NTV Plus

NTV Plus НТВ Плюс
Launched	September 1, 1996
Owned by	Gazprom Media
Country	Russia
Website	NTV Plus NTV Plus Ukraine

NTV-Plus on CSTB-2009 exhibition, February, Moscow, Crocus Expo.

NTV Plus (Russian: НТВ Плюс) is the brand name for the Russian digital satellite television service from NTV, transmitted from Eutelsat's W4 satellite at 36.0°E & from Bonum 1 at 56.0°E. Previously a part of Vladimir Gusinsky's media empire (Media Most holding), now it is included in the Gazprom Media holding.

Milestones

1996 - First broadcasts of NTV-Plus appeared on September 1, 1996

1997 - Since early in the year the channels were broadcast in encoded form.

1998 - On November 22 NTV-Plus started satellite TV broadcasting.

1999 - In February NTV-Plus switched from an analogue to digital broadcasting system allowing the expansion of the number of channels from five to fifty. In December NTV-Plus started re-broadcasting digital channels in two languages.

2000 - On May 25 another Eutelsat-W4 satellite was put into orbit allowing the expansion of the broadcasting area.

2005 - Beginning of Dolby Digital 5.1 broadcasting

2006 - Broadcasting begins in Ukraine territory

2007 - Broadcasting in HDTV

Channels

Sport

• NTV Plus Sport
• NTV Plus Sport+
• NTV Plus Sport Soyuz
• NTV Plus Sport Online
• NTV Plus Tennis
• NTV Plus Football
• NTV Plus Our Football
• NTV Plus Football 2
• NTV Plus Basketball
• Eurosport
• Eurosport 2
• Extreme Sports Channel
• Telekanal Russian Extreme
• Boyets
• Russia 2
• KHL-TV
• Viasat Sport

News

• Russia 24
• RBC-TV
• Euronews
• Russia Today
• Rusiya Al-Yaum
• RT Español
• BBC World News
• CNN International
• Bloomberg Television
• Perviy Meteo (MeteoTV)
• France 24
• Kommersant TV
• Moscow 24

Movies

• NTV Plus Premiera
• NTV Plus KinoHit
• NTV Plus Kinoklub
• NTV Plus Kino+
• NTV Plus Nashe Kino
• NTV Plus Nashe Novoe Kino
• NTV Plus Kino Soyuz
• Teleklub
• Dom Kino
• Komedia Telekanal
• Telekanal India
• Mnogo TV
• Zone Romantica
• Diva Universal
• MGM Channel
• Universal Channel (Russia)
• Syfy Universal
• AXN Sci Fi (Russia)
• SET
• Fox Crime
• Fox Life
• TV1000
• TV1000 Russkoe Kino
• TV1000 Action
• Russkij Illusion
• Illusion +
• Eurokino
• TV XXI

Music

• MTV Russia
• Muz TV
• Muzika Pervogo
• Telekanal La Minor
• VH1 Europe
• VH1 Classic (Europe)
• MTV Hits
• MTV Dance
• MTV Rocks
• MCM Top
• Mezzo TV
• RU TV
• Bridge TV
• RuSong TV

Kids

• Karusel
• Detski Mir
• Nickelodeon (Russia)
• Disney Channel (Russia)
• Cartoon Network (Europe)
• JimJam (Russia)
• TiJi
• Gulli

Documentary

• Discovery Channel (Russia)
• TLC (Russia)
• Discovery Science (Europe/ME)
• Discovery World (Europe)
• Investigation Discovery (Europe)
• Animal Planet (Europe)
• National Geographic Channel (Russia)
• Nat Geo Wild (UK)
• Auto Plus
• Interesnoe TV
• 365 Dnei TV
• 24 Dok
• Kto Est' Kto
• Vremya
• Soversheno Sekretno
• Zakon TV
• Travel Channel
• Domashnie zhivotnye
• Ocean-TV
• Russian Travel Guide
• My Planet
• Nauka 2.0
• Outdoor Channel
• Chasse et Pêche
• Escales
• Viasat Explorer
• Viasat History
• Viasat Nature
• Da Vinci Learning
• RT Documentary

Variety

• Perviy Kanal
• Russia 1
• NTV
• Petersburg - Channel 5
• Russia K
• TV Centr
• STS
• TNT
• REN TV
• Telekanal Domashny
• Peretz
• Telekanal Zvezda
• 3 Kanal Moskovia
• Dozhd
• Tatarstan - New era
• TV5MONDE Europe
• Zone Reality
• TDK
• CCTV 4
• Amazing Life
• Spas
• Mir
• Park Razvlicenii
• Kukhnia TV
• NTV Plus Infokanal
• CCTV News
• Nostalgia
• Fashion TV Russia & Eastern Europe
• S-TV
• Comedy TV
• Egoist TV
• Komsomolskaya Pravda
• CCTV Russian
• Telecafe
• Lider TV

Pay-Per-View

• Kinoreys 1
• Kinoreys 2
• Kinoreys 3
• Kinoreys 4
• Kinoreys 5

HD

• HD Sport
• Eurosport HD
• Discovery HD Showcase
• Animal Planet HD
• HD Kino
• HD Life
• MTVNHD
• Nat Geo Wild HD
• Mezzo Live HD
• NTV Plus 3D by Panasonic
• NTV Plus Football
• NTV Plus Football 2
• Nickelodeon HD

Ukraine Only

• Perviy Kanal Ukraiinia
• RTR Planeta
• NTN
• ICTV
• NTV Mir

Adult

• Hustler TV
• Ruskaja Noch
• Playboy TV

Radio

• Echo of Moscow
• Relax FM
• Detskoe Radio

High-definition television (HDTV)

Starting from 2007, NTV Plus offers high-definition television (HDTV) programming. The following channels are offered: HD Kino (cinema), HD Sport (sports), HD Life (nature & travel), Eurosport HD, Discovery HD, MTV/Nickelodeon HD, National Geographics HD (nature), Mezzo Live HD (classical and jazz music).^[1]

The content is either produced by NTV Plus itself or received from foreign partners. The programming is delivered in 1080i25 format using H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec with 10 Mbit/s data rate. NTV Plus has contracted with France's Thomson to manufacture the receivers that accept signal encoded in MPEG-4.^[2]

References

External links

• Official Site (Russian)
• NTV Plus Ukraine (Russian)