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TV Centre (Russia)

TV Centre (Russian: ТВ Центр, romanizedTV Tsentr; formerly abbreviated as ТВЦTVC or ТВЦ-Москва, TVC-Moskva - "TVC Moscow") is a Russian public television station with the Fifth largest coverage area in Russia, after 5TV, Channel One, Russia-1 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 airs across Russian territory.

The channel began broadcasting on June 9, 1997. Yulia Bystritskaya [ru] has been the channel's general director since October 29, 2012.

As of 2020, TV Centre was among the top ten TV channels in Russia. The channel had an average daily audience share of 361 000 viewers.

On June 3, 2022, the international version of TV Centre was disconnected from broadcasting in the European Union due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

On January 15, 1997, the Moscow Government established the OJSC "TV Centre". While the Moskomimushchestvo and OJSC "Moscow Committee of Science and Technology [ru]" were the channel's organizational founders, the Moscow Government held its controlling ownership interest, owning 67% of the channel's shares.

On June 9, 1997, TV Centre began broadcasting from the Ostankino Tower on the basis of the two channels, 2x2 and Moscow Television Channel. Together with Moscovia TV channel [ru], TV Centre was broadcasting on the same frequency. In the first two years of broadcasting, along with the cable channel TV Centre-Stolitsa [ru] and satellite channel Meteor, the channel operated as a part of "TV Centre" broadcasting consortium of terrestrial, cable, and satellite television.

Boris Vishnyak was appointed as the TV Centre's general director, Stanislav Arkhipov became the channel's producer. Sergey Cheskidov headed the editorial board of sports programs.

The channel first broadcast only in Moscow, Moscow Region, and Ryazan. In January 1998, TV Centre started broadcasting in Saint Petersburg as well. A year later, in 1999, the channel was present in 36 out of 89 Russian regions, thus covering around 33% of the Russian territory.

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