National Sports Channel Match TV

The TV channel is part of Gazpromedia Holding (GPM, Gazprombank Group) and has been operating since November 2015.

The Match TV broadcast channel, as well as the Match Football 1, Match Our Sport, Match Arena and others cable channels, are part of the Gazprom Media Match subholding. In addition to channels, he manages the site Sportbox.ru.

History

2021

TAdviser interview with Director of Digital Development Alexander Frolov

Sports Internet- broadcasting is an excellent experimental platform where the most advanced information and communication technologies are developed. In October 2021 TAdviser , the Frolov Alexander director of digital development of Match TV spoke about how this happens in the practical activities of the Match TV TV channel. More details here.

4PDA Site Lockdown for Company Infringement

In May 2021, access to 4PDA.ru. was blocked in Russia The fact of blocking the resource is confirmed by a record in the Register of prohibited sites maintained by Roskomnadzor. The basis for the blocking was the definition of the Moscow City Court, which is authorized to consider complaints of copyright violations on the Internet.

According to the Moscow City Court's file cabinet, the decision to block the 4pda.ru was made on the complaint of the National Sports Television Channel (Match TV). This organization discovered on one of the pages of the forum 4pda.ru the transfer of its Football-1 channel.

As CNews was told in 4PDA, the reason for the complaint was the placement by one of the users of the playlist forum of the mentioned sports channel. "We always processed all incoming applications for violations on time and always corrected these violations, however, the plaintiff filed documents with the court." - a representative of the resource told CNews. - "It was not us, but the hosting provider Cloudflare that was mentioned as the defendant in the two past cases. Accordingly, we did not have any information about these cases^[1].

received decisions in fact, but there was no opportunity to influence what was happening," 4PDA added. - "We plan to solve the situation within the framework of the legislation."

4PDA is now only available in Russia via VPN.

Match TV, like its predecessor, Our Football TV channel, has been actively fighting the illegal distribution of their television programs since the first version of the anti-piracy law appeared in Russia in 2013.

2019: Rambler took away from Match TV the right to broadcast Premier League matches in Russia

2018: The new manager of Match TV reduced almost a third of employees

The Match TV sports channel, which is part of the Gazprom-Media holding, is undergoing massive cuts, RBC reports citing four sources.

According to them, the staff is reducing the new channel manager, the Gazprom-Media Entertainment Television subholding. In particular, the functions of the legal department, as well as HR, finance, analytics and programming units, have already passed to it.

According to RBC interlocutors, since November 2017, the staff of the Match TV channel and related structures has decreased by 20-30%. The publication did not receive official comments on the abbreviations.

2017

In October 2017, the assets of Gazprom Media Match were subordinated to the Gazprom Media Entertainment Television subholding, which manages TNT, TV3, Friday, 2 × 2 channels. It is led by the creator of the Comedy Club show Arthur Janibekyan.

2016

The federal sports channel Match TV in 2016 suffered losses in the amount of 1.7 billion rubles. It is reported by "Soviet Sport" with reference to the base "SPARK-Interfax."

Compared to 2015, losses increased by half a billion rubles. The channel's revenue in 2016 amounted to 13.04 billion.

On July 24, Valery Karpin, who served as editor-in-chief of football broadcasts of the channel since February 2017, left Match TV. Before that, he acted as an expert.

In January 2016, Match TV management decided to optimize the number of employees, including presenters and commentators.