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Georgia's Imedi TV set to resume broadcasts Wednesday

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Georgia's largest independent television channel Imedi will go back on air on Wednesday, a senior company spokesman said on Tuesday.
TBILISI, December 11 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia's largest independent television channel Imedi will go back on air on Wednesday, a senior company spokesman said on Tuesday.

Imedi was suspended on November 7 amid opposition protests for allegedly inciting violence in the ex-Soviet Caucasus republic. Last week, a court in Tbilisi ruled to reinstate the TV station's broadcasting license and return its confiscated assets.

Earlier reports said the channel would resume broadcasts on Tuesday.

"There was no postponement of the date for going on air," said Giorgy Targamadze, the director of political programs at the channel. "We said the station would go on air on Tuesday or Wednesday."

Targamadze said Imedi workers currently checking broadcasting equipment. Broadcast journalists went back to work on Monday.

The company is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and according to some reports, Georgian billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili, although the businessman has said he sold his 49% stake in 2006.

Patarkatsishvili, who is suspected by Georgian authorities of seeking to instigate a coup during November's protests, has announced plans to run for president. The businessman currently lives abroad.

Former President Mikheil Saakashvili called early elections after riot police clamped down on opposition protesters in Tbilisi, who demanded his resignation over corruption allegations.

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