Vyacheslav Murugov
General Director of CTC Media (Chief Executive Officer)
In the period from 2008 to 2014, he held the positions of General Director of the STS TV channel and General Producer of the STS Media holding.
Previously, he worked as a producer of entertainment programs and series on STS and REN TV channels.
Under the leadership of Mr. Murugov, more than 50 television projects were successfully implemented, including popular series: "Kitchen", "Voronins", "Molodezhka", "Ranetki", "Daddy's Daughters", "Soldiers" and many others.
Member of the Council of the Cinema Fund, the Board of Directors of Emmy International, the Academy of Russian Television, the Union of Journalists of Russia, the head of the Board of Trustees of the Media Manager of Russia award. Winner of the Medaille d'Honneur MIPTV 2017 for his contribution to the development of the global television business.
Winner of 16 TEFI awards and 6 awards of the Association of Film and Television Producers.
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Anastasia Polyakova
Operations Director of STS Media
Anastasia Polyakova has been Deputy CEO for Organizational Development and Business Operational Efficiency since October 2018.
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Alexander Kostyuk
Deputy General Director of CTC Media for Strategic Development
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Irina Varlamova
Deputy General Director for Content Management
Irina Varlamova has served as Deputy CEO for Content Management since September 2016.
Irina is responsible for content management within the Holding (created to order or acquired in the form of a license), pre-air preparation and release service.
Ms. Varlamova joined the CTC Media team in June 2016 as Executive Producer of the CTC TV channel.
Irina is an experienced professional in Russian television. Prior to joining STS Media, Irina held the position of the General Director of the REN TV channel and was the Executive Director of Art Pictures Group. Earlier, for nine years, Irina worked her way up from chief editor, head of the special projects department to executive producer within the framework of REN TV. Irina also held the post of Executive Producer of the serial production of the Lean M company.
Graduated from the Moscow Technological Institute.
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Kim Belov
Director of Strategic Communications
Kim Belov took over as Director of Strategic Communications in July 2017.
Mr. Belov graduated from the screenwriting department of VGIK in 2003. Worked as a screenwriter and journalist. In 2004, he joined GQ magazine, where he spent three years - first as an editor, then as a deputy editor-in-chief. In 2008, Kim Belov headed the Empire magazine, in 2009 he served as a publisher in the ICONS magazine. In 2010, he immersed himself in television dramaturgy, but in April 2014 he accepted an offer from the Condé Nast Russia publishing house to return to GQ magazine as editor-in-chief. During almost three years of Mr. Belov's work as editor-in-chief, the magazine demonstrated record-breaking audience figures. In December 2016, Kim Belov left GQ to focus on film and TV work.
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Lev Makarov
Deputy General Director for Special Projects
Lev Makarov took over as Deputy General Director for Special Projects in March 2018.
Previously, Mr. Makarov served as General Director of the Che TV channel (since September 2016) and was responsible for the entire range of issues related to the management of the Che channel.
Before joining STS Media, Lev Makarov headed the 2X2 TV channel, which became one of the brightest in the country. As an on-air channel, 2X2, led by Mr. Makarov, showed impressive dynamics in audience and financial performance.
Lev Makarov graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
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Marina Khripunova
CEO of Domashny TV channel
Marina Khripunova took over as General Director of the Domashny TV channel in July 2016.
Previously, she held the position of program director of Domashny and CTC Love TV channels. Prior to that, she worked on the M 1 TV channel, on the basis of which Domashny was created.
Ms. Khripunova has been working at CTC Media for over 10 years. Marina Khripunova took an active part both in the launch and in the further development of Domashny, which in recent years has shown a steady increase in the audience share.
Graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. S. A. Gerasimova with a degree in Management in Film and Television.
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Elena Karpenko
Director of TV channel "Che"
Elena Karpenko took over as Director of the Che TV channel in March 2018.
From 2008 to 2015, she worked at STS Media as the Program Director of the DTV channel, and then as the Content Management Director of the Peretz TV channel. Managed the Program Department and the Program Production Department of the TV channel.
Prior to joining CTC Media, she worked at the international telecommunications holding Modern Times Group (MTG), where she held the position of Editor-in-Chief and Program Director of the DTV channel. She participated in the development of the company's business in the Russian Federation and stood at the origins of the creation of the DTV-Viasat TV channel.
She began her career in television at the VGTRK (All-Russian State Television and Radio Company).
She graduated from the State Academy of Management named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze with a degree in Economics and Production Management.
He is a nominee of the MTG Awards and a nominee for the Best Employee of CTC Media 2012 in the Manager of the Year category.
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The director of the STS channel, Daria Legoni-Fialko, told Vedomosti that she would leave this position.
“I am leaving the post of head of the TV channel STS. I thank Vyacheslav Murugov (CEO " STS media". - "Vedomosti") and the team " STS media» for joint work experience. I am proud of the results that we have achieved in less than two years,” she said through a representative of the TV channel.
Murugov will take over the operational management of the channel, a spokesman told Vedomosti. STS Media". Whether this is a temporary measure, he did not specify.
Reasons for leaving Legoni-Fialko the representative of the channel does not name. A person close to the media holding said that she was leaving due to differences in views on the development strategy of the channel STS. But Legoni-Fialko continues negotiations on the launch of new projects, including content production, says the source of Vedomosti. He did not specify what kind of projects he is talking about. Who will be the director of the channel STS and whether such a position will remain, the source of Vedomosti also does not specify. The representative of the channel does not comment on this.
“From the moment Daria came to the post of head STS the share of the channel began to grow steadily, reaching 10%. The channel is in good operational condition and is rightfully one of the leaders of national broadcasting in the entertainment segment,” the representative of the holding conveyed the words of Murugov.
Legoni-Fialko became director STS in September 2016, before that she managed the TV-3 channel (part of the competing Gazprom-Media holding). STS is the flagship channel of the holding of the same name, it also includes the channels Domashny, Che and STS Love. The owners of STS Media are the YuTV holding (75% of shares) and the Cypriot Telcrest, the main shareholders of the latter are the structures of Yuri Kovalchuk and the group VTB. At the end of last year, it became known that a longtime partner of STS, the team of the production company Yellow, Black & White, was moving to Gazprom Media and in January 2018 was launching a new entertainment channel, Super.
In 2016, Murugov was appointed CEO of " STS media", replacing Yuliana Slasheva in this position. Then Murugov almost completely changed the holding team, including channel managers. One of his main tasks was just to increase the audience STS.
Earlier that Legoni-Fialko will leave the TV channel, the newspaper wrote RBC with reference to three sources in the media market. According to the publication, Legoni-Fialko has Ukrainian citizenship. Since 2016, amendments to the media law have prohibited persons with citizenship of another country or dual citizenship from holding the position of media director general. A person close to the media holding specified that Legoni-Fialko's departure was not related to her citizenship.
The state-controlled bank VTB last week became a major minority shareholder in the television holding CTC Media. His indirect stake in the company could be almost 8%, the stake is worth more than $22 million.
VTB, in which almost 61% belongs to the Federal Property Management Agency, became last week a co-owner of the Cypriot Telcrest Investments Ltd, which, in turn, is the owner of 25.3% of the CTC Media holding (STS TV channels, Domashny, Peretz and CTC Love). This was told to RBC by a source close to Telcrest. The press service of VTB confirmed the information: "The VTB Group found attractive the conditions for becoming a shareholder of Telcrest and positively assesses the prospects for the asset." The representative of VTB refused to name the size of the package, which the bank now manages.
On Friday, September 25, Telcrest notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission of the ownership change. From the message of the company it follows that on September 23 Telcrest carried out an additional issue, which was bought by a certain third party. She, as indicated in the message of Telcrest, is not associated with companies in which Yuri Kovalchuk participates, in particular with Rossiya Bank, ABR Management (almost 39.8% of the bank's shares owned by Kovalchuk are in its trust management) and investment Abros company (one of its beneficiaries is Kovalchuk).
This additional issue was purchased by VTB, explains a source close to Telcrest.
Until now, the Cypriot Telcrest, which in the summer of 2011 bought a blocking stake in ST S Media from Alfa Group for $ 1.07 billion, was associated with Rossiya Bank and Abros. Last spring, after the annexation of Crimea to Russia , The US Treasury imposed sanctions against Kovalchuk personally, his bank and Abros. Since more than 50% of the voting shares of Telcrest are directly or indirectly controlled by Abros and Rossiya Bank, Telсrest is also subject to sanctions, CTC Media explained earlier (its parent company, CTC Media Inc., is registered in the US state of Delaware).
25.3% of CTC Media is owned by the Cypriot Telcrest, whose shareholders include Rossiya Bank, Surgutneftegaz and the National Media Group. In addition to the Cypriot company, the Swedish Modern Times Group is also the owner of CTC Media with a 38.5% share. About 36.2% of CTC Media shares are traded on NASDAQ. But soon 75% of the operating business of CTC Media will $200 million may buy the YuTV holding of Alisher Usmanov and Ivan Tavrin. After that, CTC Media will buy back the shares of Modern Times Group and minority shareholders.
The revenue of CTC Media in 2014 reached almost 27.3 billion rubles. ($711 million), adjusted OIBDA — RUB 7.8 billion. ($207 million), net income - 3.7 billion rubles($ 108 million). On Monday, September 28, the capitalization of the entire CTC Media on NASDAQ at 18:00 Moscow time was $ 288.8 million.
The appearance of VTB Bank among the shareholders of Telcrest is not the only change in the structure of this company., before the additional issue of the share of Abros » in Telcrest (27.9%) bought outassociated with the main owner of Severstal Alexei Mordashov Abit Holding Ltd. As a result of the transaction, the share of this company in Telcrestincreased from 13.6 to 41.5%. Mordashov really increased his stake in Telcrest, Elena Kovaleva, a representative of the businessman, confirmed to RBC. But after the additional issue in favor of VTB, Mordashov's share in the Cypriot company decreased. The representative of the businessman does not specify the size of his current share.
Now Mordashov in Telcrest may own about 29%, one of the interlocutors of RBC knows (respectively, he indirectly owns about 7.3% of all CTC Media).If the additional issue was redeemed by the only participant - VTB,then, according to its results, the bank's share in the Cypriot company could reach 30.1%. Thus, VTB's indirect stake in the entire CTC Media now stands at 7.6% (the market value of this stake on the eve of the additional issue, on September 22, was $22.3 million).When asked by RBC about whether the remaining shareholders participated Telcrest - "S Urgutneftegaz » and the National Media Group — in additional issue, representatives of these companies didn't answer.
And STS, NTV and MTV. And half a century ago, only three programs broadcast in Russia. Today, there are more than a hundred TV channels in the country, and they offer such a rich and diverse range of programs and films that they never dreamed of before. And if the creators of the TNT channel (“Your New Television”) are often accused of immorality, and the authors of NTV (it cannot be deciphered in any way) are blamed for promoting a criminal subculture, then critics of the STS television network, by and large, have nothing to show. To the question of how STS is deciphered, it would be quite possible to answer: “Modern, trendy, stunning.” But it's not.
These three golden letters have been shining on our TV screens for almost 17 years. And even if you are not a fan of this channel - no, no, yes, and look there in the hope of seeing something fresh and interesting. The STS channel manages to provide quality leisure to viewers with different status, education, taste and sense of humor. Its poster is replete with entertaining films and programs, among which educational programs also find a place.
How is STS deciphered? This is an abbreviation of the full name "Network of Television Stations". This network cooperates with regional TV stations in more than a thousand settlements of the Russian Federation.
Excursion into history
In the year of its inception (1996), the question of how STS is deciphered could be answered: “Commonwealth of Television Stations”. It consisted of 8 regional channels, including the St. Petersburg Channel Six and Moscow AMTV, and broadcast only 9 hours a day. The general director of the association was Since coming to this post (2002), the concept of broadcasting has changed, the viewer's interest in the channel has grown significantly. In 2008, STS was headed by Vyacheslav Murugov, who launched such super hits as "Kadetstvo", "6 frames", "Daddy's daughters", "Voronins", "Kitchen", etc.
Message
The message of the authors of the TV channel is not so much proclaimed as deciphered. With its content, STS, as it were, declares: we are out of politics and do not use the air to promote any ideas. This is a channel of "weekend and good mood", which gives you the opportunity to relax, immerse yourself in a fantastic world of dreams. We are offered to experience incredible events in a person's life, but still becoming a reality. They have the creators of the broadcasting network and a certain ironic spectrum in which the view of the world is refracted in a special anecdotal-joking beam. Of course, all this creates a unique integral image that promotes the channel to high rating numbers. Today it is one of the five most popular in Russia and reports that over the years of its foundation, its audience has grown to one hundred million viewers. For the entire period of its existence, the channel received 35 TEFI statuettes (national television award for the highest achievements in the field of television arts).
What will be tomorrow?
The successful commercial project of CTC-Media (a subsidiary of the Swedish media holding Modern Times Group) looks to the future with optimism. The audience targeted by the channel - from 10 to 45 years old (youth and family) - is the most attractive in terms of advertising resource. Today STS is brilliantly competing with the main federal channels, and it is possible that tomorrow it will establish itself as one of the main media projects that form a new, full of positive outlook on our lives.
