TW-6
TW-6 (Russian ТВ-6 ) was a Russian television station that was in operation from January 1993 to January 2002.
history
The Russian Eduard Sagalajew and the American media magnate Ted Turner were at the beginning of the "Moscow Independent Broadcasting Company TW-6" . In June 1999 the Russian media entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky acquired 75 percent of the shares in TW-6.
When the Russian television broadcaster NTW came into the sights of the state authorities in April 2001 , presumably because of its critical reporting, and lost its independence, Berezovsky invited the dismissed NTW journalists to continue their work on TW-6. In May 2001, the television journalist Yevgeny Kisseljow (formerly at NTW), known for his critical attitude, was elected General Director of TW-6. Numerous other former NTW journalists come to TW-6, including Mikhail Ossokin, Vladimir Kara-Mursa , Swetlana Sorokina and Viktor Schenderowitsch . In a short time, the former outsider TW-6 became one of the most popular Russian television channels.
A little later, the Russian state, as before against NTW, also starts a campaign against TW-6 under the pretext of punishing financial irregularities. The procedure for the dissolution of the television station is formally initiated at the instigation of the Lukoil oil company , which holds some shares in TW-6. On January 11, 2002, a Russian court ordered the dissolution of the TV company TW-6.
In March 2002 the journalists from TW-6 won the tender for the allocation of the freed transmission frequencies and began broadcasting the TWS program on June 1, 2002 , which, however, was also switched off by a decision of the press ministry on June 22, 2003. Ren TV was now the last bastion of free television journalism in Russia .
literature
Шендерович, Виктор: "Здесь было НТВ", ТВ-6, ТВС и другие истории. Москва: Захаров 2004. ISBN 5815903477 . (Russian)
Web links
- How the Putin State successfully disposed of Yeltsin-era private television (Friday of February 22, 2002)
- Media and election campaigns: censorship through the back door. Analysis of the Russian media landscape by the German scientist Sabine Gladkov
- Jamestown Foundation report on station shutdown
- BBC report by Russian journalist Alim Yusupov on the station's closure
- "TW-6 and Freedom of the Press" - information forum on the events of TW-6 and TWS (Russian)
- Page from "TW-6 Vladimir", formerly a regional program for Vladimir, today an independent broadcaster (Russian)