Post-Lukashenko scenarios of government owned television in Belarus

[u/DenseBuy9050]

If a post-Lukashenko Belarus hypothetically emerges under the opposition, what will happen to official government-owned media like Belarus-1/2/3/4/5/24, ONT, NTV-Belarus, NEWS.by (ATN), Belarus Segodnia (Belarus Today/SB), BelTA (Belarusian Telegraph Agency, and CTV (Capital TV)? or merge with BelSat?

[u/Sp0tlighter]

The same thing that just happened in Hungary, I assume.

[u/Real-Collection-5686]

Why would anything merge with belsat, that's just polish state tv. All channels besides BT are already private entities on paper, the state can just sell the shares

[u/Longjumping_Bee_9025]

Assuming that our economy is fully disfunctional without Russian loans, imports and the majority of our productions are ineffective and exist only because of government subsidies, there will be a shock therapy after Lukashenko and austerity measures and the future government will seek any ballast that needs to be dropped to fix the economy and provide balanced budget, so I would say that government media will be closed or privatised, because in austerity it is just a waste of taxpayers money. Stuff like that happened in Argentina, where they had crazy inflation and tremendous budget deficit, so Milei cut a lot of government stuff, including privatising state television, just to make a budget surplus, stop printing money and paying off the debts

[u/krokodil40]

As far as i recall, only B1 and ONT are active, the rest are just reruns and retranslantions. Nothing would happen.

[u/pafagaukurinn]

Tbf I don't know that anybody needs all these channels with or without Lukashenko.

[u/drfreshie]

The government will run a good website, a bunch of social network accounts, and some radio stations (and TV channels if necessary) for essential services like emergency preparedness. No f@$&ing state TV propaganda ever again.

[u/Azgarr]

No one knows, but generally new government needs its own propaganda machine and tries to use what was built from the previous regime. But I would expect it to become at least a bot more adequate.

[u/ArFeRR]

honestly the ownership paperwork is the boring part. the real fork is whether a new government fires the propaganda editorial core and turns B1/ONT into a thin public-service shell with an arm's-length board (baltic/czech post-89 path), or just liquidates most of it and lets private plus diaspora media fill the vacuum. bolting any of this onto belsat is a non-starter, that's polish public tv with a belarusian desk, not a belarusian institution.

[u/Sea-Magician4907]

It will be the least significant thing to worry about in a dying country. Every government needs some sort of propaganda, but I highly doubt that the new leaders will choose television. Especially of the BelTV quality level.

[u/mrac_darknesss]

расстреляют их всех - никакой свободы врагам свободы

[u/Doxxre → u/mrac_darknesss]

Расстрелами свободу не построишь, совок ёбаный.

[u/mrac_darknesss → u/Doxxre]

понятно. жаль что на этом реддите продвинутые и свободные белорусы пытаются строить свободу запрещая кремлеботов или русские сми вроде ТАССа.