Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Channel One is 51% publicly owned, while Rossiya is 100% state-owned through the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK). NTV is a commercial channel, but it is owned by Gazprom-Media, a subsidiary of Gazprom of which the state owns 50.002%.
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]
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.
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.
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 ...
The Federal Communications Agency ( Russian: Федеральное агентство связи, abbreviated Rossvyaz, Russian: Россвязь) is a federal agency controlled by the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media. [2] It is responsible for providing public services, the management of state property and law ...
PTR is funded by a mix of Russian government subsidies and public donations. As of 2013 PTR received a combined total of 1.2 bil RUB, the vast majority of which came from state funds. Broadcasting. The Presidential decree says the Russian Defence Ministry should draw up proposals for using its own TV station, Zvezda, to transmit its programmes.