NTV Plus is the brand name for the Russian digital satellite television

Satellite television

Satellite television is television programming delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by an outdoor antenna, usually a parabolic mirror generally referred to as a satellite dish, and as far as household usage is concerned, a satellite receiver either in the form of an...

 service from NTV

NTV Russia

NTV is a Russian television channel. As a subsidiary of Vladimir Gusinsky's company Media-Most, it was a pioneer in the post-Soviet independent television media, but was later taken over by state-owned Gazprom.- History :...

, transmitted from Eutelsat

Eutelsat

Eutelsat S.A. is a French-based satellite provider. Providing coverage over the entire European continent, as well as the Middle East, Africa, India and significant parts of Asia and the Americas, it is one of the world's three leading satellite operators in terms of revenues.Eutelsat’s satellites...

's W4

W Series

The W series satellites are six satellites operated by Eutelsat which provide various coverage and bandwidth options for consumer and business services in Europe, Asia and Africa...

 satellite at 36.0°E & from Bonum 1 at 56.0°E. Previously a part of Vladimir Gusinsky

Vladimir Gusinsky

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky is a Russian media baron, is known as the founder of Media-Most holding that included Most Bank, the NTV channel, the newspaper Segodnya and magazines.-Life and career:Gusinsky was born in Moscow....

's media empire (Media Most holding), now it is included in the Gazprom Media

Gazprom Media

Gazprom-Media is the largest Russian media holding founded in 2000 as a subsidiary of Gazprom. In 2000 it acquired NTV, the only nationwide state-independent television in Russia of the time, as well as other media assets of Vladimir Gusinsky's Media Most group, which raised a major controversy...

 holding.

Milestones

1996 - First broadcasts of NTV-Plus appeared on September 1, 1996

1997 - Since early in the year the channels were broadcast in encoded form.

1998 - On November 22 NTV-Plus started satellite TV broadcasting.

1999 - In February NTV-Plus switched from an analogue to digital broadcasting system allowing the expansion of the number of channels from five to fifty. In December NTV-Plus started re-broadcasting digital channels in two languages.

2000 - On May 25 another Eutelsat-W4 satellite was put into orbit allowing the expansion of the broadcasting area.

2005 - Beginning of Dolby Digital 5.1 broadcasting

2006 - Broadcasting begins in Ukraine territory

2007 - Broadcasting in HDTV

Sport

• NTV Plus Sport
  NTV Plus Sport
  NTV Plus Sport is Russia's first dedicated sports channel. It is a part of the NTV Plus network....
  
  
• NTV Plus Sport+
• NTV Plus Sport Online
• NTV Plus Tennis
• NTV Plus Football
• NTV Plus Our Football
• NTV Plus Football 2
• NTV Plus Basketball
• Eurosport
  Eurosport
  Eurosport is a pan-European television sport network operated by French broadcaster TF1 Group. The network of channels are available in 59 countries, in 20 different languages providing viewers with European and international sporting events...
  
  
• Eurosport 2
  Eurosport 2
  Eurosport 2 is a European sports television network. It is a sister channel to Eurosport and Eurosport News. Several different versions of the channel exist across Europe, where television rights for sport differ.-Launch:...
  
  
• Extreme Sports Channel
  Extreme Sports Channel
  The Extreme Sports Channel is a Netherlands-based extreme sports television channel available across Europe and the Middle East. Al Gosling had the idea for the channel in 1998.-History:...
  
  
• Telekanal Russian Extreme
• Boyets
• Russia 2
• KHL-TV
• Propoker
• Viasat Sport
  Viasat Sport East
  Viasat Sport East is a television channel available in Russia, the CIS countries and the Baltic states. The channel heavily features American sports such as the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball....
  
  

News

• Russia 24
• RBC-TV
  RBC TV
  RBC TV is the first 24-hour business news television channel in Russia. It is owned and operated by the RBC Information Systems...
  
  
• Euronews
  EuroNews
  Euronews is an international multilingual news television channel.It covers world news from what it claims to be a 'European' perspective.Criticisms are that the perspective is in fact that of the European Commission - a major and growing funder of Euronews....
  
  
• Russia Today
  Russia Today
  Russia Today may refer to:* Russia Today, an English language 24-hour television news channel from Russia. It was launched in 2005 and is not related to an online news service of the similar name operated by EIN News...
  
  
• Rusiya Al-Yaum
  Rusiya Al-Yaum
  Rusiya Al-Yaum a Russian TV news channel broadcasting in Arabic and headquartered in Moscow, Russia...
  
  
• RT Español
  Russia Today
  Russia Today may refer to:* Russia Today, an English language 24-hour television news channel from Russia. It was launched in 2005 and is not related to an online news service of the similar name operated by EIN News...
  
  
• BBC World News
• CNN International
  CNN International
  CNN International is an international English language television network that carries news, current affairs, politics, opinions, and business programming worldwide. CNN is one of the world's largest news organizations. It is owned by Time Warner, and is affiliated with CNN, which is mainly...
  
  
• Bloomberg Television
  Bloomberg Television
  Bloomberg Television is a 24-hour global network broadcasting business and financial news. It is distributed globally, reaching over 200 million homes worldwide. It is owned and operated by Bloomberg L.P...
  
  
• Perviy Meteo (MeteoTV)
• France 24
  France 24
  France 24 is an international news and current affairs television channel. The service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to BBC World News, DW-TV, NHK World and RT, and broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world. During 2010 the channel started broadcasting through...
  
  
• Kommersant TV

Movies

• NTV Plus Premiera
• NTV Plus KinoHit
• NTV Plus Kinoklub
• NTV Plus Kino+
• NTV Plus Nashe Kino
• NTV Plus Nashe Novoe Kino
• NTV Plus Kino Soyuz
• Teleklub
• Dom Kino
• Komedia Telekanal
• Telekanal India
• Mnogo TV
• Zone Romantica
  Zone Romantica
  Zone Romantica is a European TV channel that launched in 1998. The channel broadcasts a mixture of telenovelas, music and entertainment from all over the world, but mainly from Latin America. The channel is available 24 hours a day, to 20 territories across Central and Eastern Europe as well as...
  
  
• Diva Universal
• MGM Channel
  MGM (TV channel)
  MGM Channel is a 24-hour global-based network that was launched in 1999 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios that airs movies from MGM's celebrated 4,000-title library - the largest modern film library in the world, including West Side Story, Midnight Cowboy, The Pope of Greenwich Village, The Manchurian...
  
  
• Universal Channel (Russia)
  Universal Channel
  Universal Channel is a television channel specializing in movies and television series in the thriller, drama, comedy, horror, crime and investigation genres, owned by Universal Networks International, a division of NBCUniversal and available on satellite and cable platforms...
  
  
• Syfy Universal
• AXN Sci Fi (Russia)
  AXN Sci Fi
  AXN Sci-Fi is a European movie channel owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment. It is available in Italy, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Kazakhstan and Bulgaria on Sky Italia, Boom TV, Bulsatcom, Cyfra Plus, Cyfrowy Polsat, Digi TV, Dolce, iNES, Max TV and N...
  
  
• SET
• Fox Crime
  Fox Crime
  Fox Crime is a television network, launched by the Fox International Channels, which airs across several countries of Europe and Asia, such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia and Bulgaria...
  
  
• Fox Life
  Fox Life
  Fox Life is a television network, launched by the Fox Broadcasting Company, which airs across Latin America, Europe and Japan . Its basic programming include numerous television series, sitcoms and movies, among others, which includes some original programming in certain regions...
  
  
• Mini Movie
• TV1000
  TV1000 East
  TV1000 East is a movie television channel targeting the Baltic countries, Ukraine, Russia and other Eastern European countries. It is owned by the Swedish media conglomerate Modern Times Group and was launched in 2004. TV1000 East was rebranded in December 2009.- External links :* * *...
  
  
• TV1000 Russkoe Kino
  TV1000 Russkoe Kino
  TV1000 Russkoe Kino is a television channel broadcasting Russian language movies owned by Modern Times Group....
  
  
• TV1000 Action
  TV1000 Action East
  TV1000 Action East is a television channel broadcasting action movies to Russia, Ukraine, CIS countries and the Baltic states. It broadcasts action movies from the United States and Europe...
  
  
• Russkij Illusion
• Illusion +
• Eurokino
• TV XXI

Music

• MTV Russia
  MTV Russia
  MTV Russia is a Russian language free-to-air 24 hour entertainment and music service seen in 22 million households in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Omsk, Voronezh, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg, among other cities.-History:...
  
  
• Muz TV
• Muzika Pervogo
• Telekanal La Minor
• VH1 Europe
  VH1 Europe
  VH1 Europe, also known as VH1 European, is a music television channel from MTV Networks Europe, based on the American Channel of the same name. This version of VH1 is very different from its American counterpart, since it has never ceased to be a proper music channel, playing a wide variety of...
  
  
• VH1 Classic (Europe)
• MTV Hits
• MTV Dance
  MTV Dance
  MTV Dance is a 24-hour dance music channel operated by MTV Networks Europe.The channel is widely available throughout Europe on subscription satellite and digital television services...
  
  
• MTV Rocks
• MCM Top
  MCM
  -Science and technology:* Thousand circular mils or kcmil, the wire gauge is equivalent cross sectional area * Million cubic metre, the unit of volume...
  
  
• Mezzo TV
  Mezzo TV
  Mezzo is a French television channel devoted to classical music , jazz and world music. It was formed in 1992 and was called France Supervision until 1998.Its slogan is 'Écouter, Voir, Oser' ....
  
  
• RU TV
• Bridge TV
• RuSong TV

Kids

• Karusel
  Karusel
  Karusel is a Russian television channel dedicated to children and youth. It is owned by Russian state broadcaster VGTRK and Channel One Russia Worldwide. It is currently available in Russia and in the United States via DirecTV....
  
  
• Detski Mir
• Nickelodeon (Russia)
• Disney Channel (Russia)
  Disney Channel (Russia)
  Disney Channel Russia is a television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company, which began broadcast in Russia and other CIS countries. It replaced Jetix....
  
  
• Cartoon Network (Europe)
  Cartoon Network (Europe)
  Cartoon Network is a pan-European digital television channel created by Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner and dedicated to showing animated programming...
  
  
• JimJam (Russia)
  JimJam
  JimJam is a television children channel which was launched in 2006 in Italy on SKY Italia. In September 2007 was acquired as part of a joint venture partnership between Chellomedia and HIT Entertainment....
  
  
• TiJi
• Gulli
  Gulli
  Gulli is a French television network dedicated to children's programming. It is available through digital terrestrial television "TNT" in partnership with Lagardère Active, and France Télévisions with children's programmes from France 3. Gulli is also known as Cyperbot.-Programmes:Children can...
  
  

Documentary

• Discovery Channel (Russia)
  Discovery Channel
  Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...
  
  
• TLC (Russia)
  TLC (TV channel)
  TLC is an American cable TV specialty channel which initially focused on educational content. Since 1991 TLC has been owned by Discovery Communications, the same company that operates the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and The Science Channel, as well as other learning-themed networks...
  
  
• Discovery Science (Europe/ME)
  Discovery Science Europe/ME
  Discovery Science Europe/ME is a television channel targeting the European countries and the Arab World, focusing on programmes relating science and technology. It is broadcast from Discovery Networks Europe in the United Kingdom using a broadcasting license from Ofcom.It is available from numerous...
  
  
• Discovery World (Europe)
  Discovery World (TV channel)
  Discovery World is a European television network known as Discovery Civilisation from 1999 - 2008. Discovery World offers an experience of the very best factual programming from around the globe. Discovery World showcases a rich and colourful selection of high quality factual programmes from around...
  
  
• Investigation Discovery (Europe)
  Investigation Discovery Europe
  Investigation Discovery is a cable television channel available in several European nations. It competes in the same genre as Crime & Investigation Network which is also available in some European nations such as the UK and Turkey...
  
  
• Animal Planet (Europe)
  Animal Planet
  Animal Planet is an American cable tv specialty channel that launched on October 1, 1996. It is distributed by Discovery Communications. A high-definition simulcast of the channel launched on September 1, 2007.-History:...
  
  
• National Geographic Channel (Russia)
  National Geographic Channel
  National Geographic Channel, also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo, is a subscription television channel that airs non-fiction television programs produced by the National Geographic Society. Like History and the Discovery Channel, the channel features documentaries with factual...
  
  
• Nat Geo Wild (UK)
• Auto Plus
• Interesnoe TV
• 365 Dnei TV
• 24 Dok
• Kto Est' Kto
• Vremya
  Vremya
  Vremya is the state television newscast of the Russian Federation and is shown on Channel One Russia and previously on the First Programme of the Central Television of the USSR...
  
  
• Soversheno Sekretno
• Zakon TV
• Travel Channel
  Travel Channel (UK)
  Travel Channel is a British satellite television channel, transmitting 24 hours a day in 19 languages across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific...
  
  
• Domashnie zhivotnye
• Ocean-TV
• Russian Travel Guide
  Russian Travel Guide
  Russian Travel Guide is international documentary and travel television channel that airs programs covering nature, science, culture, and history of the Russian Federation....
  
  
• My Planet
  My Planet (TV channel)
  My Planet is a state-owned Russian television channel. It belongs to the All-Russia State Television and Radio Company , Russia’s main state television group....
  
  
• Nauka 2.0
• Outdoor Channel
• Chasse et Pêche
  Chasse et Pêche
  Chasse et Pêche is a French television channel dedicated to hunting and fishing.-History of the channel:Created in April 1996 for the AB Sat package, Chasse et Pêche is a channel based around hunting and fishing for sport, and those who enjoy them....
  
  
• Escales
  Escales (TV)
  Escales is a French television channel based around travel and discovering the world. Currently, the TV station is owned by AB Sat SA and has a budget of 24 million euros, 100 % from AB Groupe.-History of the channel:...
  
  
• Viasat Explorer
  Viasat Explorer
  Viasat Explorer is a television channel owned by Modern Times Group showing documentaries about wild animals, extreme sports, adventure, travel and technology. It was launched in January 2002 in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. On November 1, 2003 it expanded into Ukraine, Russia, Kazahstan,...
  
  
• Viasat History
  Viasat History
  Viasat History is a pan Nordic television channel showing documentaries about history, culture and society which is very similar to the History Channel....
  
  
• Viasat Nature
• Da Vinci Learning
  Da Vinci Learning
  Da Vinci Learning, is a knowledge TV channel that can be watched in Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Macedonia and Slovenia. It mostly broadcasts documentaries and instructional TV programmes. Subjects of programmes vary from history and sociology to biology and physics....
  
  
• RT Documentary
  RT Documentary
  RT Documentary is an English-language documentary channel about Russia. The television channel was launched on 23 June 2011 by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. It deals with a wide variety of topics including Russian culture and life in Russia...
  
  

Variety

• Perviy Kanal
• Russia 1
• NTV
• Petersburg - Channel 5
  Petersburg - Channel 5
  Petersburg - Channel 5 is a television channel based in St. Petersburg, Russia, also known simply as Channel 5. Director General: Alexey Brodskiy, Producer General: Ljubov Sovershaeva...
  
  
• Russia K
• TV Centr
  TV Center
  TV Center is a state-run Russia TV station with the fourth largest coverage area in Russia, after Channel One, Rossiya and NTV. It is owned by the administration of the city of Moscow and is dedicated to programming that highlights various aspects of Moscow life.The channel is broadcast in the...
  
  
• STS
  STS (Russia)
  CTC is a commercial television station based in Moscow, Russia. It belongs to the CTC Media, a Delaware-registered, Moscow-based NASDAQ-traded company with a market capitalization exceeding US$4 billion...
  
  
• TNT
  TNT (Russia)
  TNT is a Russian brand name of TNT-Broadcasting Network, one of Russia’s top five television networks. It reaches over 100 million people throughout Russia offering a light entertainment aimed at a younger audience from age 16 through age 30.Thanks to its blend of innovative reality programmes and...
  
  
• REN TV
• Telekanal Domashny
  Domashny
  Domashny or Domashniy is a TV Network which targets female viewers aged 25–60. It was launched in March 2005. Domashny was aimed to deliver programming to capture an attractive audience in demand by advertisers, but traditionally under-served by broadcasters.CTC Media created the Domashny brand in...
  
  
• Peretz
• Telekanal Zvezda
  Zvezda (TV channel)
  Zvezda is a Russian nationwide TV network run by the Russian Ministry of Defense. As of January 2008, Zvezda's CEO was Grigory Krichevsky, previously known for his work on Vladimir Gusinsky's NTV Channel in the late 1990s....
  
  
• 7TV
  7TV Russia
  Semyorka, or Seven is a Russian federal television channel, broadcast under the UTH Russia television network from Moscow, Russia. The channel was officially founded in year 1997 and on 17 September 2001 it was registered as the national level television channel.Channel broadcasts wide variety of...
  
  
• 3 Kanal Moskovia
• Dozhd
• Tatarstan - New era
• TV5MONDE Europe
  TV5MONDE
  TV5MONDE is a global television network, broadcasting several channels of French language programming. It is an approved participant member of the European Broadcasting Union.-History:...
  
  
• Zone Reality
  Zone Reality
  Zone Reality is a European reality television channel.Zone Reality broadcasts in both analogue and digital to over 120 million viewers throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America....
  
  
• TDK
• CCTV 4
• Amazing Life
• Spas
• Mir
• Park Razvlicenii
• Kukhnia TV
• NTV Plus Infokanal
• CCTV News
  CCTV News
  CCTV News may refer to:* CCTV News, the news department itself, of China Central Television* CCTV News , a Chinese language news channel* CCTV NEWS, formerly CCTV-9, an English language news channel...
  
  
• Nostalgia
• Fashion TV Russia & Eastern Europe
  Fashion TV
  Fashion TV is an international fashion and lifestyle broadcasting television channel. It was founded in France in 1997 by its Polish-born president Michel Adam Lisowski, Fashion TV is the only 24/7 international TV network exclusively dedicated to fashion, beauty, glamour and style and has become...
  
  
• Bulvar TV
• Comedy TV
• MAN TV
• Egoist TV
• CCTV Russian
  CCTV International Russian
  CCTV International Russian is a Russian language international news, entertainment, and education television channel which is owned by China Central Television.- Launch :The Russian language channel was launched on September 10, 2009 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the...
  
  
• Telecafe
• Lider TV
  Lider TV
  Lider TV, is a private television channel in Azerbaijan. It was founded on 1 September 2000 by Media Ltd....
  
  

Pay-Per-View

• Kinoreys 1
• Kinoreys 2
• Kinoreys 3
• Kinoreys 4
• Kinoreys 5

HD

• HD Sport
• Eurosport HD
  Eurosport HD
  On 25 May 2008, a HD simulcast version of the main channel launched - the first event covered in HD being the 2008 French Open at Roland Garros.-Launch:...
  
  
• Discovery HD Showcase
• Animal Planet HD
• HD Kino
• HD Life
• MTVNHD
  MTVNHD
  MTV Live HD is an international 24-hour HD music and entertainment television network that is operated by Viacom International Media Networks' subsidiary MTV Networks Poland...
  
  
• Nat Geo Wild HD
• Mezzo Live HD
  Mezzo TV
  Mezzo is a French television channel devoted to classical music , jazz and world music. It was formed in 1992 and was called France Supervision until 1998.Its slogan is 'Écouter, Voir, Oser' ....
  
  
• NTV Plus 3D by Panasonic
• NTV Plus Football
• Nickelodeon HD

Ukraine Only

• Perviy Kanal Ukraiinia
• RTR Planeta
  RTR Planeta
  RTR-Planeta is the international service of VGTRK, a state-owned broadcaster in Russia. It is available throughout the world via cable and satellite. In fact, RTR Planeta is the only provider of Russian-language programming to the Asia-Pacific region covered by the AsiaSat2 Satellite...
  
  
• NTN
• ICTV
  ICTV (Ukraine)
  ICTV is a privately-held TV channel in Ukraine. Its coverage area allows it to be received by 56.6 % of the Ukrainian population, making the channel the fourth in the nation in terms of coverage , and third by the viewers' ratings.The channel is owned by...
  
  
• NTV Mir

High-definition television (HDTV)

Starting from 2007, NTV Plus offers high-definition television

High-definition television

High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...

 (HDTV) programming. The following channels are offered: HD Kino (cinema), HD Sport (sports), HD Life (nature & travel), Eurosport HD

Eurosport HD

On 25 May 2008, a HD simulcast version of the main channel launched - the first event covered in HD being the 2008 French Open at Roland Garros.-Launch:...

, Discovery HD

Discovery HD

Discovery HD is the international name of the high-definition television channels from Discovery Communications.The international Discovery HD first launched in Korea on February 2005 as a programming block...

, MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

/Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (TV channel)

Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...

 HD, National Geographics HD (nature), Mezzo Live HD (classical and jazz music).

The content is either produced by NTV Plus itself or received from foreign partners. The programming is delivered in 1080i25

1080i

1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels...

 format using H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 or AVC is a standard for video compression, and is currently one of the most commonly used formats for the recording, compression, and distribution of high definition video...

 codec with 10 Mbit/s data rate. NTV Plus has contracted with France's Thomson

Thomson SA

Technicolor SA , formerly Thomson SA and Thomson Multimedia, is a French international provider of solutions for the creation, management, post-production, delivery and access of video, for the Communication, Media and Entertainment industries. Technicolor’s headquarters are located in Issy les...

to manufacture the receivers that accept signal encoded in MPEG-4.

External links

• Official Site
• NTV Plus Ukraine