NTV Plus

NTV Plus
НТВ Плюс

Country	Russia
Headquarters	Moscow
Programming
Picture format	16:9 (SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Gazprom Media
History
Launched	September 1, 1996
Links
Website	www.ntvplus.ru www.ntvt.com.ua (Ukraine)

NTV Plus (Russian: НТВ Плюс) is the brand name for the Russian digital satellite television service from NTV, transmitted from Eutelsat's W4 satellite at 36.0°E and from Bonum 1 at 56.0°E. Previously a part of Vladimir Gusinsky's media empire (Media Most holding), now it is included in the Gazprom Media holding.

Milestones

• 1996 - First broadcasts of NTV-Plus appeared on September 1, 1996
• 1997 - Since early in the year the channels were broadcast in encoded form.
• 1998 - On November 22 NTV-Plus started satellite TV broadcasting.
• 1999 - In February NTV-Plus switched from an analogue to digital broadcasting system allowing the expansion of the number of channels from five to fifty. In December NTV-Plus started re-broadcasting digital channels in two languages.
• 2000 - On May 25 another Eutelsat-W4 satellite was put into orbit allowing the expansion of the broadcasting area.
• 2005 - Beginning of Dolby Digital 5.1 broadcasting
• 2006 - Broadcasting begins in Ukraine territory
• 2007 - Broadcasting in HDTV started
• 2010 - Broadcasting in 3D TV started. By cooperation with Panasonic, "NTV plus 3D" channel was launched.
• 2017 - Broadcasting in 4K/UHD started
• 2022 - The Denis Diderot Committee, a European group of professional and academics researchers and professionals ask sanctions against NTV Plus for having cancelled various international news channels from its line-up.

Channels

Variety, entertainment

Sports

News

International

Movies

Music

Kids

Documentary

Pay-per-view

HD

4K/UHD

Ukraine only

Adult

Radio

High-definition television (HDTV)

Starting from 2007, NTV Plus offers high-definition television (HDTV) programming. The following channels are offered: HD Kino (cinema), HD Sport (sports), HD Life (nature & travel), Eurosport HD, Discovery HD, MTV/Nickelodeon HD, National Geographics HD (nature), Mezzo Live HD (classical and jazz music).

The content is either produced by NTV Plus itself or received from foreign partners. The programming is delivered in 1080i25 format using H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec with 10 Mbit/s data rate. NTV Plus has contracted with France's Thomson to manufacture the receivers that accept signal encoded in MPEG-4.