the TV and Radio Law, according to NCTR. It turns out that NCTR also thinks that it is the “picture” of the TV company, as ATV director Vahagn Khachatryan called it, [...]
Information was spread through mass media that a holding called PanArmenian Media had been established that included in particular Armenia, ArmNews and ATV TV channels. Thus, although indirectly, actually the fact known for a long time that the above-mentioned TV companies are owned by the same person is verified. In [...]
According to Section 3, Article 5 of the Armenian Law on Television and Radio, “Using only foreign languages for television and radio company names, signals and other basic data. Regulations of the current law apply to the television and radio shows that are broadcasted abroad and shows broadcasted in languages [...]
At the request of “Aravot”, Samvel Martirosyan, an expert on informational security, commenting on the fact that Google Earth says about Baku, “Ancient Armenian town, Baku in eastern Armenia, all Armenian aboriginal population was…”, in regard to which Day.az urged its readers today “to show political responsibility and report to the administrators of this service [...]
Journalists’ “Asparez” Club presented the results of the monitoring on whether the size and distribution of commercials in H1 programs in July and October corresponded to the standards of the Republic of Armenia legislation. Last month we presented the report on May-June. Let us remind that this research has [...]
Today Ashot Melikyan, the Head of the Commission on Freedom of Speech Protection (CFSP), presented the monitoring of our state bodies’ websites at “Hayatsk” (view) club. They assessed how transparent, prompt, available and complete the websites were. According to the standards, the website of the Ministry of Culture was found [...]
Armenia TV has violated the regulations of law concerning time limits for commercials, while advertising “Ala bala nitsa” movie. This aroused the anger of NCTR, as one of Armenian TV channels has noticed it, as a result of its own monitoring, and applied to the commission. Today an NCTR meeting [...]
A set of bloggers have republished comments the readers have made under “Hraparak’s” (square) publication about Counselor Artur Grigoryan. The initiative was taken by blogger Kornelij Glas who wrote, “I want to equate a professional journalist with anonym commenters. If Counselor Artur Grigoryan wins the case, they will be able [...]
“It is a fact that Article 1087 of the Civil Code of the Republic of Armenia impedes the freedom of press and the freedom of speech”, Armine Ohanyan, the editor-in-chief of “Hraparak” (square) newspaper stated at “Hayatsk” (view) club today. Let me remind you that the Constitutional Court has ruled [...]
