Examples of using Editorial coverage in English and their translations into Russian
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Being 3.5 times more than the editorial coverage of the party on 7 TV channels.
To give no advantage to advertisers and sponsors in editorial coverage;
Editorial coverage of candidates was limited and focused on a few contestants.
For instance, 5 Channel gave 60 per cent of its editorial coverage to Mr. Poroshenko.
As to the editorial coverage of PRA, it was studied, similarly to the other channels, at 17.00-24.00.
Monitors record andcount the references to candidates in the editorial coverage of the broadcast media studied.
The picture is approximately the same for PTA, yet this included a hugevolume of promotional materials, whereas the private companies mostly produced"positive" editorial coverage.
Eventually, he received almost 3.5-4 times as much editorial coverage as the closest rivals the same Demirchyan and Geghamyan.
Thus, to a certain extent the approximately the same advantage of the incumbent President in the editorial coverage was compensated.
Thus,"Prometheus" and"Armenia" allocated 8-15 times as much editorial coverage to Robert Kocharyan as to his closest rivals by this dimension.
What was the point of this self-restriction for, say,"Armenia" TV channel if only on February 17 it aired over 200 minutes of editorial coverage on Robert Kocharyan?
Thus,"Prometheus" and"Armenia" have allocated about 5-10 times as much editorial coverage to Robert Kocharian as to his closest rivals by this dimension.
We have had some powerful editorial coverage online, in newspapers and magazines, on radio and TV, which has helped enormously in informing people all over the world about their options.
This circumstance signifies that the problem of unequal conditions in the editorial coverage of election campaigns remains quite urgent in Armenia.
The time, allocated to parties/bloc in the editorial coverage, was distributed relatively evenly: Armenian National Congress(greatest volume) received 4,639.9 sec., while the Labor Socialist Party of Armenia(least volume) had 2,392.7 sec.
An exception to this is constituted by"Kentron" TV company only,where the biggest proportion of editorial coverage was allocated to Ruben Avagyan, the candidate nominated by"United Armenians" party.
While we did not study the editorial coverage in the newspapers and were not engaged in qualitative monitoring, it should be mentioned that the print media features pieces which could be classed as advertising or promotional, yet they did not bear the appropriate note or else were published as an interview.
Hence this channel aired neither paid norfree political advertising and the editorial coverage did not pay due attention to any of the candidates but for Robert Kocharyan.
To a certain extent, this was a consequence of using in the editorial coverage of these two channels(as well as on"Yerkir Media") of the same video materials, which, most probably, had been provided by the electoral headquarters of"Prosperous Armenia" itself.
AT THE FIRST STAGE OF THE STUDY, April 16- May 1,the leader in terms of aggregate airtime allocated to parties/bloc in editorial coverage of all 7 TV channels studied, became the Popular Party 44,481.6 sec.
As compared to October,in November in the editorial coverage the volume of materials dealing with the politicians at monitoring focus has increased by one fourth.
During the first three weeks of the campaign the Public Television of Armenia divided its attention between candidates(in terms of editorial coverage) in a proportion, resembling the data of opinion polls on their popularity rating.
Robert Kocharyan received the biggest volume of editorial coverage(405 seconds), however, 6 other candidates were quite closely placed, having been allocated a range of 140-310 seconds.
Within the period of January 21- February 8, 2003 the Public Television of Armenia divided its attention between candidates(in terms of editorial coverage) in a proportion, resembling the data of opinion polls on their popularity rating.
As compared to"ALM", more than two andhalf times as little was the editorial coverage of the politicians at focus on the Second Armenian TV Channel, followed by the Public Radio of Armenia,"Kentron" and"Yerkir-Media" TV channels and the First Channel of the Public Television of Armenia.
Actually, the initiative of the five leading TV companies aimed at self-regulation in election campaign coverage resulted on the one hand in the diminished opportunities of the opposition candidates to compensate through political advertising for the preset andobvious advantage enjoyed by the incumbent President in terms of editorial coverage, on the other- in the minimization of the political advertising revenues of the TV companies themselves.
These attributes allow suggesting that the stories are not editorial coverage of events, but hidden political promotion, which is carried out in conditions contradicting the RA legislation.
These attributes allow to suggest that the above-mentioned reports did not represent editorial coverage of events, but hidden political promotion, which was carried out contrary to RA legislation.
The conclusions of the monitoring group are based on the following indicators:the volume of editorial coverage of the parties and blocs participating in the elections by the proportional system, as well as the quantity and character of their mentionings in the informational and analytical TV and radio programs; the list of participants of TV discussion programs; the volume of pre-election advertising of the parties/blocs in broadcasting and print media.
In other words, during the last month of 2007 the unprecedented phenomenon, recorded in November,continued when the share of neutral editorial coverage of an Armenian politician quantitatively fell behind that of negative: 103 negative references to Levon Ter-Petrosian versus 100 neutral ones and 4 positive ones.