UTV
Russia
Central Federal District of the Russian Federation
Moscow
105066, st. Olkhovskaya, 4 bldg. 2
Top managers:
Ivan Tavrin
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Owners
Channel "Yu" is a federal TV channel about the life of a modern young woman. Broadcasting covers the entire territory of Russia. The channel's broadcast is social reality, cult series, world movie hits and current news. The accumulated coverage of the channel is 90%, broadcasting - in 880 settlements. Channel "Yu," along with "MUZ-TV," Channel Disney and online video service ClipYou, is part of the UTV Holding.
Aktivs
As of September 2014, the Holding's key assets are two federal TV channels:
- youth entertainment channel "Yu" (100%),
- the federal Disney Family Channel (51%) and
- cable channel "Muz-TV."
UTV Holding also owns ClipYou, an online video service specializing in licensed music videos.
History
2024: Sale of TV channel to Media-Telecom Group
On August 14, 2024, Kismet Capital Group, owned by businessman Ivan Tavrin, announced the sale of the assets of its media holding Media 1 (it includes, among other things, Muz-TV and Yu TV channels). Read more here.
2 017: Alisher Usmanov sells his stake in UTV holding to Ivan Tavrin
Entrepreneur Alisher Usmanov intends to sell his stake in the UTV television holding, which manages the U, Muz-TV and Disney TV channels, and also controls 75% of the STS Media holding, his partner Ivan Tavrin, RBC reported in December 2017.
According to RBC, Tavrin buys out Usmanov's 58.29% stake in New Media Holding and thus consolidates 100% of the company's shares. In November 2017, UTV Group LLC was registered, whose sole founder was Tavrin. In early December, the Federal Antimonopoly Service received a petition from UTV Group, which was assigned the stamp "for official use."
2016
UTV in November 2016 changed its ownership structure in connection with the introduction of a law restricting foreign capital to the media. The head structure of the holding is the Russian company Credo JSC, while earlier the holding was led by the Cypriot UTH Russia. The owner of Credo JSC, in turn, is New Media Holding LLC, controlled by Alisher Usmanov and Ivan Tavrin.
2015: "Kremlin Media" is ready to buy "Muz-TV"
On August 10, 2015, it became known that the UTV television holding received an offer from the Kremlin Media to sell its cable channel Muz-TV for $20 million, Vedomosti reported, citing unnamed sources.
According to the newspaper, the holding is ready to buy the TV channel along with the debts of MUZ TV, which owes 500 million rubles for its presence in the second multiplex and about 1 billion rubles to cable operators.
Kremlin Media LLC is a production company founded in 2013 by Sergei Bunin, now head of FSUE Gosconcert, and Ekaterina Bunina, the current general director of this LLC.
The purchase of Muz-TV was discussed with Vladimir Kiselev, producer of VIA Zemlyanye and founder of the Federation Foundation, a person close to UTV told Vedomosti. The holding expected from him an official offer to buy Muz-TV. The TV channel was supposed to enter the so-called patriotic media holding, which Kiselev is now creating.
In October 2014, Kiselev and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Russian Media Group (RMG) Olga Plaksina proposed to President Vladimir Putin to create a patriotic media holding. This project should provide a creative and musical resource for the ideological tasks facing the country's leadership in working with the electorate, the letter said. The authors of the letter believe that Russia needs its own artists - "ideologically correct idols of millions."
2009: Creation of "UTV Holding"
UTV Holding was established by merging the television assets of Media One Holdings Limited and Art Finance & Media Limited in August 2009.
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