REN (TV station)

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REN TV
Station logo
TV station ( private law )
Program type Full program
reception Cable , satellite , DVB-T , digital
Image resolution ( Entry missing )
Start of transmission January 1, 1997
language Russian
Seat 3-Y Pavlovskiy Pereulok, 1
115093 Moscow , RussiaRussiaRussia 
owner National media group (82%)
SOGAZ (18%)
executive Director Vladimir Tyulin
List of TV channels
Website

REN TV (Russian РЕН ТВ ) is a national, private, Russian television station .

history

Ownership

Until July 1, 2005, the station was owned by the founder Irena Lesnewskaja and her son (30%) and the energy company EES Rossii (70%) under Anatoly Chubais , a young reformer in the Russian government in the 1990s. Half a year after the sale, the team broke up because of the content control of the new owners - the editor-in-chief called this the end of the last independent television station in Russia.

After the sale in 2005, RTL Group held 30% of the station, while the government-affiliated groups Severstal and Surgutneftegas each held 35 percent. In June 2011, RTL reached an agreement with the Russian media group Nazionalnaja Media Gruppa (National Media Group / NMG) on a share swap in which RTL surrendered its 30 percent stake in REN TV to NMG and in return received a 7.5% stake in NMG . In September 2013, RTL sold this stake for 81 million euros and withdrew completely from the Russia business. NMG, whose total stake in REN TV 2015 is 68%, is owned by Bank Rossija , a bank bought by investors around President Putin. NMG is the largest private media group in Russia and also has a stake in other Russian television broadcasters; among other things, in November 2014 the group held the majority on St. Petersburg Channel 5 and 25% on the majority state channel Rossija 1 .

The managing director of REN TV is Aleksander Sergejewitsch Ordzhonikidze, who has also been managing director of the owner NMG since 2010. Ordzhonikidze was first transferred to REN TV in 2005.

Program content and reception

For a long time, the station was seen as the last resort for free reporting, but this changed in 2005 with the change of ownership, which was followed by an internationally recognized censorship scandal, which led to layoffs and resignations at REN TV. In 2004 the popular journalist Olga Romanowa received Russia's most important television award in the category “best information program in the country” for her news program “24 with Olga Romanowa” on REN TV. In November 2005 the broadcaster Romanowa announced. She had publicly criticized a case of censorship. The broadcaster canceled its report on the acquittal of Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov's son . In the scandalous verdict, Ivanov's son was acquitted after his luxury limousine ran over a zebra crossing at high speed at a red light and killed a pensioner. After the dismissal, several journalists resigned in protest. After Romanova's dismissal, the former President of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev , said that “the last broadcaster that maintained a certain independence and objectivity had been lost”.

In March 2012, the British daily The Guardian referred to REN TV, characterized as a pro-Kremlin channel, in an editorial about manipulation in the Russian presidential election campaign , citing a program as an example with which REN TV had massively sided with Vladimir Putin by using a fictitious one Presented a terrible scenario for Russia without Putin.

In early August 2014, two weeks after Malaysia Airlines flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine, the political magazine “Die Woche” , which the journalist Marianna Maximovskaya had been running since 2003, was discontinued. The program was named the only show remaining on national television with a reputation for being critical of the government. A former producer described that when the MH17 was shot down, the station would never have been able to consistently report about it in its own way. Maximovskaya switched from the private television broadcaster NTW to REN TV in 2001 after the formerly independent reporting company NTW had been taken over by the state company Gazprom-Media and the editorial orientation was changed in favor of the government.

In October 2014, BBC Monitoring pointed out incorrect coverage of the conflict in eastern Ukraine on the REN TV website. REN TV used photos of victims of flight MH 17 packed in body bags as optical evidence for reports relating to pro-Russian rebels and allegedly discovered mass graves in the conflict area.

In 2015, the broadcaster was criticized for inexperienced sitcoms and its pseudoscientific programs, the moderator and department head for documentary projects Igor Prokopenko spread conspiracy theories and populist anti-Western propaganda .

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  • since 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ v , gazeta.ru, July 5, 2005
  2. ↑ RTL strengthens its position in Russia, in: Handelsblatt from June 10, 2011, accessed on February 5, 2015
  3. ↑ RTL Group withdraws from Russia, in: Kress from September 20, 2013, accessed on February 5, 2015
  4. ↑ About Us, self-description on the NMG website, accessed on February 5, 2015 (English)
  5. ↑ a b TV uses crash pictures in 'mass grave' reports, in: BBC Monitoring of October 3, 2014, accessed on February 5, 2015 (English)
  6. ↑ Russia Update: Diplomats from Germany, Latvia and Poland Expelled from Russia in Tit-for-Tat, in: The Interpreter of November 17, 2014, accessed on February 5, 2015 (English)
  7. ↑ Management, self-presentation on the NMG website, accessed on February 5, 2015 (English)
  8. ^ TV Putin . In: Die Welt , July 27, 2005, accessed February 5, 2015
  9. ↑ New gag for Russia's media - censorship with a German accent . in: Focus online from November 29, 2005, accessed on February 5, 2015
  10. ^ Censorship: Journalists quit Ren-TV . In: Russland aktuell dated December 6, 2005, accessed on February 5, 2015
  11. ↑ RTL group involved in censorship scandal on Russian private broadcaster . In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 7, 2005
  12. ^ REN-TV News Editor Explains Her Resignation . rferl.org; interview
  13. ^ REN-TV Editor In Chief Discusses Resignations . rferl.org; interview
  14. ^ Criticism of Kremlin ends career of Russian anchor, in: The Independent of November 26, 2005, accessed on February 5, 2015.
  15. ↑ Russia's presidential election: rigging is a delicate art , in: The Guardian, March 1, 2012, accessed February 5, 2015
  16. ↑ Daphne Skillen: Freedom of Speech in Russia: Politics and Media from Gorbachev to Putin , Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies, published by Taylor & Francis, 2016, ISBN 9781317659891 , p 74
  17. ↑ a b Alexei Eremenko: Weeding Out the Upstarts: The Kremlin's Proxy War on Independent Journalism , Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2015; "it was the only weekly news show to offer a critical outlook"
  18. ↑ Russia How Russia's independent media was dismantled piece by piece , The Guardian, May 25, 2016
  19. ^ "Die Woche": Russian TV stops last independent broadcast , Spiegel Online, August 2, 2014, accessed on August 20, 2014.
  20. ↑ «Вместе с самолетом разбилась последняя программа, которая могла себе позволить разбилась последняя программа, которая могла себе позволить, which crashed, with the plane, the сеять кение-сru August 2014, accessed September 20, 2014.
  21. ↑ Nozima Akhrarkhodjaeva: Russian Media and Journalists' Dilemma between “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty” , Russia Analysis No. 197, January 23, 2017
  22. ↑ Ulrike Gruska: The Kremlin on all channels. How the Russian State Controls Television (PDF), published by Reporters Without Borders , October 2013, p. 15
  23. ↑ They do not carry the light of science , gazeta.ru, January 29, 2017
  24. ↑ "I did not say that it was flat, but it would have to be proven that it is round" , Novaya Gazeta, March 10, 2019
  25. ↑ If even the truth sounds like a lie , Novaya Gazeta, 23 May 2015
  26. ↑ The area of ​​delirium. The television was almost on fire with shame , Novaya Gazeta, August 2, 2013
  27. ↑ Who is behind the reptilians? , Rosbalt, July 12, 2018