An NTV employee waving the channel’s flag from its offices on April 5, 2001, the day Gazprom took over NTV. You won’t hear about it on television, but this Friday, Russian media mark a milestone date. Ten years ago, the flagship private channel NTV was taken over by state-owned Gazprom. Its trademark three-letter logo is still on air, but the channel [...]
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April 15, 2011
April 7, 2011
U.S. Congressional Committee Questions Role Of U.S.-Funded Broadcasters
Is U.S. government funded international broadcasting living up to expectations? Or, as Representative Dana Rohrabacher (Republican, California) has put it, “Is America’s Overseas Broadcasting Undermining our National Interest and the Fight Against Tyrannical Regimes?” That was the title of an April 6 hearing he convened in his role as chair of the House Foreign Affairs [...]