MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti) — Russian TV Channel RT is to launch a news channel RT UK, aimed specifically for the audience in the United Kingdom, on October 30.
RT UK, a round the clock news channel, will feature five hours of programming from London studios, while the remaining content will be taken from other RT channels.
Earlier in October, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner launched RT in Spanish in Argentina. RT became the first foreign channel broadcast alongside Argentinian state channels.
The TV channel's press service reported in September, that it was available to over 700 million television viewers worldwide.
RT is a Moscow-based, international TV network, broadcast in English, Spanish and Arabic in over 100 countries worldwide. RT America, which focuses on US News, broadcasts from its own studio in Washington. In addition, the network has its own documentary channel RTDoc and owns the full-service video news agency RUPTLY.
RT was the first television news channel to break the 1 billion views mark on YouTube and is the only Russian TV channel to become a three-time finalist in the run for an Emmy Award in the news category.
