The largest digital television operator in Russia, Tricolor TV, provides free channels for its subscribers in 2017. The list of channels changes every year, so this year it is slightly different from the previous list.

According to the laws of the Russian Federation - in 2017, all digital television operators are required to provide access to a specific list free channels, and Tricolor TV is no exception. But to broadcast channels, you must have the appropriate equipment. In addition to installing a satellite dish, you need to purchase a smart card and a receiving device.

Important! The Tricolor TV company offers free channels for viewing in 2017 only to its subscribers!

Paid and free channels provided for viewing by Tricolor TV are encoded and their broadcast is not possible without certain equipment. The satellite receiver and remote control will help decode the encrypted signal, the remote control is only useful for turning the TV on and off. Recommended in 2017 receivers General Satellite and Dowridge Select Limited.

List of free channels of the Tricolor TV operator

In 2017, this list included four channels from Tricolor TV:

• Info channel "Tricolor TV";
• "Promo TV";
• "TV-TV";
• "TV instructor".

The promo channel broadcasts about the various channels included in the packages of the digital television operator. On the air of Teleinstructor, each subscriber will be able to find out how much a particular service costs and how to use it. Thanks to information and training videos, users will find out what promotions, packages and services Tricolor offers in 2017. Also, the channel will help you understand the payment methods and self-troubleshooting.

The information channel "Tricolor TV" will tell about changes in the broadcasting schedule and ongoing promotions, and entertainment shows are also on the air. "TV-TV" is an entertaining and educational TV channel with an advertising and information shade for subscribers. On the air of "TV-TV" works of world cinema, children's films, educational programs about the garden and the garden are broadcast, and youth television programs are also present in the broadcast network.

Another absolutely free TV channel for users of the operator's equipment is SHOP24: a convenience store on the couch.

Packages "Basic"

In 2017, any subscriber of the Tricolor TV operator got the opportunity to watch 20 free channels included in the Basic package. To access it, you need to connect to any other paid package.

List of channels of the "Basic" package:

1. First channel. The variety of entertainment and information programs allows you to cover 99% of the population Russian Federation. Properly distributed airtime captivated the audience of all ages. In 2017, the first channel will show the series "Jackal", this is a continuation of the detective stories "MosGaz", "Spider" and "Executioner".
2. Russia 1. News, entertainment shows, melodramas, detective series with an exciting plot, as well as music and children's TV programs make the channel popular and national.
3. MATCH! TV.The name of the channel speaks for itself. Live broadcasts not only of football matches, but of all important sporting events from around the world. The list of programs is very extensive, but they are all aimed at an active lifestyle.
4. NTV. Despite the fact that the channel is private, it still has federal status. The broadcasting schedule features crime series, news, political programs and revealing shows.
5. Petersburg - channel 5. Sharp political TV programs, military and detective series, classics of Soviet cinema - this is just a small list of what the fifth channel offers for viewing.
6. Russia Culture. The channel's policy is aimed at the cultural education of mankind, therefore, its schedule includes a huge number of theatrical performances, classical music and operettas, cultural news and documentaries about world cultural figures.
7. Russia 24. Round the clock news channel.
8. Carousel. All airtime is filled with cartoons and programs for the youngest viewers. In 2017, the releases of the beloved program "Good night, kids!" will continue.
9. Public Television of Russia (OTR). The TV channel broadcasts analytical programs and programs about the historical, scientific and cultural values ​​of the Russian Federation.
10. TV Center. All programs are aimed at socio-political education of viewers.
11. REN TV. Versatile popular information channel with a huge list of interesting films and programs.
12. Saved. An Orthodox TV channel that talks about faith, the church way of life, as well as posts and clergy.
13. STS. The entire broadcast is filled with entertainment programs, humorous series and action films. Regardless How many time on the clock, there is no place for political news and analytics.
14. Home. The main audience of the channel is housewives, so all the programs are thematic, and the series are about love.
15. TV-3. The most magical and mystical channel that opens the facets of consciousness and makes you believe in a miracle.
16. Star. The TV channel broadcasts military-historical films, and the topics of the programs are aimed at problems Russian Army. There is no broadcasting from 23.59 to 4 am Moscow time.
17. WORLD. Every hour the TV channel broadcasts news, but at the same time, half of the airtime is given to serials and films.
18. TNT. The channel is known for its humorous programs and series, as well as scandalous reality shows. In its broadcasting there are always masterpieces of world cinema.
19. MUZ TV. All airtime is filled with music or programs about her and her performers.
20. Friday!. An entertainment channel through which you can find out: where it is better to relax, how much things cost in other countries, which restaurants you don’t need to go to, and which stores have expired goods.

During 2017, the list of Tricolor channels may change, information on how many free TV channels are provided to subscribers can always be clarified on the official website or from the operator's representatives.

The TV industry continues to evolve. Therefore, we invite you to familiarize yourself with breaking news concerning the launch of new . So, the company Vod TV acts as a distributor. Broadcasting is carried out from the satellite.

Alexey Petrov, who holds the position of CEO of Vod TV, said that Rai is the largest media corporation. And its activities cannot be left without attention in Russia and the CIS countries.

As for the TV channels themselves, the main one is Rai 1. It can be called an analogue of the Russian Channel One. Rai 2 is aimed at the younger generation between the ages of 15 and 30. Rai 3 features educational content. Rai News 24 specializes in news. Initially, TV channels will be available in Italian. But soon the issue with the translation will be resolved.

Alexey Petrov is sure that Rai 1 content will appeal to the Russian audience. This is especially true of series and films of the company's own production. Viewers may also be interested in music, entertainment shows and much more. Rai 1 broadcasts the Italian Cup, but in Russia there will be a black screen instead. Broadcasts are temporarily unavailable. But this is no more than 1.5 hours a week.

Besides, inRussia launched another TV channel dedicated to European cinema. Its name is Cinema. The production of the new TV channel is carried out by "Digital Television". It was launched on February 1, 2017. The ethereal grid consists of the classics of world cinema. This included modern tapes. Most of the content is films of French and Italian production, filmed at the end of the 20th century, and box office European films.

Company representatives said that the creators of the channel choose comedies, adventures and action films that are designed to give a good mood. Ivan Kudryavtsev, known as the host of the Cinema Industry program, which airs on "

Three large-scale reports "Russian TV and radio broadcasting and the Internet. Status, trends and development prospects in 2017", prepared, prepared by the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University under the general editorship of E. L. Vartanova and V. P. Kolomiets. Rospechat and the National Association of Television and Radio Broadcasters acted as customers for the report on the television industry.

The report "Television in 2017" was prepared by a large team of authors, it used data from the NSC analytical center, the Public Opinion Foundation, the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network, the Association of Communication Agencies of Russia, research companies J'son and Partners Consulting, KVG Research, " TMT Consulting", Mediascope, Integrum news agencies and - we are especially pleased to talk about this! - portal "Cableman". (The authors of the sources of the other two reports are somewhat different).

Today we publish excerpts from this report.

Television in 2017

1.1. Implementation of the federal digital program. Results of the year

As a result of the measures taken by RTRS to complete the task of constructing the facilities of the first multiplex and providing the population with digital broadcasting within the time frame stipulated by the Program, as of December 31, 2017, construction was completed and 5,019 communication facilities of the first multiplex were put on the air (including 5,011 - software and 8 - socially significant objects with a large coverage of the population in the regions of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th stages: Rostov region, Oryol region, Republic of Bashkortostan, Republic of Komi).

Construction was also organized at 17 facilities in the Republic of Crimea, the commissioning of which is scheduled by the Program in 2018.

The key indicator "The share of the population of the Russian Federation that has the ability to receive terrestrial digital TV channels" exceeded the planned value for 2017 by 0.1% and reached the level of 98.3%. In 83 out of 85 subjects, the coverage of digital broadcasting was more than 95%.

Technical accounting and operational management subsystems have been introduced in all branches of RTRS.

Until the end of 2018, part of the expenses of RTRS for broadcasting TV channels and radio channels, which are part of the first broadcast multiplex, will be paid at the expense of subsidies from the federal budget. Broadcasting of TV channels included in the second multiplex is carried out by RTRS on a commercial basis in accordance with the terms of contracts with broadcasters.

1.2 Development of legislation and regulation

In 2017, changes related to the normative regulation of television appeared in all four main laws for the media industry - "On the Mass Media" (1991), "On Communications" (2003), "On Advertising" (2006) and "On Information, information technology and information security" (2006).

Amendments to article 35 of the law "About the media" and article 66 of the law "About connection" clarified the obligations of TV channels and telecom operators to broadcast official messages of the authorities executive power containing urgent information about the dangers arising from the occurrence of emergencies natural and man-made nature, as well as in the conduct of hostilities, according to the rules of behavior of the population and the need for protection measures. Such messages (warning signals) should be distributed by media editorial offices in the respective broadcasting territories immediately and free of charge. Broadcasting of these messages by the operator is not considered an interruption in the provision of communication services to the broadcaster.

Amendments to a number of articles of the law "On Mass Media" introduced changes to the procedure for registering mass media, including electronic media (that is, television channels). Since 2018, the issuance of paper certificates of media registration has ceased, and the date of registration will be the date the entry is made in the register of Roskomnadzor. The service must be provided within 30 working days from the date of application. The amount of the state duty for registration of mass media depends on the territory of distribution. When calculating the fee, increasing and decreasing coefficients are preserved depending on the specialization of the media. Change of the founder, change of the co-founders, name (name), language (languages), approximate topics and (or) specialization of the media, the territory of distribution of media products, as well as the form and (or) type of periodic distribution of mass information must be formalized by making official changes to a record of media registration in the register of the regulator, full re-registration in these cases is not required. An editorial office that has temporarily suspended, terminated, or resumed media distribution must notify Roskomnadzor of this.

It was also established that a citizen who is serving a sentence in places of deprivation of liberty or who has a criminal record for committing crimes using the media or information and telecommunication networks, or for committing crimes related to the implementation of extremist activities, as well as a citizen who has not reached eighteen years of age or recognized by the court as incompetent.

Amendments to article 27 of the law "About Advertising" allowed a new product category to air on television. It is now permitted to distribute advertisements for risk-based games, bets made by organizers of gambling in bookmakers, and (or) means of individualization of organizers of gambling in bookmakers during broadcast in live or in the recording of sports competitions. For broadcasters, the restriction is set that the total duration of such advertising should not exceed 20% of the total allowable broadcast time of advertising during sports competitions.

A particularly important innovation was the appearance in the law "On information, information technologies and information protection" articles 10.5. Obligations of the owner of the audiovisual service. The status of audiovisual services (AVS) has been established - OTT services, including online cinemas that monetize their services through a paid subscription or advertising.

If the attendance of the ABC during the day is more than 100 thousand Russian users, it is entered into a special register, the creation and maintenance of which is entrusted to Roskomnadzor. The owner of the ABC must be a Russian legal entity or a Russian citizen who does not have the citizenship of another state. The law establishes a limit of 20% of the share of foreign capital in the ownership of the service. The owner of ABC is obliged to install one of the programs offered by the regulator to count the number of users of his resource, and is also obliged to prevent its use in order to violate the law or distribute content prohibited in the country. Administrative liability for violation of the introduced norms is also defined. Network publications, search engines and video hosting sites with user-generated ABC content are not recognized.

In parallel, amendments to Article 15.6 of the same law "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection" clarified the procedure and terms for blocking sites by Roskomnadzor and telecom operators that repeatedly and illegally posted information containing objects of copyright and (or) related rights, and access to which was restricted by a court decision.

New Article 15.6-1. The procedure for restricting access to copies of blocked sites separately regulates the procedures for identifying and combating the so-called "mirrors" of pirated resources by Roskomnadzor, hosting providers, telecom operators and search engines. All this taken together is essential for the activities of Russian TV broadcasters, which are the owners of audiovisual content and also have their own legal resources on the ABC market.

1.3 Highlights of the TV year

Among the notable events of 2017, one can single out the appearance on the air at the end of December of the entertainment TV channel Super, owned by Gazprom Media. The channel is positioned as a federal terrestrial television channel; before its launch, terrestrial frequencies were collected (mainly from other holding channels) in eight cities, including Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. The grid was based on reruns of serials and programs from other channels of the Gazprom-Media Entertainment TV group.

Two more events of the television year 2017 are associated with difficulties in the activities of quite high-profile recent projects. So, in December 2017, the Tsargrad TV channel stopped broadcasting, which was preserved only in the format of an Internet resource with video content. Recall that the "first Russian conservative information and analytical TV channel", as the broadcaster positioned itself, was created in 2014 by businessman and politician K. Malofeev. Evaluations of his activities, as well as political and ideological positions, were different, while it is clear that an independent, not associated with large holdings, niche non-entertainment project in the television broadcasting system has not yet been able to gain a foothold.

In August 2017, the broadcasting of the information TV channel Life was closed, which began operation in 2013 as LifeNews (renamed in 2016). The TV channel was created as part of A. Gabrelyanov's News Media holding and looked like a bright professionally ambitious independent project. The management of the holding and the TV channel did not give a full-fledged explanation for the rather abrupt closure of the project. For all the time of its existence, the sources of its financing have not been fully clarified.

The place of Life on the air and partly in the television system was quickly taken by the new IZ.RU channel, created on the basis of the multimedia information center (MIC) Izvestia, which combines the editorial resources of REN TV, Channel Five and the daily newspaper Izvestia. All these organizations belong to the "National Media Group" (NMG), which, through the creation of the MIC, solves the problem of optimizing activities and issuing convergent products.

Back in 2016, the National Advertising Alliance (NRA) was created, the founders of which were Channel One, VGTRK, National Media Group and Gazprom-Media. "STS Media" did not participate in the creation of the NRA, but gave it the sale of its advertising opportunities.

In 2017, the National Media Group and STS Media created three joint companies (the ratio of shares in each 51 to 49% in favor of NMG), through which sponsorship opportunities and online advertising are jointly sold on the TV channels of both holdings and purchases of content are combined.

At the end of the year, the Vitrina TV company was created, in which 25% were distributed between the National Media Group, STS Media, Channel One and VGTRK. The main project within Vitrina TV was the creation and launch of an online platform common to all TV channels of the founding holdings, a basic player for broadcasting their content on the Internet. You can pay attention to the fact that Gazprom-Media was not included in the project, but it is not worth excluding its appearance among the co-founders in the event of a successful start of the project.

The indicators of successful niche terrestrial TV channels continue to grow, the total share of thematic television (cable and satellite TV channels) is growing, which at the end of the year exceeded 15%, and the indicators of three channels - Dom Kino, Mult and Russkiy Roman - turned out to be more than 1 % for each, which is higher than the results, for example, such well-known brands as "Che" or "Canal Yu". Against this background, one cannot fail to note the continued increase in the number of players in this segment - at the end of the year, experts counted more than 50 new non-air projects.

The fragmentation of television continues due to the development of video viewing on the Internet. In the context of the development of interaction between television and the Internet, it is necessary to note the final consolidation of OTT video services, which in Russia are more often called online cinemas, as a full-fledged sector of the domestic television system.

Against the backdrop of positive trends observed in other segments of the television system, the situation in regional television continues to be problematic. The total share of regional TV channels in 2017 fell again, to 3.2%, and there is still no understanding of how the transition to digital will affect local broadcasters. As part of the search for solutions to support regional TV channels, the State Duma adopted amendments to the law "On Advertising". They allow channels, which "in accordance with the broadcasting license, are distributed in the territories of less than half of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation", to increase the time of advertising using the "creeping line", but not more than 15% over the allowable hour in information and entertainment programs and no more than 5% in other genre groups of programs.

It should be noted that since the summer of 2017, Pay TV operators in 72 constituent entities of the Russian Federation have launched the so-called "21st button", on which the winners of a special competition of the Federal Competition Commission broadcast for free. However, the assignment of the status of a "mandatory channel" helped to solve, albeit partially, the problems of only seven dozen TV channels, while the situation of many, including a significant number of "old-timers" operating since the 1990s, remains unclear. The search for solutions leads, in particular, to the creation of niche professional associations aimed at solving certain specific issues. Thus, in the summer of 2017, a new Association of City TV and Radio Broadcasters (AGT) was created in Ufa, co-founded by the National Association of TV and Radio Broadcasters (NAT) and the Vsya Ufa TV channel. The most important direction of her work last year was the preparation of legislative initiatives to create "22nd button" in packages of operators for municipal broadcasters.

Russian television audience

The channel airs the latest blockbusters, Russian films and series, classics of Soviet military cinema, documentaries about the Great Patriotic War, new series of programs of its own production based on previously unknown archival documents and materials, as well as testimonies of veterans, interviews with historians and experts , memoirs of the participants of the action "Immortal Regiment".

The Pobeda TV channel tells about the most important event in the national history of the last century - the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. “The launch of the channel is timed to coincide with the start of the Berlin offensive.

Alexey Volin, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, expressed hope that the channel's subject matter would be expanded in the future. “Victory is Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Latin America and more. I would like these things to be reflected on the channel, ”he said at a press conference dedicated to the launch of the Pobeda channel.

Tricolor is a member of the Board of Trustees of the TV channel, formed with the participation of state authorities in order to implement a high-quality program strategy.

The registration certificate (EL No. FS 77 - 74600) was received by Pobeda in December 2018, license No. 29653 - in February 2019. The TV channel was first presented in January at CSTB 2019. Since March, the test signal has been available on the Russian broadcast beam from the ABS-2A satellite (75°E) at a frequency of 11045 MHz in the DVB-S2 standard

The Pobeda TV channel broadcasts at number 75 in the general list of TV channels. The number was chosen in honor of the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, which will be celebrated next year.

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Game Show HD TV channel - from January 19, 2018.

Game Show HD TV channel offers viewers daily news from the world of video games and eSports, live broadcasts of Championships, Leagues, LAN finals, festivals; trailers and reviews of fresh games and expected new products; eSports evenings; popular science and educational content; review and analytics; life hacks and let's play.

The Game Show began broadcasting in December 2015. The TV channel covered the competitions of the Continental League and the League of Legends World Championship, The International Dota 2 world championship, Russian and international FIFA 17 tournaments and other esports disciplines.

TV channel GAME SHOW is everything you wanted to know about video games

24 hours broadcast

Extensive distribution in cable and satellite networks

80% of ether - own production

Unique video gaming and esports content, from the basics to the latest

Daily live streaming of esports events

The TV channel is available in the broadcasting area of ​​Express-AMU1 and Eutelsat 36B satellites as part of the Unified package

To set up a TV channel, press "Menu" on the remote control of your receiver, select "Search for Tricolor TV channels", press "OK" and update the channel list following the prompts on the screen.

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TV channel "Visiting a fairy tale" - from July 11, 2017.

On July 11, 2017, as part of the "Children's" package, the TV channel "Visiting a Fairy Tale" began broadcasting.

"Visiting a fairy tale" (0+) is the first fairy tale channel for the whole family with thematic content from all over the world.
Classical and modern film adaptations of folk and author's fairy tales, masterpieces of Soviet cinema, fairy-tale cartoons, popular modern fairy tales, serials and fantasy. Kind and instructive tales broaden the horizons of the child and help form the right life values.

The channel is produced by Content Media. "Visiting a fairy tale" is positioned as a film channel for joint television viewing for children aged 4 to 12 years and their parents.

Now the editorial portfolio of "Visiting a Fairy Tale" includes more than 30 films that have never been shown in Russia before. As well as more than 300 films of different years, filmed in the USSR, Europe and the USA. “The line of broadcasting “Visiting a fairy tale” is designed so that every day the viewer will receive 3 hours of a new original product. It will include more than five hundred titles of thematic content, original cross-program formats and formats of our own production. At the same time, the ratio of feature films to animated films in the total volume of broadcasting will be 2 to 1. The basis of the broadcast will be fairy tale films, Russian fairy tales and fairy tales of the peoples of the world, adaptations of such famous authors as Anderson, Perrault, Grimm, and new formats of our time - animalistic fairy tales and fantasy.

The TV channel is broadcast in the coverage area of ​​Express-AMU1 and Eutelsat 36B satellites in MPEG-4 format.
The channel is broadcasting in test mode.

To set up a TV channel, press "Menu" on the remote control of your receiver, select "Search for Tricolor TV channels", press "OK" and update the channel list following the prompts on the screen.

Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov announced that in 2018 Russia will be able to abandon analogue television broadcasting. It is assumed that by this time the whole country will be ready to switch to digital television However, not everyone shares the optimism of officials. Lenta.ru found out why, after switching to digital, many Russians may lose access to television and how to avoid this.

Why is analogue dying?

According to Nikiforov, in 2018 the state will stop subsidizing analog television. This does not mean that it will be disabled. The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications explained to Lente.ru that TV channels, in addition to the digital format, wishing to broadcast in analog, will receive such an opportunity: for this they just need to agree with the signal distributor - the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network (RTRS). Regional channels, for example, will be able to continue broadcasting analog.

In itself, the transition to digital by 2018 is not new. In 2009, when the excitement around the launch of digital TV in Russia was only gaining momentum, officials made bright plans for a full transition to new format broadcasting by 2015, later the plans were adjusted and a new milestone was called - 2018. It was assumed that by that time more than half of Russians would have acquired television receivers capable of reading a digital signal.

Why is digital better than analogue?

Digital television is of better quality, allows you to fit more channels in one frequency range, it is more resistant to interference. Often dense urban development contributes to the creation of ripples or stripes on television screens. The digital mode of transmission allows the signal to bypass these obstacles and give a smooth picture at the output.

How do they "smoke out" an analogue?

The transition to digital television is a worldwide trend. In the West, this process began ten years earlier than in Russia. Abroad, digital broadcasting began back in the 1990s, while in Russia they began testing digital broadcasting in 2000 (in the Nizhny Novgorod region). To date, almost all of Western Europe, the Scandinavian countries, the USA, some CIS countries and Latin America have abandoned the analog format. In 2017, Ukraine plans to completely abandon analogue broadcasting in favor of digital.

At the time when Luxembourg and the Netherlands switched to digital for the first time (in 2006), a government commission had just been created in Russia to work on the concept of introducing new TV standards. It was headed by Dmitry Medvedev. Having become president in 2008, he came to grips with television issues (then an attempt was made to create public television, which resulted in the opening of the OTR channel with - approx. "Tapes.ru"). In 2009, the Federal Target Program was approved, according to which investments in digital television broadcasting amounted to almost 165 billion rubles.

It was decided that the new format would come to the house to the audience in multiplexes - packets that are transmitted on the same frequency. The first multiplex included ten federal TV channels - Channel One, Russia 1, Russia 2 (later its frequencies were transferred to Match TV), NTV, Channel Five, Russia K, Russia 24, Karusel, freshly baked OTR and TV Center.

Seats in the second multiplex were put up for competition. Dozens of channels fought for the right to be publicly available throughout Russia. As a result, REN TV, STS, Spas, Domashny, TV-3, Friday, Zvezda, Mir, TNT and Muz-TV (now - "YU"). Among the channels that applied but were not included in the multiplex were Russia Today, Dozhd, Pepper, NTV Plus, Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Channels have to pay a lot for the opportunity to be in the multiplex. Initially, it was planned that TV companies would be paid almost a billion rubles each year to RTRS for the construction of the necessary infrastructure and signal maintenance. Subsequently, annual payments were reduced to 150 million, but from 2019, after the full deployment of the second multiplex, the cost of broadcasting in it could again rise to a billion rubles.

For some channels, this amount turned out to be unbearable. So, the Orthodox Spas, which, according to its general director, exists solely on donations from viewers, still cannot pay off RTRS, and, as in July, does not have an agreement with the signal distributor at all.

Before the crisis, the authorities planned to launch a third multiplex, which would also include regional channels, but the idea failed - the idea was recognized as economically unprofitable. As a result, the third multiplex was launched only in the Crimea due to the digital infrastructure inherited by the peninsula from Ukraine.

Who can be left without television?

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications explained to Lente.ru that by 2018, 98.1 percent of the Russian population will be covered by digital broadcasting (ten free channels of the first multiplex by the end of 2016 will be available to 98.3 percent of the country's inhabitants). The remaining 1.9 percent are small settlements or uninhabited areas, as well as settlements of polar explorers. However, wide coverage does not mean that the new television will come to every home, says a top manager of the TV company, who wished to remain anonymous, whose channel is included in one of the multiplexes.

In order to connect to digital TV and watch 20 public TV channels for free, the subscriber's TV must be able to receive a DVB-T2 signal (European standard for digital on-air television second generation - approx. "Tapes.ru"). However, not all TVs, even modern models, are equipped with such a receiver. In the event that the device does not support DVB-T2, the viewer will have to purchase a special set-top box with a receiver, which costs at least a thousand rubles.

Set-top boxes are not expensive, "but judging by the fact that 30 percent of citizens cannot change their old TV for a new one, they probably do not have extra money to buy additional devices," the channel manager suggested.

By the way, in 2012 the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications offered the regions to provide several million low-income citizens with such devices. Whether the authorities plan to help beneficiaries in this is still unknown.

The interlocutor of Lenta.ru claims that not a single TV channel yet has an understanding of how the final transition from “analogue” to “digital” will take place (as well as there is no idea of ​​the real losses that they may incur). A sharp, one-time transition will not happen, he believes: there is a high risk that part of the population will be left without public channels, which may lead to public indignation.