{"id":109179,"date":"2011-06-27T15:49:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T10:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=109179"},"modified":"2011-06-27T15:49:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T10:49:32","slug":"russian-armenian-tv-channel-may-cease-broadcasting-declare-bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/27\/russian-armenian-tv-channel-may-cease-broadcasting-declare-bankruptcy.html","title":{"rendered":"Russian-Armenian TV Channel May Cease Broadcasting, Declare Bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting on Jul. 1, the first Russian-Armenian TV channel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvarm.ru\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">TV ARM RU<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, may cease broadcasting and declare bankruptcy due to creditors claiming early and full repayment of loans.<\/p>\n<p>Management and staff of the TV channel, which began broadcasting in April 2010, are turning to television viewers for assistance by making donations to save the channel.<\/p>\n<p>Head of TV ARM RU&#8217;s board of directors is the head of remittances at Anelik money transfer system, Armen Kazarian. It was reported earlier that the channel was offering additional shares and intended to offer a minority stake to TV ARM RU investors.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Armenian media then reported that 100% of the company&#8217;s shares were purchased for $7 million USD by a Russian businessman of Azerbaijani origin, which led to the dismissal of a significant number of employees.<\/p>\n<p>TV director Tatevik Agamiryan, speaking to Lragir.am, confirmed the news that the businessman expressed interest in buying TV ARM RU, but she denied reports of its sale.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Agamiryan assured Panorama.am that all political and strategic nuances will be taken into account at closing.<\/p>\n<p>Note, TV ARM RU has been in the Russian TV market for a year and is broadcast from three satellites throughout Russia, Europe, CIS and the Baltic countries, as well as through 120 cable networks in 450 cities in Russia.<\/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>Starting on Jul. 1, the first Russian-Armenian TV channel, TV ARM RU, may cease broadcasting 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":109129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28832,13761,28831],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109179"}],"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=109179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}