Russian Public Television, called for so long spoke a variety of political and public figures, is on the verge of bankruptcy
Congratulations, you’re bankrupt!
aired on May 19, 2013 the channel is already the end of July nearly ran out of funds and had to give signals «SOS».
The fact that Russia, like air, it is necessary independent of the state and the oligarchs electronic media, argued for many years. In December 2011, the then President Dmitry Medvedev in a message to the Federal Assembly, proposed the creation of public television, thus giving the course of the project.
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Another year and a half have taken a variety of arrangements in which there was an information that the channel will be based on the “Stars” or “TV Center”. In the end, everything worked out without absorption, and new media structure, led by Alexey Lysenko , began its work.
State put OTP seed money – half a billion rubles. Next, on to the authors of the project, the canal was to be the proceeds from the audience.
the time of exhaustion of state money such donations gathered 50,600 rubles – an amount sufficient for the maintenance of a month the average Russian family without large queries, but not independent of the federal channel.
The collapse of the myth
In the air hung the eternal Russian question “What to do?».
Recourse to the state actually kills the very idea of ??public television. The same can be said of the assistance of private entities – if the channel is in a financial dependence, and talk about some kind of freedom of opinion is no longer necessary.
Anyone who gives money, defines the boundaries of what a journalist is and is not. And if the OTP will continue to work in these conditions, it is what it is fundamentally different from all other channels?
officials politely advised OTP “living within our means,” but this advice trudnovypolnim because of their complete lack of.
In fact, we are witnessing a beautiful debunking of the myth – the myth that the expansion of public freedoms citizens desperately need an independent television station.
Some have long since learned to obtain information on the internet, others have successfully bypassed that offer state-run media. For the opposition-minded and critical thinkers exist channel “Rain».
This does not mean that the OTP does not have its audience. This means that the citizens of Russia are not so in need to regularly refer to it amounts to ensure its normal existence.
national television was born at a time when citizens do not pay for the channels, and for the use of the antenna. Satellite television is moving forward with great difficulty, bumping into people’s desire to get all the free, that is nothing.
But if
for movie channels, sports, travel and cooking Russians are willing to pay more or less, over the incomprehensible
