“Hotline” returns to the airwaves on US-Armenia TV Friday nights
BURBANK, Calif. - The English-language “Hotline” talk show debuted last Friday night at midnight (Pacific Time) on US-Armenia TV, which broadcasts in Southern California on over-the-air, antenna TV (KSCI 18.5), on Charter and Time-Warner cable, on satellite in the United States via Globecast, and in Europe and Armenia on the Hotbird satellite.
For the past four years, program host Paul Chaderjian has interviewed more than a hundred guests who were working or were involved with projects in Armenia and the Armenian diaspora.
“The interview show idea came to life when Armenia TV asked me to go to Armenia and help with the coverage of the 90th Anniversary of the Genocide in 2005,” said Chaderjian, who is a former ABC News writer-producer and one of the former hosts of the annual Armenia Fund Thanksgiving Day telethon.
“I helped Armenia TV set up a live transmission to CNN, The Associated Press, and a few European news agencies,” said Chaderjian. “We wanted to show the world how important the commemoration and Genocide recognition are to Armenia and Armenians around the world. What we did was set up a satellite feed with the help of the Foreign Ministry and broadcast the commemoration ceremonies, interviews with scholars who had attended the Ultimate Crime symposium, soundbites from those at the commemoration, archival photos, and footage shot from a helicopter.”
CNN, Current TV, and The Associated Press were among those who used the news feed and broadcast the Genocide commemoration story during their global broadcasts and news feeds to affiliate stations on April 24 and 25.
Since then Chaderjian has filed at least a dozen reports from Yerevan to CNN International, EuroNews, AP, and Russia Today, including coverage of former Prime Minister Andranik Margarian’s visit to the United Nations IT Summit in Tunisia, the ground-breaking of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts in Yerevan, as well as stories about Sumgait massacre anniversary and cultural exchange programs between the United States and Armenia.
“When I was in Yerevan in ‘05,” said Chaderjian, “Armenia TV’s Bagrat Sargsyan and I were talking about creating a venue on television where we could talk to guests in English and reach non-Armenian-speaking audiences. That’s how ‘Hotline’ was born.”
Hotline airs on US-Armenia TV on Fridays at midnight (Saturday 12:00 A.M. Pacific) and repeats on Mondays 8:00 A.M. The station is also streamed live on the Internet.
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USArmeniaTV.com
For the past four years, program host Paul Chaderjian has interviewed more than a hundred guests who were working or were involved with projects in Armenia and the Armenian diaspora.
“The interview show idea came to life when Armenia TV asked me to go to Armenia and help with the coverage of the 90th Anniversary of the Genocide in 2005,” said Chaderjian, who is a former ABC News writer-producer and one of the former hosts of the annual Armenia Fund Thanksgiving Day telethon.
“I helped Armenia TV set up a live transmission to CNN, The Associated Press, and a few European news agencies,” said Chaderjian. “We wanted to show the world how important the commemoration and Genocide recognition are to Armenia and Armenians around the world. What we did was set up a satellite feed with the help of the Foreign Ministry and broadcast the commemoration ceremonies, interviews with scholars who had attended the Ultimate Crime symposium, soundbites from those at the commemoration, archival photos, and footage shot from a helicopter.”
CNN, Current TV, and The Associated Press were among those who used the news feed and broadcast the Genocide commemoration story during their global broadcasts and news feeds to affiliate stations on April 24 and 25.
Since then Chaderjian has filed at least a dozen reports from Yerevan to CNN International, EuroNews, AP, and Russia Today, including coverage of former Prime Minister Andranik Margarian’s visit to the United Nations IT Summit in Tunisia, the ground-breaking of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts in Yerevan, as well as stories about Sumgait massacre anniversary and cultural exchange programs between the United States and Armenia.
“When I was in Yerevan in ‘05,” said Chaderjian, “Armenia TV’s Bagrat Sargsyan and I were talking about creating a venue on television where we could talk to guests in English and reach non-Armenian-speaking audiences. That’s how ‘Hotline’ was born.”
Hotline airs on US-Armenia TV on Fridays at midnight (Saturday 12:00 A.M. Pacific) and repeats on Mondays 8:00 A.M. The station is also streamed live on the Internet.
connect:
USArmeniaTV.com
