Channel One – Most Popular Television Channel in Russia

Channel One Russia is the leader of the national television broadcasting. The channel has the greatest audience reach in Russia (98.8% of the population), its programs are watched by more than 140 million people. Channel One is one of the oldest television channels of the country, being second in age only the Saint Petersburg Channel 5. Since 2002 international broadcasting has been made. Today the Channel One. International Network company broadcasting covers all the world.

REN TV– One of the Largest National Private Channels

The REN TV channel network comprises 1137 independent air and cable companies in Russia, CIS and Baltic countries. The potential audience of the channel amounts more than 120 million viewers. Every day REN TV is viewed by 15 million peopleacross Russia in general, which is about 22% of the country's total population aged 4 and older.

By the end of 2016 REN TV became the leader in the increase in the audience of the "all 25-54" category. In 2016, the website of REN TV became one of the most cited in the Russian market, and its traffic reached 2 million of unique visitors per day.

CTC Media

CTC Media runs five Russian television channels: CTC, Domashniy, Che, CTC Love and CTC Kids, Channel 31 in Kazakhstan, and the international version of the channel Peretz.

The international version of CTC is available in the CIS countries, the Baltic States, and European countries, in North America, Georgia, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Mongolia, and Australia.

The international versions of Domashniy and Peretz are available in the CIS countries and Europe, the Baltic States, in North America, Georgia, Mongolia, and Australia.

In addition to television channels, CTC Media also owns a number of entertainment digital media assets: videomore.ru, ctc.ru, domashniy.ru, chetv.ru, ctclove.ru, and Caramba TV. The company holds all rights over the Kid-E-Cats brand.

Channel 5 – One of the Largest National Private Channels

The rich history of Channel 5 and its impeccable reputation ensure high viewers credit and form a multimillion-people loyal audience.

The channel broadcasts in 1,292 settlements with air analogue transmission at its own frequencies and covers more than 93 thousand people. Channel 5 has a stable fourth position in the federal television channels rating of the all +18 category.

Channel "78"

Channel "78" is the main city channel in Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Region forming part of Multimedia Information Center "Izvestia". The Channel began regular broadcasting on September 1, 2017.

During the establishment of Channel 78, all features and needs of the target audience were taken into account, this is why the Channel broadcasts a wide range of programs related to sports, social and political issues and entertainment. Channel 78 is a tool of influence creating a comfortable city environment which attracts loyal and active viewers.

Integration of Saint Petersburg city channel “78” into the structure of MIC “Izvestia” is a natural part of the process for expanding TV coverage of MIC “Izvestia” in the Northwestern Federal District and creation of the largest TV production cluster with a center in Saint Petersburg within the scope of NMG's media assets.

Viasat Russia is the largest player on the national subscription television market

Viasat Group is one of the three largest players on the Russian subscription television market in terms of the number of TV channels and the share of viewing among non-terrestrial channels.

In Russia and the CIS countries, the company owns 15 popular premium channels, including channels broadcasting films, entertainment programs, documentaries and sports, such as TV1000, TV1000 Action, TV1000 Russkoe Kino, Viasat Explorre, Viasat History, Viasat Nature, etc.

The channel TV1000 Russkoe Kino is the leader among all premium channels in Russia. It has the largest audience in the country. In terms of cumulative reach, top 25 premium channels in Russia also include TV1000, TV1000 Action, Viasat History, and Viasat Explore.

The company has a right to broadcast film premieres from the leading studios, such as Twentieth Century Fox, Sony Pictures Television, MGM and NBCUniversal, almost immediately after their release. In 2017 the company began to broadcast the latest Hollywood and European TV series simultaneously with the whole world.

Media Alliance Company – Leader of the Russian Subscription Television Market

The largest media company in the subscription television segment in Russia

Media Alliance company was founded in October, 2015 by National Media Group and Discovery Communications. The company's portfolio includes the worldwide brands of Discovery Networks family: educational and entertainment television Discovery Channel, women's interest channels TLC and ID Investigation Discovery, animal science channel Animal Planet, science channel Discovery Science, men's interest channel DTX and sports television channels Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2 and EurosportGold. Media Alliance possesses television channels of the Turner family: children's television channels CartoonNetworkandBoomerang and news television channel CNN.

In 2016 four television channels became leaders in their categories in the Russian subscription television segment. Within the framework of the BolshayaTsifra award Eurosport 1 was awarded as the best sports channel and Discovery Channel – as the best documentary-educational channel. TLC channel became the leader among the women's interest channels according to the ZolotoyLuch award. The leading Russian animal science channel Animal Planet has a 1.5 bigger share and daily audience reach than the competitors in the category "All in 18-54".

The content of the highest quality and effective programming enable the channels of the Media Alliance portfolio find unique niches and attract unique loyal audiences.

Sony Pictures Television Networks

Sony Pictures Television Networks is one of the world’s leading television networks. It is a division of Sony Pictures Television Inc., a Sony Pictures Entertainment company. The portfolio of SPT Networks includes over 150 entertainment channels broadcasting in 178 countries worldwide and reaching over 2 billion viewers around the world.

The company's channels offer high-quality television content from Sony Pictures and third-party distributors, as well as original content commissioned globally and locally.

In Russia and the CIS, the company operates three channels: Sony Sci-Fi, Sony Entertainment Television and Sony Turbo.

Sony Sci-Fi was launched in Russia in 2007 (until 2013 it was known as AXN-Sci-Fi). It is focused on sci-fi, fantasy, supernatural and adventure fiction.

Sony Entertainment Television was launched in Russia in 2009 and is targeted at the female audience.

Sony Turbo was launched in Russia in 2012 and is targeted at the male audience.

MIC "Izvestia" is the first private multimedia information center in Russia.

MIC Izvestia is the first multimedia information center in Russia, which has united the editorial and technologic capabilities of the news services of REN TV channel and Channel Five, and Izvestia newspaper. MIC Izvestia is a multi-purpose platform for generating multi-format information content (TV, print, online).

The Center also runs a brand new Internet portal called IZ.ru allowing for both twenty-four-hour news TV broadcasting and socio-political publishing. The editorial team works in an innovativeformat, and simultaneously broadcasts in several formats, including news, video, photo, and analytics.

Users can see the hottest news in the crawl line, and enjoya number of modern visualization tools,such as 3D infographics with location-based maps, photo and video elements. The 360-degree camera provides for the participation effect. The portal has many state-of-the-art interactive features, such as auto-attendant and text-to-speech.

The Izvestia Newspaper – One of the Oldest Printed Publications in Russia

The Izvestia newspaper goes back to 1917 and by right is thought to be one of the oldest publications in Russia. Being released five times per week from Monday to Friday, the newspaper attracts attention of the reader audience of more than 450 thousand people. The Izvestia is an important source of business and political news. The newspapers covers events of politics, economics, business, cultural and sport life in Russia and abroad. By the end of 2016 the Izvestia newspaper became second in the rating of the most cited newspapers, while the website izvestia.ru became the most cited website of those of daily business publications, whose number of unique visitors reached 540 thousand people per day.

The Sport Eхpress – Popular DailyNewspaper about Sports

The newspaper was founded in 1991. It is released by the publishing house Sport-Express which also includes a specialized internet portal and a mobile application. The publication is spread in more than 309 cities of Russia and near abroad and is released six times a week.

The Sport Express has a circulation of 220 thousand, the audience of an issue is more than 324 thousand readers.

Sport-express.ruhas 1 mln visitors per day and over 9 mln visitors per month. Sport-Express is the leading most cited sport internet resource in Russia. Since 2001 it is a member of European Sports Media.

The Metro Peterburg– Saint Petersburg's Main Print Media

The Metro Peterburg newspaper is the most popular printed publication of the "north capital", its half year audience amounts 2.8 million people, that is 63% of the Saint Petersburg's population. The newspaper has a daily circulation of 270 thousand. 80% of the circulation are spread free of charge at 63 underground stations during the most intensive passenger traffic. The audience of Metro Peterburg is different in quality from the competitors.

The paper is read every day by more than 700 thousand men and women of the age of 20-54 with high or middle level education. Every day the paper publishes news of Saint Petersburg, Russia, the world, as well as economic and sports news. In 2016 the newspaper acted as a news partner of more than 20 city events, interesting for the target audience of the paper – young and active residents of Saint Petersburg.

ArtPicturesVision – Leading Producer of TV-films and series in Russia

Art Pictures is a Russian major company that functions in domestic and international film and series production markets.

Art Pictures was created in 2012 by the founders of the Art Pictures Group. The debut projects of the company were an eight-series television film “Dog's work” and the series “One, Two! Love you”. In 2013, a large-scale 40-series film about hockey “Youth League” was launchedon television screens of the country.

In 2016 seasons two and three of “Survive after” were released on STS channel. The series was given positive reviews from the viewers and received a 8.5 rating according to KinoPoisk. In May 2016, a comedy series“Fugitive Relatives” from Art Pictures Vision premiered.

Art Pictures Distribution

Art Pictures Distribution is a Russian company for conducting the processes of procurement and monetization of rights portfolio in the interests of CTC holding and National Media Group with the potential to expand for the external customers.
Art Pictures Distribution was established in 2017. Share ownership: National Media Group CJSC owns 51%, CTC Media JSC owns 49%.

“Industry” ― film and television school by Russian film market leaders

“Industria” film and television school is a joint project implemented by National Media Group, Fedor Bondarchuk and the filmcompany “Vodorod”, aimed at bringing up a new generation of creative professionals for the Russian film industry.

Two-year programs on screen writing and camerawork, as well as film direction are available to students of the school. “Industry” is different from other filmschools mainly due to its educational system which is unique in Russia: the best professionals in the film industry,the most successful and gifted Russian cinematographers will provide practical training, sharing their knowledge and expertise with students.

After graduation students will have an extensive internship program. Talented students will have an opportunity to study using student grants provided by partners of the school.

AmberData is Russia's leading technological data management platform.

AmberData is a high-tech platform for managing anonymized user data from the Internet. The platform enables the aggregation and segmenting user data based on social and demographic characteristics, interests, history of online shopping and other parameters. These segments are used for in-depth analysis, and deeper comprehension of the audience's behavior.

AmberData boosts the monetizing efficacyof the content and platforms according to both advertising and transactional models. Today, the Company's technologies are used for analyzing the Internet audiences of REN TV, Channel Five, sport-express.ru, izvestia.ru, in the segments of IPTV subscription television and online video.

National Advertising Alliance

National Advertising Alliance was created in 2016 and was initiated by largest Russian media holdings to sell television advertising.

The goal of NAA is creation and development of a single trading platform whichprotects the interests of the television industry and provides the balance of interests of advertisers and broadcasters in dynamically changing advertising market conditions. Today NAA controls more than 95% of television advertising in the country.

National Media Group is one of the founders of National Advertising Alliance alongside Channel One, VGTRK and Gazprom-Media Holding. Every media holding possesses a 25% share in the company.

Director General of National Advertising Alliance is Sergey Vasilyev. The Board of directors also includes representatives of the founders – Director General of National Media Group Olga Paskina, Director General of Channel One Konstantin Ernst, Director General of VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeyev, Director General of Gazprom-Media Holding Dmitriy Chernyshenko.

Everest sales agency

The ad sales agency LLC EVEREST implements special projects of the following six Russian TV channels: CTC, Domashniy, Che, CTC Love, and starting from March 2017 - REN TV and Channel 5, and supports their programs. Besides, the agency manages sales of online resources such as videomore.ru, domashniy.ru, ctc.ru, chetv.ru, ctclove.ru, ren.tv, and 5-tv.ru, as well as sales on Channel 31 in Kazakhstan.

Media Business Solutions

Media Business Solutions is a service company providing back office services for National Media Group (TV channels such as REN TV and Channel 5) and CTC Media.