RTVI TV channel will replace a number of Echo Moscow programs with its own product

The RTVI television company, whose headquarters is located in New York, refuses to replace them with their own information product in the process of modernizing the content, told RIA Novosti RTVI Director Ekaterina Kotrikadze.

“We are rapidly developing after the change of the company’s owner. This was the reason for the abandonment of some Echo of Moscow. We keep two hours of direct broadcast of the special opinion program - and this is a huge share, if we talk about television time.“ Special opinion ”is the most relevant program about the life of Russia, a very important project for us, we left it with pleasure,” Kotrikadze said.

In March 2012, it became known that the former General Director of the Zvezda channel Ruslan Sokolov bought the Russian businessman Vladimir Gusinsky the International Russian -language television channel RTVI, promising to “improve” it.

"As for the abandonment of the rest of the Echo programs, this was a mutual solution related to a number of aspects, including the change of management to RTVI. Something new, products of its own production should appear in the prime time, it was an absolutely mutual solution with the Echo of Moscow, based on modern television business realities. We are preparing a number of projects, I will allow myself not to reveal yet Details, ”Kotrikadze said.

She noted that over the past year, the network of news broadcasting was expanded, the bureau was opened in Moscow, correspondents appeared in Germany and Ukraine, the state in Israel was increased. The company is working on the creation of a new Internet site and goes to social networks.

The Director of the News Service rejected the censorship background of reducing the volume of cooperation with the Echo of Moscow.