From USA Today:
"CNN to end broadcasts on Russian cable and satellite TV"
CNN will not be seen on channels in Russia beginning next year, Turner Broadcasting said Monday.
"Turner International is assessing its distribution options for CNN in Russia in light of recent changes in Russian media legislation," the company said in a written statement. "We are bringing our existing distribution relationships to an end while we do that. "We hope to re-enter the market in due course, and will notify our partners of any update about resuming these services." The network's news operation in Moscow is unaffected, the statement said. Cable distributors were notified in a letter from Turner Broadcast System Europe Ltd., a division of Time Warner, according to the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS. The letter did not spell out a reason for the move. The move comes at a time of strain between the United States and Russia over the Russian military involvement in Ukraine. Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia who is a professor at Stanford University, commented on the news by tweeting: "Shocking & sad. Can one really recreate USSR in 21st century?" The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was dissolved in 1991. "I remember the day when you could first watch CNN in the USSR," he said in another tweet. "Now the clocks turn backward. So short-sided & anti-modern & sign of fear." CNN began broadcasting on Russia's over-the-air Channel 24 in the early 1990s during the early Glasnost period, when Soviet-style controls were eased under then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Since then, CNN broadcasts have been distributed largely over cable and satellite networks and through pay-TV operators. Vedomosti said that in 2009, Roskomnadzor, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, began more tightly scrutinizing foreign stations operating in Russia and requiring them to get a local broadcasting license within six months. In a further tightening, Russian media law was amended in 2010 to cap foreign participation in a broadcasting operation to 50%. In 2014, the ceiling was dropped to 20%.
^ First they get rid of the McDonalds and now CNN. The noose is tightening. ^
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/11/10/cnn-russia-broadcasting-stopped-cable-satellite/18808587/
"CNN to end broadcasts on Russian cable and satellite TV"
CNN will not be seen on channels in Russia beginning next year, Turner Broadcasting said Monday.
"Turner International is assessing its distribution options for CNN in Russia in light of recent changes in Russian media legislation," the company said in a written statement. "We are bringing our existing distribution relationships to an end while we do that. "We hope to re-enter the market in due course, and will notify our partners of any update about resuming these services." The network's news operation in Moscow is unaffected, the statement said. Cable distributors were notified in a letter from Turner Broadcast System Europe Ltd., a division of Time Warner, according to the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS. The letter did not spell out a reason for the move. The move comes at a time of strain between the United States and Russia over the Russian military involvement in Ukraine. Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia who is a professor at Stanford University, commented on the news by tweeting: "Shocking & sad. Can one really recreate USSR in 21st century?" The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was dissolved in 1991. "I remember the day when you could first watch CNN in the USSR," he said in another tweet. "Now the clocks turn backward. So short-sided & anti-modern & sign of fear." CNN began broadcasting on Russia's over-the-air Channel 24 in the early 1990s during the early Glasnost period, when Soviet-style controls were eased under then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Since then, CNN broadcasts have been distributed largely over cable and satellite networks and through pay-TV operators. Vedomosti said that in 2009, Roskomnadzor, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, began more tightly scrutinizing foreign stations operating in Russia and requiring them to get a local broadcasting license within six months. In a further tightening, Russian media law was amended in 2010 to cap foreign participation in a broadcasting operation to 50%. In 2014, the ceiling was dropped to 20%.
^ First they get rid of the McDonalds and now CNN. The noose is tightening. ^
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/11/10/cnn-russia-broadcasting-stopped-cable-satellite/18808587/
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