russian online tv

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Between 1941 and 1945 russian TV broadcasts in the nation were interrupted because of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union. During these early years, most television programs were about life in the Soviet Union, cultural activities and sports. In 1956 a second national television channel was established. This initial expansion of activity encompassed mostly the city of Moscow, but to a lesser extent also Leningrad, the Urals, Siberia and the Ukrainian SSR. Each republic, area or region had its own television station. In the 1970s and 1980s, television become the preeminent mass medium. In 1988 approximately 75 million households owned television sets, and an estimated 93 percent of the population watched television. Moscow, the base from which most of the television stations broadcast, transmitted some 90 percent of the country’s programs, with the help of more than 350 stations and nearly 1,400 relay facilities. Updating the television, the release of its censorship by the Central Committee, began with the proclamation at the XXVII Congress of the new General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev’s new political course of the party in relation to the country. Chairman of the Radio and Television was Alexander Aksenov. In 1991, the Soviet era Gosteleradio state system included six national television channels, 52 stations in the former Soviet republics and 78 regional stations in the Russian Federation. Today there are about 15,000 transmitters in the country. Development of domestic digital TV transmitters, led within ’Multichannel’ research program, had already been finished. New domestic digital transmitters have been developed and installed in Nizhniy Novgorod and Saint Petersburg in 2001-2002. 19368

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