Correspondents of “Chronicles of Turkmenistan” report that starting from March, 2021 state-run television channels will be transferred to self-financing.
Because local television is not popular and nobody is willing to order commercials, the lists of ministries and agencies which will be obligated to order commercials are currently being drafted.
For-profit businesses, which are members of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, will also be obligated to order commercials for their goods and services.
According to an employee of a television channel, singers are now paying for their performances and videos. However, this is done illegally and it is the executive of the TV channels who makes a profit rather than a TV channel.
Let us recall that at the meeting held on 7 February, 2021 President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov instructed that the State Committee for Television, Radio Broadcasting and Cinematography be gradually switched to a self-financing basis.The post Entrepreneurs and ministries of Turkmenistan to be obligated to places orders for TV commercials first appeared on Chronicles of Turkmenistan.