{"id":1834,"date":"2012-04-19T13:59:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T13:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/news-outlets-have-succeeded-in-ensuring-conditions-for-political-parties-nctr-president\/"},"modified":"2020-07-21T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:07:55","slug":"news-outlets-have-succeeded-in-ensuring-conditions-for-political-parties-nctr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/newsroom\/2012\/04\/19\/1834\/","title":{"rendered":"‘News Outlets have Succeeded in Ensuring Conditions for Political Parties’: NCTR President"},"content":{"rendered":"

Armenia’s National Commission on Television and Radio (NCTR) recently published the results of its monitoring<\/a> of TV and radio in the period Apr. 8 to 14 during the May 6 parliamentary election campaign.<\/p>\n

According to NCTR President Grigor Amalyan, the broadcast companies that were monitored, with the exception of a few, provided balanced coverage of the political parties’ campaigns, allowing them to express themselves.<\/p>\n

“Armenian news outlets have succeeded in ensuring conditions for the candidates and political parties participating in the elections, and I think that the parties haven’t had a serious disadvantage in offering their say to the public: this can be proven by the fact that the free-of-charge airtime has not been completely exhausted,” he says. <\/p>\n

Those TV companies in which the NCTR has found unbalanced coverage were sent a notice in writing, asking for an explanation and including a warning that subsequent election coverage must be balanced. However, in the words of Amalyan, unbalanced coverage by the news media also has its objective reasons.<\/p>\n

“Political parties either accept or don’t accept invitations to participate in [televised] programs. Those TV programs that plan to invite a representative of a political party as a guest, do so successively, and some people probably will get their turn in the next round. The proportion of unused, free-of-charge airtime shows that the reason might also be, taken separately, the political party’s campaign strategy,” says the NCTR president. <\/p>\n

At this stage, the Commission hasn’t applied administrative penalties to these TV companies, since the election campaign period isn’t yet over.<\/p>\n

“If at the end of the election period the Commission through its studies establishes that a TV company created unequal conditions for political parties, then without a doubt an administrative fine will be applied,” says Amalyan. <\/p>\n

So far, only two regional TV companies have been slapped with an administrative fine, Hrazdan TV<\/a> and the TV company in Spitak, for not providing any information to the Commission about their activities during the election campaign period. <\/p>\n

Anna Barseghyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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