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Council for Electronic Media informs EC about the reduced funding of public-service media

Betina Zhoteva
Photo: Asya Pencheva, BNR-archive

Betina Zhoteva has been appointed as Chairperson of the Council for Electronic Media (CEC). Four members of CEC voted in favor and one abstained. 

The Council for Electronic Media also decided to send a letter to the European Commission in connection with the reduced funding of the public-service media. The media regulator will once again raise the issue of the need for reform in the financing of the public media.

In an interview for the BNR, Bulgaria’s outgoing Deputy Premier Tomislav Donchev promised to explain the government’s motifs to cut the budget of the Bulgarian National Radio by nearly EUR 500,000.

In an interview for the BNR, journalist Svetla Petrova who is a member of the BNR’s Public Council stated that these latest cuts in the national radio’s budget are “a form of reprisal against the BNR because it is acting as an independent media outlet serving the public interest instead of the interests of corporate circles and the people currently in power.”



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