According to the article “A press repressed” written by Bob Cullen, a journalist and novelist. He is also the author of “Why Golf? The Mystery of the Game Revisited” and “National Geographic”, 2002, there was an incident when the national TV channel “Tan” (dawn) was turned off from the air in the March 29, 2002. As Bob Cullen states, the Tan stopped its broadcasting because TV channel presented a news item, in which the head of opposition party Galumzhan Zhakiyanov called for Democratic Choice. On the other hand, it might be due to the fact that Tan reported that a daughter of the President of Kazakhstan ordered to “Air Kazakhstan” company to take her in Dubai for the winter furlough, while hundreds of passengers were left in Almaty airport. Alternatively, it can be the fact that Tan was founded by the member of the President’s cabinet and afterwards shifted to the opposition side.
Uneven breaches of the requirements of legislation were recorded in “Tan” TeleRadioCompany. The channel was accused for breaking the law of copyrights and translation of movies without any agreements with legal owners. That is why on March 9, at 12.20 a.m. representatives of Almaty Department of advertising and information of the Ministry of Transport and Communication allowed for the continuation of broadcasting till April 7. By this time TV channel had to eliminate all its breaches.
In my esearch some interesting facts were found during the research in the history of this channel. During the night of March 29, 2002 unknown people chopped up the cable of television transmitter with gun shots. 9 shots were exactly disablement feeder, on air cable of the Tan channel. The hold ups on cable were made twice: on the March 27, malicious penetrates cut out 2 cables of transmitted antennas that were it the roof of the building where the Tan channel was situated. From this building TeleRadioCompany was transmitted live air programmes. That is way there were overlapped power supply and air signal. Technical service has restored the cable, but there were another hold up in March 29 in which the cable was tore from the gun shoots. Of course, the TV channel Tan has broken some laws, and that is why it was closed. However, the Ministry of information was very strict to them. Such kind of problem can be solved in other way. The ministry just can tell to the director of the channel Bakhytzhan Ketebayev to solve problems immediately or there will be heavy consequences on the Tan channel. Nevertheless, the channel was closed down for 6 month. It was the first time in 10-year history of Tan’s operation that the channel was closed. In the mid April, working staff began to repair and change all equipment. Approximately on the April 17, the channel acquired all rights and licenses to begin its work again. But who gave a command not to broadcast Tan channel to the air? Of course the Ministry of transport and communication. That is why, Tan channel had no access to begin its work again as it was 6 month ago. At the end, this channel was owned by the Media-holding TRC “Channel 31”, which also owned a TV channel, radio station, and a number of newspapers like “Megapolis”. The owner of this channel is not recently convicted ex-minister of energy Mukhtar Ablyazov, not fired leader of TV channel Bakhytzhan Ketebayev, it is in fact the owner of the majority of shares of big Media-holding – Armanzhan Baitasov. As Ablyazov states “Information action policy is one of indirect reasons that halted the broadcasting of a popular TV channel in Kazakhstan”. Of course, it is a good point that TAN channel is privatized now. It mustn’t’ be closed because of numbers of mistakes. It is a popular channel and it must be translated to people and continue to work. Translate news and broadcast programs.
Cullen,B. A press repressed.
Translation of TRC "Tan" is stopped.
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