Fully Russian Public Television will work in September 2013 - ITAR-TASS

MOSCOW, May 14. / Correspondent. ITAR-TASS Arina Lebedeva /. The first few months of Russian Public Television / OTP / will be broadcast in the test mode, the channel will work fully in September 2013, when staff will be formed. About this correspondent. Itar-Tass reported today Director General Anatoly Lysenko OTP.

He stressed that “the work is continuing on the material and technical base of the channel.” “In this respect we have something ready, something not important at the moment – to start working, and after that we will make improvements, look, what to change, what to add,” – said General Director of OTP.

Lysenko also noted that, at this stage, the channel continues to build staff journalists. “Reply exactly how much we have already got a job, it is difficult because some drop out, others come.’s Just that I have signed a decree on hiring three journalists,” – he said.

In his words, “from the public so far received a lot of proposals relating to the channel: there are initiatives are mutually exclusive, there are complementary, there are controversial, but from all this it is clear that people really waiting for the public television. ” “We have such a reaction showed that the program feedback really works. People want to be on the channel were non-fiction, youth, educational programs, programs that tell about the citizens’ initiatives” – said Lysenko.

to fulfill all wishes, according to CEO of OTP, you must create multiple channels at once. “In order to realize these proposals, we need a large amount of equipment and crews, and that the sad thing – a significant amount,” – he said. “While we still have the organizational and technical difficulties, but we expect that most of the ideas will come true after all. Some of the authors we also plan to invite to participate in our programs,” – concluded Lysenko.

decree on the establishment of a Russian Public Television was signed in April 2012. The legal form of the OTP is an autonomous non-profit organization that will be, and the founder, and the editors, and television broadcaster. Control over the activities of the channel will carry the Council on Public Television, which is chaired by Oleg Tabakov. According to the director general of the OTP, the channel will perform educational functions. Public television will broadcast 19 May 2013.