Imedi Media Holding
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2001 |
| Seat | Tbilisi |
| Website | www.imedi.ge |
The Imedi Media Holding (Georgian: იმედი, dt. Hope Media Holding ) is a Georgian media companies. It owns the private television station Imedi TV , the radio station Radio Imedi , a magazine and the news agency Imedi News .
The holding was founded in 2001. The owners are the Georgian- Russian businessman Badri Patarkazishvili (49%) and Rupert Murdochs News Corporation (News Corp) (51%). A corresponding stock purchase agreement was signed on April 28, 2006 in New York City . On October 31, 2007, Patarkatsishvili News Corp. the management rights of its shares for a period of one year.
Radio Imedi
Radio Imedi started its work in December 2001 in Tbilisi on frequency 105.9. Since December 2003 the station can be received all over Georgia. The station focuses on news and analysis. On November 7th, 2007, the broadcasting operation was stopped by state organs (details under Imedi TV ). On December 6th of the same year, Radio Imedi went back on the air.
Imedi TV
Imedi TV was founded in April 2003. The managing director is Bidsina Baratashvili. The television station also focuses on news and political analysis. The station can be received in almost all regions of Georgia. From September 2004 to April 2005, the station made a name for itself with a weekend talk show on child rearing and health, prepared in collaboration with UNICEF , which achieved extremely high ratings.
According to an opinion poll by the polling institute MGM between March and April 2006, the Georgians consider Imedi TV to be the most credible TV station in the country. 67% of respondents said they trusted Imedi the most, while 18.3% said they believed Rustavi 2 was more credible. All other Georgian TV stations were only seen as credible by less than four percent of the respondents.
The then owner of Imedi Media Holding, Patarkatsishvili, accused the Georgian government in March 2006 of trying to put pressure on the station and him through the financial authorities. In doing so, he established a link to the editors' reporting on the Sandro Girgwliani murder case, which reported on the involvement of high-ranking officials from the Georgian Interior Ministry.
On July 5, 2007, the broadcaster exposed an abuse of public funds by the Minister of Health, Vladimir Chipashvili , and the Minister of Refugees, Gia Chewiashvili. During the mass protests in Georgia from November 2 to 7, 2007, he sided with the demonstrators against President Mikheil Saakashvili . On November 7th, the rooms of the television station were stormed by police troops. The transmitter was switched off and some of the studio technology was destroyed. On November 14th, Imedi TV's license was officially revoked. After protests by the Council of Europe , the television station went back on the air on December 12th.
On December 26, 2007, the station temporarily suspended its broadcasts after alleged efforts by co-owner Patarkatsishvili became known two days earlier to overthrow President Saakashvili with a coup d'état by special forces from the Interior Ministry. The management and employees wanted to distance themselves from Patarkatsishvili and "dirty political games" .
After the death of the co-owner of Imedi-TV, the oligarch Badri Patarkatsishvili , in 2008 the station was taken over by the government.
On March 14, 2010, a report by the broadcaster caused panic among the population that Russian troops had again marched into Georgia and the president had been killed. Only at the end of the broadcast was it made clear that this was only a scenario relating to a threat from Russia. This was followed by protests by the population against the station.
Print media
Originally, founded on January 30, 1994 Tiflisser newspaper Dilis Gazeti (dt. Morning paper ) for holding. However, it suspended its publication on July 2, 2004 due to financial difficulties. Its readers were mainly civil servants, bankers, and business people.
Web links
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- ↑ news ru.com: В Грузии возобновила вещание радиостанция "Имеди". December 6, 2007
- ↑ Georgia News: Opposition station in Georgia is stormed. November 7, 2007
- ↑ Georgia News: Justice in Georgia revokes Imedi TV's license , November 14, 2007
- ^ Civil Georgia: Imedi TV Resumes Broadcasts. December 12, 2007
- ^ Civil Georgia: Imedi TV Suspends Broadcasts , December 26, 2007
- ↑ http://www.taz.de/Georgischer-Ex-Praesident-Saakaschwili/!143295/
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Silvia Stöber: 'War of the Worlds' 2010. ( Memento from March 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) March 14, 2010