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Agency Wants in Digital Broadcast Game
A third participant has unexpectedly appeared in the national project for digital television. While the Ministry of IT and Communications and the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network were haggling over leadership in the project, the Federal Mass Communications, Telecommunications and Preservation of the Cultural Heritage Service (Rossvyazokhrankultura) was preparing its own conception for the project. It proposes a budget of 235.4 billion rubles (57.2 billion of it from the federal budget), that is, more than the network (159.6 billion rubles, 89 billion from the budget), but less than the ministry (357.8 billion rubles, 96 billion from the budget).
Rossvyazokhrankultura intends to submit its conception to the government commission on digital TV headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev next month. A source at Rossvyazokhrankultura said that the conception was developed at the service's own initiative. Evgeny Strelchik, head of the Rossvyazokhrankultura press service, declined to comment on the conception, saying that he was unfamiliar with it. It differs substantially from the conceptions submitted to Medvedev by RTRBN and the Communications Ministry late last year. Those differed between themselves mainly in price, and both suggested developing digital television broadcasting and providing free adapters. The Rossvyazokhrankultura conception suggests that as well, but also developing FM broadcasting and cable television at the same time.
The Communications Ministry declined to comment on the Rossvyazokhrankultura conception. Adviser to Minister Leonid Reiman Evgenia Kolosova said that she had not seen the conception. Director of the RTRBN department of planning and investment Boris Terebilenko praised the conception. “It takes into account the interests of all participants in the broadcasting sector,” he noted.
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All the Article in Russian as of Oct. 23, 2007
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