Gazprom-Media

History

In 2000, under pressure from Mikhail Lesin, Gazprom-Media acquired NTV, the only nationwide television channel independent of the government at the time, as well as other media assets of Vladimir Gusinsky's Media Most group – including the satellite operator NTV Plus, TNT, the radio station Echo of Moscow, and the Seven Days publishing house – which resulted in major controversy and considerable changes to the channel's editorial policy.

After taking over Media Most in 2000, Gazprom-Media received assets and personnel from Filipp Bobkov's dissolved Fifth Chief Directorate of the KGB, including its thousands of employees, its database, and the security service founded by Bobkov that had been accused of attempting to assassinate Boris Berezovsky in 1994. The directorate's entire archive had been taken to Media Most. In 2000, Bobkov created the Institute of Strategic Studies and Analysis (ISSA), a joint stock company. It was led by Vaqif Hüseynov, the former head of the KGB in Azerbaijan, and operated as a think tank and successor to Media Most's security department. Vladimir Zhizhin chaired the ISSA's board of directors from 2001 to 2002.

In 2005, Gazprom-Media purchased Izvestia, a national daily newspaper. In May 2008, the National Media Group bought a 50.19% stake in Izvestia from Gazprom-Media.

In August 2005, Gazprom-Media Holdings was sold to Gazprombank for 37.22 billion rubles. In 2012, Gazprombank's ownership was split between Gazprom with a 41.73% stake and NPF Gazfond with a 46.92% stake. Most of Gazfond's stake was managed by the financial company Lider. As a part of the SOGAZ insurance company, Lider had been controlled by Rossiya Bank, whose largest shareholder was Yuri Kovalchuk, an associate of Vladimir Putin. In March 2014, Rossiya Bank sold its indirect control of Lider to Gazfond, which now owns a 45% stake in Lider. Since 2003, Gazfond's president has been Yuri Shamalov, who is also the deputy chairman of Gazprombank.

Media assets

Television

2×2

365 Days TV

Pyatnitsa!

Match!

NTV

NTV Plus

TNT

TNT4

TV-3

Subbota!

GPM-Radio

GPM Radio (Gazprom-Media Radio) is Russia's largest private radio group. Tthe company operates a vast network of nationwide stations that collectively reach an audience of over 39 million listeners per month.

The Radio company is managed operationally by Vadim Tereshchuk (General Director) and Yuri Kostin (President).

GPM Radio brings together nine distinct radio brands that cover almost all key target audiences in the Russian market:

AvtoRadio, the flagship station

Radio Energy NRG, started as Franchise of France based NRJ group, Gazprom canceled the connection. The station is proramming club, dance and chart-music.

Yumor FM, a program which mixes pop-music with jokes.

Comedy Radio

Detskoe Radio, nationwide children-program

Like FM

Relax FM, ambient-music

Radio Romantika (Moscow 98.8 FM, formerly nationwide), aiming womean with soft-pop

Radio Zenit (Saint Petersburg 89.7 FM, joint venture with FC Zenit, which is also sponsored by Gazprom)

Paper publications

Seven Days Publishing House

Seven Days (TV guide)

Story Caravan (monthly magazine)

Story Caravan Collection (monthly magazine)

Internet

Rutube

Вокруг ТВ

SRSLY

Sportbox.ru

УМА-ТЕХ

Premier

Getintent

2x2.Медиа

Movie and cinema

Central Partnership

Comedy Club Production

Red Media

NTV-Kino

October Cinema & Crystal Palace Cinema

Directors general

Viktor Ilyushin (December 1997 – June 1998)

Sergey Zverev (June 1998 – May 1999)

Alexander Astafyev (1999 – 2000)

Alfred Kokh (June 2000 – October 2001)

Boris Jordan (October 2001 – January 2003)

Alexander Dybal (January 2003 – June 2004)

Nikolay Senkevich (since July 2004)

Aleksandr Zharov (since March 2020)

Board of directors

Alexey Miller (chairman)

Aleksandr Zharov

Yuri Shamalov

Alaxey Matveev

Sergey Kupriyanov

Sergey Kuznets

Management

Source:

Aleksandr Zharov (CEO, Member of the Board of Directors)

Svetlana Fefilova (Deputy CEO)

Yulia Golubeva (Deputy CEO)

Tina Kandelaki (Deputy CEO)