Tbilisi. The Eurasia Partnership Foundation has echoed the information disseminated by certain media outlets, explaining that the "TV Company 9th Channel has not received grant funding from the Foundation. TV Company 9th Channel has participated in the tender organized by the Foundation in March 2013 (tender amount 17,000 GEL), which aimed at covering Euro-integration issued by the televisions through talk-shows. The following media outlets were invited to participate in the tender: the Public Broadcaster of Georgia, TV Imedi, broadcasting company Rustavi 2, Studio Maestro and TV 9th Channel. These companies were selected based on the interviews conducted by the Caucasus Research Resources Center, according to which the majority of the Georgian population receives the news through these very televisions. As a result of the tender, the Eurasia Partnership Foundation has executed with TV 9th Channel the service contract, under which 10 television programs must be produced as part of the talk-shows "Major Question" and "Big Time", - says the Foundation's statement.

Source: epfound.ge