Death "Life"

Life, which is part of the News Media holding, Aram Gabrelyanov, has stopped broadcasting from Saturday, according to the resource website. "Dear viewers, the news of the Life television channel now watch on social networks and on the site," the report said.

The owner of the license, the company "Media Content", sent a letter to cable and satellite operators about the cessation of broadcasting of the Life channel "Due to its closure," RBC reported on Friday.

The Life channel will stop making the content for ether broadcast and switch to direct broadcasts on the Internet on emergency occasions, Gabrelyanov said .

According to TASS, 90 employees of the television channel will be reduced, and another 90 will remain to work on streaming broadcasting. Meanwhile, the source of znak.com claims that all the employees of the broadcast were fired, only four operators remained.

"Life (site and television channel) in the form that they existed were simply not needed. This is a fairly expensive resource, and the tasks facing the authorities can be solved in cheaper ways," said Znak.com, close to Gabrelyanov holding. Another source of the publication believes that News Media had problems because Gabrelyanov’s publications were heated for a long time, and sometimes they themselves initiated intra -elite conflicts.

In 2016, the National Media Group (NMG), the chairman of the board of directors of which is the ex-deputy and gymnast Alina Kabaeva, did not renew the agreement on the newspaper Izvestia from News Media.

Life TV channel (initially Lifenews) began broadcasting in September 2013. Gabrelyanov evaluated investments in the project at $ 20-30 million. After the annexation of Crimea, the TV channel’s carriage was prohibited in Ukraine. Gabrelyanov and his son Ashot, who led Lifenews for some time, was banned from entering this country.