Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec 26 /Trend K.Zarbalayeva/
Azerbaijan will reach a great success in the area of national shooting of TV-series and films in five years, the chairman of the National Council for Radio and Television of Azerbaijan (NCRTA) Nushiravan Maharramli said.
Maharramli considers the judgments preconceived that after the ban of foreign soap operas priority will be given not to local, but to foreign channels.
"I think that weak Azerbaijani soap opera is much better than any Latin American TV-series. We will try to make TV-series to be of high quality ant to be more consistent with the interests of the people" Maharramli said on Friday.
Referring to the experience of Turkey and Russia in this sphere, Maharramli said that originally these countries had no success filming their own TV-series and movies.
"Turkey and Russia have achieved great successes in this area today. Azerbaijan is a Turkic-speaking country, but there are many Russian-speaking people in the country.
They have the opportunity to reach a wider audience. Local television stations have to prepare their transfers more thoroughly in order to attract more people" Maharramli said.
NCRTA decided on Thursday that foreign TV-channels can be disabled on Azerbaijani TV channels since May 1, 2012.
The decision was made to preserve national and spiritual values, the formation of national consciousness, to promote national survey of films and serials.
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on the allocation of five million manat for the shooting of national television shows and movies in September.