New digital television satellites will appear in Russia by 2008, declared the director general of federal state unitary enterprise "Russian television and radio broadcasting network" Gennady Sklyar at the press-conference in St. Petersburg.
According to him, satellites replacement is a part of the federal targeted program conception "Television and radio broadcasting development in the Russian Federation in the period until 2015 ", which has been already submitted for consideration to Federal government.
Planned expenditure volume for the conception realization constitutes 43 billion rubles, Sklyar has reminded. The conception also includes replacement of television transmitters and establishing joint Russian-French enterprise on transmitters and modernization of television network.
Federal state unitary enterprise "Russian television and radio broadcasting network" was established in August 2001 according to President Vladimir Putin`s order for targeted solution of the State important tasks. The general task for "Russian television and radio broadcasting network" is delivering television an radio signals to every location in Russia.
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