State TV Prepares to Go Global (Moscow Times)

[CHIMO]

The Kremlin plans to launch an English-language satellite television channel in September that will provide round-the-clock news to audiences in Europe, the United States and Asia.

The channel, named Russia Today, appears to be the brainchild of Mikhail Lesin, a media adviser to President Vladimir Putin and formerly the press minister, and of Putin's press secretary, Alexei Gromov.

Lesin has often called for a channel that would counter Western criticism of Russia, and the RIA-Novosti state news agency announced Thursday that work had begun to create such a channel.

Margarita Simonyan, a 25-year-old Kremlin pool reporter at Rossia state television named the channel's editor, said that Russia Today was needed to make Russia's "position known."

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/06/07/001.html

[Newsjock]

1. Yeah, like any cable system is gonna carry THAT in the U.S.

You can send out all the signals you want, but if nobody's putting them into households, it doesn't matter.

[cire4]

2. Good....The more international media the better.....

If Americans got their news from BBC, CBC, or other international outlet instead of CNN, Faux, and the bunch, then we wouldn't be in Iraq and Bush wouldn't be President.

Even if this channel is blatantly biased towards Putin, it will still provide an very interesting perspective that many Americans are deprived of.

[snot]

4. If you appreciate the BBC as we've known it, PLS go to this link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=376080&mesg_id=376080

[Cell Whitman]

3. It wasn't too long ago when the USA press/news quoted Pravda regularly.

They would quote Pravda and then make fun of them because it was so obvious "they" were full of "propaganda" and the press here was like... "hahaha We REALLY cover the news in the USA!! Those poor saps in Russia get lies."

They quit quoting Pravda regularly some time ago.

The best radio report I ever heard on Enron was from the Voice of Russia.

FYI

The VOR has it's own site but you can get their hour long shows archived nicely twice daily at WRN. (WRN is like NPR from around the world.)

WRN Full schedule:
http://new.wrn.org/listeners/schedules/schedule.php?ScheduleID=2&CurrentTZID=1&Show=week

VOR archive page..click on "T" for today's show.

http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=25


if you speak Russian you can get some TV here

http://beelinetv.com/

and here:

http://tv4all.com/portal.htm?http://tv4all.com/television/174.htm