from RT site: sounds like they have their act together...
RT is a 24/7 English-language news channel. From our central Moscow headquarters and bureaus all over the world, we are set to show you how any story can be another story altogether. Broadcasting over six continents and 100 countries, our coverage focuses on international headlines, giving an innovative angle set to challenge viewers worldwide. Our correspondents in New York and Washington, London and Paris, Delhi and Tbilisi or Tel Aviv are set to step beyond the bare facts and show you the human side to every story.
RT reporting style was recognised by the Association for International Broadcasting. In November 2007, RT won its Media Excellence 2007 award for a report on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Our other awards include Russia's most prestigious broadcasting award TEFI in Best News Anchor category in September 2008 and the Golden Award for Promotional intems at Promax/BDA World Gold Awards, 2008.
The analysis of television audiences conducted by Nielsen Media Research in 2008 has shown that the number of RT viewers surpasses that of BBC America by 11%. The number is also over ten times the number of Deutsche Welle viewers. In RT's home country, the size of its audience has grown by 82% in the last six months alone. In Moscow, it has become more popular than international giants such as CNN and Bloomberg.
RT's website has become Russia’s most popular English language internet news service, with the number of hits surpassing that of a number of established Russian resources combined, like Themoscowtimes.com, Interfax.com, RBCnews.com and Kommersant.com.
Millions in New York’s Times Square saw our live broadcast of 2008 New Year celebrations in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In August 2007, RT was the first channel in television history to report live from the North Pole.
We’re available around the world on cable, satellite and online. RT is the first Russian TV channel to hit the web with its own page on YouTube and blogs on services such as Facebook, MySpace and Blogger.
During the South Ossetian conflict alone, our YouTube viewership rose to 1,330,803 and our number of viewers off line surpassed those of such international broadcasting companies as BBC World News, Euronews and France 24, being second only to that of Al Jazeera English.
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