#6036
#6
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002
From: Laura Belin <belinlaura@yahoo.com>
Subject:
query related to TV-6
I heard on the BBC Russian Service today (January 22) that although NTV Plus sports channel started broadcasting temporarily on the frequency used by TV-6 in Moscow, the same was not true in many cities across the Russian Federation where local stations had signed contracts to rebroadcast TV-6 programming.
It is not clear whether TV-6 will be able to resume broadcasts on those stations soon. As far as I understand, losing the license to use Channel 6 should not affect whether TV-6 staff can produce programs for local stations whose broadcast licenses are not in dispute.
I would like to hear from JRL readers in Russia about what programs (if any) they can watch on the channels that used to carry TV-6 shows. For instance, a BBC correspondent said that in St. Petersburg, the channel that had previously rebroadcast TV-6 started showing Swan Lake today after TV-6 was switched off. (As many JRL readers will know, reruns of Swan Lake appeared on Soviet television during the August 1991 coup.) Is that true? Has NTV Plus offered its programming to other stations that were rebroadcasting TV-6?
People can contact me directly at belinlaura@yahoo.com if they would prefer not to post their comments to JRL.
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