REN TV РЕН ТВ
Launched	1997-01-01
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Broadcast area	CIS,  Lithuania
Website	https://ren-tv.com

REN-TV (Russian: РЕН-ТВ) is one of the largest private federal TV channels in Russia. Founded by Irena Lesnevskaya and her son, Dmitry Lesnevsky, who had been running REN TV as a production house for other national Russian television channels, it has broadcast since 1 January 1997. Its target audience is a young to middle-age city worker. Even though it focuses mostly on the audience in the 18 to 45 demographic, REN offers programming for a wide range of demographics, since the target viewer has a family and respects family values. The channel has won 13 TEFIs awards presented by the Academy of Russian Television.

REN TV’s network is a patchwork of 406 independent broadcasting companies in Russia and the CIS. REN’s signal is received in 718 towns and cities in Russia from Kaliningrad in the West to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in the East. It has a potential audience of 113.5 million viewers (officially 120 million viewers^[1] ) with more than 12 million of them living in Moscow city and Moscow Oblast (Moscow Region). REN TV works with 10 broadcaster affiliates and 19 cable operators in the CIS and Baltic states; 181 cities can receive REN TV’s signal.

By many political opposition groups REN TV is considered to be “one of the last bastions of free media” in Russia. It is the only channel up-to-date which covers the meetings of socialist and liberal groups and takes interviews from prominent opposition leaders.

[edit] Ownership

Until 1 July 2005 the channel belonged to its founder Irena Lesnevskaya and her son (30%) and the Russian utility Unified Energy System headed by Anatoly Chubais. In 2005 Bertelsmann‘s RTL bought 30% of REN TV with steel maker Severstal and oil and natural gas company Surgutneftegaz each buying 35%.^[2]

Severstal’s Alexey Germanovich on 18 December 2006 ceded the chairperson of REN TV’s board to Lyubov Sovershaeva, President Vladimir Putin’s former deputy envoy to the North-West federal okrug^[3] and chairperson of the board at ABRos Investments, a subsidiary of St Petersburg’s Russia bank. ABRos had bought a considerable stake in REN. ^[4] The bank, whose chairman, Yury Kovalchuk, was a close friend of President Vladimir Putin, owned 38% of its home town’s TRK Petersburg TV channel – and was likely to buy more of that company, analysts had told 19 December 2006’s Kommersant-daily.^[5] REN TV and TRK Petersburg would merge into a single media holding, though they would operate independently, industry observers had told the daily.

Russian media had reported that oil and gas group Surgutneftegaz had sold its stake in the channel to ABRos, which had increased its stake in the media company from 45% to 70%. ‘[T]here are indications that Bertelsmann was interested in selling up, after about 18 months in the Russian TV market,’ the broadcasting news website added.^[6]

As per the website of REN TV, RTL owns 30% and National Media Group (NMG) owns 68% of the channel.

[edit] Logotype

TV channel REN peplace 3 logotypes. Present — 4th on account.

• With January 1, 1997 by September 3, 2006 logotype be there oval form white colour, word «REN» on transparent background, word «TV» on white background. Find in right upper corner.
• With September 4, 2006 by August 5, 2007 logotype be there whole form orange colour, word «РЕН» on orange circle, word «ТВ» — sever part of circle. Find there while.
• With August 6, 2007 by February 7, 2010 logotype be there whole form orange and black colour, word «РЕН» on black circle, inscribed in orange. Find there while.
• With February 8, 2010 by present time logotype whole form yellow colour, word «РЕН» on yellow circle. Find there while.

[edit] Headpieces and design

[edit] Production

• 2000 — 2002 — animation.ren-tv.com
• 2002 — 2007 — studio «REN-DESIGN»
• 2007 — 2010 — studio «SHANDESIGN»
• 2010 — present time — studio «1+1 VIDEO DESIGN»

[edit] News coverage

In November 2005 REN TV fired Olga Romanova, the anchor of its daily 24 news flagship.^[7] Despite much publicity around the incident, her independent manner of reporting was continued by Marianna Maksimovskaya, formerly an anchor and news presenter for Vladimir Gusinsky‘s NTV Station. As of October 2008, Maksimovskaya was still in charge of news broadcasts on REN TV. Due to her activities, the channel remains arguably Russia’s the only major TV outlet with liberal views, discussing the problem of state censorship and showing interviews with leaders of opposition (including Other Russia).

Prior to her departure from the channel, Romanova had told the Radio Free Europe on 25 November 2005 that the channel’s head, Alexander Ordzhonikidze had pulled two recent stories for, she felt, political reasons. One censored item had covered an investigation into Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov‘s son’s involvement in a road accident in which a woman died. Romanova spoken about the alleged censorship on Ekho Moskvy radio on 23 November 2005 – and the next day Ordzhonikidze barred from entering the channel’s building.^[8] A second ‘banned item had been about the building in central Moscow of a US $15 million church and clock tower by Zurab Tsereteli, the Internmational Press Institute noted in its report on 2005.^[9]

Ordzhonikidze said in an interview for Echo of Moscow radio station that REN’s news output had low ratings and management had decided to try other anchors on the evening newscasts. “Besides, it’s hard for one person to anchor all the nightly newscasts every day of the week. [They] might just feel ill,” he had added.^[10]

In solidarity with Romanova, several of her journalist colleagues quit the channel in December 2005. Head of news and deputy channel director, Yelena Fedorova, told Radio Liberty‘s Russian Service (Radio Svoboda) why she had resigned.^[11] “A lot of content-related directives have passed by me. As a journalist, I cannot put up with that, I cannot live with that,” she told state news agency RIA Novosti on 5 December 2005. Editor Olga Shorina and producer Tatyana Kolokova were also planning to leave the channel because, they said, it was impossible to perform their professional duties.^[12]

[edit] Scheduled content

The company which produced several high-profile feature films, notably the Golden Lion-winning Vozvrashcheniye in 2003, is still a production house and has made much of the network’s scheduled content, including numerous TV series:

• Soldiers (Russian: Солдаты) – following recruits drafted into the Russian Army for their mandatory year of military service.^[13] 16 seasons as of 2009^[update].
• Students (Russian: Студенты) – following the social lives of several Moscow University for the Humanities students.^[14] (2005-2006)
• Tourists (Russian: Туристы) – following several couples on vacation on a beach resort in Turkey. (2005)

REN also was showing purchased programming, including:

• The 4400 – since November 26 2006
• Prison Break – since September 4 2006
• Supernatural – since September 2006
• My Name Is Earl – since 2006
• Formula-1 motor racing – since 2006
• Family Guy – as “The Griffins“
• The Simpsons
• Friends
• The X-Files
• M*A*S*H
• Jetix – children’s adventure programming from Disney

Current purchased/licensed programming:

• Top Gear Russia – since February 22 2009

[edit] References

1. ^ Media holding company REN TV (in Russian)
2. ^ Worldwide operations, RTL corporate website. Retrieved on 2007-07-28.
3. ^ “New leader in Northwest Russia appointed 2006-10-05”, Health care, 5 October 2006 (Newsletter from the North-West of Russia, The East Europe Committee of the Swedish Health Care Community), p. 4. Retrieved on 2007-07-28. Cites for Sovershaeva’s former role.
4. ^ (Russian) Масс-медиа: Друг президента стал акционером “Рен ТВ” (Mass-media: drug prezidenta stal aktsionerom ‘Ren TV’, “Mass-media: Friend of the President became a shareholder of REN TV”, Lenta.ru (Rambler Media Group) 19 December 2006.
5. ^ President’s Mate Takes Over Ren TV, Kommersant-daily, 19 December 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
6. ^ Abros ups stake in Ren TV, broadbandtvnews.com, Cambridge, UK, 20 April 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-28.
7. ^ (German) Russischer Sender feuert kritische Journalistin (“Russian channel fired critical journalist”), NDR Fernsehen, 7 December 2005.
8. ^ Julie A. Corwin, Russia: Prominent Journalist To Defend Journalists’ Rights, Radio Free Europe, 29 November 2005. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
9. ^ 2005 World Press Freedom Review: Russia, International Press Institute, Vienna. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
10. ^ REN TV anchor Olga Romanova to sue management, RIA Novosti, Moscow, 25 November 2005. Retrieved on 2007-07-27
11. ^ Interview: REN-TV News Editor Explains Her Resignation, Radio Free Europe, 6 December 2005.
12. ^ REN TV editor resigns, RIA Novosti, Moscow, 5 December 2005. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
13. ^ Soldaty Soldiers, official site.
14. ^ Studenty, official site.

6 Responses to “a TV program about my legal challenges to Obama’s eligibility aired today at 1 Moscow time to REN market of 120 million people. A link and a WIKI article about REN-TV network is below”

1. Plantagenet
   November 27th, 2010 @ 9:28 am

   So you are making America look bad around the world. That is not something a patriot would do. Shame on you.

2. Starla
   November 27th, 2010 @ 2:40 pm

   AN EXCELLENT COMMENT

   From: https://drkatesview.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/giving-thanks/

   “thinkwell said: November 26, 2010 at 1:33 pm

   “Our Constitution does not require a presidential candidate (even if they win) to show a birth certificate. It only requires that the President must be a natural born Citizen. In most cases, that this requirement has been met is obvious on its face and no further proof is requested or required.

   I seriously doubt that all recent (100 years or so) Presidents have provided an authenticated birth certificate, although those who have been requested to do so always have complied, at least up until the treasonous usurpation by the criminal fraud currently occupying our White House. I recall reading that Eisenhower (who obviously was an nbC) was asked by an election official in Texas(?) to provide proof of qualification before he could be listed on the ballot. Eisenhower was born at home and had no birth certificate, so he had to get an older relative to testify in court as to the facts of his birth before an official birth certificate would be issued. In the process he found out that the order of his first two names was actually the reverse of what, prior to this revelation, he had always known it to be.

   The point is that the system worked because the election process, the press, the courts and the candidate all operated in good faith to ensure that the eligibility requirements of the Constitution were met. The rule of law was respected and upheld.

   Our current usurper anti-American-in-chief has expressed his disdain for the Constitution and only respects the rule of law when it’s in his favor anyway or when he is not yet able to get away with openly breaking it. One must expect that there will always be such ambitious, evil individuals, but I never expected our entire system of checks and balances (i.e., the press, opposing party, Congress and the courts) would go over to the dark side and completely abdicate their duty to prevent a usurpation of the Presidency. Obama is only infecting our Country because its immune system has failed to function. I guess as our Republic weakens with age, we must inoculate it with laws in every State preventing anyone who has not proven their eligibility (to explicitly listed qualifications for the office in question) from having their name appear on a ballot.

   Even if we manage to recover from our Obama infection, unless we bring back the rule of law, we will just succumb to the next evil, opportunistic political infection that comes along.”

3. Starla
   November 27th, 2010 @ 2:52 pm

   AN EXCELLENT COMMENT

   From:

   http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/11/23/the-ise-of-freedom-isnt-new-buildings-in-new-york/

   “Bob1939 says:
   Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 3:07 PM

   Thanksgiving is a time to humbly thank Almighty God for all our blessings, including his written word, freedom, liberty and life itself. At the same time if we have the presence of mind to thank our Creator-God, we should also be capable of discerning good from evil, and to be able to acknowledge the absolute seriousness of the trouble our Country is really in – at this time; due primarily to our obvious drift away from God and reality.

   We have a ghastly, immature, terrorist, moslem, usurper, bad actor POTUS, who is bent on destroying America, ” and who is doing it quite successfully so far”, and a Supreme Court who must deliberate for days on whether or not our Constitution should be maintained? when they all knew well that this was coming. If they don’t now stand up for America – then they are traitors too, and “We the People” must take over with “God’s Help”.

   This TSA fiasco going on right now is merely one more example of out-of-control-government, payback for our own stupidity for putting them in control of our lives, INSTEAD OF GOD. Anyone with half a brain knows that the best way to avert trouble is to open our eyes, use a little discernment, and observe passenger behavior. If that is called profiling, then so be it!…or does it make sense to create abusively stringent screening procedures, and then immediately exempt the very people who caused most of the initial terrorism problems we now suffer, while at the same time terrorizing every other obviously-innocent American-born traveling public.

   While Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, LCDR Fitzpatrick and many other such HEROES, currently remain under siege by our fraudulent, terrorist government, just when would be the right time to bring truth and reality forward and begin arresting these greedy, self-serving hooligans. Also under siege is our economy, our way of life, our heart-felt love of God, our religion, our healthcare, our education, our financial system, our political system, and our very ability to restore logic and freedom. Please wake up, America, and have a Happy Thanksgiving!!!… hopefully with God in mind, and in Jesus’s precious name – I pray. Amen.”

   # # # #

   ALL Americans should know, share, teach children and all Americans, and share far and wide with our families, friends, and American educational schools George Washington’s 1789 “Thanksgiving Proclamation:”

   https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/GW/gw004.html

4. hippybiker
   November 27th, 2010 @ 4:52 pm

   Plantagenet, you are an idiot. Being an Amateur Radio operator, I talk as well as listen to stations all over the world. As a result, I have learned that most of the civilized world is laughing at us for being so easily fooled by the Usurper who is infesting OUR White House.

   Please withdraw you Cranium from your Rectum.

5. Plantagenet
   November 27th, 2010 @ 7:13 pm

   I see Starla is spamming again. And hippybiker is on crack again.

6. hippybiker
   November 28th, 2010 @ 6:46 am

   Obummer smokes Crack as well as Pot and Male Genitalia. hippybiker does not even drink or smoke cigarettes, Moron!

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