Vesti FM (, ''News FM'') is a
Russian
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national radio station owned and operated by
VGTRK. The station's manager is Ekaterina Shchekina.
Operating throughout Russia, the station broadcasts on FM and MW and it, along with
Radio Rossii and
Radio Mayak, is also included in the first multiplex of digital television in Russia using
DVB-T2
DVB-T2 is an abbreviation for "Digital Video Broadcasting – Second Generation Terrestrial"; it is the extension of the television standard DVB-T, issued by the consortium DVB, devised for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial telev ...
technology.
History
The station began broadcasting on 5 February 2008 at 6:00 in Moscow on 97.6 MHz. Initially broadcasting in Moscow and St. Petersburg, it now broadcasts to more than sixty regions in Russia.
Transmitters
At the end of the 1960s, the USSR began to build a powerful transmitter site for the broadcasting soft propaganda to Western countries in
Grigoriupol in the Maiac region of
Transnistria
Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and locally as Pridnestrovie, is a Landlocked country, landlocked Transnistria conflict#International recognition of Transnistria, breakaway state internationally recogn ...
. The ''de facto'' Transnistrian government sold the facility to the Russian state media company
RIA Novosti
RIA Novosti (), sometimes referred to as RIAN () or RIA (), is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency. On 9 December 2013, by a decree of Vladimir Putin, it was liquidated and its assets and workforce were transferred to the newly created ...
in 2007, and the Russian government mandated that Vesti FM be transmitted over Grigoriupol's powerful medium-wave transmitters.
Vesti FM started broadcasting on 1413 kHz with a transmitter power of 500 KW from 2014, prior to the beginning of the
Russo-Ukrainian War
The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia Russian occupation of Crimea, occupied and Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then ...
. The transmitter thus reached not only all of Ukraine, but also a substantial portion of Europe.
On 26 April 2022, one of the multiple antenna systems of Vesti FM was
blown up by unknown perpetrators, as part of the wider Transnistria attacks. However, the mediumwave station at 1413 kHz continued to operate.
Controversies
In June 2017, television and radio journalist
Vladimir Solovyov ignited controversy, after he called, in his radio program, the participants in that year's
protests
A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration, or remonstrance) is a public act of objection, disapproval or dissent against political advantage. Protests can be thought of as acts of cooperation in which numerous people cooperate ...
"the eternal two percent of shit", the "children of corrupt officials" and "majoritarian imbeciles". Solovyov also stated that if not for the police, "the people
he counter-protesterswould simply tear them to pieces", a statement which was criticized by protesters and journalist
Alexander Nevzorov. Similar remarks by Solovyov continue to be made against opposition journalists and some audience members.
Невзоров о Соловьеве и его 2%!
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References
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Radio stations established in 2008
Radio stations in Russia
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