MOSCOW - Russia's RT (Russia Today) television is launching a Britain-dedicated channel, RT UK, which will start broadcasting on Oct. 29.
London will become the third city after Moscow and Washington where RT will have studios, the RT press service told Interfax.
News anchor Bill Dod, “whose broadcasts were nominated for Emmy International and who won the gold at a festival in Monte Carlo,” will be the face of RT UK, the service said.
“The new channel will broadcast projects already familiar to the British audience. The KeiserReport program of former stockbroker Max Keiser discloses shocking scandals hidden behind top news from the financial world. In the Going Underground interview show, journalist Afshin Rattansi talks to experts on key issues that local media prefer to gloss over. Guests invited to the Sputnik program, presented by British Member of Parliament George Galloway, will help viewers look at the news agenda at a different angle,” the press service said.
“In Britain, RT has been outrivaling other foreign TV news channels, including Euronews and Fox News, for more than two years. We are sure that launching RT UK will bring us even more popularity in the British market because we will tell viewers about what happens around them and interests them most,” the service quoted RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan as saying.
According to the British Audience Research Bureau (BARB), RT is one of the leading news channels in Britain and is much more popular than the United States’ Fox News. In the third quarter of 2014, it had an audience of more than 2.5 million.
