content tagged with Olay TV

Olay TV: Efforts to launch new channel fail, 180 journalists left unemployed

Olay TV: Efforts to launch new channel fail, 180 journalists left unemployed

Launched in late 2020 to "bring back impartial reporting," Olay TV survived for only 26 days before it was closed down due to government pressure.

16 February 2021

A TV channel was launched to 'bring back impartial reporting'; it survived for only 26 days

A TV channel was launched to 'bring back impartial reporting'; it survived for only 26 days

Olay TV didn't claim to be doing "critical reporting" but keeping "an equal distance to everyone," which wasn't apparently enough for the government.

29 December 2020

Closure of critical TV channel on Parliamentary agenda

Closure of critical TV channel on Parliamentary agenda

HDP MP Canbaz Kaya has submitted a Parliamentary question regarding the closure of Olay TV channel in just 26 days. “Is the mounting censorship and pressure on media enforced by the Presidential Communications Directorate,” the MP has asked.

29 December 2020