Kakheti Cable TV Company Ceased Broadcasting of the Programs of “Maestro TV”

Gela Mtivlishvili, Kakheti

Programs of the TV Company “Maestro” has not been broadcast in Kakheti region for ten days already. Representatives of the cable TV Company located in Akhmeta state that the delay was caused by bad weather and technical problems. In fact, according to our information Kakheti office of the Constitution Security Department demanded them to cease the broadcasting.

Eka Gavardashvili, interim head of Kakheti cable TV Company: “The programs of the “Maestro” are not released because of bad weather and technical problems. Our personnel work to resolve these problem.”

-We were informed that you were ordered to cease the programs of “Maestro” by the Kakheti office of the Constitutional Security Department. Unless you disobeyed them, you were threatened with being cut off completely.

-Who provided you with this information?

-We cannot tell you the name because the source requested us to keep his/her name in secret.

-This information is not right.

-How many TV Channels do you broadcast?

-The cable TV Company broadcasts 32 channels and covers almost entire region of Kakheti.

-How could it happen that the bad weather and technical problems hindered the broadcasting of only the programs of TV Company “Maestro”?

-I cannot tell you what kind of damages the company has received. But as I have told we work to resolve this problem and we will soon resume the broadcasting of the programs of “Maestro”.

The Cable TV Company ceased broadcasting of the programs of Maestro in April too when the latter broadcasted the rallies ongoing in Tbilisi.

Residents of the Kakheti region state that the local cable company ceases the broadcasting of the programs from “Maestro” when the rallies in Tbilisi get more intensive and national TV Channels do not spread information about it in their news programs.

Mamuka Ghlonti, director of the TV Company “Maestro” also speaks about the oppression on the cable TV Company. “They are seriously oppressed. Our programs are not broadcasted in Rustavi either. We always have similar problems,” said Mamuka Ghlonti.

Kakheti office of the CSD does not comment about the oppression of the administration of the Kakheti cable TV Company.