NIT and Euro TV garner most licenses

The Broadcasting Coordination Council (BCC) on Thursday, May 8, awarded licenses for the use of available channels. Most of these were won by NIT and Euro TV Chisinau. At the same time, Pro TV and Dixi TV obtained none of the channels applied for, Info-Prim Neo reports. NIT was authorized to operate 12 channels, 11 of which had been in its use before. Not any other broadcaster applied for them. So, NIT can further broadcast using its frequencies in Chisinau, Cahul, Edinet, Comrat, Varnita, Ungheni, Nisporeni, Soroca, Cimislia, Causeni and Trifesti. The new license is for a frequency in Criuleni. Euro TV Chisinau also obtained a pack of licenses put up for the contest. The station will broadcast on frequencies from Briceni, Cantemir, Comrat, Drochia, Falesti, Glodeni, Sangerei, Stefan Voda and Taraclia. Pro TV applied for seven channels put up for competition. All of them were rejected by the BCC. TV Dixi’s situation was much the same; the station lost to a novice called Vedete TV, which won six licenses. Some channels in Floresti, Leova, Ocnita and Varnita remained undistributed. On May 7 the BCC awarded licenses for radio frequencies. Next day a disgruntled applicant from the village of Mingir who remained without a license went on a hunger strike to protest the way the frequencies had been distributed.