CTC Media
| Public | |
| Industry | Broadcasting, entertainment, TV, TV-entertainment, free-to-air broadcasting, TV-production |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
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Key people
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Viacheslav Murugov (CEO) |
| Revenue | $ 832,103 million (2013, US GAAP) |
| $ 152,340 million (2013) | |
| Website | http://www.ctcmedia.ru/ |
CTC Media is the leading Russian independent broadcasting company with headquarters in Moscow, Russia.
CTC Media (till 2004 - StoryFirst Communications) was established by a U.S. entrepreneur Peter Gerwe in 1989 in Delaware in the United States. In 1991 co-founded Russian-American radio station Maximum. The Group launched broadcasting operations in 1991 with its own TV station in St.-Petersburg. Channel Six of St. Petersburg started broadcasting in other regions in 1994.
National TV channel CTC debuted in 1996, Russia’s first thematic channel Domashny was launched in 2005.
In 2009, СTC Media began international satellite broadcasting in North America as CTC International. In June 2010, the launch of international broadcasting took place in Israel. In March 2011, CTC Media started international broadcasting in Germany, and later in May 2011, a number of agreements were signed to start broadcasting on two new platforms in North America. In October 2011, CTC International increased its footprint in North America and began broadcasting in the Baltic states. As of February 2012, the international version of CTC began broadcasting in Europe, as well as in a number of countries in North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. CTC-International started broadcasting in Kyrgyzstan in April 2012, and launched in Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan in May the same year. CTC International is available in Thailand since July 2012.
The Everest Sales advertising agency was established in the autumn 2010 and is responsible for selling the advertising inventory of CTC, Domashny, Che and CTC Love, the Group’s Videomore.ru and Domashniy.ru internet portal. It also manages advertising sales in the Commonwealth of Independent States for Channel 31 group of companies in Kazakhstan.
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