"Rain" can return to the air of cable operators

The Association of Cable Operators of Russia is ready to help the return of the Rain television channel on the air if he agrees to cooperate with all partners in the same commercial model. According to TASS, this was stated by the head of the association Yuri Podachkin.

“Relations with all content manufacturers are the same, should be built in equal terms,” the relationship of operators with television channels described the relationship of operators. “Rain” is not something exceptional. ” Therefore, he concluded, "they (" rain ". - Ed.) For themselves they must decide on which commercial model they work - they cannot work with one operator according to one model, with another, with another, with a third to a third."

On January 26, a survey was conducted on the Rain website, did Leningrad need to be saved in order to save hundreds of thousands of lives? ”, Which caused a wide resonance in the blogosphere. Later, the channel recognized the survey by a mistake and apologized for it. The survey was condemned in the State Duma, and the deputies of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly asked the prosecutor's office to check the TV channel and punish it "up to the closure."

After that, the largest cable and satellite operators, including Rostelecom, Akado, Er-Telecom, Vimpelcom, Tricolor-TV, stopped broadcasting "rain".

The then Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin and the head of the Presidential Council of Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov demanded to open a criminal case against cable operators who turned off the rain. They stated that there were signs of a cartel conspiracy that seriously violates the rights and legitimate interests of viewers, which are unilaterally deprived of access to the media products paid.

Meanwhile, the television channel investor Alexander Vinokurov said that the rain was not going to sue operators . The channel, he explained, wants to remain long -term partners with operators and his main goal sees a return on the network.

In July, a resolution entered into legal force, the assigning satellite operator of NTV-Plus to pay the viewer compensation for the disconnection of the rain . In the actions of the channel, the court did not see a violation, but found that the subscriber about the disconnection of the "rain" should be notified in advance.

In August, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow recovered 200 thousand rubles from the television channel in favor of two St. Petersburg pensioners who said that the survey on the rain website insulted them. On November 28, the Moscow City Court upheld this decision in force .