202 TV
202 TV is a private television broadcaster based in Georgia . It is based in Tbilisi and specializes in political formats. It can only be received via antenna in the Tbilisi area.
The station broadcasts political talk shows and reports on a daily basis. He has signed a contract with the Georgian TV production company Reporter . The company, which is financially supported by the Open Society Foundation , produces investigative reports for which 202 TV has a permanent broadcast slot. In 2005, Reporter drew attention to itself with a report on the results of the investigation into the death of Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Schwania and the arrest of the South Ossetian warlord Marek Dudayev .
The station was founded in 2003 by Schalwa Ramishvili and Wascha Kiladze. The managing director is David Kochreidse. Before the velvet revolution in Georgia in 2003, Ramishvili was close to Mikheil Saakashvili, working as a PR consultant for him and his party at the time, the National Movement. In 2005 Ramishvili repeatedly criticized the Saakashvili government.
Ramishvili and Kochreidse were arrested in August 2005. On March 29, 2006, the Tbilisi City Court sentenced Ramishvili to four years and Kochreidse to three years imprisonment. They are said to have blackmailed the then deputy group leader of the National Movement - Democrats , Koba Bekauri. They had asked for 100,000 US dollars to prevent a TV report about his machinations at a customs post that was compromising for Bekauri from being broadcast. The blackmail was documented by secretly recorded video recordings of the alleged handover between the two men. Ramishvili said the handover should have been part of the investigative TV report and appealed against the verdict.