The Moscow Programme (Московская программа ЦТ) was a television channel in the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. It had a political focus and discussed events in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

. Now it is a television station broadcast by the Moscow City Government named TV Centre.

History

The Moscow Programme was established in March 1965, as Programme Three, with a focus on educational programming. It broadcast from the Shabolovka television building in

. As part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the

October Revolution The October Revolution,. officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. in the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment ...

in 1967, the new television headquarters was established at Ostankino in

. At this point, all central television programmes in the USSR emanated from there. In 1982 Programme Three was renamed Moscow Programme, following Programme 2's upgrading as a national channel. Moscow-centric programming, previously aired on Programme 2 was transferred to Programme 3. The Moscow Programme transmitted its channel over the

SECAM SECAM, also written SÉCAM (, ''Séquentiel de couleur à mémoire'', French for ''color sequential with memory''), is an analog color television system that was used in France, some parts of Europe and Africa, and Russia. It was one of th ...

D/K band. In the 1980s it also expanded via the

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satellite across much of Europe and Asia. When the Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991, the Moscow Television Company (, MTK) took over operations of this channel. It aired programmes from 2x2 in the evening. This channel was replaced by TV Centre in 1997.

History

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