Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the Yabloko faction in the
St. Petersburgs parliament, proposed to the largest cable
operator in the city to include television
channel Dozhd (Rain) into the basic package of TV channels
offered to braod public.
Grigory Yavlinsky expressed his certainty that St.Petersburg
viewers would be interested in receiving honest news and discussion
programmes, as well as live broadcasts by the channel, such
as had been done by Dozhd from winter and spring mass-scale
rallies in Moscow and on the flooding in South Russia.
YABLOKO leader also added that audience would be interested
in the views of the leading journalists of the Dozhd channel,
including Leonid Parfyonov, Pavel Lobkov, Mikhail Kozyrev,
Mikhail Fishman, Mikhail Zygar and Ksenia Sobchak.
Grigory Yavlinsky noted that he was calling to include the
channel into the basic package of generally available programmes,
along with the First Channel and other state channels.
It should be noted that St.Petersburg TKT cable network enjoys
over 1.1 million households subscribers, i.e. about 3.5 million
viewers. The company was founded on the basis of a state company
and has been servicing the city television network.
Rostelecom has been holding the controlling block in the
TKT cable networks since 2011.
See also:
Freedom
of speech and media
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