The European Court of Human Rights today ordered the Armenian Government to pay A1 Plus’ parent company 30,000 Euros in damages after their case was heard of late.

A1 Plus, a once pro opposition ( or more unbiased, depending on who you ask ) television channel was effectively banned from the airwaves 6 years ago after changes were made to the law on tv and radio. A1 plus has been participating in tenders for a number of years and has yet to win one.

It is unclear what this will behold for the tv company itself, but this gives strong weight A1plus’ long established view that they were effectively forced off the air for political reasons, pro government sources claim their tender bids were not of a high enough standard to compete.

Considering today we have one tv channel owned by a businessman who sits and talks to you all day about how great he is, one channel that seems to show nothing but adverts for cars in between an occsional Russian show, and one channel that does nothing but rebroadast another channel - I am unsure what A1plus’s tender proposal must have been. Only a blank screen 24 hours a day could be worse - or perhaps better, these days?