REN TV

REN TV
Logo since 2017
CountryRussia
Broadcast areaRussia
CIS nations
Headquarters17/1 Zubovsky Boulevard, Moscow, Russia
Programming
Language(s)Russian
Picture format1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner100% — National Media Group
History
Launched19 July 1993
Former namesNVS (1993-1997)
M-49 (1994-1997)
REN TV-HBC (1997-1998)
REN (2010)
Links
Websiteren.tv
Availability
Terrestrial
VHFChannel 9 (nationwide)
Digital11
Streaming media
Smotrimsmotrim.ru/channel/256 (Russia only)

REN TV (Russian: РЕН ТВ) is a Russian free-to-air television network. It was founded on 1 January 1997 by Irena Lesnevskaya and her son, Dmitry Lesnevsky, who had been running REN TV as a production house for other national Russian television channels. Though it focuses mostly on audiences aged between 18 and 45 years old, the network offers programming for a wide range of demographics.

REN TV's network is a patchwork of 406 independent broadcasting companies in Russia and the CIS. REN TV's signal is received in 718 towns and cities in Russia - from Kaliningrad in the West to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in the East. It has a potential audience of 113.5 million viewers (officially 120 million viewers[1] with more than 12 million of them living in Moscow city and Moscow Oblast (Moscow Region). REN TV works with 10 broadcaster affiliates and 19 cable operators in the CIS and the Baltic states; 181 cities can receive REN TV's signal.