"Time" - under this name, an information program appeared in 1968 on Central Television, on which it aired until 1991. In 1991, she also aired on the air of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Company, from 1994 to 1995 - on Ostankino, and since 1995 - on Channel One.
Presenters of the program "Vremya" Yuri Kovelenov
The production of the program was worked on from 1968 to 1991 by the Main Editorial Office of Information at Central Television, in 1991 - by the Studio of Information Programs at the All-Union Television and Radio Company, in 1994-1995 - by the Information Television Agency, and since 1995 - by the Directorate of Information Programs of the First Channel.
Leading program "Time" Nonna Bodrova
The program was assigned a permanent air time, starting in 1972, which was scheduled for 21:00 with a running time of 30 minutes. Until 12/31/1989 at 12:30 a repeat of the program was also released.
Leading program "Time". Igor Kirillov
In 1968, on January 1, the Vremya program went on the air for the first time. Prior to that, TV News, which featured short airtime, and a weekly review called News Relay were aired. The founder of the program is an outstanding journalist of the Soviet era, Yuri Letunov. Starting in 1986, sign language translation was introduced in the Vremya program.
Hosts of the program "Time" Nonna Bodrova, Viktor Balashov
In the period from 1967 to 1980, the program went on the air from a television center located in Moscow on the street. Shabolovka, then from ASK-1 Ostankino, starting from 1990, it left ASB-21 in ASK-3 Ostankino, and already in March 2008, the program began to be released from the Channel One news complex, which was opened as a result refurbishment of the Ostankino Concert Hall.
The program formed its own concept of the order in which news was presented already in the first years of its existence. This concept is still valid today: first comes the protocol on the first persons of the state, then the news from the periphery, then the news of the economy, culture and sports follow in the same sequence, and, finally, the weather forecast.
The first color edition of the program was released in 1974. The celebratory episodes of the program, aired on 1 May and 7 November, featured demonstrations and military parades on Red Square and were broadcast live starting at 9:45.
Presenters of the program "Time" Shatilova Anna Nikolaevna
During the period of stagnation, the television program "Vremya" was the main program of an informational nature, and was distinguished by a rather biased coverage of events that took place in the USSR and other countries. The correspondent bureaus of the information program were located in more than 40 countries. Its name "Time" returned to the program screen saver on 12/16/1994. Starting from 04/01/1995, the broadcasting of the program on the Public Russian Television began, and already from 03/11/1996 production began. From 05/26/1996, the program began to air on Sundays, but already at 20:00. Since September 1999, weekday and Saturday editions of the program have received a new name “Time. Information channel”, as well as “Time. Analytical Program. The program "Here and Now" also appeared, closed in April 2001, which was released as part of the "Information Channel" program. The program received its original name "Time" in June 2001, and in the autumn the program "Night Time" appeared, which was released only on weekdays (Monday-Thursday).
TASS-DOSIER. January 1, 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the first airing of the television program "Vremya".
"Vremya" is a Soviet and Russian information television program. Its first issue was shown on January 1, 1968, "Vremya" is the oldest of the large-format information programs that appear on domestic television.
Story
In the 1960s, the information broadcasting of the Central Television (TsT) of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company included short news programs, as well as the weekly review of current events "News Relay" (aired since 1961).
At the end of 1967, a meeting on the preparation of a new information program was held in the main editorial office of the Central Television information in the television center on Shabolovka. Its participants were chief director Alexei Petrochenko, editors Leonid Zolotarevsky and Levan Dzaridze, and columnist Irana Kazakova. As a result of the discussion, the management of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company was proposed to use live broadcast reporters and the possibilities of mobile television stations for the future program. The editorial board chose its name - "Time".
The first issue of the Vremya program was aired on the First Program of the Central Television of the USSR on January 1, 1968. Reporters from correspondent points of the State Radio and Television from all over the Soviet Union, as well as from abroad, passed the word to each other on the air. Basically, the issue was devoted to the New Year theme. Initially, the program was released three times a week.
A few weeks after the launch of the program, its format was transformed: announcers appeared in the program. Anna Shatilova and Evgeny Suslov were the first to broadcast. The practice of conducting "Vremya" by two announcers - a man and a woman - continued until the early 1990s. At different times, the announcers of the program were Igor Kirillov, Viktor Balashov, Evgeny Kochergin, Yuri Petrov, Evgeny Arbenin, Evgeny Smirnov, Viktor Tkachenko, Nonna Bodrova, Aza Likhitchenko, Anna Shatilova, Vera Shebeko, Galina Zimenkova, Dina Grigorieva and others. According to Igor Kirillov, "there were two presenters in the program to beat one message from another."
Since 1970, the Vremeni studio was transferred from Shabolovka to the Ostankino television center, the program began to be broadcast in color. In the early 1970s, Yuri Letunov, the creator of the Mayak radio station, headed the main editorial office of the Central Television information. His name is associated with the formation of the recognizable style of the Vremya program and its thematic focus. Since 1971, as part of the program, a weather forecast began to appear regularly (the first commentator was Ekaterina Chistyakova, an employee of the Hydrometeorological Center).
In 1972, a constant start time of the program - 21:00 - and its timing - 30 minutes were established. Until 1982, she went on the air under the First All-Union Program. In 1978-1987 "Vremya" was repeated the next day during the daytime. In 1982, when the Second Program of the Central Television became an all-Union program, the issue of "Vremya" also began to appear at 21:00 on its frequency (until mid-1990).
In the 1970s and 1980s, considerable attention was paid to the official party and state chronicles in the program. Also, stories about the national economy, materials about events in foreign countries, cultural and sports chronicles, etc. were aired.
Since 1987, the releases of Vremya on the Second Program of the Central Television were accompanied by sign language translation. By the end of the 1980s, the program had correspondent bureaus in 40 countries of the world.
Modernity
In 1991, after the August coup, the Vremya program was renamed to TV Inform. Its first issue on August 28 was started by the political observer Alexander Tikhomirov, and Tatiana Mitkova and Dmitry Kiselev were the direct presenters. Since January 1992, the program has been broadcast on Channel 1 Ostankino as Ostankino News, since July 28, 1992 - under the name ITA News. Unlike the programs of previous decades, it was hosted by a single TV journalist (Sergey Shatunov, Mikhail Osokin, Tatyana Mitkova, Igor Vykhukholev and others). The name "Time" was returned on December 16, 1994. Since 1996, the directorate of information programs of the Public Russian Television (now Channel One) has been preparing the program.
Among the hosts of the Vremya program in the 1990-2010s were: Nelly Petkova, Igor Gmyza, Arina Sharapova, Sergey Dorenko, Kirill Kleimenov, Alexandra Burataeva, Anna Pavlova, Dmitry Borisov and others.
Since 2003, the final information and analytical program "Sunday Time" has also been aired on Channel One. Among its presenters were Petr Marchenko, Andrey Baturin, Petr Tolstoy and Irada Zeynalova.
In March 2008, "Vremya" began to go on the air from the studio, where the concert hall of the Ostankino television center was previously located.
In 2017, "Vremya" was hosted by Ekaterina Andreeva (working in the program since 1997) and Vitaly Eliseev (working in the program since 2007), "Sunday Time" - Valery Fadeev.
Reporting for the program is filmed in 22 newsrooms in the Russian Federation and 12 abroad. About 70 correspondents are working on the preparation of stories.
Screensaver and music
On the screen saver of the first program "Vremya", aired on January 1, 1968, there was a static picture with a satellite transmitting antenna and an image of radio waves. The screen saver was opened by the first bars of Georgy Sviridov's suite "Time, Forward!", created by the composer based on his own music from the film of the same name based on the novel by Valentin Kataev (directors - Mikhail Schweitzer, Sofia Milkina). Subsequently, the screen saver for the program and the music playing in it changed several times. Invariably "Time, forward!" sounds at the beginning of the program since 1994.
Since the 1980s, before the transmission, the dial with the exact Moscow time was broadcast on the screens. According to him, it was customary to compare watches.
Ratings
According to Mediascope on December 11-17, 2017, "Vremya" (aired on December 12, rating 4.9%) ranked tenth in the list of the hundred most popular TV programs in Russia and third in the list of the ten most popular programs in the category " Daily News".
Awards
In 1977, members of the Vremya program team (producer Yuri Letunov, announcers Igor Kirillov and Nonna Bodrova, directors Yuri Vladeev and Nina Sevruk, etc.) were awarded the USSR State Prize ("for artistic and journalistic coverage of socio-political events").
The program was awarded the Russian television award TEFI in the nomination "Best Information Program" (2002, 2006, 2007, 2017).
Back to the pastThe Vremya program first aired on the USSR Central Television on January 1, 1968. The founder is Yuri Letunov, who by that time was the editor-in-chief of the Mayak radio station, created with his participation. The name "Vremya" was chosen for a long time by the editorial board. Who insisted on it is unknown, but the program could be called, for example, "In the lens." The very first issues were published without announcers. Correspondents live from the scene passed the floor to each other.
Back to the past Back to the pastThe first announcers of the program "Time"
A couple of weeks after the launch of the program, it was decided to expand the format and introduce speakers. The first broadcast was conducted by Anna Shatilova and Evgeny Suslov.“Usually, all editorial offices submitted applications to the announcer department within a week and indicated the name of the program and the announcer they want. I go to the board where our schedule is posted. And suddenly I see the program "Time". I run into the next room to the dispatcher who made this schedule, and ask: “What is it written? Suslov and I have the program "Time". And they answer me: “I don’t know. An application for you from the editorial office of the information came"
Anna Shatilova, announcer of the Vremya program from 1968 to 1991 Back to the past Back to the past
The program "Time" becomes colored
In 1970, the Vremya program was first published in color.“I remember the first color report, although there was nothing like that. I filmed an exhibition of the Wanderers, which was in the Tretyakov Gallery. And when I shot the report, they showed the film, about forty people crowded into the editing room, although eight people can go there. Everyone looked, and everyone did not believe. The operator with whom I shot was asked: “How is it? And what is it? Zhora Hakobyan, who was in charge of all our technical support, had such pride on his face, because he was also involved in this.”
Kira Grigoryeva, correspondent for the Vremya program Back to the past Back to the past
Why editors licked the film
“Do you know what we did? In order to understand where the film is glossy and where the mat is, I'm only talking about Svema, we had to lick it. Well, you understand, mat - it stuck, but no gloss. We understood that it was a glossy side, and glued it together. And I had a terrible experience. I was in a hurry, in a hurry, didn’t see something, in general, I glued it the other way around. We had a big TV, we all watched our stories. And suddenly, on the air, I see that my whole delegation, which arrived to celebrate some kind of anniversary, greets with their left hand. I glued everything wrong, it turned out to be a SLR. Here you go, I was all left-handed. In my opinion, it was the delegation of the GDR. And one more time I made a mistake, I also turned the film over, at the congress. The profile of our Ilyich always looked from left to right, but for me he looked the other way around. They didn’t fire me for this either, they scolded me, they told me to be more careful. ”Natalya Rodionova, director of the editing of the program "Vremya" Back to the past Back to the past
The program "Time" began to appear at 21.00
Since 1972, the exact timing of the program has been established - 30 minutes, and "Time" begins to appear strictly at 21.00. By this time, the editors received the latest news from the news agency TASS, which worked exactly until 21.00. It happened that people were fined for publishing news not according to TASS. Back to the past Back to the pastA poem written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko on the occasion of the death of the Soyuz-11 crew on June 30, 1971.
Two-way eternal communication
At Kamchatka and at the Arbat, over the Angara rapids A mournful exhalation: the guys died., Like a requiem over the country. Not one - no matter how crowned - will return to his home at last. On three hearts, big, human. There are fewer hearts in Russia. And what a heavy burden for people to whom they were just Vitya and just Gosh, just Glory - in recent days. Oh, the Matrosovs of rocket launch sites! You left us your charter: even in space - without flinching, die in the workplace. How many uncaptured pillboxes are in the sky! And as long as humanity exists. the flame of future starships will be an eternal flame in your honor. You are immortal, like the exclamation: "There is a flame!" And it is not true that the connection was interrupted: Between our Motherland and you is a two-way eternal connection.E. YEVTUSHENKO. Back to the past Back to the past
Assault "Ostankino"
On October 3, 1993, during an armed confrontation between the Supreme Council and President Boris Yeltsin, Yeltsin's opponents attempted to storm the Ostankino television center, where employees of the Vremya program were also located.“The military did not allow those who tried to seize the television center to get inside. We are sitting in the editing room and do not understand what to do. We run out of the back door of the TV center, we try to run to the railway station, the shooting starts, the bullets fly, they say: "Lie down." We went to bed. I remember my white raincoat, and I'm crawling through this October mud. We almost crawled to the railway station. Came home. Parents say, you know, they set fire to a television center there. Yes, I know, I just escaped from there, but I didn’t tell them how terrible it all was there.Anton Vernitsky, commentator of the department of correspondents of the Vremya program Back to the past Back to the past
The program "Time" has changed its name
In 1991, after the August coup, Vremya was renamed. The main information program of the country began to be called "TV Inform", since 1992 - "Ostankino News". On July 28 of the same year, the ITA News screensaver appeared. Then there was a change in the composition of the leaders. The name "Time" returned in 1994.“And there was a period in the early 90s, when our name was taken away from us. That is, it was not the Vremya program that came out, but just ordinary news, also with presenters, but it was called News. Then we got our name back. Do you know how happy we were? It was an event. We were all very happy that Vremya was returned to us.Alexander Onosovsky, in the 1990s - correspondent for the Vremya program. Back to the past Back to the past
Journalist Vladislav Listyev killed
Vladislav Listyev was the first general director of ORT, the first host of such programs as Vzglyad, Rush Hour, Field of Miracles. March 1, 1995 was killed. Back to the past Back to the past"I'm tired, I'm leaving"
Boris Yeltsin became the first President of the RSFSR on June 12, 1991, and was re-elected for a second term in 1996. On December 31, 1999, during a New Year's greeting on television, he announced his resignation and named Vladimir Putin as his successor.Director Kaleria Kislova recalls how they recorded the farewell to the people of President Boris Yeltsin Back to the past Back to the past
Ekaterina Andreeva came to the channel in 1991, since 1997 she has been the permanent host of the Vremya program. In 2007, she won the TEFI award in the nomination "News Program Host".
Back to the past Back to the pastSince March 2008, the Vremya program has been coming out of the huge studio, which used to be the concert hall of the Ostankino television center. The room was rebuilt in such a way that the presenter could be filmed from all sides, and behind him the viewer sees screens with current news and several rows of workplaces for editorial staff. In this studio, the programs "Time" and "News" are produced, starting at 9 o'clock in the morning. The design of the studio was developed by the chief artist of Channel One, Dmitry Likin.
Since November 2017, the premises have been under reconstruction, the Vremya program comes out of the Good Morning studio.
In February 2014, the Winter Olympic Games were held in Russia. During this period, the studios of several programs, including Vremya, moved to Sochi. The grand opening ceremony of the Olympic Games was organized by Konstantin Ernst as a scriptwriter and general producer.
Back to the pastOn January 1, the Vremya program celebrates its 50th anniversary - 50 years on the air. The festive issue on Channel One is hosted by Kirill Kleymenov, a journalist and head of the Channel One Information Programs Directorate. There are many surprises in the anniversary program, but the main one is that Russian President Vladimir Putin came to the studio. Residents of the capital and the Central region will be able to watch the festive anniversary broadcast as usual at 21.00. And in the Far East and in some other regions, the release has already been shown.
"This is not only a holiday of your big team, not only a holiday of Russian television and Channel One, of course, it is a holiday of the whole country," the president said. “Because over these 50 years, the Vremya program has become the undisputed leader in information programs in our country,” he explained. The head of state believes that this program "and abroad have been carefully, with interest and pleasure watched and watched."
Putin noted that over the years of the program's existence, "a whole galaxy of wonderful, very talented people has grown up here."
"We have always - including myself - always admired and rejoiced at the brilliant Russian language, it was always at the highest level the work of all technical personnel." The President called "Vremya" a "wonderful school of personnel for television", since "on almost all channels, almost all newsmen left the Vremya program.
“The most important thing, in my opinion, in all this great 50-year history is that the Vremya program is not only very information-rich, but to a certain extent it has always been and remains a standard of reliability,” the head of state stressed. For example, he cited the Great Russian Encyclopedia, recently published by the Russian Academy of Sciences, which was compared with "Wikipedia, other sources, the Internet."
He admitted that he is trying to see "Time" live.
"But, of course, business comes first, and I can't afford to drop business. But I try to build a schedule so that, if there is at least some opportunity, I can watch it live. But if not, then I watch it on the record" , the president said. And he said: "Although I don't know why, nothing seems to change, but live is somehow more interesting."
This part of the transcript of the plot is given by the TASS agency, and the president's speech can be watched in full on TV. Moreover, a rather large audience will surely gather at the screens - the anniversary edition of the Vremya program goes on the air after the show Best of All, where the best numbers are collected. Recall that, according to the ratings, it was this show that was watched the most and - yes - it surpassed even the Vremya program itself in terms of performance last year. Although this doesn't happen often. Usually, "Time" is always ahead.
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The first issue of the information program "Vremya" viewers saw fifty years ago, on January 1, 1968. Today, reports for the TV program "Vremya" are filmed in 22 newsrooms in Russia and 12 newsrooms abroad, and almost 70 correspondents are working on the program's stories. Since 1972, its constant running time (30 minutes) and airing time (21.00) have not changed.
The first announcers were Igor Kirillov, Anna Shatilova, Nonna Bodrova, Viktor Balashov. They were the first stars of the television screen, the whole country knew them, and their names and faces are still remembered. The structure of the release of the program was formed in the early years of broadcasting: the first persons of the state, news from the periphery, the economy, culture, sports, weather.
Even in the era of stagnation, the program continued to develop actively. This is evidenced by the appearance of a teleprompter, computer graphics, etc. in it. But the changes were carried out only in the technical part, they did not affect the content of the program, which was devoted mainly to the communist ideology.
The program "Time" did not immediately come out at strictly defined hours. Only in 1972 did it begin to appear at exactly 21:00. Since 1977, the program has been broadcasting in color. Live broadcasts were rarely used, but holidays (May 1 and November 7) were broadcast live. The program "Vremya" in the era of stagnation covered the events taking place in the USSR and other countries rather biased, biased. Only the positive aspects of the life of the country were covered. In 1977, the activities of TV journalists creating the program "Time" was awarded the State Prize of the USSR.
Since December 27, 1991, the program has become one of the official news programs in Russia. According to the chairman of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of that time, "Vremya" really became an integral part of the life of Soviet society. From January 1, 1992, it went on the air under the name "News". After 2 years, the name "Time" was returned to the screensaver. The first presenters of the updated program were Tatyana Komarova, sports news anchor Ilya Kukin, and Lyudmila Shelamova became the first presenter of the weather forecast.
Since September 1999, the weekday and Saturday editions of the program have become known as "Vremya. Information Channel" and "Vremya. Analytical Program". As part of the "Information Channel", the program "Here and Now" and "However" began to appear. Pavel Sheremet was the host of the "Analytical Program". Since 2000, an additional issue has been published on Sundays - "Time. Sunday Issue", but in connection with the creation of the "Times" program, it ceased to exist. Since the end of 2000, the Vremya program began to appear on Saturdays.
In the autumn of the same year, "Night Time" appears on the air, which comes out only on weekdays. The hosts were Andrey Baturin, and since 2002, Petr Marchenko. The second feature of the main issue of "Vremya" was that the results of the day were summed up by well-known political scientists, and not by the presenter, as was traditionally the case before. A similar format already existed on domestic television. On NTV in the program "Today at Midnight" and on TV-6 in the release of Vladimir Kara-Murza "Frontiers" a similar manner of presenting the results was already used. Andrey Baturin and Zhanna Agalakova were added to the former presenters Kirill Kleymenov and Ekaterina Andreeva. In the summer of 2002, the program resumed broadcasting on Sundays due to the absence of the Vremena program in the broadcast schedule. The host was Igor Vykhukholev. Sunday editions differed from the traditional analytical ones. All the best traditions of working with news have been preserved, the program has become brighter and richer. Only on July 13, 2003, the final output of the program on Sundays was fully restored. The host of the first updated issue was Petr Marchenko. On August 28, 2005, Pyotr Tolstoy became the host of the Sunday edition of the Vremya program. After the departure of Kirill Kleimenov, Andrei Baturin became the second host, who, in turn, was replaced by Vitaly Eliseev in 2007.
Due to live broadcasts on election day, the duration of the program is increased by 3-4 hours. Correspondents at the polling stations monitor the counting of votes.
In 2002, 2006 and 2007, the Vremya program was awarded the TEFI award in the Best Information Program nomination - this is the most prestigious professional award on Russian television.
Thus, in the history of the formation of the "Time" program, we can distinguish the following main stages:
1968: debut
1977: broadcast in color
1991: official news program
1992: Aired as "News"
1994: return of the name "Time"
2000: release of additional issue "Time. Sunday issue"
end of 2000: termination of the additional issue "Time. Sunday edition"
2001: appearance of the issue "Night Time"
2003: Fixing the release of the program on Sundays.
Today, "Vremya" is the basis of information broadcasting for Channel One. Its hosts today are Ekaterina Andreeva, Vitaly Eliseev, as well as Irada Zeynalova, the host of the analytical program "Sunday Time".
