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From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue Jun 04 2002 - 13:31:47 EDT
CLOSED ARMENIAN TV STATION TO LAUNCH NEWSPAPER
The staff of the independent TV station A1+, which was forced to cease broadcasting
in
April after its broadcast frequency was awarded to a rival station in
a controversial tender (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 2 and 3 April 2002),
plan to launch a daily newspaper within the next two weeks, A1+
Director Mesrop Movsesian told RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau on 3 June.
Movsesian said that the daily will be funded by A1+ and the recently
founded Armenian Fund for Press Freedom, and its content "will be the
same program reproduced on paper with the same style, same position."
A1+ has a reputation for critical but objective coverage of internal
political developments. The paper will be named "Ayb-Fe" after the
station's popular news program. LF
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