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Revision as of 13:30, 25 April 2011
Country | Russia |
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Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
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Language(s) | Arabic, English, Russian, Spanish |
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Owner | ANO TV-Novosti |
RT, previously known as Russia Today, is a global multilingual television news network based in Russia and funded by the Russian government. RT was the first all-digital Russian TV network.[1] The service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to CCTV-4, DW-TV, France 24 and NHK World, and broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world.
The network, which cost about $30 million in 2005 to set up and $60 million for its first year of operation,[2] started broadcasting on Dec. 10, 2005 with nearly 100 English-speaking journalists reporting for it worldwide.[2][3] RT broadcasts from its headquarters in Moscow and its studio in Washington, DC. It also has bureaus in Miami, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Delhi and Tel Aviv. RT is available in over 100 countries spread over five continents via cable, satellite, and online streaming free from the RT website. There are brief commercials, usually 15 seconds each totaling no more than four minutes per hour and scheduled two blocks per hour of one to three minutes each promoting the network.[4] In addition to the Moscow-based flagship RT English-language broadcast, RT also runs RT Arabic (the Arabic-language service), RT America (featuring news and programming oriented to viewers in the United States), and Actualidad RT in Spanish. RT shows round the clock news bulletins, documentaries, talk shows, and debates, as well as sports news and cultural programs on Russia.
History
RT was launched as Russia Today by an autonomous non-profit organization in 2005. However, much of the funding to this organization, ANO TV-Novosti, is injected from the Russian Federal Budget (2.4 billion rubles in 2007).[5] In 2007, RT’s monthly audience share exceeded that of CNN and Bloomberg TV among NTV-PLUS satellite subscribers in Moscow. In August 2007, RT was the first channel in television history to report live from the North Pole. In 2008, RT’s average monthly reach in Russia indicated a growth rate of 82% within just six months. Over the same period, the channel’s average daily reach grew by 46%. In the same year, the monthly audience among those who have access to or are aware of RT’s broadcasts on Time Warner Cable in NYC exceeded that of BBC America by 11%. The daily audience of RT exceeds that of Deutsche Welle tenfold, within the same network.[6]
Objectives
RT sets out to present the Russian point of view on events in Russia and its "near abroad" republics, giving the viewers an opportunity to get acquainted with Russian views on world and domestic events. Margarita Simonyan, RT's editor-in-chief, says the station was born out of the desire to present an "unbiased portrait of Russia."[1]
A major part of RT's airtime is devoted to Russian and world news, but it also airs business, sports and culture news. In addition, RT features documentaries, travel and language shows, editorials, and commentaries on present-day life in Russia and Russian history.
Channels
RT runs its main RT International English language broadcast, RT Arabic, RT America, and Actualidad RT in Spanish.
RT International
Based in Moscow with bureaus in New York, Washington, London, Miami, Los Angeles, Paris, Tskhinval, Delhi and Tel Aviv, RT International is the flagship news channel of the RT network. RT International was launched in 2005 and covers international and regional headlines from a Russian perspective.[7]
RT America
Based in RT's Washington, DC Bureau, RT America also has studios in New York, Miami and Los Angeles. RT America's broadcast operations began in January 2010. Currently the network only broadcasts in the afternoon and evening. RT America focuses on covering the Americas from an international and Russian perspective.[8]
RT Arabic
Launched in May 2007, RT Arabic is the Arabic-language arm of RT. The Arabic channel broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; programs include political, economic, cultural, sports stories along with movies, documentaries and feature broadcasts. RT Arabic is based in Moscow.[9]
Actualidad RT
The Spanish-language channel of RT is Actualidad RT. The Spanish-language channel began broadcasting in 2007, broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Actualidad RT is based in Moscow but relies heavily on its studios in Miami, Los Angeles and Buenos Aires. Actualidad RT covers headline news, politics, sports, and broadcast specials.[10]
Achievements
In 2007, RT's share of monthly audience among NTV Plus viewers in Moscow exceeded those of CNN and Bloomberg.[11]
In December 2007, RT programs were displayed in New York on America's main information video walls, NASDAQ and Reuters. On New Year's Eve, RT's New Year's program from Moscow and St. Petersburg was displayed live on the NASDAQ and Reuters screens for the thousands of people celebrating in Times Square.[11]
In August 2007, RT had television's first ever live report from the North Pole, which lasted 5 minutes, 41 seconds. An RT crew participated in the Arktika 2007 Russian polar expedition, led by Artur Chilingarov on the Akademik Fyodorov icebreaker.[12]
In June 2007, RT was one of the first Russian TV channels to have its own channel on YouTube, the leading video hosting site on the Internet. In January 2008, the total number of views for RT videos on YouTube was over 3 million, and RT was sixth in YouTube's Most Viewed Partners rating, behind CBS, BBC World, Al Jazeera English, France 24 and Press TV.[11]
Professional awards
- January 2009 - Silver World Medal for Best News Documentary “A city of desolate mothers” from the New York Festivals
- November 2008 - Special Jury Award in the Best Creative Feature category for a Russian Glamour feature story at Media Excellence Awards in London
- September 2008 - Russia's most prestigious broadcasting award TEFI in Best News Anchor category
- November 2007 - RT's report on the anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe received a special prize from the international 2007 AIB Media Excellence Awards[13] in the News Coverage category. Other nominees included major international broadcasters such as BBC, France 24, Deutsche Welle, CBS, Al Arabiya, and others. There was only one story by CBS News which rated higher than RT and it received the Grand Prix
- September 2007 - Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio[14] awarded RT with the Prize for Professional Skillfulness
- June 2007 - The 11th "Save and Preserve" International Environmental Television Festival[15] awarded its Grand Prix to RT's Meeting with Nature series. There were 284 entries competing in 10 categories, including a work by German TV channel Deutsche Welle
- September 2006 - The 10th "Golden Tambourine" International Festival for Television programs and films[16] awarded RT's documentary People of the Bering Strait in the Ethnography and Travel category
Satellite and cable broadcasts
RT is transmitted on thirteen satellites, covering Europe, Asia, the Americas, southern Africa and Australia.[17] Of these, eleven transmit the channel free to air, enabling it to be received without a subscription.[18]
Viewers in Russia can receive the channel as a part of the NTV Plus basic package as well as Kosmos TV.
In the UK and Ireland, the channel is available on the Sky platform's channel 512, including in the Freesat from Sky package. It is also available in the UK 24 hours per day on Digital Terrestrial platform Freeview channel 85.
In Italy, the channel is available via SKY Italia on channel 531.
In the United States, the channel is available to digital customers of Time-Warner Cable in New York and New Jersey on channel 135 (channel 196 in upstate New York), in Los Angeles and the desert cities on channel 236, and in San Diego and its North Counties on channel 222. Digital customers of Comcast can receive the channel in Chicago on channel 103, and in Washington, D.C. on channel 274. Digital subscribers to Buckeye CableSystem can receive the channel in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan on channel 266. The channel is also available in the Washington, D.C. area via Cox (channel 474), RCN (channel 34), and Verizon FIOS (channel 455). Portions of RT are additionally shown throughout the United States on MHz Worldview. Since MHZ Worldview is shown as a digital subchannel for some PBS stations (in addition to being available on DirecTV), this makes RT available on digital terrestrial television in the United States. MHz Networks, which owns MHZ Worldview, does a complete simulcast of RT on one of the digital subchannels of WNVC, one of the two stations it owns in Northern Virginia.
In January 2010, RT became available in major cities in Western Canada through Shaw Cable. It also began appearing a couple months earlier in major cities throughout Eastern Canada from Rogers Cable.
Controversies and criticisms
On the occasion of RFE´s 60th anniversary[19] in Washington DC (sept 2010), Walter Isaacson (appointed by President Barack Obama the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors), says about RT, Presstv (Iran), CCTV (China), and Telesur (pan-Latin American): "we can't allow ourselves to be out-communicated by our enemies..."
Critics have challenged the neutrality of RT's reporting and suggested that the channel has provided a platform to conspiracy theorists.[20]
According to a variety of sources such as Der Spiegel and Reporters Without Borders, the channel presents pro-Kremlin propaganda.[21][22] Russia Today staff have nonetheless claimed that their coverage was fair and balanced.[23]
During the 2008 South Ossetia War Russia Today correspondent William Dunbar resigned saying "[t]he real news, the real facts of the matter, didn't conform to what they were trying to report, and therefore, they wouldn't let me report it."[24] Human Rights Watch said that the claim of 2000 South Ossetian casualties, announced by Russia Today,[25] was "exaggerated."[26] The Moscow correspondent for the Independent said that Russia Today's coverage of the war was "obscene", claiming that the channel was "extraordinarily biased" and had "instructed reporters not to report from Georgian villages within South Ossetia that had been ethnically cleansed."[27]
According to RT's editor, the channel welcomes controversy as it "provides an alternative to mainstream media."[28]
A 2009 article by journalist Luke Harding for The Guardian reporting on RT's advertising campaign described the network as "unashamedly pro-Vladimir Lenin"[29] and part of the Kremlin's attempt to create a "post-Soviet global propaganda empire."[29] The article also interviewed RT's editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan where she said the network "takes a pro-Russian position"[29] and was unrepentant about RT's pro-Russian coverage of the 2008 Russian-Georgian war.[29] In 2011, an article by The Guardian reported that Harding had been expelled from Russia for unspecified reasons.[30] The expulsion was believed to be the first of a British staff journalist from Russia since end of Cold War.[30]
An article in the Digital Journal called RT a "pro-Putin news outlet"[31] and its advertising campaign as "open propaganda war."[31]
In July 2010, RT covered the annual gathering of Waffen-SS veterans of the Battle of Tannenberg Line in Estonia, labeling the event pro-Nazi.[32][33][34] The news clip showed a speech by Estonian former politician Jüri Liim, which was falsely translated. Liim actually said: "History has shown how the Russian Bolsheviks have always slaughtered us (i.e. Estonians) and given an opportunity do it again," while RT interpreted it as "There have been two great worldwide fights for freedom and third is soon going to start from here."[33] Russia Today also admits that they are funded by the Russian government on their Youtube channel.
A September-October 2010 article in the Columbia Journalism Review called Russia Today a Kremlin propaganda outlet[35] featuring "fringe-dwelling experts"[35] and "was just a way to stick it to the U.S. from behind the façade of legitimate newsgathering."[35]
An article in the non-profit news media watchdog organization Accuracy in Media criticized RT as a "propaganda network funded by the Moscow regime of Vladimir Putin"[36] and charged that it "regularly features Marxist and radical commentators.[36] The article also cites the description of the network by former KGB officer Konstantin Preobrazhensky as “a part of the Russian industry of misinformation and manipulation” designed to mislead foreign audiences about Russian intentions."[36] Furthermore, Preobrazhensky argues that Russia Today utilizes methods of propaganda that are "managed by Directorate 'A' of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service...with the specialty of Directorate ‘A’ is deceiving world public opinion and manipulating it. It has got a lot of experience over decades of the Cold War."[36]
An article in The Daily Telegraph reported that alleged spy suspect Katia Zatuliveter was now working for RT.[37]
Online
News clips and a live stream of the broadcast are available via the RT website. The live stream is also available in English and Arabic through Livestation.
The internet stream offers a choice of three resolutions for different capacity connections.
Presenters
News anchors
- Staci Bivens
- Yulia Bokova
- Bill Dod
- Marina Dzhashi
- Anya Fedorova (Primetime Russia)
- Neil Harvey (Primetime Russia)
- Alice Hibbert
- Cary Jonston
- Kevin Owen
- Anissa Naouai
- Yulia Shapovalova
- Rory Suchet
- Matt Trezza
Reporters
- Tesa Arcilla
- Oksana Boyko
- Gayane Chichakyan
- Sara Firth
- Katerina Azarova
- Natalia Novikova
- Irina Galushko
- Anastasia Churkina (US)
- Charlotte Lomas Farley
- Lindsay France
- Dina Gusovsky (US)
- Ekaterina Gracheva
- Anissa Naouai
- Egor Piskunov
- Cedric Moon (US)
- Marina Portnaya (US)
- Paula Slier (Israel)
- Priya Sridhar (US)
- Sean Thomas
- Jihan Hafiz (US)
Business Today presenters
- Laura Emmett (London Bureau Chief)
- Daniel Jones
- Karina Melikyan
- Natalia Shanetskaya
- Madina Kochenova
Sport presenters
- Andrew Farmer
- Pete Oliver
- Eunan O'Neill
- Kate Partridge
- Richard Van Poortvliet
- Natalya Soboleva
- Robert Vardanyan
Program presenters
- Thom Hartmann (The Big Picture)
- Martyn Andrews (Wayfarer/Moscow Out/Venice of the North/A Prime Recipe/Russian Around)
- James Brown (Discovering Russia)
- Al Gurnov (Spotlight)
- Max Keiser (Keiser Report)
- Adam Kokesh (Adam vs. The Man)
- Peter Lavelle (In Context)
- Nick Levy (Tech Update)
- Alyona Minkovski (The Alyona Show)
- Sophie Shevardnadze (News/Culture Fair/Wanted/An Interview with...)
Past presenters (all)
- Ryan Dollard (ITV Border)
- Neave Barker (Al Jazeera Moscow Correspondent)
- Amanda Burt (Press TV)
- Jason de la Pêna (Sky News/Sky Sports/ESPN Singapore)
- Jess Dunsdon (Channel M/Channel Television)
- Clare Garnett (CNBC Europe)
- Jenny Hammond (Press TV Shanghai/ICS)
- Anastasia Hydulina (Bloomberg)
- Maryam Nemazee (Al Jazeera English/Bloomberg)
- Louise Potter (Al Jazeera Sports London)
- Karen Roberts
- Carson Scott (Sky News Business Channel)[38]
- Hazeem Sika (Al Jazeera English)
- Ann Smith (ITV)
- Kelly Keiter
- Melissa Stock
- Sasha Twining (Sky News/BBC News Interactive)
- Alicia Young (CNN)
- James Freemantle [39]
Past Reporters
- William Dunbar
- Leah Ferguson
- Dmitry Glukhovsky
- Nina Warhurst (Channel M)
- Natasha Butler (France 24)
- Ahron Young (Sky News Australia)
Competitors
See also
References
- ^ a b "Russia Today to be 24-hour, English TV station". CBC News. 7 June 2005. Retrieved 6 May 2008.
- ^ a b "Journalism mixes with spin on Russia Today: critics". CBC News. 10 March 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
- ^ "Russia Today tomorrow". Broadband TV News. 15 September 2005. Retrieved 26 July 2007. [dead link]
- ^ Schedule RT
- ^ «Свобода слова» обходится все дороже Независимая, 5 September 2006
- ^ "RT Corporate Profile". RT. 1 January 2009. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
- ^ Corporate Profile RT
- ^ USA RT
- ^ About (Arabic) RT
- ^ Actualidad QUIÉNES SOMOS (Spanish) RT
- ^ a b c News & Events RT
- ^ ШОСовая борьба «Интегрум», 30 October 2008
- ^ AIB Media Excellence Awards 2007 Association for International Broadcasting, 8 October 2007
- ^ Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio Евразийская Академия Телевидения и Радио
- ^ News of the Okrug 11th "Save and Preserve" International Environmental Television Festival, 9 June 2007
- ^ "Golden Tambourine" International Festival for Television programmes and films Zolotoy Buben
- ^ "Russia Today:Satellite". 17 September 2008.
- ^ "Free TV from Russia". 17 September 2008.
- ^ RFE´s 60th anniversary on rferl.org 24:00min, sept 29 2010, www.rferl.org
- ^ Airwaves wobbly The Economist: Eastern Approaches 6 July 2010
- ^ Controversial Propaganda: Using Stalin To Boost Russia Abroad Der Spiegel 20 November 2007
- ^ Reporters Without Borders Don’t Fancy Russia Today Kommersant 21 October 2005
- ^ Russian News, English Accent: New Kremlin Show Spins Russia Westward CBS News 12 December 2005
- ^ Russian TV reporter resigns after station cancels his Georgian broadcasts The Guardian, citing the Moscow Times 12 August 2008
- ^ Death toll in South Ossetia reaches 2,000 Russia Today 10 August 2008
- ^ Russia exaggerating South Ossetian death toll, says human rights group The Guardian 13 August 2008
- ^ From Russia with news The Independent 15 January 2010.
- ^ Russia Today Courts Viewers With Controversy The Moscow Times 17 March 2010
- ^ a b c d Luke Harding (18-12-09). "Russia Today launches first UK ad blitz". The Guardian.
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- ^ Politsei puistas Lätist Sinimägedesse sõitnud antifašiste Delfi 31 July 2010
- ^ a b Jüri Liim lubas III maailmasõda?!
- ^ RT: Keep Out! Anti-Nazis blocked as SS vets meet in Estonia
- ^ a b c Ioffe, Julia (2010). Columbia Journalism Review http://www.cjr.org/feature/what_is_russia_today.php.
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External links
- RT website
- RT's channel on YouTube
- RT on Twitter
- RT on Facebook
- RT Live Flash stream