National Media of Russia

Russia costs digital switchover
By Chris Dziadul
December 7, 2009 08.32 UK

The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a federal programme paving the way for the country’s transition from analogue to digital broadcasting.

According to reports in Kommersant and Lenta, the process, which is due to be completed by 2015, will cost R122.4 billion (€2.79 billion). The state will contribute R76.4 billion towards the total, with the remainder sourced from budgetary funds.

Some R60 billion will be allocated towards the construction of a digital terrestrial network and R26 billion towards satellites.

Russia plans to have three DTT multiplexes and has already decided on the channels that will be carried by the first.

Simulcasting will take place until 95% of the population can receive DTT signals.

http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2009/12/07/russia-costs-digital-switchover/

At 2015? That is a long time since USA moved to it in a year. Well, proposed a while back, but moved in a year.

Why the long wait? Is it because of the amount of people in Russia that does not have digital TV at current? Or what else is it?

It took Amerikans just as long to move to digital air broadcasting. All the stations have to convert their signals, replace their broadcast antennas, as well as change their satelite uplinks. Digital satellites have to be added for remote locations. People have to have convertors or ATSC tuners on their teles to recieve the signals. We are talking about modernising the way EVERYONE watches television. It is not easy or quick.

This will happen for France in 2011....the display of digital broadcasting is really HQ.
When for Vietnam? *waiting*

http://rt.com/news/rt-youtube-billion-views-033/

Beside the arrival of Larry King, that is a micro-phenomen, the increasing success of RT means other things. Russian's system starts to be a true alternative against this neo-liberalism.
People, contrary to what western medias tried persuade us, are looking for serious informations, not only images.
This is interresting  because RT replaced Al-Jazeerah as an alternative to the system. It is worth to remember that Al-Jazeerah' success was du to the interview of  -supposed- Ussamah Bin Laden, and Ayman Zawari, because these two persons were supposed to be anti-american.
However the facts prove the contrary, and now RT, -beside PressTV- with its objective coverts about Middle east events, Occupy Wall Street, Chechenya, Russia prove that  its path is correct.
The next task should be the promotion Rutube.ru, and Yandex in order to end the US leadership in the net.

It is not the case that RT is the truth and all western media is lies, but I find RT to be better than the western media because it lacks the western slant put on all news items.

For instance an article about something happening in Cuba could not fail to mention that anything bad is probably the fault of the communist government there, whereas RT would point out that Cuba has a communist government because the US rejected their nationalist uprising pushing them into the arms of the Soviet Union.

Russia is not communist yet Cuba has not problem having good relations with Russia... so it is not about communism or democracy... it is the US having a beef with Cuba... the little reed that didn't bend in the wind when the american breeze blew past.

To be honest however there are only a few programs on RT that I watch now... Technology Update being my favourite. The other programs and the channel itself seems to be becoming more and more Americanised and America oriented... personally I am not interested in hearing about all of Americas faults and mistakes... I want to hear about Russia... more specifically what are the problems and what is being done to solve them.

GarryB wrote:
...To be honest however there are only a few programs on RT that I watch now..... The other programs and the channel itself seems to be becoming more and more Americanised and America oriented... personally I am not interested in hearing about all of Americas faults and mistakes... I want to hear about Russia... more specifically what are the problems and what is being done to solve them.

RT's purpose in the beginning was to cover International, and not National. Seeing that, RT did a wonderfull job.
In my view, to see more, they are other russian chanels that covers very well Russia.

I see RT as a continuation of "Pravda". As it's made for western audience, it's language is largely western. 

I don't like its bashing of NATO and western countries in general and its promotion of various conspiracy nuts such as Alex Jones, Only PressTV can rival it in this matter.

The Kremlin pays so The Kremlin expects something - nothing strange.

RT's purpose in the beginning was to cover International, and not National. Seeing that, RT did a wonderfull job.

Its original purpose was to show international news from a Russian perspective... which it did.

Now however it seems to be a radicalised sort of anti CNN/Anti Fox News channel that constantly rips CNN and Fox news and their coverage of the news.

It has become too much about America and lost its original focus on Russia and Russian views of world news stories.

For instance stories about Iran don't paint Iran as the bad guy all the time, or a certain other country in that region as innocent victim.

RT is mixed.
They are often annoying conspiracy theorists.
THey sometimes have decent reports where politics isn't involved.
They have this one guy who does interviews who makes me cringe HARD.

Suffice it to say, I don't watch the show. 
But then again I only watch Colbert and Stewart, and thats not for news.

GarryB wrote:

Now however it seems to be a radicalised sort of anti CNN/Anti Fox News channel that constantly rips CNN and Fox news and their coverage of the news.

TR1 wrote:RT is mixed.
They are often annoying conspiracy theorists.
THey sometimes have decent reports where politics isn't involved.
They have this one guy who does interviews who makes me cringe HARD.

I don't see RT radicalised, on contrary, RT is moderate, however CNN, Fox, and chiefly France 24 radicalised. The hate, the rascisme, the despise of pupulations, the war, the lie, propaganda, are in these channels.
Recall that we are in new era, we are passing from unipolar world toward multi-polar world. The evolution is taking place chieflty in USA, from the super rich country to normal country, and toward bankrupcy. The cover of Ocuupy movement was possible because RT covered them.
It is normal to see Max Keiser, Galloway, Hizbollah, venezualian politicians's views, etc..., we fed up with western propaganda and their Wolfowivcz, Bernard Henri  Levy -he speaks in the name of french people, however he represented nothing, aside he is strongly hated-, Blair, FinkelKraut -pseudo philosoph-,feminism, leftism, so-called environnementalists, anti-workers, pornographists, ultra-liberalists, anti-religious, warlikers, human-rightists and women-rightists, Rap music, Hollywood show, NBA, Football buiseness,  femen-represent nothing-, pussy riots-represent nothing- etc...
In all area we have one idea, Ultra-liberalism, the same idea, in near all western countries it is becomming the dictaturship. With RT we saw other point of views.
I think what is very interresting is to see the revenge of russian model of society. RT is the speaker of this view in the world, and the success of RT, and tommorow PressTV prefigure the world of tommorow.
Mutipolar world.

And RT becomes first channel to show news in 3D technology. Its groundbreaking and it looks very cool. 

The media is a very important tool/asset in today's world. And judging by it's popularity, RT is doing a fine job.

Speaking of so called "conspiracy" theorists, the western media does the same when reporting on Russia...I can't remember the last time I saw a positive report on Russia on any western channel. And it's always some paid for, fringe elements potrayed as the good guys fighting the evil regime

Sorry, Radicalised was not the right word.

What I meant was Americanised.
So many new programs hosted by Americans that do shows largely about America.

They are not anti american... and that is fine, because neither am I, but they are anti american establishment... and to be honest I don't much care about problems in america... much the same as americans probably don't care about problems here in New Zealand and if they tuned in to a channel called America today they wouldn't expect to see  a channel where all the reporters were New Zealanders who were based in New Zealand doing shows about problems and opinions in New Zealand.

I watched Russia Today to watch news about Russia and it is less about Russia now than it was before in my opinion.

Speaking of so called "conspiracy" theorists, the western media does the same when reporting on Russia...I can't remember the last time I saw a positive report on Russia on any western channel. And it's always some paid for, fringe elements potrayed as the good guys fighting the evil regime

That is something very amusing... talk of conspiracy theories and tinfoil hats when things like 11/9 are concerned, but some Russia national gets poisoned with a material that is easily detectable for thousands of years because it is radioactive and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per gramme and is rather hard to get and all of a sudden the BBC and other western news agencies claim it was Putin himself that did it...

It seems the definition of conspiracy theories is fairly loose and can be applied when useful, and used as a derogatory term when that suits too.

It was very good channel before they changed and became Propaganda preacher. Don't watch it anymore. I prefer Russian language news as they are more professional and more concentrated on Russia

Perhaps they need a Russian American channel for broadcasting in the US... it seems to me the problem is that journalists in the US that still care about the truth and don't want to be censored by Fox et al are looking for work at Russia Today.

I would also like to see rather more programs about technology in Russia like technology update, and some programs about the Russian military... but of course I am biased...

Zvezda news probably best channel if You are interest in military. It's only in Russian I think. :/

RIA News wrote:RIA Novosti to Be Liquidated in State-Owned Media Overhaul

MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti) – The Kremlin announced Monday the dissolution of RIA Novosti, the country’s major state-run news agency, amid a significant reorganization of state-owned media assets.

News agency RIA Novosti and the state-owned Voice of Russia radio will be scrapped and absorbed into a new media conglomerate called Rossiya Segodnya, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin.

Effin' idiotic move by Vladimir Vladimirovich!
The best Russian news org if you ask me.

I guess they've said it best themselves:

RIA News wrote:The move is the latest in a series of shifts in Russia’s news landscape, which appear to point toward a tightening of state control in the already heavily regulated media sector.

Putin's time is passing I think - and he's getting more paranoid...

Easier to control when everything is centralized. Long live the Tsar!

Russia has so many news organizations, its hard to pinpoint what out. If they have same news, from same organization (state owned) news, why not merge them into one entity as it will save money. There are other news organizations who are willing to pick up slack, especially whatever stupid crap Putin does.

Dont see how this is tightening any grips or someone grasping at power, when the organizations themselves are kremlin owned and run, and they are consolidating them.

Maybe im wrong, please better explain this to me.

Most US news agencies are owned by like 6 people when decades ago it was owned by significantly more. It is dangerous in the fact that news is very slanted and biased, or at least you will be hard pressed to find news with a different viewpoint. At least this move will reduce overall number of state run agencies, and Interfax is private with 30 different news agencies, so they can easily pick up the slack. As well with others. Would be interesting to see if others will start a new news agency in Russia.

GarryB wrote:It has become too much about America and lost its original focus on Russia and Russian views of world news stories.

For instance stories about Iran don't paint Iran as the bad guy all the time, or a certain other country in that region as innocent victim.

TR1 wrote:RT is mixed.
They are often annoying conspiracy theorists.
THey sometimes have decent reports where politics isn't involved.
They have this one guy who does interviews who makes me cringe HARD.

Suffice it to say, I don't watch the show.
But then again I only watch Colbert and Stewart, and thats not for news.

Maybe so, but it's making money, and getting more audience members.
So whatever it's doing - it's doing the right thing   

sepheronx wrote:Russia has so many news organizations, its hard to pinpoint what out. If they have same news, from same organization (state owned) news, why not merge them into one entity as it will save money. There are other news organizations who are willing to pick up slack, especially whatever stupid crap Putin does.

Dont see how this is tightening any grips or someone grasping at power, when the organizations themselves are kremlin owned and run, and they are consolidating them.

Maybe im wrong, please better explain this to me.

Most US news agencies are owned by like 6 people when decades ago it was owned by significantly more. It is dangerous in the fact that news is very slanted and biased, or at least you will be hard pressed to find news with a different viewpoint. At least this move will reduce overall number of state run agencies, and Interfax is private with 30 different news agencies, so they can easily pick up the slack. As well with others. Would be interesting to see if others will start a new news agency in Russia.

It's wrong, RIA Novosti was free from the soft propaganda you get with the Voice of Russia.
It was very objective actually.

Now I fear that will be lost.

Why the hell does Putin think he has to take everything into his own or the government's hands? It's starting to stifle Russia.
Major discred' to him for this idiotic move.

flamming_python wrote:

sepheronx wrote:Russia has so many news organizations, its hard to pinpoint what out. If they have same news, from same organization (state owned) news, why not merge them into one entity as it will save money. There are other news organizations who are willing to pick up slack, especially whatever stupid crap Putin does.

Dont see how this is tightening any grips or someone grasping at power, when the organizations themselves are kremlin owned and run, and they are consolidating them.

Maybe im wrong, please better explain this to me.

Most US news agencies are owned by like 6 people when decades ago it was owned by significantly more. It is dangerous in the fact that news is very slanted and biased, or at least you will be hard pressed to find news with a different viewpoint. At least this move will reduce overall number of state run agencies, and Interfax is private with 30 different news agencies, so they can easily pick up the slack. As well with others. Would be interesting to see if others will start a new news agency in Russia.

It's wrong, RIA Novosti was free from the soft propaganda you get with the Voice of Russia.
It was very objective actually.

Now I fear that will be lost.

Why the hell does Putin think he has to take everything into his own or the government's hands? It's starting to stifle Russia.
Major discred' to him for this idiotic move.

Both Ria and VoR are both state run assets. Hence both were already owned by the government, which both are costing them federal bucks to upkeep.

I will take interfax news over the state run if I want objectivity on news regarding the government. Ria was good indeed and was pretty objective, but ultimately, still state owned hence still federal government asset

TR1 wrote:RT is mixed.
They are often annoying conspiracy theorists.
THey sometimes have decent reports where politics isn't involved.
They have this one guy who does interviews who makes me cringe HARD.

Suffice it to say, I don't watch the show. 
But then again I only watch Colbert and Stewart, and thats not for news.

Funny thing about RTs interviewers

My dad knows one (Al Gurnov)

And I know another (Peter Lavelle). Well virtually anyway, used to take part in a tiny political usergroup he ran on Google Groups and a small bunch of us would would always discuss Russia and politics.