TVS (Russia)

TWS (Russian ТВС ) was a Russian television channel, which was broadcast on 1 June 2002 to 22 June 2003.

At the carrier company of TWS leading Russian businessmen were involved, among them Anatoly Chubais, Oleg Deripaska, Roman Abramovich, Igor and Alexander Mamut Linschiz. 10 % of the shares of the station kept the editorial staff. Editor in chief was the famous television journalist Yevgeny Kiselyov.

The establishment of TWS resulted from the acquisition of the television station NTV by the government- Gazprom Group and the subsequent closure of the transmitter TW - sixth Many of the journalists of the hitherto regarded as a critical channel NTV changed after his interrogation by Gazprom to TW - sixth As the result of this TV channel on the initiative of one of its shareholders was liquidated, the journalists College applied for the vacant transmission frequencies. They were awarded the contract and on 1 June 2002 TWS went on the air. In early 2003 came the new channel set on the instructions of the Russian Press Ministry be operating in material difficulties and on 22 July 2003. At the frequencies of TWS today the program sends Rossiya 2

Critical observers saw in TWS recent independent Russian television channel, which was received throughout the country. Seen from this point of view is TWS at the end of an unfettered by the state power under President Vladimir Putin campaign against the political independence of the private television station of the Russian Federation.