TVS (Russia)

TVS
ТВС
CountryRussia
Broadcast areaRussia
HeadquartersMoscow, Russia
Programming
Picture formatSECAM (576i 4:3) (SDTV)
Ownership
OwnerMedia-Sotsium Partnership
History
Launched1 June 2002; 22 years ago (2002-06-01)
ReplacedTV-6, NTV Plus Sport
Closed22 June 2003; 21 years ago (2003-06-22)
Replaced bySport
Links
Websitehttp://tvs.tv/ (Defunct)
Availability
Terrestrial
Terrestrial6
TVS channel advertisement, Prospekt Mira (Sukharevskaja)

TVS Television (Russian: Телекомпания ТВС) was a private Russian television network which was shut down by the Press Ministry of Russia on June 22, 2003.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Last 'Independent' TV Station Shut Down". Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press. 23 July 2003. Translation of Where The End Began For TVS. Kommersant, June 23, 2003, p. 4. Media-Sotsium was a nonprofit partnership, founded by Arkady Volsky, president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and Yevgeny Primakov, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
  2. ^ Zolotov Jr., Andrei (31 May 2002). "TV6 Team Goes Back on the Air Saturday". The Moscow Times.