Bulgarian State TV Head Re-Еlected

Society | July 25, 2013, Thursday // 14:18|  views

Vyara Ankova will serve another three-year term as director general of the state-owned BNT TV channel. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency

Vyara Ankova was re-elected Director-General of the Bulgarian National Television at a meeting of the electronic media watchdog on Thursday.

Ankova will be serving a three-year term.

Her candidature was supported by four out of five members of the council.

Ankova, long-time journalist and former news anchor, plans to add to the content of the national broadcaster by launching two new channels.

Vyara Ankova was born in 1966. She has a degree in English from the Sofia University. She took up a job as a reporter at the Bulgarian National TV in 1991, and has subsequently been a news anchor. She has specialized with CNN and the BBC in the early 1990s.

In the late 1990s she married Tomas Lafchis, a former president of the Levski Sofia football club, and became the BNT correspondent for Greece after her family moved to Athens.

Since 2004, she served as the head of the “Information Directorate” at the Bulgarian National Television.

In the middle of July 2010 the Council of Electronic Media (CEM) voted unanimously for the appointment of Vyara Ankova as director of the Bulgarian National Television.

A failed runner for the office appealed the contest outcome, citing technical irregularities and corruption allegations.

Svetlana Bozhilova argues that the competition was launched before the end of the term of the previous BNT head in breach of the procedure. Besides she accuses the winner Vyara Ankova of being involved in corruption schemes.

The complaint however did not even delay Ankova’s appointment.

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