Posted on 12/09/2005 7:26:21 PM PST by jb6
MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's first 24-hour English-language news channel will begin broadcasting on Saturday, December 10.
"We have several satellites, and we will broadcast to the United States and Canada via IA-5 and to Europe via Hotbird-6," Margarita Simonyan, the 26-year-old chief editor of Russia Today, said. "The Taicom-3 satellite will transmit our programs to Asia, Africa and Australia."
She said people in Russia would be able to watch the channel as part of the NTV-plus basic package.
"Broadcasting will start at 4 p.m. Moscow time [1 p.m. GMT] tomorrow," Simonyan said.
The launch of Russia Today was announced in June, and technical broadcasting began September 15.
"We want to show the way Russia sees itself and the world," Simonyan said when the channel was launched.
She also said the channel would seek to strike a balance between domestic and international news reports.
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How will this affect the Voice of Russia transmissions?
NTV (HTB) news used to be part of the standard DirecTV package. I watched it all the time - it was great, very interesting. I think Putin stopped it from airing during the theatre hostage situation and it never came back after that.
They should put together a Russian/English package for Dish Network, and give it a too-cheap-to-refuse low price.
There are 3 Russian channels on dish. My wife wanted to get one, but damn they're all like $20+ per month. Way to expensive for one channel.
Voice of Russia still runs in Russia and has with the permission of the Russian government (though it was partially blocked during the NATO terror bombing of Christian Serbia or as I like to refer to it as: Clinton's sell out to the Saudies) for 15 years.
Russia's intro of an English channel shows they want to follow India's example, and become a place with very high English literacy. We, for our part, should have the same objective w/r/t Russian, and encourage high Russian literacy here.
I hope Russia and Dish Network will work out some cross-licensing arrangements for the purpose of lowering the subscription cost.
Hopefully they can beam their news over here. With Fox turning left, maybe our best chance at objective new will be a formerly Communist state.
Probably not... It is Kremlin controlled news. A mixture of Russian nationalism sprinkled with Communist themes.
China also has an all-English channel, I believe it is CCTV.
"Probably not... It is Kremlin controlled news. A mixture of Russian nationalism sprinkled with Communist themes."
...doesn't sound any worse than the MSM, probably worth checking out.
why watch russian news, you can come here everyday and read the putin bootlicker posts and get the same feel.
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I, for one, cannot wait for "Survivor: Gulag", or "Who Wants To Be A Communist?"... |
Survivor should be on an island with lots of cameras, 20 really big fat people with knives and one huge pizza in the middle. Now last 3 days. Now that would be a show.
Almost professionally.
We may not agree about everything, but I very much like your analysis on this one.
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