PUBLIC MONEY POURING TO A COMMERCIAL RADIO

More than HUF 20 million has been won in a tender written out by a government commissioner for regional policy by a company operating Gazdasági Rádió (Economic Radio). Among the proprietors of the radio channel there is indirectly present the state, too. The commissioner, Tibor Szanyi has supported the company of his brother, too, with HUF 4 million. The editor-in-chief of the commercial channel is János Simkó, who had been until last autumn head of the Government Communications Centre. There are several proprietors in the background who are closely connected with the Medgyessy government. The radio has offered a cooperation for Budapest for a monthly HUF 250 000 which offer is supported by Tibor Bakonyi, Socialist deputy mayor who forwarded the offer to the public utilities and districts of the capital.