Central television (TV show)

Throughout the history of the program, she repeatedly changed the format. The first version was released from August 29, 2010 to June 24, 2012 and from January 27 to June 30, 2013 , the second - from October 7 to December 23, 2012 , the third - from August 31, 2013 .

First Version

The program actually replaced the previous program “ The main character ” by Anton Khrekov ^[8], which was previously released on Sundays in the evening and first appeared on the air on August 29, 2010 , its host was Vadim Takmenev ^[9] . All the first visual design of the program was stylized as a tuning table . The name “Central Television” and the design of the broadcast logo were coined by its then editor, Roman Toloknov ^[10] . The selection of subjects in the program, according to the statements of the host of the program and its promotional videos, was based on the principle “What is interesting is what we show!” ^[11] . So, the program included reports of NTV correspondents, small conversations with guests in the studio of the program ^[12] , television bridges, animation, and musical numbers at the end of the program.

The editorial staff of the program was located on the so-called "1/2" floor of the Ostankino television center, in the main building of the Prime Broadcasting Directorate ^[13] .

The program “Central Television” was recognized as the best program of the television season 2010/2011 by the decision of the Telepress Club ^[14] . Television critics often noted that this is “the first program after Parthenov’s “ the other day “that you are afraid to miss on Sunday evening” ^[15] . The program’s stylistics was really close to Parfyonov’s program - it talked about all the main and interesting things in our country and the world - in a word, about what other programs of this format preferred to keep silent by then ^[16] . Some representatives of the Russian opposition , in particular, Ilya Yashin, also favored the appearance of the program. In his opinion, “Central Television is a local breakthrough of the information blockade on federal television, which continues to crack” ^[17] .

In 2010-2012, the program often bypassed the rating indicators on Sunday informational and analytical formats of other TV channels: Sunday Time by Peter Tolstoy and Vesti Nedeli Evgeny Revenko ( Channel One and Russia-1 , respectively) ^[18] . The culmination of freedom of speech in the program was a satirical story about a direct line with Vladimir Putin ^[19] , as well as reports on protests against falsification of the results of elections to the State Duma ^{[20] [21]} .

Despite this, some subjects on the topic of the day were forbidden or censored in the first version of the program ^[22] . In May 2011, the director general of NTV Vladimir Kulistikov removed the story from the program’s cellmate, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Alexander Kuchma ^[23] . However, the plot about Khodorkovsky, which became the first on the channel over the past few years, was shown in this program on Sunday prime time on May 29 ^[24] . Another plot of the program - about abductions and torture in Chechnya - was already “sent back for revision” in the new season, although some sources claimed that the reason for the report's failure to appear was Kulistikov’s personal order ^[25] .

After the parliamentary and presidential elections of 2011 - 2012, several people who were at its origins left the program at once: the head of the Prime Broadcasting Directorate Nikolai Kartoziya , his deputies Sergey Evdokimov and Georgy Andronnikov ^[26] , the chief director Stanislav Sidorov, the chief editor Alexander Urzhanov, Chef-producer Svetlana Selina, periodically appearing in the program as correspondents Pavel Lobkov and Katerina Gordeeva ^[5] and others. Before dismissal, Urzhanov expressed doubts about the overall quality of the products produced by the television company, and called the “ Anatomy of Protest ” “shame” ^{[5] [27]} . In fact, this was the impetus for reforming the program.

Second Version

On October 7, 2012, “Central Television” aired NTV in the format of a large three-hour channel mixing different genres ^[28] . The emphasis in the program was noticeably shifted from politics to entertainment and the privacy of stars ^[29] . Anna Kasterova , host of the Russia-2 television channel, joined Vadim Takmenev ^[30] . Nikolai Kartosia, Sergey Evdokimov, Georgy Andronnikov and Stanislav Sidorov returned to the program, but as independent employees ^[31] (Kartosia and Evdokimov again became the program managers, Sidorov became its chief director, and Andronnikov became the chief editor). Already in the first issue of the program, a detailed interview of Takmenev with Vladimir Putin was released , announced as “NTEX superexclusive” ^[32] (on May 5, 2018, two days before his inauguration, the plot was repeated). The same format of the expanded interview within the program will be undertaken in the issue of May 26, 2013 : already with Dmitry Medvedev ^[33] .

Since November 25, 2012, the program began to be released in three parts: “CT. The main thing "," CT. Revelations ”,“ CT. Evening. " Previously, such a division in the program did not exist. Vadim Takmenev led the main part of the program, and the last two parts were given to Kasterova ^[34] . This format did not show a great audience interest, and in early 2013 the program was again returned to its original format ^[35] . The lead again was one Vadim Takmenev. At the same time, Nikolai Kartosia, Sergey Evdokimov, and a large number of other employees and correspondents finally left the program; the producer was PPK LLC (First Production Company), owned by Alexander Sventsky ^[36] .

In the spring and summer of 2013, several of the latest releases of the 2012/2013 season program were not filmed in a television studio, but on the roof of a Moscow skyscraper ^[37] . Then the program went on summer vacation.

Third Version

Since August 31, 2013, the program again began to appear in a new format. The third version is very different from the previous ones. The program’s release time was postponed to Saturday evening, the timing was reduced to 45 minutes. The program again acquired its own studio. This broadcast format is being done together with the NTV Broadcasting Directorate. The program opens with the Today block, which is represented by the hosts of the evening issues of this program. Another innovation of the program was live broadcast to all time zones of Russia. Invariably the materials of the program’s own correspondents continued to be published. Also, in this format, several times during the transfer, Takmenev from the TsT studio conducts a roll call with the studio of the Today program ^[38] . The program logo and music in the screen saver are close to the first option. In the first issues of the third format of the program, live musical numbers under the logo of the Central Television LIVE were staged directly in the studio, but then they were abandoned.

The third version of “Central Television” received conflicting reviews among viewers and former NTV employees: in January 2014, Vladimir Kara-Murza noted that “the Central Television program has completely degraded: it started well, but completely exhausted itself” ^[39] . And on March 16, 2014, the former editor-in-chief of the program, Alexander Urzhanov, on his Facebook page sharply criticized the issue of March 15, 2014 (information about the opposition Peace March was distorted in one of the program’s news plots) and asked all his former colleagues quit work ^{[40] [41]} . Moreover, it was the third option of “CT” that was awarded the TEFI Prize in June 2014 as “The Best Information Program” ^[42] , and Vadim Takmenev became the winner of the award as “The Best Presenter of the Information Program” precisely thanks to this program ^[43] .

Since August 30, 2014, the program’s time has increased from 45 minutes to 1 hour or longer.

In the summer of 2015, the program did not go on vacation for the first time: from July 4 to August 15 it went with a time limit of 40 minutes, and had the name Summer Central Television. Since this version of the program was recorded in all time zones, there were no calls with the studio of the Today program.

Since January 2016, after replacing NTV Director General Vladimir Kulistikov with Alexei Zemsky , the program was replaced by TsT Studio instead of PPK LLC, a company owned by host Vadim Takmenev and program director Sergey Chirve ^[36] .

From January 24, 2016 on Sundays in the morning, the abbreviation of the program is shown. A text notification appears on the screen several times about the retry date just to the right of the NTV logo.

On June 28, 2016, the show won the TEFI Prize for the second time as “The Best Information Program”, and Vadim Takmenev as the “Best Presenter of the Information Program” ^[44] .

In October 2017, entry to Ukraine was banned for three years by the program correspondent Vyacheslav Nemyshev, who was shortly detained before that. At the time of detention, according to NTV, "the correspondent wrote down a stand-up during which he cut the famous Kiev cake with a table knife." The reason was “harm to the national interests of Ukraine”, expressed in the fact that Nemyshev had accreditation to work in the self - proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic , for which he worked in this region from spring 2016 to autumn 2017 and published stories like “Young bombers: how Ukrainian intelligence agencies recruit children in the Donbass ” ^{[45] [46]} .

From November 18, 2017, the program occasionally ended with a demonstration of credits indicating correspondents and the film crew, which previously happened on an ongoing basis, and since August 25, 2018, the credits have not been shown.

On March 31, 2018, the issue was conducted by Anna Yankina, the host of the Results of the Day program, because Vadim Takmenev was in his hometown of Kemerovo, at the site of the tragedy in the Winter Cherry shopping center . Since August 25, she began to lead the news block "Today". From the same day, the program comes out with a new design and studio, and its timing has been doubled. In addition, live studio music was also renewed on an ongoing basis.

• Mikhail Bogdanov
• Alla Davydova
• Nikolay Dubinin
• Alexey Petrushko
• Tatyana Sidorova
• Alexey Simakhin
• Lev Ermolaev
• Andrey Sukhanov
• Anton Chechulinsky
• Alim Yusupov

Former correspondents

• Transfer page on NTV website
• Program Article