The public broadcaster “Teleradio-Moldova” intends to ask for the Broadcasting Coordination Council’s consent to launch the public TV channel Moldova 2 later this month. The company’s president Olga Bordeianu made the announcement in the Council’s February 11 meeting, when presenting the business plan of “Teleradio-Moldova” for this year, IPN reports.

Olga Bordeianu said that 2016 will be full of events for “Teleradio-Moldova”, mainly sports events. The agreements signed by the company oblige the channel Moldova 1 to broadcast the Olympic Games and the European Football Championship during 12 hours daily.

“But this is impossible. Launching another TV channel that will enable to broadcast sports events in the required amount is a priority. Given that we do not have external financing, we decided to use the internal resources to launch Moldova 2 channel later this month,” stated Olga Bordeianu.

Furthermore, Moldova 1 has an enormous archive that is not put to good use. Moldova 2 could broadcast this archive, including sports events in summer.

The Council members approved of the plans of “Teleradio-Moldova”, especially as regards the digitization of the archive of the public TV channel. They decided to try and identify financial resources for supporting the digitization project, which is very costly.

The Council endorsed the business plan with the proposals to detail the expenditure of Moldova 2, to write a separate chapter on the digitization of the archive of Moldova 1 and to produce news bulletins in the languages of national minorities. It was also suggested increasing the number of newscasts with sign language interpretation and broadcasting a three-minute program about the most serious Romanian language mistakes made before the main news bulletin.