Vladimír Železný
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Vladimír Železný (3rd March 1945 in Samara, Russia) is a media businessman and politician in the Czech Republic and European Parliament, the former founder of TV NOVA. As a media mogul with political influence, he has been compared to Rupert Murdoch.[1]
TV NOVA started to air in February 1994, quickly gaining share. However, in 1999 disputes between Železný and TV NOVA's investor - the CME company - errupted. CME subsequently suited both Železný and the Czech Republic for insufficient protection of its investments and won around 1 and 10,4 bn CZK respectively.
In 2002 elected to the Czech Senate, in 2004 to the European Parliament. He was unsuccessfully seeking re-election in the June 2006 Czech Parliament elections (Chamber of Deputies).
He is a founder of some political groups and parties. The latest called Independent Democrats (Nezávislí demokraté) founded in 2005.
[edit] Links
- Curriculum by Vladimír Vaďura (in Czech)
- http://nezdem.cz – Železný's latest (2005) political party (in Czech)
- European political group at the European Parliament http://indemgroup.org/
[edit] Media, articles, case studies
- Zelezny says he was offered higher preferences for bribe, praguemonitor.com/ČTK, 27.3.2006
- EP-Abgeordneter Vladimír Železný in Prag vor Gericht, tschechien-online.org, 31.1.2006 (German)
- Vladimír Zelezny: Der Medienboss, arte-tv.com, 6.10.2005 (German)
- Zynischer Populist ohne politische Überzeugung, taz.de, 14.6.2004 (German)
- Czech Mate: CME and Vladimir Zelezny, Harvard Business Online, Feb 10, 2004
- Mejstřík opět navrhl slyšení o TV Nova, senátoři jej znovu zamítli (Senator Martin Mejstřík tries again to initiate Senate hearing on TV Nova), cestazmeny.cz (Cesta změny), 23.5.2003 (Czech)
- Mejstřík inicioval veřejné slyšení ve věci arbitráže Novy (Senator Martin Mejstřík trying to hold public hearing to seek recovery of funds), cestazmeny.cz, 18.4.2003 (Czech)
- Senat hob strafrechtliche Immunität von Vladimir Zelezny auf, radio.cz, 24.1.2003 (German)
- Der Fernseh-Politiker, mdr.de, 8.12.2002 (German)
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/sun-sets-for-man-who-gave-czechs-the-naked-weathergirls-682384.html
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