Mze TV

Mse TV (Georgian მზე; German Sun TV) is a Georgian private channels. Its seat is Tbilisi. Since 2005 he has devoted himself mainly sports and entertainment, has only one message format.

The station was founded in April 2003. He is to receive, especially in Tbilisi and its suburbs via antenna and cable, was first made an effort to cover all editorial divisions. In 2005 he moved his profile. Political editors were dismissed. The popular political talk show Archewanis Sgwarse (Eng. At the top of the election ) was discontinued after coroner had expressed doubts about the official version there of the death of Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania.

2006, the TV station wants to receive from the National Communications Commission of Georgia broadcast frequencies for all of Georgia.

Founder and original owner of the station was the banker and former Georgian Minister of Economic Affairs Vano Chkhartishvili. 2004 acquired the cement producer David Bezhuashvili, a brother of the Georgian Foreign Minister, 50 % of the shares, Chkhartishvili retained 50%. 2005 Bezhuashvili became the sole owner. On 4 January 2006, he sold 78% of Mse shares to the majority owner of the TV station Rustavi 2, Kibar Khalvashi.

In the summer of 2006 Bezhuashvili sold his share of the company 's Georgia Industrial Group (GIG ), Khalvashi to the company GEOTRANS. Meanwhile Mse TV belongs together with the television Rustavi 2 to 45 % of the GIG. The remaining shares are in the hands of GeoMedia Group, whose headquarters is in the Marshall Islands. Who is behind the company is not publicly known.