NTV (Russia)
| Country | Russia |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Russia, CIS, US, and formerly Canada. |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Programming | |
| Language | Russian |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Gazprom Media |
| History | |
| Launched | 4 November 1967 |
| Replaced | 4th channel Ostankino Russian Universities |
| Links | |
| Website | ntv |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digital terrestrial television | Channel 4 |
NTV (Cyrillic: НТВ) is a Russian free-to-air television channel that was launched as a subsidiary of Vladimir Gusinsky's company Media-Most. Since 14 April 2001 Gazprom Media controls the network. NTV has no official meaning according to Igor Malashenko, the author of the name and co-founder of the company, but in the 1990s unofficial transcripts of the acronym include "New" (Novoje), "Independent" (Nezavisimoje), "Non-governmental" (Negosudarstvennoje), "Our" (Nashe).