Media: "Channel One" closed the program "Wait for me"

The "Wait for me" program, which has been on Channel One for 19 years, will no longer be aired. It is reported by RBC with reference to its own sources.

According to insiders, the TV company refused to renew the contract with the presenter Alexander Galibin, as a result, he was fired without agreement with the "First". The TV company proposed Sergey Zhigunov to the First channel, but the channel rejected it.

At the moment, the manufacturer has not presented a host candidate that would suit Channel One, so it was decided not to renew the contract with VID for the production of the program, a source close to Channel One told RBC.

On Friday, September 15, a replay of one of the old episodes will be aired, there will be no more new episodes.

Recall that the dismissal of Gabilin became known on 29 August.

I don't know what it's about. Of course, it's sad to leave: we got a good transfer, - Gabilin told RBC.

"Wait for me" has been on TV since 1998. In the first 10 years of the program's existence, about 150,000 people were found. Until 2015, the kiosk "Wait for me" worked at the Kazansky railway station in Moscow, where you could leave an application to search for a person. Over the years, the program "Wait for me" was led and actively helped by Igor Kvasha, Alexander Domogarov, Sergey Nikonenko, Mikhail Efremov, Yegor Beroev, Oksana Naichuk, Maria Shukshina, Chulpan Khamatova and other famous people.

It should be noted that since the beginning of August, a number of changes have taken place on Channel One: several popular shows have closed at once, including

The first channel will be aired on the NTV channel, said on October 10 the producer of the program, the president of the VIDgital television company, Alexander Lyubimov, on his page on the network Facebook.

“The program“ Wait for me ”will no longer be aired on Channel One. NTV will become its new home,” Lyubimov wrote. Over the years of the release of the program, according to him, it was possible to find more than 200 thousand people. Studios "Wait for me" worked in Yerevan, Chisinau, Minsk, Astana, Kyiv. Special issues for Ukraine and Kazakhstan continue to be aired even now, Lyubimov noted.

In his opinion, the reason for Channel One's refusal to broadcast is that its priorities "have noticeably shifted towards entertainment programs."

As reported on September 14, Channel One once again extended the contract with the VID television company for the production of the Field of Miracles program, but refused to continue cooperation with the Wait for Me program. According to RBC's source, the reason for the non-renewal of the contract was "the personnel policy of the new program team." "They (the new Wait for Me team) fired Alexander Galibin, the host of the program, without agreement with Channel One. And at the moment, the manufacturer has not presented a host candidate that would suit Channel One," the source explained.

"Wait for me" has been broadcast on Russian television since 1998, it was produced by the TV company "VID", which changed its name to "VIDgital" in October. At different times, the program was hosted by Igor Kvasha (1998-2012), Mikhail Efremov, Maria Shukshina, Alexander Domogarov, Chulpan Khamatova, Sergey Nikonenko, Yegor Beroev and Ksenia Alferova, Alexander Galibin. The last episode of the program aired on September 1, 2017.

Changes on the First

At the end of July, rumors began to circulate in the media about the dismissal of the host of the program “Let them talk” Andrei Malakhov from Channel One, while various reasons for his alleged departure were named. On August 21, the host nevertheless announced his transition from Channel One to the Rossiya 1 TV channel, where he would release the program Andrei Malakhov. Live.

In addition, on August 15, Channel One severed contact with Dom LLC, which produces the TV program Poka Vse Dom, which has been on the air since 1992. The reason was the information about the financial flows of the transmission that did not suit the TV channel.

This event and the assumptions about Malakhov, in turn, may have given rise to false information about the imminent closure of other programs. Therefore, on August 18, Channel One had to refute rumors about the closure of four projects - Control Purchase, First Studio, Let's Get Married and Fashionable Sentence.

"For the future: we do not close the "Field of Miracles", KVN, "What? Where? When?" and "Evening Urgant". With "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" everything is also in order. "Good Morning" feels great. The "Time" program is still released at 21:00. Smak has not run out of products. Dmitry Krylov buys tickets for the next trip. "Let them talk" with Dmitry Borisov collects excellent ratings. Soon you will see the updated "Tonight". Pozner, by the way, is also with us, "RBC quoted a caustic comment from the press service of Channel One.

At the same time, we note that the program "Wait for me" was not mentioned then.

A few days ago it became known that the Wait for Me program, which had been helping people find each other for 19 years, was leaving Channel One.

An announcement was posted on the project website: “The program“ Wait for me ”will no longer be aired on Channel One. But the work continues. We are accepting applications for search and looking for people. Follow the news on our website and in groups in social networks!

As reported in the media, the producer of the program, the VID television company, could not come to an agreement on the candidacy of the presenter with Channel One.

In October 2017, it will be 30 years since the first issue of the Vzglyad program was released. It was from this project that the VID television company grew.

On the eve of a significant date, one of the leaders of the television company and the founders of the cult program "Vzglyad" Alexander Lyubimov gave several interviews to journalists, in which, among other questions, he touched upon the fate of the program "Wait for me".

The producer and TV presenter said that the project will definitely continue to work: its employees have a lot of ideas and plans for the future.

Alexander Lyubimov

Lyubimov noted that the transfer is waiting for a change in format. So far, there is no agreement with any specific channel to broadcast the episodes of "Wait for me", but the producer hopes that the problem will be resolved:

“Now we are preparing a new version of this program and we hope that one of the federal TV channels will take it. Now we just want to talk more about how the search for people is going. For example, we have amazing volunteers. These are people who have their own, private helicopters that are stationed in the suburbs.”

Lyubimov said that the project works with the help of volunteers from 120 countries of the world: “Here is a man - a former policeman, now retired, but he wants to apply his knowledge, skills, participate in something important. And it’s all absolutely amazing and touching to tears.” It is the procedure for searching for people and the step-by-step scheme of their search that will be given attention in the new format of the program.

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Over the years the program has been on the air, it has won the hearts of fans from around the world.

The audience learned with bitterness about the departure of the project from Channel One. Fans sincerely hope that in one form or another the transfer will continue to exist.

According to the information posted on the website of the project, over the years of work, thanks to the employees of "Wait for me" and their voluntary assistants, over 200 thousand people have been found.

In the new season, the project will be hosted by the famous actor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Alexander Lazarev and popular theater and film actress Tatyana Arntgolts.

Over 200,000 people were found during the existence of "Wait for me". On its basis, a network of voluntary assistants has been created in Russia, the CIS countries and abroad. Today, "Wait for me" helps more than 500 people. In addition, the program fruitfully cooperates with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

“It was hard to imagine two years ago that such a project as “Wait for me” could appear on NTV. However, today "Wait for me" harmoniously fits into the new content policy of NTV. This is a project with a long history that has incorporated a huge number of good deeds, and we are proud that it will appear on the channel’s air, adding to the line of socially oriented projects,” says the general producer of the NTV channel Timur Weinstein.

Watch the live broadcast and all episodes of the program on NTV.Ru and in applications for

The contract between Channel One and the TV company VID for the production of the Wait for Me program has expired; a new one will not be signed, sources told RBC. "First" and "VID" could not agree on the candidacy of the presenter.

Wait for me: watch the last episode of the program in 2017 online on Channel One. Issue dated September 1, 2017 (YouTube video).

According to RBC's interlocutor on Channel One, the contract for the production of another popular VID production program, Field of Miracles, has been re-signed. “From the “Field of Miracles” everything is in order. The contract for it was extended, as it has been done automatically over the past 20 years,” he explained.

As a source on Channel One explained to RBC, the main reason for the non-renewal of the contract with VID for the production of Wait for Me is "the personnel policy of the new program team."

Why is there no program Wait for me on Channel One? Causes.

“They [the new Wait for Me team] fired Alexander Galibin, the host of the program, without agreement with Channel One. And at the moment, the manufacturer has not presented a host candidate that would suit Channel One,” he said, adding that as a result it was decided not to renew the contract with VID for the production of the program.

A source told RBC that the TV company nominated actor and producer Sergei Zhigunov for the role of the host of Wait for Me, but Channel One rejected her.

“The show will no longer be aired on Channel One,” another RBC source clarified. - On September 15, a repeat of one of the old episodes will be on the air.

He confirms that "the conflict between the producer and the TV channel was provoked by creative disagreements over the candidacy of the host of the program."

The producer of the program, TV Company VID, declined to comment on RBC. Channel One did not respond to RBC's request.

The program "Wait for me" was closed due to a conflict between the TV company "VID" and Channel One

According to the official website of Life ru, the program "Wait for me" ceases to exist. As the Super publication managed to find out, the VID TV company refused to renew the contract with the presenter Alexander Galibin, offering to replace him with Sergei Zhigunov or Andrei Sokolov. Representatives of the First were against the dismissal of the host, so during the conflict it was decided to close the program completely.

The program "Wait for me" was closed

The official website of Lenta ru informs that Channel One decided not to renew the contract with the VID television company for the production of the Wait for Me program. It is reported by RBC with reference to a source on the channel.

According to the interlocutor of the publication, the time of the previous contract has expired, and the parties could not agree on the candidacy of a new presenter. Alexander Galibin, who hosted "Wait for me", was fired without agreement with the First, and the channel's management was not satisfied with the new candidates.

The program "Wait for me" on Channel One.

The program "Wait for me" has been released since 1998. The first episodes were shown by the RTR TV channel (now Rossiya-1), since 1999 it has been broadcast on ORT (now Channel One). The hosts of "Wait for me" were the artists Igor Kvasha, Maria Shukshina, Mikhail Efremov, Alexander Domogarov, Yegor Beroev, Chulpan Khamatova. The program is dedicated to the search for missing and lost people. The website of the program provides data on more than 200 thousand missing people found with the help of "Wait for me".

In August, Andrey Malakhov and Timur Kizyakov, the hosts of “Let them talk” and “So far, everyone is at home,” left Channel One. The show “So far, everyone is at home” was stopped on Channel One due to a scandal with the financing of filming videos about orphans, which involved the Dom TV company, as well as its owners Timur and Elena Kizyakov. Now the program is broadcast by the TV channel "Russia 1". Andrey Malakhov also moved there, becoming the host of the program “Andrey Malakhov. Live".