TWS (TV station)
TWS ( Russian ТВС ) was a Russian television station that aired from June 1, 2002 to June 22, 2003 .
Leading Russian entrepreneurs were involved in the TWS sponsoring company, including Anatoli Tschubais , Oleg Deripaska , Roman Abramowitsch , Igor Linschiz and Alexander Mamut . The editorial staff held 10% of the station's shares. The editor-in-chief was the well-known television journalist Yevgeny Kisseljow .
The establishment of TWS resulted from the takeover of the television station NTW by the government- affiliated Gazprom group and the subsequent closure of the station TW-6 . Many of the journalists of the station NTW , which had been considered critical until then , switched to TW-6 after it was questioned by Gazprom . When this television station was subsequently liquidated at the instigation of one of its shareholders, the journalists' college applied for the broadcast frequencies that had become available. They won the bid and on June 1, 2002 TWS went on air. At the beginning of 2003, the new station ran into material difficulties and on July 22, 2003 it ceased operations on the instructions of the Russian press ministry. Today the program Rossija 2 is broadcasting on the frequencies of TWS .
Critical observers saw TWS as the last independent Russian television channel to be broadcast across the country. From this point of view, TWS is at the end of a campaign unleashed by the state power under President Vladimir Putin against the political independence of the private television channels of the Russian Federation.
literature
- Шендерович, Виктор: "Здесь было НТВ", ТВ-6, ТВС и другие истории. Москва: Захаров 2004. ISBN 5-8159-0347-7 . (Russian)