Echo Moskvy
Echo Moskwy ( Эхо Москвы , Eng . Echo Moscow ) is a Russian radio broadcaster from Moscow . Echo Moskwy comes from the glasnost period. When non-state media were first permitted in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990, a group of journalists founded Echo Moskwy with start-up capital of 150,000 rubles . The first broadcast was broadcast on August 22, 1990 . The radio station is still proud of its number one broadcast license.
The editor-in-chief of Echo Moskwy is Alexei Wenediktow . 66 percent of the shares are held by Gazprom-Media Holding, a subsidiary of Gazprombank , which in turn is controlled by Bank Rossija through the joint-stock company "Lider" . The rest of the shares belong to the editorial team. The editorial statute stipulates that the editorial course of the station is determined exclusively by the editor-in-chief.
The number of listeners to Echo Moskwy is estimated at 650,000 in the Russian capital and one and a half million in the regions (as of August 2005). “15 years were enough to turn the station into one of the most important voices in the country,” writes the Berliner Zeitung. Among the Moscow stations, Echo Moskwy is number 10 with a market share of around 5%, throughout Russia it has a listenership share of around 2% (thus number 13 of the radio stations in Russia; according to the Russian Ministry of Press, Radio, Television and Mass Media) .
Echo Moskwy is the only remaining nationwide radio station that is not yet under the control of the Kremlin, but provides independent reporting within the framework of the known restrictions adhered to through self-censorship. Environmental journalist Grigori Pasko said of the broadcaster's independence:
“ Echo Moskwy is allowed to exist. So that the government can show something when the question arises whether there are independent media in Russia. With the Novaya Gazeta there is also a free newspaper. But there is no TV station that reports really critically. That would be too much of a good thing, because the majority of the population is reached and manipulated via the medium of television. "
At the beginning of October 2017, the editor-in-chief said about media independence:
"There are still three media outlets that are not controlled by the Kremlin."
At the end of October 2017, Vladimir Putin commented on Echo Moskvy as follows:
"" Echo von Moscow "works with state money - there is nothing like it in any other country in the world. Can you imagine such a radio station in Europe or in the (United) States? Impossible."
reception
Echo Moskwy can be heard on VHF in many cities in the Russian Federation :
| city | Frequency (MHz) | since |
|---|---|---|
| Abakan | 71.06 ( OIRT band ) | 2001 |
| Barnaul | 69.11 (OIRT) | 2003 |
| Irkutsk | 69.5 (OIRT) | 1999 |
| Izhevsk | 105.3 | 1998 |
| Yaroslavl | 106.5 | 2005 |
| Ekaterinburg | 91.4 | 1998 |
| Kazan | 105.8 | 2003 |
| Lipetsk | 105.6 | 2008 |
| Makhachkala | 105.2 | 2005 |
| Moscow | 73.82 (OIRT) 91.2 |
1990 |
| Nizhnevartovsk | 107.0 | 2008 |
| Novocherkassk | 68.63 (OIRT) | 2007 |
| Orenburg | 101.3 | 2004 |
| Omsk | 105.0 | 1999 |
| Orsk | 104.1 | 2008 |
| Penza | 107.8 | 2005 |
| Pereslavl-Zalessky | 106.0 | 2005 |
| Perm | 91.2 | 2000 |
| Rostov on Don | 69.44 (OIRT) 100.7 |
1997 2005 |
| Rybinsk | 103.5 | 2005 |
| Samara | 99.1 | 2003 |
| St. Petersburg | 91.5 | 1999 |
| Saratov | 105.8 | 1998 |
| Sarov | 67.94 (OIRT) | 2008 |
| Zelenogorsk (Siberia) | 71.06 (OIRT) | 2001 |
| Serov | 67.94 (OIRT) | 1998 |
| Syktyvkar | 107.3 | planned |
| Tambov | 101.4 | 2006 |
| Tyumen | 72.44 (OIRT) | 1998 |
| Tolyatti | 107.9 | 2000 |
| Tomsk | 105.0 | 2004 |
| Chelyabinsk | 70.70 (OIRT) 99.5 |
1999 |
| Tula | 106.9 | 2006 |
| Tver | 107.2 | 2005 |
| Uchta | 105.0 | 2003 |
| Ufa | 91.10 | 2005 |
| Ulan-Ude | 102.8 | 2008 |
|
Vladikavkaz Beslan |
102.8 | 2000 |
| Volgograd | 101.1 | 2007 |
| Vologda | 105.7 | 2000 |
Outside Russia, Echo Moskwy can also be received terrestrially in Riga (since 2000, on 102.7 MHz VHF) and Chicago (since 1998, on 1,330 kHz medium wave ).
literature
- Katja Tichomirowa: “The last independent broadcaster. Radio Echo Moskwy has defied the Kremlin for 15 years ”. In: Berliner Zeitung , August 22, 2005. ( online version )
Web links
swell
- ↑ CEOs of Companies - Alexey A. Venediktov Echo of Moscow Editor-in-Chief ( Memento from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ОАО "Газпром-Медиа Холдинг" ( memento of the original from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Дочерние и зависимые компании ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ “'Why don't you write what I see?' The Russian journalist Grigori Pasko on the dependence and buyability of the press under Putin ”. In: Berliner Zeitung , August 20, 2007.
- ↑ The task of destroying “Echo Moskwy” as an independent station has not changed , Novaya Gazeta, October 2, 2017
- ^ Meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights on October 30, 2017 on the website of the President of Russia
