PIK (TV station)
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| Program type | Foreign television |
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Satellite television internet |
| Image resolution | ( Entry missing ) |
| business | January 4, 2010 to October 20, 2012 |
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PIK ( Russian ПИК , abbreviation for Russian Первый Информационный Кавказский (канал) / Perwy Informazionny Kawkasski (kanal), German about "First Caucasian Info Channel " ) was a Georgian foreign language television station in Russian.
PIK first went on air in January 2010 under the name Perwy Kawkasski ( German "First Caucasian (Channel)" ). It was launched under the influence of the Caucasus War in 2008 around the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia , which break away from Georgia , and was intended to form a propagandistic counterpoint to Russian television. The station's target group was primarily the population in the Russian North Caucasus and the areas split off from Georgia. The broadcast took place via the Internet and a satellite of the Hotbird group. The broadcast via satellite was ended only a few weeks after the launch on January 15, 2010. Observers thought it possible that this happened at the insistence of the Russian government against the satellite operating company Eutelsat . Although the broadcaster's website was continuously available, broadcasting operations were subsequently discontinued in the course of 2010. At the beginning of 2011 there was a relaunch under the new name "PIK". The broadcast via satellite has resumed, according to the broadcaster's website. The station's management consisted largely of journalists of British origin. Robert Parsons , who previously worked for the BBC , France 24 and Radio Free Europe , was General Manager . Two of his three deputies were also from Great Britain.
Since February 15, 2012, a radio program under the name Radio PIK , which had previously been received via the Internet and in Georgia also on the FM frequency 106.4 MHz, was tested.
On October 20, 2012 shortly after the victory of the more Russia-friendly opposition in the parliamentary elections , the station was shut down. The station had repeatedly been described, also by the former opposition, as explicitly anti-Russian and heavily propaganda.
Web links
- PIK website (archived by the Wayback-Machine 2012) ( Memento from March 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )