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Maestro contends the dishes were part of its campaign “Maestroin Every Family,” and was in no part connected to Ivanishvili. 89TV9 (Channel 9 Ltd) is fully owned by Accept LLC 90 . EkaterineIvanishvili, the wife of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, owns80% of its shares. The remaining 20% of shares are held byKakha Kobiashvili 91 , who is a cousin of Bidzina Ivanishvili andhas managed several companies affiliated with the billionaire,including Georgian Holding 92 and Holding Twenty First 93 . Thestation does not have a license for terrestrial broadcasting andis broadcast via satellite by Global TV 94 . Ivanishvili’s brother,Alexander, owns 66.8% of Global TV’s shares 95 .Scandals have dogged the station even before its launch inApril, 2012. In February, Ivanishvili charged that his satellitevan for live broadcasts, worth 450,000 Euro, had been purposelydamaged at customs clearance, along with other shipmentsbelonging to Ivanishvili companies. 96 Then in June, the Georgianprosecutor’s office seized thousands of satellite dishes Global TVwas handing out to subscribers as part of a promotional deal. The89 More Satellite Dishes, Imported by Maestro TV Impounded. Civil.ge http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=25037 Accessed 14/11/201290 Public Registry. Ministry of Justice of Georgia. 24/05/2012 https://enreg.reestri.gov.ge/main.php?c=mortgage&m=get_output_by_id&scandoc_id=421345&app_id=490972 Accessed on 05/12/201291 Public Registry. Ministry of Justice of Georgia 16/01/2012 https://enreg.reestri.gov.ge/main.php?c=mortgage&m=get_output_by_id&scandoc_id=369086&app_id=425615 Accessed on 05/12/201292 Public Registry. Ministry of Justice of Georgia 19/03/2010 https://enreg.reestri.gov.ge/main.php?c=mortgage&m=get_output_by_id&scandoc_id=36655&app_id=44502 Accessed on 12/12/201293 Public Registry. Ministry of Justice of Georgia 18/03/2010 https://enreg.reestri.gov.ge/main.php?c=mortgage&m=get_output_by_id&scandoc_id=36068&app_id=44491 Accessed on 12/12/201294 Ivanishvil’s TV Channel Launched. Civil.ge http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=24711 Accessed on 14/11/201295 Public Registry. Ministry of Justice of Georgia. 06/11/2012 https://enreg.reestri.gov.ge/main.php?c=mortgage&m=get_output_by_id&scandoc_id=470746&app_id=546176 Accessed on 05/12/201296 Satellite Van for Ivanishvili’s Planned TV Channel ‘Damaged’. Civil.ge http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=24445 Accessed on 14/11/201226
prosecutor’s office believes the dishes were being used to bribevoters, as Global TV was the sole broadcaster of Ivanishvili’s TV9.The State Audit Agency fined Ivanishvili 63.1 million GEL. 97Some television station owners complain the governmentinterferes with their licensing procedures through the GeorgianNational Communications Commission (GNCC). The GNCC 98 wasestablished in 2000 as an independent regulatory body to licenseand oversee the operations of Georgian telecommunication andbroadcasting companies. It monitors and regulates electroniccommunications, including the compliance of license holdersto laws on advertising. The President of Georgia appoints the5-member board, by approval of parliament, and is supposed tobe fully independent and not subordinate to any state bodies.As noted, sometimes the GNCC works zealously to regulatecommunications, while other times it doesn’t work at all. That’sbecause “independent” is a highly subjective concept in Georgia.Before Irakli Chikovani became Chairperson of the GeorgianNational Communications Commission (GNCC) in the summerof 2009, he was the director 99 and co-owner of Rustavi 2 100 . Inhis first year as Chair, he continued to co-own MediaHouse,one of the country’s two major media sales houses, which soldadvertising time on Rustavi 2, Mze and several other channels. 101In 2010, Chikovani sold MediaHouse and its clients to GeneralMedia the new, number one media sales company. 10297 Global TV’s Satellite Dish Antennas Seized. Civil.ge http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=24908 Accessed on 14/11/201298 Georgian National Communication Commission http://www.gncc.ge/?lang_id=ENG Accessed on 05/12/201299 Public Registry. Ministry of Justice of Georgia Page 149 https://enreg.reestri.gov.ge/main.php?c=app&m=view_doc&doc_id=76222 Accessed on05/12/2012100 Changes Among Rustavi 2 TV Shareholders. Civil.ge http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=19944 Accessed on 14/11/2012101 General Media and Outdoor.ge - Two Monopolists of Advertising Businesshttp://netgazeti.ge/GE/84/business/7414/ Accessed 05/12/2012102 Ibid27
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