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4. Russian Media Group: Russkoye Radio — national network with music exclusively in Russian. Radio Maximum — Russian-American radio station. Hit FM — Russian and foreign hits. DFM — federal non-commercial dance radio station. Radio Monte-Carlo — radio for a premium audience. World classics of jazz, rock and pop music. 5. Krutoy Media:
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]
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 ...
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.
Vladimir Putin's close friend Yuriy Kovalchuk, through his holding company National Media Group, owns stakes in several of Russia's most influential television channels, including Channel One. Eurovision Song Contest 2009. Channel One was the host broadcaster of Eurovision Song Contest 2009, announced in December 2008.
The channel is owned by the privately held company National Media Group (NMD) (Russian: ЗАО Национальная Медиа Группа), a holding company with ties to the Russian government and Roman Abramovich. The chairman (of a board of directors) has been Alina Kabaeva since 2014.
In 2015, Yury Kovalchuk's National Media Group (NMG) and US Discovery Channel joined forces to form Media Alliance of which NMG owns 80%. Later that year, Kovalchuk acquired the rights to Ted Turner's Russian assets including the Russian version of CNN, Cartoon Network and Boomerang. The reason for the sale was based on the Russian media ...