VGTRK received a grant of 190.5 million rubles for the introduction of a broadcasting automation system

The Russian State Television and Radio Company (VGTRK), in partnership with TRV Technologies LLC and with grant support, RFRIT is embarking on two strategically important initiatives to implement domestic IT solutions. The press service of the Russian Fund for the Development of Information Technologies announced this on June 17, 2025.

The pilot projects were named:

• "Introduction of the Russian system of automation of technological and production processes of radio broadcasting" Tonika '";
• "Integration of firmware systems for audio mixing and switching audio streams."

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The implementation of these initiatives involves a complete rejection of foreign solutions in favor of unified Russian analogues. The projects include the modernization of equipment and specialized software for automation of broadcasting processes in 43 regional branches of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, which provide broadcasting of federal radio stations: Radio Russia, Radio Vesti and Radio Mayak.

The key results of the projects should be the transition to modern digital equipment and the organization of the transmission of audio signals through the IP environment. In the future, VGTRK intends to scale these solutions to the rest of the company's regional radio complexes.

As reported on the RFRIT website, the amount of the grant for the introduction of the Tonika technological and production process automation system is 190.5 million rubles. Within the framework of this project, it is planned to create a single geographically distributed ecosystem that allows transferring current and promising air schedules, media content files, metadata, technological configuration files between all implementation objects, organizing fully automated regional broadcasting points, as well as providing the possibility of distributed storage of media content.^[1][2]

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