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Friday, 29.03.2024, 13:12
Latvian Television ceases cooperation with Ventspils City Council
''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.