RTVI
RTVI (Russian Television International), more recently stylized as RTVi, is a privately-owned international Russian-language television network. Its primary audiences are the Russian-speaking communities of Israel, Germany and the US. RTVI does not broadcast in Russia, but is available to the Russian audience online.
RTVI | |
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Country | United States Germany Israel |
Broadcast area | Worldwide |
Headquarters | Moscow[1] Long Island City[2] |
Programming | |
Picture format | 576i SDTV |
Ownership | |
Owner | Ruslan Sokolov until October 2019 then Mikayel Israyelyan[3] |
History | |
Launched | 1 January 1997 |
Former names | NTV International (1997–2002) |
Links | |
Website | rtvi.com |
Availability | |
Cable | |
Charter Spectrum | Channel 1613 |
Optimum | Channel 1182 |
Satellite | |
DirecTV (USA) | Channel 2148 |
IPTV | |
Verizon FiOS (USA) | Channel 1776 |
The channel studios are based in New York City, Tel Aviv, Berlin and Riga. Additional news bureaus of RTVi are located in Washington, D.C., London, Moscow, Kyiv, Tbilisi, Yerevan and Chisinau. The channel launched on 1 January 1997 as NTV International, before rebranding as RTVi in 2002.
It has special programs focused on Israeli politics and the Russian-speaking communities (for example, "This Week in Israel") in Israel and also Germany (with the program "This Week in Germany").
References
change- ↑ "RTVI". rtvi.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-05.
- ↑ "RTVI.TV". rtvi.tv. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
- ↑ Сотников, Даниил (Sotnikov, Daniil); Чуракова, Ольга (Churakova, Olga); Баданин, Роман (Badanin, Roman); Рубина, Михаила (Rubin, Mikhail); Сурначевой, Елизаветы (Surnacheva, Elizabeth) (25 December 2019). "Друзья по особым поручениям. Рассказ о том, как Сергей Чемезов связался с либералами" [Friends on special missions. The story of how Sergey Chemezov got in touch with liberals]. Проект Медиа (Proekt) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 4 March 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
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