On January 20 the RA President Robert Kocharian signed a decree to hold a competition
for filling in the vacancies in the Council of Public Television and Radio Company
of Armenia. The competition commission included: the Chairman – Alexan Harutiunian
(Chairman of the Council of Public TV and Radio Company); Secretary – Irina
Ghulinian (Deputy Head of Public Relations and Media Department of the RA President’s
Administration); commission members – Ruben Satian (Chief Editor of “Novoye
Vremya” newspaper), Artem Sargsian (Chief Editor of “Armenia” TV company) and
Aram Safarian (Deputy Director of the Second Armenian TV Channel). Armenian
citizens, who are reputable and competent experts in journalism, law, broadcast
management, science, culture and arts, having higher education and fluent in
Armenian language, can take part in the competition. The deadline for the applications
is on February 1, 2005.
Competition for filling in vacancies in the Council of Public TV and Radio
Company was announced due to expiration of a four-year term of service of two
Council members on January 19, 2005 – Henrik Hovhannisian and Stepan Poghosian.
A similar competition will be held in Armenia for the first time and is conditioned
by the amendments to the RA Law “On Television and Radio”, adopted on December
3, 2003 by the National Assembly. According to the changes, the formation of
the broadcast regulatory bodies (the PTRC Council and the National Commission
on Television and Radio) must be made by competition. However, the members will
still be appointed by the President of the country – nowadays from among the
competition winners.
