National broadcaster cuts transmission hours
National radio broadcasting will be cut to 18 hours per day and analogue TV transmissions will also be also shortened to 9 hours on Mondays to Thursdays, the Baltic News Service announced. Forced by...
View ArticleLRT fined LTL 10,000 for misleading advertising
The Lithuanian Radio and Television Centre (LRTC) was fined 10,000 litas (2,900 euros) for airing a misleading ‘Maison’ advertisement, the LRTC acknowledged. The Maison internet service was advertised...
View ArticleRequirements for LRT executive: master‘s degree, impeccable reputation,...
Lithuanian national radio and television (LRT) will be looking for a new executive. April 1st is the end of the five year tenure of the current chief executive, Audrius Siaurusevičius, delfi.lt...
View ArticleBaltic broadcasters mull setting up pan-Baltic Russian TV channel
BNS The national broadcasters of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are mulling setting up a new Russian-language TV channel as a counterbalance to Moscow-funded channels broadcast in the three countries....
View ArticleWhere are Lithuania’s security problems?
Lithuanian national broadcaster, LRT recently presented a series of interviews with leading commentators and thinkers on Lithuanian security. The Lithuania Tribune presents a lightly edited...
View ArticleLithuanian prime minister says blacklist vice-ministers will not be reinstated
Suspicious vice-ministers will not work in the renewed government, Lithuania's Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. [...] The post Lithuanian prime minister says blacklist...
View ArticleConservative MPs accuse ruling Farmer’s leader of hindering LRT probe
Conservative members of a commission set up by the Lithuanian parliament to scrutinize the activities of the public broadcaster Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) say that Ramūnas Karbauskis,...
View ArticleSeimas panel wants external audit of national broadcaster’s finances
The Lithuanian parliament's acting commission for scrutiny of the national broadcaster's operations decided at its first meeting on Thursday to turn to 14 institutions for information about LRT, asking...
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