NTV Plus
НТВ Плюс

Country	Russia
Headquarters	Moscow
Programming
Picture format	16:9 (SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Gazprom Media
History
Launched	September 1, 1996
Links
Website	www.ntvplus.ru www.ntvt.com.ua (Ukraine)

NTV Plus (Russian: НТВ Плюс) is the brand name for the Russian digital satellite television service from NTV, transmitted from Eutelsat's W4 satellite at 36.0°E and from Bonum 1 at 56.0°E. Previously a part of Vladimir Gusinsky's media empire (Media Most holding), now it is included in the Gazprom Media holding.

Milestones

• 1996 - First broadcasts of NTV-Plus appeared on September 1, 1996
• 1997 - Since early in the year the channels were broadcast in encoded form.
• 1998 - On November 22 NTV-Plus started satellite TV broadcasting.
• 1999 - In February NTV-Plus switched from an analogue to digital broadcasting system allowing the expansion of the number of channels from five to fifty. In December NTV-Plus started re-broadcasting digital channels in two languages.
• 2000 - On May 25 another Eutelsat-W4 satellite was put into orbit allowing the expansion of the broadcasting area.
• 2005 - Beginning of Dolby Digital 5.1 broadcasting
• 2006 - Broadcasting begins in Ukraine territory
• 2007 - Broadcasting in HDTV started
• 2010 - Broadcasting in 3D TV started. By cooperation with Panasonic, "NTV plus 3D" channel was launched.
• 2017 - Broadcasting in 4K/UHD started
• 2022 - The Denis Diderot Committee, a European group of professional and academics researchers and professionals ask sanctions against NTV Plus for having cancelled various international news channels from its line-up. ^{[1] [2]}

Channels

Variety, entertainment

Sports

News

International

Movies

Music

Kids

Documentary

Pay-per-view

HD

4K/UHD

Ukraine only

Adult

Radio

High-definition television (HDTV)

Starting from 2007, NTV Plus offers high-definition television (HDTV) programming. The following channels are offered: HD Kino (cinema), HD Sport (sports), HD Life (nature & travel), Eurosport HD, Discovery HD, MTV/Nickelodeon HD, National Geographics HD (nature), Mezzo Live HD (classical and jazz music).^[3]

The content is either produced by NTV Plus itself or received from foreign partners. The programming is delivered in 1080i25 format using H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec with 10 Mbit/s data rate. NTV Plus has contracted with France's Thomson to manufacture the receivers that accept signal encoded in MPEG-4.^[4]