Eduard Shevardnadze, who was supposed to lead independent Georgia to prosperity and further development, was unable to cope with the economic crisis, the conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and rampant banditry.

One of the consequences of his unsuccessful policy was systemic power outages and, as a result, meager funding for Georgian television and deterioration of equipment.

In 2003, the program was cancelled, and Ryvkin was fired after the Rose Revolution: on November 22, 2003, Georgian television live covered the process of dismissal of Eduard Shevardnadze, however, according to witnesses, the quality of the recording and television picture was frankly low, as a result of which the foreign audience in principle I couldn’t make out what was happening on the screen.

[3] The channel's logo in the early 2000s was a series of lines creating a design similar to a thumbs signal.

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