Draft:TV-6 (Russia)

Credits

Compiled by
NotPurpleHoodieBoi

Editions by
KosMir

Video captures courtesy of
OxiExtras, Егор Костиков, Ярослав Волков and itogi

Background

TV-6 (formerly known as TV-6 Moscow until 2001) was a Russian TV channel that started to broadcast on January 1st 1993, initially broadcasting on the sixth frequency channel in Moscow. It was Moscow's second independent private terrestrial television channel after 2x2.

A Russian joint-stock company behind the TV station, Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation (MIBC), was established on August 2nd, 1991, and won the competition to be allotted the sixth television channel frequency on November 12th, 1992.

Initially, TV-6 Moscow was conceived as a joint Russian-American commercial partnership, under which Turner Broadcasting System undertook to supply films and news for it, and MIBC — to create the first private TV channel in Russia that would represent the interests of Ted Turner in the regions of the country. MIBC and Turner Broadcasting System signed an agreement to establish the channel during Ted Turner’s visit to Russia in 1992. However, in 1994, the agreement on the creation of a joint Russian-American TV channel was terminated on the initiative of the Russian side, and in June 1994, Turner Broadcasting System withdrew from the founders of TV-6 Moscow.

On April 14th, 2001, NTV was taken over by Gazprom-Media. 350 journalists who disagreed with the new policy began to look for a new home. Boris Berezovsky (who consolidated 75% of TV-6 Moscow after one of the founders of the channel, Eduard Sagalaev, sold 37.5% of his MIBC shares to him in June 1999) offers Yevgeny Kiselyov (one of the founders of NTV) to become the acting CEO of TV-6 Moscow, and the journalists of the old NTV to follow him. On April 26th, the Deputy General Director of TV-6, Alexander Lyubimov, whom Sagalaev appointed CEO of TV-6 Moscow in January 1993, decided to leave his post.

On May 14th, 2001, Yevgeny Kiselyov became the general director of the channel and many employees left the channel. The presenters who left TV-6 were replaced by former NTV employees. In the early days, the new presenters occupied the TNT studio seats, but later they still occupied the TV-6 editorial office. The channel's political position became similar to that on NTV in 2001: the channel stood in opposition to the government, actively criticizing it for the cult of the personality of the president or the war in Chechnya. The staff of the MIBC has greatly expanded: from 500 to 1200 people.

At the end of September 2001, the Lukoil-Garant pension fund, affiliated with Lukoil which owned 15% of the shares of MIBC, started the court battle over bankruptcy which the station lost on January 11th 2002, and was put into liquidation unanimously by 14 judges sitting in the supreme arbitration court, overturning a December 29th, 2001 lower appeal court decision reviving the channel and ordering a new hearing of the bankruptcy application. Two lower arbitration courts had decided against the network last in fall 2001.

On January 15, at a meeting of the TV-6 labor collective, it was decided to establish a new TV company, TV-6 LLC, instead of MIBC. The TV company planned to obtain a new broadcasting license from the Ministry of Printing, but it partially succeeded only in March 2002, when work began on the creation of TVS.

At midnight on January 22, 2002 the Press Ministry pulled TV-6 off the air. The frequency was temporarily filled with programming from the NTV Plus Sports satellite channel.

On April 1, 2002, the employees of MNVC CJSC were transferred to work in the new Sixth TV Channel CJSC, which on March 27 received a tender for broadcasting on the sixth frequency channel as part of the liquidation of TV-6 and the launch of TVS.

1st ID (January 1, 1993-January 8, 1995)

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Visuals:

• On a black background is a slowly-rotating waving scattered-like Russian flag with a slightly lighter shade panning slightly into view. A moderate row of masked rectangular stripes that contain a still image of a skyline (presumably Atlanta) at morning, followed by the flag crossfading into the U.S. flag, before crossfading back to said flag, with the masked rectangular stripes showing up again at a contrary direction, showing a still image of the Saint Basil's Cathedral at night. The diagonal half of the U.S. flag crossfades and blends in with the Russian flag, before subsequently transitioning twice. Whilst this happens, five transparent lavender stripes appear as they slide from the corresponding direction, in which form the text "TV6" (with the bottom having a cut-out section of segmented stripes) that fades earlier before the stripes we're revealed. Lavender rays emit from said text before dissipating. The text slowly pans to the corresponding angle, while "МОСКВА" (set in the ITC Eras Bold typeface) then zooms back from the screen while angled upwards. It then rotates into the corresponding angle, settling underneath said text.
• On a black background, the lavender rays from said text slides in from the bottom-right onto the upper-left corners. Whilst it passes upon the corners, the faint waving U.S. flag fades in the background, before transitioning to the Russian flag. The two faint rows of the text, "TV6" and "МОСКВА" respectively fade in shifted closer from the screen before backing out.
• On a black-blue-white gradient background, two banner stripes in the styles of the Russian and U.S. flags respectively, wrap themselves over. The two rows of text, "TV6" and "МОСКВА" respectively fade in their places as it expands and slowly rotate into a different angle counterclockwise.

Technique: CGI animation by Render Club.

Audio:

• A trumpet/violin-infused fanfare that appears to be stock.
• A moderate-sounding brief violin-infused theme with trumpets involved.
• A short triumphant fanfare.

2nd ID (October 1, 1994-Spring 1997)

Visuals: Set against a gold-tinted environment full of subsequent sliding glass panes, the "ТВ6" text, now in a Cyrillic form and the first two letters blended in together (as well as the cut-out section being absent), is shown with a black-blue radial gradient banner with the spaced out "МОСКВА" under it.

Variant: A more common short version of the ident exists during programming.

Technique: CGI animation.

Audio:

• A trumpet/violin-infused fanfare that appears to be stock.
• A moderate-sounding brief violin-infused theme with trumpets involved.

TV-6 (Russia)

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