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NTV
Also known as NTV Russia, НТВ
Russian television channel
Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Broadcast area
- Russia, CIS, US, and formerly Canada .
- Headquarters
- Moscow , Russia
- Language
- Russian
- Picture format
- 1080i HDTV , (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
- Owner
- Gazprom Media
- Launched
- 10 October 1993 ; 32 years ago ( 1993-10-10 )
- Replaced
- 4th channel Ostankino , Russian Universities
- Website
- ntv .ru
- Digital terrestrial television
- Channel 4
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
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Article
NTV (Cyrillic: НТВ) is a Russian free-to-air television channel that was launched as a subsidiary of Vladimir Gusinsky's company Media-Most [ru]. Since 14 April 2001 Gazprom Media controls the network. NTV has no official meaning according to Igor Malashenko, the author of the name and co-founder of the company, but in the 1990s unofficial transcripts of the acronym include "New" (Novoje), "Independent" (Nezavisimoje), "Non-governmental" (Negosudarstvennoje), "Our" (Nashe).
History