Directors of TNT will be resigned

In the near future, Gazprom-Media Hoading will officially announce the resignation of the director of the TNT television channel Igor Mishin.

This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to the employees of Gazprom-Media and other media companies.

Igor Mishin is the founder of the Yekaterinburg media company “The Fourth Channel” (1991), he also participated in the creation of Televet TNT and REN TV, in 2006-2007 he worked at Amedia, created the Media-1 company, bought A-One Cable Channel in 2011.

In January 2014, Mishin was appointed CEO of TNT, he was invited by Mikhail Lesin , who led Gazprom-Media from the fall of 2013 to the end of 2014.

In February 2016, Mishin ceased to be the general director of TNT, since in addition to Russian, he has Greek citizenship and he cannot officially manage the channel due to restrictions on foreigners in the media. The position of general director was taken by the management company "Entertainment Television" (TNT, "Friday", "TV 3", "2x2", TNT-4 and TNT Music).

According to the sources of Vedomosti, the place of the general director of TNT will remain with the managing company, and its general director Arthur Dzhanibekyan, his deputy Vladimir Chopov and the general producer of TNT Alexander Dulerain will lead the channel.