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...opportunity, I could be in the media and talk over the radio. Then I can tell people that they really have to watch out, that it is serious. After the games, I will go to Cameroon and I'm hoping to be on TV. We have just one TV station and I want to talk about my experiences...
...closure of TV-6 comes just under a year after NTV was taken over by Gazprom, the state-controlled energy monopoly. Its management was gutted, and most of its news staff jumped over to TV-6. Then the country's best news radio station, Ekho Moskvy, staved off a hostile takeover by Gazprom, largely thanks to popular support. But unruly journalists are not the only ones who run afoul of the law. On Christmas Day, after several unsuccessful attempts, the state was finally able to convict Navy captain and military journalist Grigory Pasko on treason charges. Pasko had leaked information...
...This irritated the Orthodox Church, but the Kremlin was more angered by TV-6's majority owner, Boris Berezovsky, a business baron during the Yeltsin era, an early Putin booster and now the President's exiled enemy. The animosity between Putin and Berezovsky is well-known and gave the station's criticism of Putin policies a harder edge. When they left NTV last year, the journalists were ready to fight. Now they sound tired...
Yevgeny Kiselev, the station's director general, says staffers will bid for a new broadcasting license, though he doubts they will obtain it. But "even if we get back on the air, Putin will come after us in six months or so," said a reporter, who now talks of leaving journalism altogether. If he and his colleagues do give up the fight, Russian TV will be a poorer place. But perhaps then Putin will have to turn his attention to the sort of questions that cannot be solved by bailiffs or judges - poverty, corruption, the economy...
...Kirch?s investors and creditors are becoming twitchy, jockeying for position to salvage any slices from what may be a crumbling pie. Last week, Axel Springer, a German publishing concern, exercised a "put" option that required Kirch to purchase $662 million-worth of shares. Later this year, British TV station BSkyB, which has a $1.5 billion "put" option, may follow suit...