RIA Novosti, with the support of the Russian government, plans to launch a new 24 hour English language tv channel.
Investing initially $25-30 million in the channel, bureaucrats plan to present English-speaking audiences with their own vision of Russia and its place in the world.
RTTV will be broadcast via satellite in Russia, other CIS countries, Europe, the U.S., and some Asian countries. The new channel is a project of RIA Novosti. […] Twenty-six-year-old Margarita Simonyan, who worked for the Rossia TV Channel in the "Kremlin pool," has been appointed editor-in-chief of the new channel. "Many leading countries have this TV format, and now we are ready to introduce it in Russia as well," Simonyan said.
The launch of RTTV is scheduled for this fall, two sources familiar with the details of the project said. The launch might coincide with the broadcast of President Putin’s address to the UN scheduled for September, one of the sources said.
I personally would love to see this channel get off the ground, and it’d be even better if they decide to broadcast it over the internet, too. Hopefully it would allow many outside of Russia to catch a glimpse of the negative way in which Russian media is developing today, as well as more information about Russia generally.
(An interesting aside - the report above is from the RIA Novosti website. But, despite being a partner in this venture, RIA are citing a report in the Vedmosti newspaper, rather than quotes from their own executives. Curious)
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