In Georgia, "Imedi" TV Company restarts broadcasting in testing mode

The Georgian "Imedi" TV Company has resumed its technical broadcasting. Now, the TV Channel, which stopped its operation last December, is putting movies on air. Information programs are planned from June on.

The IA "News-Georgia" explains with reference to Channel's managers that technical broadcasting implies checking the work of the equipment required to restart all the previous programs. Information news programs will be resumed by "Imedi" since June - after settling all the problems with recruiting new link people and reporters.

"The Channel will work with full load and new projects since September," said Bidzina Baratashvili, Director General of the "Imedi".

Earlier, Ms Baratashvili informed that the equipment of the TV Company had been rather severely damaged, besides, certain debts have accumulated, which are repaid step by step.

The present owner of the TV Company - US citizen Joseph Kay (Soso Kakiashvili) has noted to the "Interfax" that there are no obstacles to normal operation. As he said, some time was needed to settle all the problems related to financial obligations of the TV Company, and technical issues.

Mr Kay has also informed that about a hundred employees had quitted the Company; therefore, certain staff changes can be expected.

He has noted that the "Imedi" will be objective television, "precisely as it was prior to Badri Patarkatsishvili got mixed with politics." "It will elegize neither the authorities nor the opposition," Mr Kay has assured.