CIU Students Visited Georgian Public Broadcaster

CIU students studying Journalism visited Georgian Public Broadcaster - combination of new and old, which unites us for more than half a century.

Caucasus International University students of the Journalism program visited Georgian Public Broadcaster on December 2nd, 2019. The event was organized within the framework of the mandatory specialty subject “Radio Broadcasting”. The students were hosted by Sophio Kikvadze, subject supervisor and the staff of Public Broadcasting, Dea Gvelebiani, PR Manager of Public Broadcaster and Natia Khoshtaria, Marketing Projects Manager.

The students became familiar with the First Channel multimedia platform. Dea Gvelebiani talked

about the essence of Public Broadcaster in detail. In addition, students visited updated TV and radio studios, where daily and weekly programs are aired: New Day, Late Afternoon, Personal Doctor, Simple Logic, Are You Smarter than a Sixth Grader, etc.? They also visited mini-museum of the television, which preserves the technical means through which First Channel aired its first broadcasts. Natia Khoshtaria introduced the history of the museum to students and together with the students, opened the door of an ancient radio studio, where the voices of Georgian writers, poets, and public figures were written for years. Students moved to the united newsroom, where they met with journalists working for various platforms. The PR manager introduced them to the specifics of their work.

Students monitored a radio broadcast of Georgian Radio from the radio studio, which was broadcasted live. Sophio Kiknadze once again explained to students what processes a host goes through before transmitting information live. She also talked about the feedback between the director and the presenter.

The students moved to the Gold Fund of Channel One after the completion of the news program. Unique voices are preserved in this fund. Lili Gogebashvili, an employee of Georgian Radio, introduced the students to the history of the treasure. In addition, she showed a hall where a lot of tapes “reside”.

The students were also given the opportunity to open the doors to Erosi Manjgaladze’s studio this year, where they were hosted by director, playwright and writer Zurab Kandelaki. He talked to the students about the importance of sound on the radio and the characteristics of the radio play.

Eventually, the First Channel’s radio voice, actor, Dato Rostomashvili talked about the importance of different audiobooks on television and radio and showed the students the difference between them in practice.

CIU students’ excursion to Georgian Public Broadcaster lasted 2 hours.

“The best combination of the old and the new”, - these were the words of the students referring to First Channel of Georgia – “something that unites us for more than half a century”.

Prepared by Soso Gazdelian, an undergraduate student of the program in Journalism at CIU.