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There are more than 83,000 active and officially registered media outlets in Russia that broadcast information in 102 languages. Of the total number of media outlets, the breakdown is as follows: magazines – 37%, newspapers – 28%, online media – 11%, TV – 10%, radio – 7% and news agencies – 2%.
REN TV's network is a patchwork of 406 independent broadcasting companies in Russia and the CIS. REN TV's signal is received in 718 towns and cities in Russia - from Kaliningrad in the West to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in the East. It has a potential audience of 113.5 million viewers (officially 120 million viewers [1] with more than 12 million of them ...
As a mass media body, it retained the name of RIA Novosti on 1 April 2004, after making changes in the founding documents. In 2005, RIA Novosti launched RT (originally Russia Today) a global multilingual television news network, which is a government-funded but autonomous, non-profit organization. RIA Novosti asserts that it "merely ...
Operations. VGTRK owns and operates five national television stations, two international networks, five radio stations, and 80 regional TV and radio networks. It also runs the information agency Rossiya Segodnya . The All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) is Russia's largest media corporation.
Television in Russia. Television is the most popular medium in Russia, with 74% of the population watching national television channels routinely and 59% routinely watching regional channels. [1] There are 6,700 television channels in total. [2]
RT (formerly Russia Today or Rossiya Segodnya; Russian: Россия Сегодня) is a Russian state-controlled international news television network funded by the Russian government. [16] [17] It operates pay television and free-to-air channels directed to audiences outside of Russia, as well as providing Internet content in Russian ...
However, most of the private shareholders include National Media Group (controlled by the structures of Yuri Kovalchuk, chairman of the Board of Rossiya Bank, one of the largest banks in Russia, and Vladimir Putin's personal friend; and Roman Abramovich, former owner of the Chelsea football club and Putin's ally). NTV covers 84% of the national ...
Sputnik. Sputnik ( Russian pronunciation: [ˈsputnʲɪk]; formerly Voice of Russia and RIA Novosti, naming derived from Russian спутник, "satellite") is a Russian state-owned [1] news agency and radio broadcast service. It was established by the Russian government -owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya on 10 November 2014.