RT America was a

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-based news channel headquartered in

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Owned by TV Novosti and operated by

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T&RProductions, it was a part of the RT network, a global multilingual television news network based in Moscow and funded by the

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. The channel said it reached an audience of 85 million people in the United States, but this figure is disputed. It was distributed through select cable providers, over-the-top services, a live stream through its website, and three low-power digital subchannels. Since the channel's closure, viewers who tune into the cable channel or their live stream are being shown a live feed of an RT International broadcast instead. Among the channel's shows at its closure were '' Dennis Miller + One'' with

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, ''

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'' with

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and ''

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'' with

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. Other shows included ''News with Ed Schultz'' (2016–2018) and ''

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'' (2012–2020). Additional personalities included

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Stacy Herbert Timothy Maxwell Keiser (born January 23, 1960) is an American-Salvadoran broadcaster and film maker. He hosted ''Keiser Report'', a financial program broadcast on RT (TV network), RT that featured heterodox economics theories. Until November 201 ...

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Sean Stone Sean Christopher Stone (December 29, 1984) is an American actor, filmmaker, and television host. Stone hosted a show on the Russian state-funded network RT America until the network was shut down in 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Bi ...

, Lee Camp,

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and

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. Incidents centered upon RT America include ''Breaking the Set'' host

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's 2014 statement of her opposition to Russia's intervention in Ukraine, which was followed the next day by anchor

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's on-the-air resignation, which she issued on account of her belief that RT was a propaganda machine for President Vladimir Putin. In 2017, David Z. Morris wrote in ''

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'' that, "according to a unnamedsocial network analyst interviewed by ''The ew YorkTimes'', RT is not simply a platform for a right-wing agenda. Rather, it fuels fringe viewpoints across the political spectrum, providing grist for libertarian, far-left, and anti-globalization factions as well."

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wrote in ''

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'' that the channel was "not a 'news service' in any meaningful sense of the term". After losing the majority of its cable and satellite coverage following the

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, the channel ceased operations of all live programming on March 3, 2022, with T&R Productions indicating the layoffs of all off- and on-air staff would be permanent.

History

The channel was launched in the United States in February 2010 as RT was looking to increase its reach. It was launched along with

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in 2007, the Spanish-language channel RT Actualidad in 2009, and the RT Documentary channel in 2011.Nikolaus von Twickel
"Russia Today courts viewers with controversy"
''

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'', March 23, 2010. In October 2017, after the

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insisted that RT America register as a "foreign agent" under the

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(FARA), the Russian Justice Ministry declared "foreign agents" several U.S.-government funded media outlets, including the

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and

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.''U.S. Congressional Press Office Strips RT Of Credentials.''
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/ref> RT America's editor in chief,

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Termination

The network was removed from the services offered by

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on March 1, 2022, following

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, with Ora Media pausing production on several shows it produced for RT America.

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dropped the channel on March 4. After losing the majority of its cable and satellite coverage, the channel ceased operations of all live programming on March 3, 2022, with T&R Productions indicating the layoffs of all off- and on-air staff would be permanent. On August 9, 2024 the broadcast and other equipment from the RT studio in Washington DC would be auctioned off.

Views and opinions

A 2017 report by the

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characterized RT as "the Kremlin's principal international propaganda outlet" and said that RT America had been set up as an autonomous nonprofit organization to avoid the Foreign Agent Registration Act's registration requirement. According to David Z. Morris, writing in ''

'' magazine in 2017, "in its early years, RT provided a platform for various fringe or simply false narratives in American public discourse," with guests on the network "arguing that the

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were a

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conspiracy and that Osama bin Laden's death was faked." According to him, "RT America has been more likely to highlight legitimate but marginalized political perspectives, and further blurs the line between propaganda and commentary by employing respected U.S. journalists such as

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, and

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." He also added that during the

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campaign, RT published conspiracy theories about the

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to undermine the Hillary Clinton campaign. Some of these gained traction on social media and were distributed around the internet. In their investigation of alleged Russian meddling in the U.S. 2016 elections, the U.S. intelligence services stated that they had "high confidence" that RT was involved in a campaign ordered by President

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. ''

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'' reported their findings in 2017 indicating that "the attack was carried out through the targeted use of real information, some open and some hacked, and the creation of false reports, or 'fake news,' broadcast on state-funded news media like RT and its sibling."

wrote in ''

'' in September 2017 that "RT is not a 'news service' in any meaningful sense of the term. Reputable news services don't employ Illuminati correspondents. RT has no regard whatsoever for basic journalistic values like objectivity or the pursuit of truth." Kirchick was a guest in August 2013 to talk about

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, and used the opportunity to "speak out against the horrific anti-gay legislation" which had recently been approved by President Putin. The clip went viral on social media.

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of ''The New York Times'' wrote about the network's coverage of 5G, the mobile phone technology. Broad said the network aired seven programs in 2019 on the subject up to mid-April that year. One of these, entitled ''A Dangerous 'Experiment on Humanity'', Broad commented, linked 5G "signals to brain cancer, infertility, autism, heart tumors and Alzheimer's disease — claims that lack scientific support". According to Broad, the channel focused on ''

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: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe'', a 2016 film by the British anti-vaccine campaigner

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, to echo the charge by an unnamed black minister in Los Angeles who was seen in a video addressing an audience and, according to Broad, saying that "childhood immunizations had caused autism in 200,000 black children." Domestically, in Russia, Putin is a firm advocate of vaccinations. An

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study interviewing 23 of RT's journalists wrote that RT hired journalists with little or no experience in order "to be able to mold the newly hired journalists and shape their minds". Rachel Blevins, co-host of the business-finance show ''BoomBu$t'', was recruited from college and while working for fringe websites and radio networks.

Former programming

* ''

'' (2009–2022) * ''

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'' (2009–2022) * '' The Alyona Show'' (2009–2012) * ''The Big Picture with

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'' (2010–2017) * ''

'' (2012–2020) (produced by

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) * '' Breaking the Set'' (2012–2015) * ''

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'' (2013–2020) (produced by Ora TV) * '' Worlds Apart'' (2013–2022) * ''Boom Bust with

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'' (2013–2022) * ''Going Underground with

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'' (2013–2022) * ''

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'' (2014–2022) * ''America's Lawyer with

'' (2016–2022) * ''On Contact with

'' (2016–2022) * ''News with Ed Schultz'' (2016–2018) * ''

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'' (2017–2022) * '' The World According to Jesse'' (2017-2022) * ''Dennis Miller + One'' (2020–2022) * KPFK Rebel Alliance radio podcast (2023- 2024)

Former personalities

Misha Solodovnikov Producer (2018–2022) *

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(2019–2022) *

Mikhail Johnson- Producer/editor (2016–2022) *

(2009–2022) *

(2013–2022) *

(2015–2022) *

(2015–2022) * Lee Camp (2014–2022) *

(2016–2022) *

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(2017–2022) *

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(2018–2022) *

(2020–2022) *

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(2020–2022) *

(2014–2015 and 2018–2022) *

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(2010–2012) * Lauren Lyster (2010–2013) *

(2013–2020) *

Sophie Shevardnadze Sophie (Sophiko) Paatovna Shevardnadze (Russian: София (Софико) Паатовна Шеварднадзе; Georgian: სოფო შევარდნაძე; born 23 September 1978) is a Georgian/Russian journalist, presenter, auth ...

(2013–2022) *

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(2011) *

(2011–2014) *

(2012–2015) *

(2016–2018) *

(2010–2017)

Incidents

Abby Martin statement

On March 4, 2014, ''Breaking the Set'' host

(whose show was at the time produced by RT America), speaking directly to her viewing audience during the show's closing statement, said that although she worked for RT, she was against Russia's intervention in Ukraine. She said that "what Russia did is wrong", as she is against intervention by any nation into another country's affairs. Later, Martin asserted that RT still supported her despite her differences of opinion with the Russian government. RT's press office suggested that Martin would be sent to

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, and responded to accusations of propaganda, stating "the charges of propaganda tend to pop up every time a news outlet, particularly RT, dares to show the side of events that does not fit the mainstream narrative, regardless of the realities on the ground. This happened in

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, this is happening in Ukraine".See Information war during the Russo-Georgian war and

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said that American media elites love to mock Russian media, especially RT, as being a source of shameless pro-Putin propaganda, where free expression is strictly barred. Agreeing the "network has a strong pro-Russian bias", he suggested that Martin's action "remarkably demonstrated what 'journalistic independence' means".

Liz Wahl resignation

The day after Martin's statement, RT America anchor

resigned on air, which she said was due to her belief that RT was a propaganda machine for President Vladimir Putin. She stated:

I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the actions of Putin. I am proud to be an American and believe in disseminating the truth. And that is why, after this newscast, I am resigning.

Wahl said that what "broke" her was that RT censored a question from her interview with

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about "Russia's ''intervention'' in Ukraine". In response, RT released a statement: "When a journalist disagrees with the editorial position of his or her organization, the usual course of action is to address those grievances with the editor, and, if they cannot be resolved, to quit like a professional. But when someone makes a big public show of a personal decision, it is nothing more than a self-promotional stunt. We wish Liz the best of luck on her chosen path". In a March 2014 ''

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'' article, Wahl expanded on her resignation statement, saying, "For about two and a half years. I'd looked the other way as the network smeared America for the sake of making the Kremlin look better by comparison, while it sugarcoated atrocities by one brutal dictator after another." When asked by

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, host of CNN's ''

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'', about a clip of her interviewing a guest on RT, Wahl responded,

C-SPAN interruption

On January 12, 2017, during a live

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debate on the

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1's live broadcast was suddenly interrupted by a cut-in of RT America. C-SPAN explained the interruption as a technical malfunction, blaming it on an internal routing error, that moved the RT America feed from an internal monitor within C-SPAN used to monitor the network alongside others to the broadcast feed for C-SPAN 1. RT stated that while it was testing its systems in preparation for the

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, its signal was "mistakenly routed onto the primary encoder feeding C-SPAN 1's signal to the internet, rather than to an unused backup."

Notes

References

External links

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