Lysenko asks for another 700 million on OTR

The general director of the "Public Television of Russia" (OTR) Anatoly Lysenko asks to scatter the channel additional subsidies in the amount of 700 million rubles. "Of the 1.5 billion rubles, which were allocated to" public television "for 2013, 700 million rubles, the channel spent on the creation of its own production and technological complex," Izvestia explained to Rospechat. Initially, it was planned to transfer the OTR base of the Zvezda television channel.

The Ministry of Communications supported the request of the OTR and proposed increasing the annual state services to the channel to 2.5 billion rubles, Izvestia write. According to the newspaper, the income of the OTR from the placement of social advertising and sponsorship support from the federal authorities will amount to another 2.3 billion rubles this year.

“When this figure was laid (1.5 billion rubles a year. - Ed.), The amount consisted of the budget financing of the Zvezda channel,” Lysenko explained. “But the Zvezda channel consisted of the budget, the money that it had (there was targeted advertising of the Ministry of Defense and commercial advertising), plus the services of the Ministry of Defense. Moreover, the channel had equipment, to this moment, the channel, to this moment, had equipment, The library and archives.

The beginning of broadcasting OTR was scheduled for May 19. A program has been published on the channel’s website for this day. One of the programs is dedicated to the pioneer organization. "Do you remember the call sign" Pioneer Dawn "? How to tie a red tie? From which side of the chest to pin the badge?" - The announcement of the program says. In addition, OTR launches an analogue of the Soviet program "This you can", dedicated to "People’s craftsmen who invented and collected any technical constructions during the years of total deficit." On the OTR they are sure that "the spirit of invention is not dried up by the people." The first issue will be dedicated to the "salvation of people during floods."

In Mert, Lysenko said that the new channel would not be opposition. “I can’t imagine what an opposition channel is. This is when in the morning they show Sergei Udaltsov, who screams“ Down with! ”, Then Valery Novodvorskaya, and then again Udaltsov? We are not interested,” Lysenko said.

According to him, the channel will reflect exclusively constructive points of view. There is already clarity with software policy. "There will be scientific and cognitive programs, there will be a lot of documentaries and Soviet cinema," Lysenko said.

One of the "unusual", according to the journalist, the channel will be the coverage of the activities of various state structures, in particular the State Duma commissions. Lysenko noticed that "spectators" proposed such a topic for public television.

The new channel intends to pay special attention to life in the regions. In particular, Lysenko will welcome the stories that "bakery was opened in Tula." “The inhabitants of Tula will be happy then, and people from some Ust-Khryupinsk will think:“ Why don't we have this? ”, The general director explained from.

Lysenko assured that "he did not receive instructions from the Kremlin." At the same time, he remarked: "It would be nice if we were invited there and helped financially." The general director of OT also said that the channel turned to the Ministry of Finance with a request to "add 700 million rubles" and received a positive answer.

Public television was established by order of the government on September 17, 2012. It was assumed that it would begin broadcasting on January 1, 2013, but later the launch of the channel was postponed. Lysenko explained the delay "technical reasons." In October 2012, actor Oleg Tabakov, a confidant of Vladimir Putin in the last presidential election, was elected chairman of the OTP council.