Only companies that submit applications to Roskomnadzor

[tanjimajuha20]

ussia until the end of 2024 from the rostrum of the XXVII International Congress of NAT, which is being held in Moscow on November 23-24. "We managed to agree with the Ministry of Digital Development on the extension of frequency permits (RICH) for analog broadcasting until the end of next year, so this problem has been solved for 2024," Alexey Malinin said. "But the authorities will not extend analog broadcasting indefinitely."

for extension of RICH no later kazakhstan whatsapp number database than November 30, 2023, will be able to broadcast in "analog" until the end of 2024. The number of frequencies that the state retains for analog terrestrial broadcasting is gradually decreasing. Following the July decision of the State Commission on Radio Frequencies, 1,629 frequency denominations were included in the list of RICH until the end of 2023. According to the assessment of Roman Klimas, a member of the board of NAT, executive director of MKR-Media LLC, RICH will be issued for less than 1,500 analog frequencies by the end of 2024. The reduction of approximately 130 RICH will occur both due to those who, for whatever reason, do not apply to Roskomnadzor for a new extension, and due to federal channels of the first and second multiplexes (some of which continue to hold analog frequencies).

Elite Analogue Club

According to Roman Klimas, in the summer of 2023, the top 5 companies in terms of the number of extended permits for the use of analog terrestrial frequencies included JSC Satellite Telecommunications of Bashkortostan, which broadcasts the BST TV channel (336 RICH), regional branches of the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network (RTRS, 330 frequencies), JSC ArcticTelecom, which broadcasts the NVK Sakha and Yakutia 24 channels (287), JSC Television and Radio Company Novy Vek from Tatarstan (122), and KGBU Primorye Public Television (95). Thus, these five companies account for 72% of the total radio frequency resource used in Russia for analog terrestrial broadcasting.

A total of 1,629 analogue broadcast frequencies are shared between 276 broadcasters, of which 27 have TV channels on the 21st and 22nd buttons in regional cable networks.

The general director of JSC "TV and Radio Company "Novy Vek" (TNV) Ilshat Aminov said: "Analog broadcasting is important and necessary for us. The way digital TV was launched in the Russian Federation means digital inequality." He told how TNV tried to turn off analog broadcasting in one republican urban settlement - Zainsk (less than 40 thousand people live there), but due to a wave of indignation was forced to return it.

Deputy Head of the Department of Permitting, Control and Supervision in the Sphere of Mass Communications of Roskomnadzor, Secretary of the Federal Competition Commission Maxim Vinogradov objected: "Even if the broadcasting of a certain regional channel disappears, it cannot be said that nothing will remain there. After all, there are, for example, two multiplexes, there are regional inserts in the Public Television of Russia (OTV)."

Ilshat Aminov retorted: "In settlements like Zainsk, not to mention villages with fewer than 100 residents, there is no LTE or 3G, no cable TV, and satellite TV services are unaffordable for most. But we reach every resident of the Republic of Tatarstan with free television." In a conversation with a ComNews correspondent, he also drew attention to the importance of broadcasting in the national language - which is completely absent from two federal multiplexes, and is also prohibited in the 5-hour regional OTV inserts (where advertising is also prohibited).