BBC Knocked off Air in Russia After Legal Dispute
Created: 23.12.2005 11:05 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:05 MSK > document.write(get_ago(1135325114)); </SCRIPT> , 5 hours 44 minutes ago
MosNews
A legal dispute has knocked the BBC’s Russian service off the air in Moscow, officials said on Thursday, although the corporation insisted all its licenses were in order.
Konstantin Eggert, Moscow bureau editor for the BBC’s Russian service, said the company which broadcasts the corporation’s programs had lost its license, causing it to lose its medium wave transmission in the Russian capital. “We officially have a right to broadcast. We were not the ones who lost the right to broadcast, it was the service provider,” he was quoted by Reuters as saying.
Grigory Kliger, head of the Oktod operating company, said the license for the frequency had run out and that the documents needed to renew it had not been ready in time.
According to the Russian agencies ...
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