Media Bridge

At the beginning of 1997, Gusinsky created the Media-Most CJSC, where the media assets of the Most Group were transferred ^{[6] [7]} . Gusinsky resigned from the Bridge Group and became the CEO of Media-Bridge ^[8] . The holding included the following enterprises:

• NTV-Holding CJSC:
  • NTV Television Company OJSC is an all-Russian television channel, which began broadcasting in 1993.
  • TNT-Teleset CJSC , a television network, began broadcasting in 1998 in the form of a closed joint-stock company ^[9] .
  • NTV-Plus CJSC , a satellite television system, began broadcasting in 1996 in the form of a closed joint-stock company. Initially, it consisted of four channels of its own production (“ Our Cinema ”, “ World of Cinema ”, “ Sports ”, “ Music ”) in the analogue version, and subsequently began to relay Russian and foreign television channels. In 1998, she switched from analogue to digital broadcasting.
  • Ekho Moskvy CJSC is an information and conversational radio station.
  • NTV-International CJSC is an international version of NTV television channel (differed from the original version of the channel ^[10] ), launched in January 1997.
• Publishing House "Seven Days" :
  • The magazine " Results " ^[11] .
  • Magazine "Caravan of stories".
  • The magazine " 7 days " ^[12] .
  • The newspaper "Today" (closed in 2001).
• LLC “Monemonet” is a company established in the fall of 1999 and providing communication and information services to Internet users, as well as creating and supporting information Internet resources ^[13] . It had two structural divisions:
  • NTV-Portal is an online publishing company. Supported the development of sites both for the holding’s own media assets - ntv.ru portals (now newsru.com , which is not related to NTV), TNT.ru, ntvplus.com, and for third-party projects ^[14] .
  • NTV-Internet CJSC - Internet Service Provider; Holding's first telecommunication project aimed at providing Internet access via satellite ^[15] .
• NTV-Design is a studio created in 1996 with the submission of the main designer of NTV television company, the artist Semyon Levin ^[16] , subsequently its director until April 2001, and producing computer graphics for NTV, TNT and NTV Plus.
• NTV-Profit (production company of Igor Tolstunov) is a company producing films and series, founded in 1995.
• “KinoMost” (later - “MacDos”, “DomFilm”, “Aurora”) is a company for the production of films and series, founded in 1997 ^[17] .
• NTV-Kino CJSC is a company producing films and TV shows ^[18] , founded in 1997.
• "New Russian TV series" (later - "Forward Film") is a company producing films and series, founded in 2000 ^[19] .
• Radio RDV (radio "Business Wave", later - "Radio for Adults") (was purchased from the RSPP in March 2000) ^[20] .
• Radio Sport-FM is a sports radio station. It won the competition for replacing the frequency 90.8 on January 26, 2000 ^[21] and broadcast from February 24, 2000 ^[22] to February 24, 2005 ^[23] .
• Most-Video is a licensed video distributor created in 1997. Since 2000, he was the owner of the Varus-Video trademark, which had the right to release Warner Home Video products in Russia (the license expired in September 2002) and concluded a contract with the media group ^[24] . In addition to foreign films, it also replicated domestic films released by the Media Most film divisions ^{[25] [26]} . In 2000-2004, the distributor released films on DVD ^[27] . As a result of Gusinsky’s conflict with the authorities, Most-Video separated from its owner and independently engaged in distribution. In August 2005, the company was liquidated.

In April 2001, as a result of Gusinsky’s conflict with the authorities, the owner of this private company changed: he became Gazprom Media , he transferred all the media assets of Gusinsky ^[28] , with the exception of those who had a foreign legal entity of the international television channel NTV-International (later - RTVI) ^[29] and the site ntv.ru (later - NTVru.com, now - NEWSru.com). The holding was liquidated by a decision of the Moscow Court of Appeal in May 2001 ^[30] .

In May 2003, the Gamma-Film company bought and resold a package of series produced at one time by Media-Most and broadcast on NTV and TNT (among them: National Security Agent , Gangster Petersburg , Citizen Chief ) , “ Birthday of the Bourgeois ”, “ Streets of Broken Lights ”). After that, other Russian TV channels became the new owners of these series, including Channel One , Russia , STS ^{[31] [32]} .

There was also the largest informal “media group of Berezovsky, ” which included the record label REAL Records ^[33] , the newspapers Kommersant , Moskovskaya Komsomolka , Nezavisimaya Gazeta , Novye Izvestia , Fresh Number, Avtopilot magazines, “Power”, “Money”, “Domovoy”, “ Spark ”, radio station “ Our Radio ”, television companies ORT and MNVK (broadcast name “ TV-6 ”) ^[34] , as well as the distributor of licensed video products - the company “ORT-Video ". From 1999 to 2000, the media of this media group waged an information war against the Gusinsky media holding, which indirectly led to a confrontation between the businessman and the authorities ^[35] .

• Gazprom Media
• NTV case

• Official site until abolished. Mediamost.ru