{"id":107895,"date":"2011-06-22T12:40:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T07:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=107895"},"modified":"2011-06-22T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T07:40:51","slug":"kentron-news-programs-director-petros-ghazaryan-refutes-dismissal-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/22\/kentron-news-programs-director-petros-ghazaryan-refutes-dismissal-reports.html","title":{"rendered":"Kentron News Programs Director Petros Ghazaryan Refutes Dismissal Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A media report published today stating that Petros Ghazaryan, director of the Kentron TV news programs and host of the popular talk show <em>Urvagits<\/em>, has been let go is untrue: Ghazaryan continues to hold the position of director of news programs on Kentron TV. The popular TV host told Epress.am this himself today.<\/p>\n<p>Local daily Hraparak, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2011\/06\/22\/\u056c\u0578\u0582\u0580\u0565\u0580\u056b-\u0570\u0561\u0572\u0578\u0580\u0564\u0578\u0582\u0574\u056b\u0581-\u0570\u0565\u057c\u0561\u0576\u0561\u056c\u0578\u0582\u0581-\u0570\u0565\u057f\u0578.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">story published Wednesday<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, reported that about 20 days ago Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan had made some personnel changes at Kentron TV (which he owns), and Petros Ghazaryan&#8217;s fondness for the presidential residence became the reason to fire him. According to Hraparak, Ghazaryan didn&#8217;t deal with the news too well, as a result of which he was absent from work for a week.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Epress.am, Ghazaryan said he wasn&#8217;t at work for a week because he was in Istanbul covering Turkey&#8217;s parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>On Hraparak&#8217;s report that Baghdasar Mheryan has been assigned the position of director of Kentron TV news programs, Ghazaryan said Mheryan has accepted a position at Kentron TV \u2014 but as the chief editor of the news program.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the apparent inaccuracies in Hraparak&#8217;s piece, Petros Ghazaryan today wrote on his Facebook page:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I read in Hraparak newspaper that my fondness for the president&#8217;s residence has become a reason for them to dismiss me as director of news programs. And I didn&#8217;t deal with that too well and didn&#8217;t go to work for a week. How much does one have to not respect his readers to write such lies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A media report published today stating that Petros Ghazaryan, director of the Kentron TV news programs and&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,11976,28644,28643],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}