TV MOSLAVINA URGENTLY SEEKING PERMIT FOR NEW LOCATION

( Editorial: --> 5647 ) ZAGREB, May 21 (Hina) - Television Moslavina (TVM) management on Thursday reiterated its request for an urgent temporary permit to change transmission locations. TVM dismissed Wednesday's announcement by its general director that the television station would return the transmitter to its former location and would begin broadcasting this week. The Croatian Telecommunications Ministry ten days ago banned TVM (a local television station in Kutina, 70km southeast of Zagreb) from broadcasting, because the station had moved its transmitter to a location for which it did not have a broadcasting permit. The Ministry issued a statement Wednesday which was signed by TVM general director Zvonimir Kabelka saying that he had agreed with Deputy Telecommunications Minister Dominik Filipovic that the transmitter would be returned to its previous location and the station would continue broadcasting. The TV Moslavina Board of Supervisors, however, opposed the general director's right to sign such an agreement, and initiated a disciplinary action against Kabelka for contempt of the TVM assembly's decisions. TVM marketing director Zoran Kovacic told reporters Thursday that returning the transmitter to its former location was a technically impossible task, because the cooling equipment was barely sufficient for the Radio Moslavina transmitter also located there. (hina) lm jn -mb 211843 MET may 98