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Foreign radio stations will not be broadcasted in Azerbaijan late in 2008

31 October 2008 10:09 (UTC +04:00)

To him, this is one of the measures of Azerbaijani Government taken in the field of Television and Radio Broadcasting.
â€œWe raised the issue some years ago and demanded that broadcasting of foreign radio stations should be stopped in Azerbaijan and the issue should be solved in accordance with the current world practice. We realized the issue by stages because of poor development of cable network at that time. First of all we stopped transmission of Russian and Turkish TV Channels and French Radio Channel and then Voice of America and Azadlig Channels. We have signed oneâ€“year contract with BBC and Turkish TRT Channelâ€, he said.
Maharramli stated that above-said Channels were reminded a year ago that national frequency resources belonged to national bodies.
â€œWe are in the last stage and should solve the issue once and for all. Foreign radio stations will remain without transmission frequency late in 2008,â€ he said.
The Chairman added that radio stations function in Azerbaijan could be broadcasted via sputnik, internet and cable network like in European countries.