Novosti (Russian: Новости), literally News is an information program that has been broadcast since 14 February 1956 on Channel One (in 1956-1967 and in 1985-1991 - on Channel One of the Central Television of the USSR, in 1992-1995 on 1st channel Ostankino, in 1995-2002 - on ORT). It is an overview of information for the past part of the day. Since 1996, it has been produced by the Information Programs Directorate of JSC Channel One.
History
News on the "first button" began to be broadcast from 14 February 1956 to 31 December 1967 and from 10 February 1985. From 1 January 1990 to 31 December 1991, the program was called Television News Service. From 28 August until the end of 1991 at 21:00, the program was called "TV Inform".
After the closure of the program "Vremya" and "TSN" on 28 August 1991, a new information program "TV Inform" appeared.
In November 1991, ITA was created on the basis of TSN, while the previous information service - the Studio of Information Programs of Television - was abolished, and the production of the "News" program was transferred to ITA, while the program acquired its intro only on 1 January 1992. The morning newscasts of Ostankino News were hosted by Boris Kostenko, Pavel Ogorodnikov, Marina Nazarova, the evening newscasts at 9:00 pm since October 1991 were hosted by Tatyana Komarova, Sergey Medvedev, Irina Mishina, Pavel Kasparov, the evening newscasts at 6:00 pm and the night newscasts were hosted by Mikhail Osokin, Dmitry Kiselyov and Tatyana Mitkova. The abbreviation "ITA" was mentioned on Russian television back in late 1991 in the program "TV Inform".
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, Ostankino News began to be broadcast, which was also produced by ITA. "Ostankino News" began to be broadcast at 6:00, 9:00, 12:00 (all with a duration of 20 minutes), 15:00 (25 minutes), 18:30 (25 minutes), 21:00 (40 minutes) and 0:00 (25 minutes).
In February 1992, Sergey Dorenko (previously hosted the night editions of "Vesti") moved to the channel, becoming the host of the evening news instead of Pavel Kasparov. In 1993, Sergey Dorenko moved to Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation, where he headed the information service. Nelly Petkova (journalist), Mikhail Svetlichny and Igor Vykhukholev became morning hosts.
ITA News (1992-1996)
Since 28 July 1992, 1st channel Ostankino began broadcasting the news program"ITA News instead of the news program "Ostankino News", which usually aired without the channel's logo (instead, the "ITA" logo was displayed in the lower right corner of the stories). It had the headings "Economic News", "Sports News", "Weather" and others.
On 18 September 1993, some of the journalists of this program - hosts Tatyana Mitkova and Mikhail Osokin, correspondents Vladimir Luskanov, Vladimir Lensky, Irina Zaitseva, Alexander Gerasimov, Mikhail Svetlichny, Alexander Zarayelyan, Boris Koltsov, Александр Хабаров и Andrei Cherkasov, Alexander Khabarov and Andrei Cherkasov due to disagreements with the chairman of the Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Ostankino, Vyacheslav Bragin, left "Novosti" and formed the NTV Information Service, where they began to produce the information program "Today", which began to be broadcast on Channel 5, and later on NTV.
In December 1993, Irina Mishina was removed from presenting the news. Sergei Alekseev became the host of the weekly information and analytical program "Sunday".
Nelli Petkova replaced Irina Mishina as the host of the evening news, and Alexander Ilyichev, Vladimir Kalinovsky, and Anna Prokhorova became the hosts of the morning news.
In January 1994, Sergei Medvedev became the host of the weekly information and analytical program "Novosti Plus" (aired at 9:00 PM on Saturdays until November 1994), and Igor Vykhukholev became the host of the evening news. In mid-1994, Pavel Ogorodnikov was appointed a correspondent, and Boris Kostenko began hosting his program in his place, but at the end of 1994, he stopped hosting the news. Sergei Shatunov, Alexander Panov, Alexander Goryanov, and Sergei Lomakin became the hosts of the programs.
From 28 February 1994, the 6:00 AM news program was cancelled. Since 4 July 1994, due to the introduction of a daytime break on the Ostankino TV channel from 11:20 to 16:00, the broadcast time of news releases was changed. The 9:00 and 12:00 releases began to be broadcast an hour earlier (at 8:00 and 11:00, respectively), and the 15:00 release was broadcast an hour later, at 16:00.
Since July 1994, the hosts of the morning and daytime releases are Alexandra Buratayeva, Irina Paley, Maria Volkova and Natalia Romanova.
From 1 August 1994 to 31 March 1995, ITA Novosti also went on air in the GMS programming block, which now occupied part of the daytime and nighttime airtime of 1st channel Ostankino. In this block, news releases were aired in a shortened format - they had an 8-minute running time and were aired at the 52nd minute of every hour (from 11:52 to 14:52 and from 1:52 to 3:52); some of the news, due to the short running time, were read by the host without showing video clips (if there was a "Cultural News" section within the release, the release was aired without them at all). From 3 October 1994, this format was also introduced in the "main" broadcast of the Ostankino channel - news began to be aired every hour from 7:52 to 3:52 Moscow time (except for 19:52, 20:52, 21:52, 22:52 and 0:52; the 7:52 release for Central Russia was aired within the Teleutro program under the "Day Chronicle" banner). From 16 December 1994, the 9:00 PM newscasts were called "Vremya, as they had been before 1991.
From 1 April 1995, the program began to be produced jointly by ITA and ORT and aired on weekdays in three-hour increments, as before 1994 (the first broadcast at 6:00 AM, the last broadcast on a floating schedule from 11:30 PM to 12:45 AM), and on weekends at 9:00 AM, 3:00 PM, and 6:00 PM. From 10 April to 30 September 1995, a shortened version of Vremya was aired every day (including Sunday) at 6:00 PM instead of the regular newscast. All broadcasts were 20-25 minutes long, as they had been before October 1994.
Since 2 October 1995, the night edition has been broadcast in the format of a final review of the day's events, lasting about 10 minutes. It replaced Sergei Dorenko's analytical program "Versii" (Versions), which was closed on ORT, in the broadcasting schedule. The format of this "News" edition has changed several times since then: in particular, since 11 March 1996, it was broadcast without a host who would voice a summary of the day's events off-camera.
At the end of 1995, Nelly Petkova became the host of the weekly information and analytical program "Sunday".
In January 1996, on the initiative of the first deputy general director of ORT information programs Ksenia Ponomareva, a reform of the television company's news broadcasting was launched. The main goal was to make ORT news releases the same as NTV (the television company's staff partly consisted of former ITA employees), but oriented not so much toward prepared and informed viewers, but toward a wider audience.
ORT/First Channel News (since 1996)
In March 1996, the ORT Information Programs Directorate was created on the basis of ITA, which received the right to produce all news broadcasts on the channel. Since the spring of 1996, news on the channel was broadcast without the ITA logo as regular ORT news, and soon this logo also disappeared from the branded reporter microphones (instead, the ochre-colored ORT logo of 1995-1996 began to be displayed on the cubes). Until the early 2000s, news broadcasts were formed as follows: 70% of all news reports were determined by the Interfax agency, 20% of the news was chosen by the journalists themselves, and the remaining 10% by the channel's managers. Some stories could be of an overtly advertising nature. Three years after Konstantin Ernst took over as ORT CEO, an analytical directorate headed by Marat Gelman was created within its structure, publishing weekly "temniks". These temniks included all the news recommended for coverage, subdivided in turn into main, basic and others, with advice on presentation, interpretation and use of certain words, often with the phone numbers of experts that journalists needed to contact for comments.. Most of the news blocks did not do without stories about the trips of the President and the Chairman of the Government of Russia, people close to them. Until the mid-2000s, ORT's own correspondents for the Directorate of Information Programs, working in the post-Soviet space, were appointed from among the citizens of the countries they represented on air, which was due to economic reasons, as well as their high professionalism and ability to navigate the situation. Since 10 May 1996, the Novosti edition at 9:00 on weekends began to be broadcast at 10:00.
In October 1998, the format of the night edition was changed: now it was dedicated to a current topic of the passing day, on which experts or persons involved in the event spoke in synchronicities. A little later, the edition was called "News of the Day" and the identification plates for the place and persons were individually designed. Its hosts were political commentators Pavel Shirov and Anton Vernitsky (every other week). On weekends, thematic late-evening news releases "Sports News" and "Cultural News" were added, reviews of events that had occurred in the world of sports and culture, respectively, consisting of reports from ORT's own correspondents. The hosts of the specialized sports and cultural editions were the channel's specialized commentators Viktor Gusev and Alexander Kazakevich, respectively.
Since 15 March 1999, Mikhail Leontyev's analytical program Odnako (However) began airing instead of Novosti Dnya (Day News), and since 15 June of the same year, after it moved to the Vremya (Time) program's timeslot, the night news broadcast was returned to the air in the previous format of reviewing the day's events. The weekly issues of Novosti Sporty (Sports News) and Novosti Kultury (Culture News) lasted until the summer of 1999.
On 27 September 1999, the timing of the 18:00 news broadcast, which was called Novosti. Evening Edition, was increased to 25 minutes. By analogy with it, the program that aired in the timeslot after midnight was called Novosti. Nochnoy Ekspiysk (Night Edition). In 2000, these two broadcasts were renamed Vecherniye Novosti (Evening News) and Nochniye Novosti (Night News), respectively. The evening editions of the program were hosted by Zhanna Agalakova (she moved from NTV) and Igor Vykhukholev, the morning and afternoon editions were hosted by Igor Gmyza and Olga Kokorekina, and also for a short time from May to September 2001 by Anna Pavlova.
Since 2 October 1999, a 10-minute "News" edition was broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays in the morning at 8:00, which opened ORT's broadcast on weekends. In the fall of 2002, it was moved to 7:00, and in the spring of 2003 (finally) to 6:00. Similarly, the episodes were also broadcast on holidays, with the exception of 1st of January (when the episode was not broadcast at all), and from 2000 to 2002, also on 9 May (then the episode was broadcast at 7:00).
From July to September 2001, the program "Night News" was broadcast at 23:30 and always included the sections "However" and "Sports News". From 24 September 2001, it was renamed "Night "Vremya", and its hosts became Andrei Baturin and Zhanna Agalakova (the latter was later replaced by Pyotr Marchenko). In those years, the program had a more analytical nature and could periodically attract specialists to cover events, who would give their assessments.
Since the autumn of 2001, the morning newscast was hosted by Rustam Suleimankhil (previously a correspondent and host of the "Chronicles of the Day" section of the "Good Morning" program) and Evgeny Agoshkov (previously worked in the international shift of the ORT Information Programs Directorate). The daytime and evening newscasts of the program at that time were presented by Igor Gmyza, Oksana Rostovtseva, Olga Kokorekina and Igor Vykhukholev. Andrey Baturin became the backup host of the information programs (he mainly hosted special editions). From that time on, the program began to be broadcast in a blue-brown light studio, developed by the "Scene" company.