RT news TV channel has finished construction of a state-of-the-art TV newsroom and studio facility in Washington, D.C. for its English-language TV news channel. The network?s second largest TV studio and production facility will contribute 6 hours of its original news content a day into RT?s TV newsfeed that is being distributed worldwide via satellites from its headquarters in Moscow, Russia.
Said RT?s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan: ?As our presence in the U.S. is expanding, we have no doubt that both local and worldwide audiences of our news content will keep growing as well. Viewers do want to watch different kind of news, which no other media sources cover, and RT?s news reports are very different from the international mainstream media. Therefore, for example, in Washington, D.C., we surpassed Al-Jazeera English by six and a half fold in viewers, and Deutche Welle by five fold - despite their high budgets.?
Centrally-located in downtown Washington, D.C., this 12,000 square foot, all-digital TV newsroom will produce newscasts, from 0400 to 1000 PM EST, including the new prime-time news talk show, the Alyona Show, which is anchored by an American host and airs every weekday from 0600 to 0700 PM EST. The production suite includes two multi-camera studios and multiple post-production posts. Currently, the network operates the facility in a testing mode, and the recruitment effort to staff the newsroom with additional personnel is underway.
In addition to its newsroom hub in Washington, D.C., in the U.S. the network is operating correspondent bureaus in New York, Miami and is opening one in Los Angeles. The array of personalities already featured on the programming from its studios in Washington D.C. included Dr. Henry Kissinger, congressman Ron Paul, and political rapper Immortal Technique.????
In the US, RT English is available in select markets: MhZ 5 in Washington, D.C. Metro area; in New York, NY it is carried by Time Warner; FIOS, and Dish Network elsewhere. Its webcast is available at http://www.rt.com/live.
In addition to the 24/7 TV newsfeed in English, RT has feeds in Arabic and a newly-launched feed in Spanish, all distributed via satellite from Moscow, Russia, as well as online, at http://www.rt.com.
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