Bulgarian TV Channel May be Closed Down over "Racial Intolerance"
Politics | November 4, 2003, TuesdayBulgaria's state Council for Electronic Media (CEM) launched a procedure for closing down private Den TV channel after a "racial discrimination" scandal was prompted by a Den live broadcast, Bulgaria's Dnevnik daily wrote.
The channel's management was already imposed a BGN 15,000 ticket due to the controversial comment that German-descended TV host Nick Stein has made. He criticized the refusal of a member of the Movement for Rights and Freedom (MRF), junior partner in the country's ruling coalition, to speak in Bulgarian at a press conference. The member of the ethnic-Turks dominated party chose to speak in his mother language instead, which aroused Stein's criticism.
The following raid against Den was initiated the Council's Chairman Raycho Raykov. However, he was opposed by CEM member Georgi Lozanov, who claimed that closing down Den would be interpreted as a political decision, Dnevnik revealed.
The TV channel's owner Denka Ivanova is set to be ready for appealing against an eventual court decision in favor of the CEM.
The channel's management was already imposed a BGN 15,000 ticket due to the controversial comment that German-descended TV host Nick Stein has made. He criticized the refusal of a member of the Movement for Rights and Freedom (MRF), junior partner in the country's ruling coalition, to speak in Bulgarian at a press conference. The member of the ethnic-Turks dominated party chose to speak in his mother language instead, which aroused Stein's criticism.
The following raid against Den was initiated the Council's Chairman Raycho Raykov. However, he was opposed by CEM member Georgi Lozanov, who claimed that closing down Den would be interpreted as a political decision, Dnevnik revealed.
The TV channel's owner Denka Ivanova is set to be ready for appealing against an eventual court decision in favor of the CEM.
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