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Latvian Television ceases cooperation with Ventspils City Council

BC, Riga, 06.07.2017.Print version
Latvian Television (LTV) has ceased cooperation with the Ventspils City Council in wake of the recent shocking leaked recordings involving some of Latvia's so-called oligarchs, including controversial Ventspils Mayor Aivars Lembergs, reports LETA.

''LTV has made an important editorial decision to halt cooperation with the Ventspils City Council,'' the chairman of LTV Ivars Belte points out.

 

He said that LTV plans to look for alternative financial sources.

 

LTV's culture, entertainment and children's content editor Gunta Sloga previously called on LTV to halt paid programming promoting Lembergs, calling it a ''disgrace to the Latvian media environment''. She said that this content discredits LTV and casts a shadow over the television's news service.

 

Sloga points out that it is important for the public media to leave the advertising market, with the state compensating this in full. ''Then our television staff will not have to worry how many minutes we are broadcasting appearances by Lembergs,'' she added.

 

According to the recordings leaked by the respectable weekly news and current affairs magazine Ir, Latvia's oligarchs have built their influence by subduing and crippling Latvian media.






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