In accordance with the changes made in the Georgian law “on Broadcasting” that shall come into force starting August 10, 2016, minimum duration of TV broadcasting has been set to be12 hours per day. Changes made in the law have caused the necessity of modification of those TV authorizations (means of technology – digital terrestrial TV network) who had indicated less than 12 hours of TV broadcasting per day in their authorization declarations.  These broadcasters ...

GNCC draws its attention on increasing number of cases of hate speech aired by television and addresses broadcasters, as well as the participants of social-political programs to abide the legal and ethical norms. In past days, following 2 facts have been detected in the broadcasting space: An anchor of the program “Political Night” placed in the broadcasting net of NNLE “Media Union Obieqtivi” Valery Kvaratkhelia has stated: I shall cut off your tongues off with a ...

GNCC has announced a contest in the city of Mestia for the issuance of license for usage to ensure digital terrestrial TV broadcasting based on an application submitted by NNLE “Shvania Television.” Receiving questions in a written form related to the contest and publishing answers at GNCC will be available up until August 12, 2016, before 7 pm. Submission of documents by the persons willing to participate in the contest to be held until August 22, 2016, before 7 pm. Preparatory ...

At the session held on July 28, 2016, GNCC has approved the request submitted by NNLE “Poverty Reduction and Emergency Care, Kintsurashvili Charity Foundation Way of Future” in order to carry out a broadcasting authorization. An organization to launch private-specialized (scientific) broadcasting by means of cable network and internet starting September 20, 2016. TV Company will broadcast 15 hours per day, broadcasting languages: Georgian, English and Russian. 

In accordance with the decision of GNCC, joint request submitted by “Caucasus Online” Ltd and “Magticom” Ltd in relation to transfer permits for the usage of numbering resources owned by “Caucasus Online” Ltd to “Magticom” Ltd has been satisfied. In accordance with the same decision, public administrative proceedings have been launched in order to declare void specific obligations set upon “Caucasus Online” Ltd as for the significant ...

GNCC has issued written warnings on entities authorized for the transit of broadcasting - ”Geo-TV” Ltd, “Alliance TV” Ltd and “TV Era” Ltd  for the re-transmission of certain broadcasting channels without proper permits and licenses. ”Geo-TV” Ltd has been re-transmitting following broadcastanging channels without proper permits: „ 1st channel of public broadcaster”, “2nd channel of public broadcaster”, “Rustavi ...

GNCC has reviewed a complaint submitted by “GYLA” against “Studio Maestro” Ltd. “GYLA”, on June 8 of the current year, has addressed TV Company “Maestro” in a written with a request for the placement of a social advertisement. Ad was aiming to inform society about problems related to an early age marriage. In accordance with the Georgian law “on Broadcasting,” broadcaster for the purpose to air the social ad presented, is obligated to ...

Meeting has been held at GNCC between ge. Domain administrator- Information Technology Development Center (ITDC) and persons authorized to provide hosting services in Georgia. The purpose of the meeting was to announce an implementation of a new administrator-registrar model and to introduce potential registrars about registration terms and conditions in the ge.zone domain names. Administrator-registrar implies, that a subscriber (registrar) will register desired domain name not through an ...

 GNCC, based on the President’s ordinance on “Appointment of the Georgian Parliamentary Elections,” provides broadcasters’ pre-electoral monitoring since June 8, 2016. Within the scope of a monitoring noted, in several instances, the breach of obligations defined by the Organic Law of Georgia in “Election Code of Georgia” were detected by few media outlets. In particular, publication of public opinion poll results by some media outlets were provided ...

In accordance with the Georgian law “on Broadcasting,” “Discovery Georgia” Ltd has addressed GNCC in order to obtain an authorization. According to an application, “Discovery Georgia” Ltd has requested an authorization in the field of private-specialized broadcasting. GNCC has registered company in the registrar for authorized undertakings and has defined its broadcasting time 12 hours per day in Georgian, Russian and English languages.