RT (TV network)

"Russia Today" redirects here. Not to be confused with Rossiya Segodnya or Russian Federation Today.
"ANO TV-Novosti" redirects here. Not to be confused with RIA Novosti.
"RTTV" redirects here. Not to be confused with RTVI or RTV.

RT
TypeState media,[1]
news channel,
propaganda[2]
CountryRussia
Broadcast areaWorldwide
HeadquartersBorovaya Street, Building 3/1, Moscow, Russia
Programming
Language(s)News channel:
English, French, German, Arabic & Spanish
Documentary channel:
English, Russian
Online platforms:
Portuguese (Brazil) & Serbian.
Picture format1080i (HDTV)
(downscaled to 16:9 480i/576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
OwnerANO "TV-Novosti"[3]
Sister channels
History
Founded6 April 2005; 19 years ago
Launched10 December 2005; 18 years ago (2005-12-10) (registered on 6 April 2005)[7]
Former namesRussia Today (2005–2009)
Links
Webcasthttps://swentr.site/on-air/
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

RT, formerly Russia Today (Russian: Россия Сегодня, romanized: Rossiya Segodnya),[8] is a Russian state-controlled[1] international news television network funded by the Russian government.[15][16] It operates pay television and free-to-air channels directed to audiences outside of Russia, as well as providing Internet content in Russian, English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Portuguese and Serbian.

RT is a brand of TV-Novosti - self-named an "autonomous non-profit organization" (ANO) - founded by the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti in April 2005.[7][17] During the economic crisis in December 2008, the Russian government, headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, included ANO "TV-Novosti" on its list of core organizations of strategic importance to Russia.[18][19][20] RT operates as a multilingual service with channels in five languages: the original English-language channel was launched in 2005, the Arabic-language channel in 2007, Spanish in 2009, German in 2014 and French in 2017. RT America (2010–2022),[21][22] RT UK (2014–2022) and other regional channels also produce local content. RT is the parent company of the Ruptly video agency,[4] which owns the Redfish video channel and the Maffick digital media company.[5][6]

RT has regularly been described as a major propaganda outlet for the Russian government and its foreign policy.[2] Academics, fact-checkers, and news reporters (including some current and former RT reporters) have identified RT as a purveyor of disinformation[57] and conspiracy theories.[64] UK media regulator Ofcom has repeatedly found RT to have breached its rules on impartiality, including multiple instances in which RT broadcast "materially misleading" content.[71]

In 2012, RT's editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan compared the channel to the Russian Ministry of Defence.[72] Referring to the Russo-Georgian War, she stated that it was "waging an information war, and with the entire Western world".[16][73] In September 2017, RT America was ordered to register as a foreign agent with the United States Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.[74]

RT was banned in Ukraine in 2014 after Russia's annexation of Crimea;[75] Latvia and Lithuania implemented similar bans in 2020.[76][77] Germany banned RT DE in February 2022.[78] During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Union and Canada formally banned RT and independent service providers in over 10 countries suspended broadcasts of RT.[79][80][81] Social media websites followed by blocking external links to RT's website and restricting access to RT's content.[82][83] Microsoft removed RT from their app store and de-ranked their search results on Bing,[84][85] while Apple removed the RT app from all countries except for Russia.[86] However, RT content continues to be laundered through third-party sites.[87]

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