VILNIUS - As they have everywhere else in Lithuania, hard financial times have hit the national radio and television broadcaster, LRT. No, the Russian crisis isn't to blame this time, at least directly. The culprit is a massive debt to the radio and television transmission center, that's both causing and caused by management changes, rampant inefficiency, low advertising revenues and low morale. Giving TBT the details of LRT's problems was Nerijus Guobys, a foreign news reporter in LRT's TV news department. "The reality is grim," Guobys said. "Prospects are bleak for the future of LRT and t...
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