Rusudan Manjgaladze - GPB Media Director

Watch and listen to Georgian!

The Georgian Public Broadcaster is a responsible media, which values ​​are based on state thinking and civil society development.

GPB aims at strengthening European values ​​and satisfying the interest of the general public with a high-quality television product.

We aim to be credible to the audience realizing the responsibility imposed by public trust.

Despite the development of digital broadcasting, which is constantly changing the audience behaviour and the number of watchers or listeners, television and radio remain significant media outlets.

GPB First Channel

Watch Georgian! It is a bold assertion focused on the national media production development. A place for bold ideas.

The First Channel is the central platform of the Georgian Public Broadcaster, which takes into account the interests of diverse audience and watchers of different ages.

GPB aims to create more Georgian authentic content in 2021 to significantly increase the share of locally produced media output in the television network.

We do not create the product just for fun. We create the product for cognition. Thus, we face a significant challenge to make the interesting popular, while the popular interesting.

We work on all platforms with the interests of distinct groups in mind, which will remain one of the GPB top priorities.

Disney in Georgia!

Mechanical products (feature films, TV series, documentaries, documentary series) are placed high on the broadcasting schedule. GPB uses the same prism of values ​​as usually when choosing the content. Thus, each product is valuable. The highlight of 2021 will be Disney-licensed animation and movies, dubbed in Georgian for the Georgian viewers for the first time.

Sports unite us!

GPB First Channel audience will watch the topmost world and European sporting events in 2021. Sports broadcasts is a unique television product that can unite society like no other television event. Thus, the diversity of sports broadcasts, especially the competitions with the participation of Georgian contenders, is crucial both for the promotion of sports and a healthy lifestyle and the unity around a common interest.

Junkers – Georgian series

TV Film Association is a unique part of the Georgian Public Broadcaster, which has no analogue in Georgia.

The TV Film Association, along with the Film Center, is the only space in Georgia for film documentarians to make films. It is vital to open this space more to facilitate the society to discover more interesting new names.

Junkers is a five-part feature film that is an ambitious assertion and challenge for 2021. The historical drama will be put into production next year.

Finding new partners and advancing mutually beneficial cooperation with existing ones

Today, the GPB cooperates with up to ten outsource companies. The products of this cooperation are high on the GPB broadcasting schedule (Master Chief, Seance, The Voice, Tsignebis Taro (Bookshelf), Martivi Logika (Simple Logic), Ra? Sad? Rodis? (What? Where? When?), Katsebi (Men), Idealuri Deda (Ideal mother).

Besides getting the best TV product, we hire and thus help outsourced companies to develop, we create a competitive environment, that in turn, aids in raising the bar.

Teleschool – a youth channel 

Teleskola (Teleschool) is the first TV channel focused on children and youth interests. We will offer the audience a safe product that contributes to forming good values and state-oriented thinking in youth and rearing a worthy citizen of this country.

Radio – Tradition and Innovation

Listen to Georgian!

GPB Radio is the first 96-year-old radio in the country. Tradition and innovation and their harmonious coexistence in one space is the idea according to which we select each radio product.

Listen to Georgian! It is the concept we offer to our listeners. W offer the audience more high-quality Georgian content that contributes to the development of art and related fields.

GPB Archive – Memory of the Nation

Vivifying and increasing the accessibility of the archive is vital. The projects started to make the materials preserved in the stock available to the watchers/listeners will continue. A new project, which provides for the processing of material stored in the photo stock and its availability to the public, will be added to this irreversible process.

Taking well-planned steps on each GPB platform, maintaining the technological upgrades reflected in the content quality improvement, offering international or local high-quality products, we hope that 2021 will be a year of audience expansion, rating growth and confidence building.