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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%.
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]
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. [2] [3] With headquarters ...
Website. tass .com. The Russian News Agency TASS (Russian: Информационное агентство России ТАСС, romanized: Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii, or Information agency of Russia), abbreviated TASS ( ТАСС ), is a Russian state-owned news agency founded in 1904. It is the largest Russian news agency and one of ...
Margarita Simonovna Simonyan [a] (born 6 April 1980) is a Russian media executive. She is the editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT, [1] [2] [3] as well as the state-owned media group Rossiya Segodnya. [4] She covered the Second Chechen War in the 2000s while working as a journalist.
Indeed, while Rossiya TV ( Channel Russia) was state-owned since its foundation in 1991, major shareholders of ORT and NTV ( Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky, respectively) sold their stocks to the government and Gazprom in 2000–2001. Moreover, TV6, a media outlet owned by Berezovsky, was closed in 2002 using a legal loophole.
REN TV ( Russian: РЕН ТВ) is a Russian free-to-air television network. It was founded on 1 January 1997 by Irena Lesnevskaya and her son, Dmitry Lesnevsky, who had been running REN TV as a production house for other national Russian television channels. Though it focuses mostly on audiences aged between 18 and 45 years old, the network ...