the Telecritic on air Information company "Natsionalnaya sluzhba novostey" (NSN) told that expects mass media after departure of the businessman.
a share in LLC "NOVY MEDIA HOLDING" which "MUZ TV", Disney, TV channel "Yu", and others enter. The ex-head of Open joint-stock company "MegaFon" Tavrin Yvan who 41,71% holdings already own can buy it. At the moment the price of the transaction is not specified. The parties already essentially agreed, however wait satisfaction of the petition from Federal Antimonopoly Service, reports information agency "ITAR-TASS" on Wednesday, December 13.
the Telecritic Melman Alexander on air of Information company "Natsionalnaya sluzhba novostey" (NSN) declared that the TV channels entering into holding, are not a political asset.
"Now appreciate a political asset, and it is purely media business entertaining character. These channels not center, from the point of view of policy — are insignificant. About channels it is possible to tell much, here a question as management, whether there will be it new, or everything will go on nakatanny" — the telecritic noted.
by words Melman Alexander, are necessary to TV channels new ideas."MUZ TV was very popular in due time, had very quite good ratings, but now he became little significant. Perhaps, it became secondary, became obsolete, or people who take there top and management positions nonprofessionally work. The House channel faded for a long time into the background, and I here do not see any ambitions. STS loses the audience because it is calculated on youth, and it any more in the TV. Here it is necessary to approach with new ideas to this resource" — the expert noted.
Both participants of the transaction are included in the list of the richest people Russian Federation. According to the last rating published by the magazine of magazine "Forbes", Alisher Usmanov takes the fifth position, possessing a fortune in 15,2 billion dollars, and Tavrin Yvan is on the 199th place (500 million dollars).