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Channel One Russia

Channel One
Первый канал
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Launched 1 April 1995; 21 years ago (1995-04-01)
Owned by Federal Agency for State Property Management (38.9%)
(25%)
Roman Abramovich (24%)
TASS (9.1%)
Ostankino Technical Center (3.0%)
Picture format 576i (SDTV) 16:9 (1 Family and 1SD)
1080i (HDTV) 16:9 (1HD)
Audience share 15.5% (August 2010, TNS Russia)
Country Russia
Broadcast area United Nations
Headquarters Moscow, Russia
Formerly called 1995–2002: Public Russian Television (ORT)
Sister channel(s) Karusel'
Telecafe
Dom kino
Music One TV
Vremya
Dom kino Premium
Bober
Perviy Kanal Evraziya
Website www.1tv.ru (Russia)
www.1tv.com (English)
Availability
Terrestrial
Russian-wide broadcast VHF Channel R1
Satellite
SKY Italia Channel 577
DirecTV (USA) Channel 2140
EutelSat Hotbird 13° 1TVRUS Europe
Cable
National Cable Networks (Russia) VHF Channel R2
naxoo (Switzerland) Channel 302
Rogers Cable (Canada) Channel 886
Streaming media
Channel One internet broadcast www.1tv.ru/itv

Channel One (Russian: Первый канал, tr. Perviy kanal; IPA: [ˈpʲɛrvɨj kɐˈnɑl], literally First Channel) is the first television channel to broadcast in the Russian Federation. It has its headquarters in the Technical Center "Ostankino" near the Ostankino Tower, Moscow.

First among Russia's country-wide channels, Channel One has more than 250 million viewers worldwide.

From 1995 to 2002 the channel was known as Public Russian Television (Russian: Общественное Российское Телевидение, tr. Obshchetvennoye Rossiykoye Televideniye, ORT) or Russian Public Television.

Channel One has produced many films, including four of the highest-grossing Russian movies after the Soviet collapse, Night Watch (2004), The Turkish Gambit (2005), Day Watch (2006), and The Irony of Fate 2 (2007). It airs the Russian adaptations of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Survivor, and Star Factory, as well as many homegrown productions.

When the Soviet Union was abolished, the Russian Federation took over most of its structures and institutions. One of the first acts of Boris Yeltsin’s new government was his signing of a presidential decree on 27 December 1991, providing for Russian jurisdiction over the central television system. The ‘All-Union State TV and Radio Company’ (Gosteleradio) was transformed into the 'Russian State TV and Radio Company Ostankino'.


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