Echo of Moscow

Echo Moskvy ( Эхо Москвы, German Echo of Moscow ) is a Russian radio station from Moscow. Ekho Moskvy comes from the glasnost era. As in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 non-state media were admitted for the first time, a group of journalists with a starting capital of 150,000 rubles Ekho Moskvy. The first program was broadcast on 22 August 1990. On the broadcasting license number one radio station is still proud.

Editor of Ekho Moskvy 's Alexei Venediktov. 66 percent of the shares held by the state company Gazprom, the rest of the shares owned by the editorial staff. The editorial statute prescribes that the editorial course of the transmitter is determined exclusively by the chief editor.

The number of listeners of Ekho Moskvy is estimated to be 650,000 in the Russian capital and a half million in the regions (as of August 2005). "15 years have been enough to make the station one of the most important voices in the country ," wrote the Berliner Zeitung. Among the Moscow transmitters Ekho Moskvy the number 10 with a market share of about 5 %, throughout Russia, he brings it to a listener share of about 2% ( thus number 13 of the radio stations of Russia; details of the Russian Ministry of press, radio, television and mass media).

Ekho Moskvy is the only remaining nationwide radio station, which is not yet dominated by the Kremlin and remain independent and uncensored reporting supplies. Who specializes in environmental issues journalist Grigory Pasko said, referring to the independence of the channel:

"It will Ekho Moskvy allowed to exist. So that the government can show something if the question arises whether there are independent media in Russia. There Novaya Gazeta with a free newspaper. But there is no TV station that reported really critical. That would be too much of a good thing, because the majority of the population is reached and manipulated via the medium of television. "

Reception

In many cities of the Russian Federation Ekho Moskvy can be heard on FM:

Outside Russia, Ekho Moskvy is terrestrial in Riga (since 2000, on 102.7 MHz FM ) and Chicago (since 1998, to 1330 kHz medium wave) to receive.