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RT, previously known as Russia Today, is a global multilingual television news network based in Russia. RT was the first all-digital Russian TV network.
RT TV channel financed by the Russian state budget from Moscow Kremlin According to some American journalists and European heads of department “Reporters without borders”, the channel is the mouthpiece of government propaganda.
The network, which cost about $30 million in 2005 to set up and $60 million for its first year of operation, started broadcasting on 10 December 2005 with nearly 100 English-speaking journalists reporting for it worldwide. RT broadcasts from its headquarters in Moscow and its studios in New York, Washington DC, Miami, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Delhi and Tel Aviv. RT is available in over 100 countries spread over five continents via cable, satellite, and online free from the RT website. There are brief commercials, usually 15 seconds each totaling no more than four minutes per hour and scheduled two blocks per hour of one to three minutes each promoting the network.
In addition to the Moscow based flagship RT english-language broadcast, RT also runs RT Arabic, RT America, and Actualidad RT in Spanish.
History
RT was launched as Russia Today by an autonomous non-profit organization in 2005. However, much the funding to this organization, ANO TV-Novosti is injected from Russian Federal Budget (2.4 Billion Rubles in 2007). In 2007, RT’s monthly audience share exceeded that of CNN and Bloomberg TV among NTV-PLUS satellite subscribers in Moscow. In August 2007, RT was the first channel in television history to report live from the North Pole. In 2008, RT’s average monthly reach in Russia indicated a growth rate of 82% within just six months. Over the same period, the channel’s average daily reach grew by 46%. In the same year the monthly audience among those who have access or are aware of RT’s broadcasts on Time Warner Cable in NYC exceeded that of BBC America by 11%. The daily audience of RT exceeds that of Deutsche Welle tenfold, within the same network.
Objectives
RT sets out to present the Russian point of view on events in Russia and its 'near abroad' and give the viewers an opportunity to get acquainted with Russian views on world and domestic events. Margarita Simonyan, RT's editor-in-chief, says the station was born out of the desire to present an "unbiased portrait of Russia".
A major part of RT's airtime is devoted to Russian and world news, but it also airs business, sports and culture news. In addition, RT features documentaries, travel and language shows, editorials, and commentaries on present-day life in Russia and Russian history.
Channels
RT runs its main RT International English language broadcast, RT Arabic, RT America, and Actualidad RT in Spanish.
RT International
Based in Moscow and also broadcasting from New York, Washington, London, Miami, Los Angeles, Paris, Tskhinval, Delhi and Tel Aviv, RT International is the flagship news channel of the RT network. RT International was launched in 2005 and covers international and regional headlines from a Russian Perspective.
RT America
Based in the RT Washington DC Bureau, RT America also broadcasts from its studios in New York, Washington, Miami and Los Angeles. RT America's broadcast operations began in January 2010. Currently the network only broadcasts in the afternoon and evening. RT America focuses on covering the Americas from an international and Russian perspective.
RT Arabic
Launched in May of 2007, RT Arabic is the Arabic language arm of RT. The Arabic channel broadcasts 24 hours a day 7 days a week; programs include political, economic, cultural, sports, periodic programs and movies, documentaries and feature broadcasts. RT Arabic is based in Moscow.
Actualidad RT
The Spanish language channel of RT is Actualidad RT. The Spanish language channel began broadcasting in 2007, broadcasting 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Actualidad RT is based in Moscow but broadcasts heavily from Miami, Los Angeles and South America. Actualidad RT covers headline news, politics, sports, and broadcast specials.
Achievements
In 2007, RT's share of monthly audience among NTV Plus viewers in Moscow exceeded those of CNN and Bloomberg.
In December 2007, RT programmes were displayed in New York on America's main information video walls, NASDAQ and Reuters. On New Year's Eve, RT's New Year's programme from Moscow and St. Petersburg was displayed live on the NASDAQ and Reuters screens for the thousands of people celebrating in Times Square.
In August 2007, RT had television's first ever live report from the North Pole, which lasted 5 minutes 41 seconds. An RT crew participated in the Arktika 2007 Russian polar expedition, led by Artur Chilingarov on the Akademik Fyodorov icebreaker.
In June 2007, RT was one of the first Russian TV channels to have its own channel on YouTube, the leading video hosting site on the Internet. In January 2008, the total number of views for RT videos on YouTube was over 3 million, and RT was sixth in YouTube's Most Viewed Partners rating, leading behind CBS, BBC World, Al Jazeera English, France 24 and Press TV.
Professional awards
- January 2009 - Silver World Medal for Best News Documentary “A city of desolate mothers” from the New York Festivals
- November 2008 - Special Jury Award in the Best Creative Feature category for a Russian Glamour feature story at Media Excellence Awards in London
- September 2008 - Russia's most prestigious broadcasting award TEFI in Best News Anchor category
- November 2007 - RT's report on the anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe received a special prize from the international 2007 AIB Media Excellence Awards in the News Coverage category. Other nominees included major international broadcasters such as BBC, France 24, Deutsche Welle, CBS, Al Arabiya, and others. There was only one story by CBS News which rated higher than RT and it received the Grand Prix
- September 2007 - Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio awarded RT with the Prize for Professional Skillfulness
- June 2007 - The 11th "Save and Preserve" International Environmental Television Festival awarded its Grand Prix to RT's Meeting with Nature series. There were 284 entries competing in 10 categories, including a work by German TV channel Deutsche Welle
- September 2006 - The 10th "Golden Tambourine" International Festival for Television programs and films awarded RT's documentary People of the Bering Strait in the Ethnography and Travel category
Satellite and cable broadcasts
RT is transmitted on thirteen satellites, covering Europe, Asia, the Americas, southern Africa and Australia. Of these, eleven transmit the channel free to air, enabling it to be received without a subscription.
Viewers in Russia can receive the channel as a part of the NTV Plus basic package as well as Kosmos TV. In the UK and Ireland, it is available on the Sky platform's channel 512, including in the Freesat from Sky package. It is also available in the UK twenty-four hours a day on Digital Terrestrial platform Freeview channel 85. In Italy it is available on the SKY Italia Channel 531. In the US, it is available to digital customers of Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey, Channel 135. Portions of RT are shown on MHz Worldview. Since MHZ Worldview is shown as a digital subchannel for some PBS stations (in addition to being available on DirecTV), this makes RT available on digital terrestrial television in the United States. MHz Networks, which owns MHZ Worldview, does a complete simulcast of RT on one of the digital subchannels of WNVC, one of the two stations it owns in Northern Virginia.
In January 2010, RT became available in major cities in Western Canada through Shaw Cable. It started being available a couple of months earlier in major cities in Eastern Canada through Rogers Cable.
Online
News clips and a live stream of the broadcast are available via the RT website. The live stream is also available in English and Arabic through Livestation.
The internet stream offers a choice of three resolutions for different capacity connections. The commercials are not of higher bit rate than the programming as is common for news websites elsewhere; there is no periodic stalling of the stream for viewers with lower capacity connections.
International Programs
- News
- RT America News
- Weather
- Business Today
- CrossTalk (Politics)
- Moscow Out (Arts and Culture)
- Spotlight (Interview)
- Sports
- SciTech
- Russia Close-Up
- Russia Now
- XL Reports (Documentary)
- In Context (Week in Review)
- Technology Update
- Wayfarer (Russian Travel and Adventure)
- Prime Time Russia (Evening news show for Russia/CIS audiences)
- Venice of the North: A Season in St Petersburg (Travelog)
- Keiser Report (Financial Commentary)
- The Alyona Show (RT America based Political Commentary)
- Interview with Sophie Shevardnadze (Interview)
- Hot For Words (RT America based Educational/Entertainment - Learn Russian)
Presenters
News anchors
- Staci Bivens
- Yulia Bokova
- Bill Dod
- Marina Dzhashi
- Anya Fedorova (Primetime Russia)
- Neil Harvey (Primetime Russia)
- Alice Hibbert
- Cary Jonston
- Kevin Owen
- Anissa Naouai
- Yulia Shapovalova
- Rory Suchet
- Matt Trezza
Reporters
- Tesa Arcilla
- Gayane Chichakyan
- Sara Firth
- Charlotte Lomas Farley
- Dina Gusovsky (US)
- Ekaterina Gracheva
- Anissa Naouai
- Egor Piskunov
- Marina Portnaya (US)
- Paula Slier (Israel)
- Priya Sridhar (US)
- Yevgeny Sukhoi
- Sean Thomas
Business Today presenters
- Laura Emmett (Now London Bureau Chief)
- Daniel Jones
- Karina Melikyan
- Natallia Shanetskaya
Sport presenters
- Andrew Farmer
- Pete Oliver
- Eunan O'Neill
- Kate Partridge
- Richard Van Poortvliet
Other presenters
- Martyn Andrews (Wayfarer/Moscow Out/Venice of the North/A Prime Recipe)
- Al Gurnov (Spotlight)
- Max Keiser (Keiser Report)
- Peter Lavelle (In Context)
- Nick Levy (Tech Update)
- Alyona Minkovski (The Alyona Show)
- Sophie Shevardnadze (News/Culture Fair/Wanted/An Interview with...)
Past presenters (all)
- Ryan Dollard (ITV Border)
- Neave Barker (Al Jazeera Moscow Correspondant)
- Amanda Burt (Press TV)
- Jason de la Pêna (Sky News/Sky Sports)
- Jess Dunsdon (Channel M/Channel Television)
- Claire Garnett (CNBC Europe)
- Jenny Hammond (Press TV Shanghai/ICS)
- Anastasia Hydulina (Bloomberg)
- Maryam Nemazee (Al Jazeera English/Bloomberg)
- Louise Potter (Al Jazeera Sports London)
- Karen Roberts
- Carson Scott (Sky News Business Channel)
- Hazeem Sika (Al Jazeera English)
- Ann Smith (ITV)
- Kelly Keiter
- Melissa Stock
- Sasha Twining (Sky News/BBC News Interactive)
- Alicia Young (CNN)
- James Freemantle
Past Reporters
- William Dunbar
- Leah Ferguson
- Dmitry Glukhovsky
- Roman Tokman
- Nina Warhurst (Channel M)
- Natasha Butler (France 24)
- Ahron Young (Sky News Australia)
See also
References
- ^ "Russia Today to be 24-hour, English TV station". CBC News. 7 June 2005. Retrieved 6 May 2008.
- ^ "Journalism mixes with spin on Russia Today: critics". CBC News. 10 March 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
- "Russia Today tomorrow". Broadband TV News. 15 September 2005. Retrieved 26 July 2007.
- Schedule RT
- «Свобода слова» обходится все дороже Независимая, 5 September 2006
- "RT Corporate Profile". RT. 1 January 2009. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
- Corporate Profile RT
- USA RT
- About (Arabic) RT
- Actualidad QUIÉNES SOMOS (Spanish)] RT
- ^ News & Events RT
- ШОСовая борьба «Интегрум», 30 October 2008
- AIB Media Excellence Awards 2007 Association for International Broadcasting, 8 October 2007
- Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio Евразийская Академия Телевидения и Радио
- News of the Okrug 11th "Save and Preserve" International Environmental Television Festival, 9 June 2007
- "Golden Tambourine" International Festival for Television programmes and films Zolotoy Buben
- "Russia Today:Satellite". 17 September 2008.
- "Free TV from Russia". 17 September 2008.
- "Corporate profile". Russia Today. Retrieved 26 July 2007.
- "The Team Carson Scott". Sky News Business Channel. Retrieved 24 June 2009.
- James Freemantle
External links
- RT website
- RT Live Flash stream
- Russia Today Channel YouTube
- Free-to-air 24-Hour News Channels via satellite
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