Tkatsjenko legt een verband met de recente nationalisatie van de PrivatBank, die tot anderhalve week geleden ook eigendom was van Kolomojski. ''De overheid neigt tot nationalisatie van banken, maar godzijdank is dat nog niet het geval met de media. 1+1 heeft geen schulden of andere verplichtingen aan de PrivatBank.''
Verder: "Toch heb ik uit recente gesprekken vernomen dat vanuit de presidentiële administratie druk wordt uitoefend op de Nationale Raad voor Televisie en Radio, en ik zie een verband met de volgende verkiezingen. Het is inmiddels wel duidelijk dat de president en zijn mensen niet blij zijn met een televisiezender waar ze geen invloed op kunnen uitoefenen. Ik hoor geluiden als zouden we ons loyaler tegenover de president op moeten stellen.''
Bron: Unian
1+1 Media CEO comments
on situation with license: State interested in TV channel’s assets
The Presidential Administration of Ukraine is not happy with having a
media resource beyond its control ahead of the elections, said 1+1 Media
CEO Oleksandr Tkachenko, according to TSN news service.
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"It came as a surprise to us to learn that the chairman of the National
Council [on Television and Radio Broadcasting] links the situation with
the extension of 1+1 TV Channel’s license with the nationalization of
Privatbank. In our country, there is a mechanism for nationalization of
banks but, thank God, there are no mechanisms to nationalize TV
channels," he said, adding that the comment of Yuriy Artemenko proves
that the state is interested in the assets of 1+1 TV Channel.
Tkachenko said that the channel was not an asset of PrivatBank. "The
studio has no loans from and neither does it have debt obligations to
the bank [PrivatBank]. In private conversations, I have repeatedly
received information that on the part of the Presidential
Administration, pressure has been imposed on the National Council. I
attribute this to the fact that ahead of the elections, the Presidential
Administration is not happy with having a media resource beyond its
control," says the statement.
Oleksandr Tkachenko also noted that the Ukrainian legislation does not
oblige the channel to wait for a month (until January 23 2017) to
receive the document on prolongation of the license.
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National Broadcasting Council sees no reason to strip 1+1 TV Channel of
license
"Nothing prevented the National Council from handing a license over to
us today, but this is not happening. We hear discussions on the issues
such as ‘be more loyal to the president’, or ‘wait, give us this
document or that...’ We have filed a package of documents with all
necessary information as long as six months ago. Now as we can see,
there is an ongoing shift in concepts, and we have every reason to fear
that the National Council may revoke the earlier adopted decision. The
request of Ms. Fishchuk (which we technically never received) on the
ultimate beneficiary is nothing but a trick that cannot affect the fact
of a license being granted to us," said 1+1 Media CEO.
As UNIAN reported earlier, overnight Thursday, December 29, the
management and employees of 1+1 TV Channel published an appeal to the
Ukrainian president and, prime minister of Ukraine, as well as the
chairman of Parliament. The open letter wrote about the attempt to
deprive the TV channel of its license.
Read more on UNIAN: http://www.unian.info/politics/1703722-11-mediad-ceo-comments-on-situation-with-license-state-interested-in-tv-channels-assets.html
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