The Azerbaijani National Broadcasting Council (NBC) supports the unified estimation of private channels concerning candidates’ paid air time.
“TV channels should take into account the existing realities and hold estimation on the election propaganda campaign,” Nushiravan Maharramli, the chairman of the NBC, told Trend News on 19 September.
To fix an advertisement price on propaganda of presidential candidatures is an interior affair of TV channels and the Council should interfere into it, Maharraml said.
Some presidential candidatures are not satisfied with advertisement prices at TV channels.
“We have not faced with any problem since the election propaganda began. The elections headquarters have not received complaints from places. The only problem is the highest price of advertisement at TV channels,” Elchin Mirzabayli, the head of the elections headquarters of Gudrat Hasanguliyev, who was nominated from the opposition Unified Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, told Trend News.
According to Mirzabayli, the Broadcasting Council should examine the issue on the highest prices of advertisements at the TV channels. “Prices of political advertisements should differ from other advertisements. Presidential candidatures cannot afford such highest prices,” Mirzabayli stressed.
Fazil Gazanfaroglu, a presidential candidature from the opposition Great Establishment Party, mentioned the highest prices of advertisements at the TV channel in his interview to Trend News.
“We are interested in advertisement prices and they are too expensive. It is impossible to use air time through these prices,” Gazafaroglu said.
The presidential candidature joins initiative to apply to the NBC.
“I think that we should apply to Maharramli in connection with this problem,” Gazafaroglu said.
Price of the paid time for a second varies averagely between AZN 40 and AZN 99 depending on different times of a day at the private channels of Azerbaijan. /Trend/