NTV vs NTV

Some NTV employees who switched to TV-6 may lose the channel’s highest-rated programs - “Total with Viktor Shenderovich”, “Forgotten Regiment”, “Interesting Cinema”. The initiative belongs to the Ministry of Press, which is difficult to suspect of an excess of tenderness towards Yevgeny Kiselev. The reason for the ban is quite ridiculous: the names of these programs are registered as the property of NTV. Even though the registration took place in April of this year, on the very eve of the split and without the knowledge of the program producers.
Viktor Shenderovich sent a rather harsh letter to NTV employees - not as scathing, of course, as Kokha, but rather cold and noble, like a challenge to a duel. Shenderovich is interested in the opinion of his colleagues about what is happening - first of all, he would like to hear the answers of Leonid Parfenov and Tatyana Mitkova. He has already waited for the first answer: NTV Deputy General Director Vladimir Kulistikov notes that the issue can well be resolved without trial, through negotiations, and that the titles can be purchased from NTV.
Neither Shenderovich, nor Kirichenko, nor Berman and Zhandarev want to buy back the names of their original programs, which are actually their personal property. “The program is made where its author is located,” believes Shenderovich. “The owner of the War and Peace brand is Leo Tolstoy, not the manager of Yasnaya Polyana.” Despite the self-evidence of all this, the current owners of NTV and the Ministry of Press intend to bring the matter to court if TV-6 does not make concessions. Evgeny Kiselev said that controversial programs remain on the air. The question of negotiations with NTV is still up in the air.
no one had any illusions that the authorities would come to terms with the very existence of the opposition channel. I wanted to believe that they would not so obviously increase his rating. Unfortunately, neither April nor May of this year taught anyone anything.
Tomorrow, probably, NTV executives and their patrons will not like the fact that the name of the TV-6 channel includes two letters from the NTV brand. Let's have some fun.
Andrey Gamalov.