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FYR Macedonia: Broadcaster faces uncertain future
Various scenarios are being discussed regarding the future of MRT, one suggesting that the broadcaster will be declared bankrupt, another that it will be put up for sale and a third that it will be liquidated. A fourth possibility under discussion is for a new tax to be introduced to fund the national broadcaster and secure its future.
Although nothing is certain so far and the government of FYR Macedonia have not yet confirmed what it is going to happen with MRT, it is reported that a liquidation is already planned. This will be followed by the opening of a new station under a different name with the minimum personnel necessary to operate. It also remains to be seen what the repercussions of the situation will be on the country's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Theo that's because you mix politics everywhere 
Dear "Macedonians", where is your country in Olympic Games Benjin 2008? I saw only a country with the name FYROM. Is that yours?
Lina, how old are you dear ? This is a music site.... If you wanna fight about politics, stay away please.....
And lina ... I feel sorry for you
Well lina, from what i have read i guess the only thing greeks can do is to insult somebody. Congratulations, the "big" insult someone award of the year goes to you, i hope your happy with it
the repuplic of stupidonia u mean
poor people, poor minds ,poor broadcaster
Great! I am so glad that in Greece people care about The Republic of Macedonia!
@js,
if you can properly read and understand my posted comments, i have stated that i wish the fyromian broadcaster would manage to support a participation of your country, Fyrom, in the next ESC, because as i had stated, although i have liked only one fyromian entry up to now, the 2006 one, and although i think none of the rest were really worth-qualifying, i am happy to see as many countries as possible in this contest, no matter if they are big, small, rich, poor, neighbouring or far away countries. So, yes,m i do care a bit as a fan of this contest if the Fyromian broafcaster is gonna find the means for the next ESC
Exactly mr. Barbarino it is a silly discussion for an irrelevant article. Now don't you worry your pretty little head about whether the Macedonian broadcaster will find the means to participate in the contest (as if you were concerned) and continue to contribute with worthy comments which include delicacies about the naming of our country, The Republic of Macedonia, and other interesting food facts :-)
@boody, ok .................
@js
what the hell has to do Lesboos and this news abut the name, which i fo not actually understand has to do with this article and the fact that the fyromian broadcaster maybe will not have the means to sustain the participation of Fyrom in the next ESC. First you get upst because as you say some greek visitors of this site do not stick to the topic, and then you go on bublling about Lesbos and some women..you make your contribution here totally unworthy, and i will not repeat to any of your comments up to now, you may go on this silly discussion alone..
marc,
Thanks for the information about "Macédomienne". I didn't know. It's a beautiful song and you got 7 points from Sweden.
@Stockholm,
La Macedomienne, wasn't that a beautiful song ? I loved that Belgian entry. Did you know that he only allowed like 500 copies to be pressed as it was a gift to his wife. He ddid not want to make a commercial succes out of it. It was never in the Belgian charts. And maybe I am wrong, but if I remember well, we received points from Greece that year, which means that music overrules the language of politics....
Lina if i start to explain, i think i would cause another fight, because greeks seem not to like when somebody tells them the truth in their face.
Common guys, these fights seem very primitive.
Music is supposed to bring people together, not to separate them, don't forget that 
Thanks Mina, that's what I thought.
@bobby, u r right political is not good for here, but the pic with the old flag of fyrom( with vergina star ) in u r profile dont help it that, and i dont know why fyrom want to use that symbol since vergina area and vergina star is in Greece
In 1990 Belgian Philippe Lafontaine sang a song dedicated to his Macedonian wife "Macédomienne". Did she come from Greece or ex-Yugoslavia
Stockholm,
she came from ex Yugoslavia. At the time it wasn't a country, it became independent in 1991.
@js
for me and for many ther greeks yoou will always be and remain fyromian, because for me "macedonia" means something greek and not slavic and there is another balkan state wh tries to make its own history and national identity by adopting part of the ancient greek history. But i am not here to talk about history, neither about the origin of halva, i am here to talk about Eurovision. So i repeat for the last time my opinion: from all the fyromian ESC entries up to now i only liked the 2006 one and i do not understand how Fyrom always manages to qualify, even with sme bad entries, like the one in 2005, just to finish top bottom in the final.
If we start arguing about halva, too, I'll have seen it ALL.
LOLLLLLLLLLLLL
( j s, I realise you can't call your country Fyrom when Macedonia is the name you've always known but at the same time you have to realise that for us, Macedonia is something else, something that we've always known is Greek....we can't solve the name problem here, can we? As much as it bothers you seeing us calling your country Fyrom, it bothers us seeing you calling your country Macedonia....let's agree to disagree and be civil to each other....we can always fight about Eurovision 
)
Mr. Barbarino "fyromian" is offensive to any Macedonian who lives in the Republic of Macedonia. How can you say "fyromian friends" do you treat all your friends with such disrespect? Also "halva" is not pastry, and by risking into going into a trivial explanation, it is actually from the Middle East and is originally derived from the Arabic root ḥalwā (sweet), and is used to describe many distinct types of sweet confection, served across the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and the Balkans.
So before you claim that Macedonia is Greece (actually Greece is Greece and Macedonia is Macedonia), and before you claim that halva is Macedonian or Greek, you should rethink the way your nation sees itself in the world starting from the cultural heritage, to food, to how your nation treats other people.
The Swedes and the Danes are separated by a sea and they managed to build a magnificent bridge to connect them. How hard is for Greece to build a cultural bridge and accept that in an area where everyone is mixed (hence the salad called "Macedonia" to build a myth of a pure Greek nation with single hellenic heritage is as silly as Paris Hilton's ad for energy independence for the US.
But wait, what about Eurovision? Ah, we dropped the pretense of even caring about Eurovision when this irrelevant article about Macedonian Television showed up on this site.
isn't the argument about Macedonia exhausted?
in a first place i think it's quite trivial - what the diffrence between FYR Macedonia and Macedonia ? why complicate things over such tiny matter?
Booby,
i agree with you and with my forelast comment ihad tried to avoid this..but somehow i did not But you are right, we are here to talk abut eurovision. But this goes also to the fyromian friends of this site..
OK guys that's enough! ... This site has turned into political arena. This is very stupid, whenever there's something written about Macedonia, greeks show up and start with their comments, and at the end turns out into a big comment fight. Don't you think that is stupid fighting like this?
@js
i only know one Macedonia, that is a territory in northern Greece. and i have friends who are macedonians and who eat macedonian xalva(a typical greek pastry of the region). These people are greeks and not slavs. So for me Fyrom is the best acceptable way to call your country and not being confused about this thing. And according to the United Nations assembly the name of your country is FYRoM, until this dispute with Greece will be resolved
When you call my country "FYROM" you just degrade yourself.
I really don't want to argue about this but in Eurovision (to stay on the subject of Eurovision if possible), when points were announced, the country's name was written as F.Y.R Macedonia..so why didn't you ask them to change it and tell them they degrade themselves and they should just write Macedonia?
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