Exclusive: Ukrainian news organizations are busily enacting contingency plans that have been in place for many years and are reporting through-the-roof news ratings, as local citizens and the international world tune in for updates on the escalating situation.
Speaking exclusively to Deadline via a translator yesterday, as Vladimir Putin prepared for full-scale invasion, Oksana Dychnich, the Head of News Production for StarLightMedia, the nation’s largest TV channel group, said a senior committee of all departments from news, Hr, operations and finance had set out scenarios a long way in advance.
Dychnich didn’t go into detail about the contingencies but told Deadline her news team is “doing our best so we can carry on reporting but feel comfortable from the technological, content and security side.”
“No matter your politics, this is a time when the media should unite the country,” she added passionately. “That is our aim.”
She said the war has,...
Speaking exclusively to Deadline via a translator yesterday, as Vladimir Putin prepared for full-scale invasion, Oksana Dychnich, the Head of News Production for StarLightMedia, the nation’s largest TV channel group, said a senior committee of all departments from news, Hr, operations and finance had set out scenarios a long way in advance.
Dychnich didn’t go into detail about the contingencies but told Deadline her news team is “doing our best so we can carry on reporting but feel comfortable from the technological, content and security side.”
“No matter your politics, this is a time when the media should unite the country,” she added passionately. “That is our aim.”
She said the war has,...
- 2/24/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Viacom's MTV Russia has ordered reality series K-pop MTCamp, which will celebrate Korean popular music and will be Europe's first reality show dedicated to the music genre, according to the company.
Viacom's Viacom International Media Networks unit is partnering with Russian telecom giant Mts for its first-ever local co-production in the country.
The series will follow 25 contestants who have impressed in auditions with judges that include two-time Russian Olympic figure skating silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva. Living and performing together, the contestants will be narrowed down to the final five winners.
K-pop MTCamp will go out on MTV ...
Viacom's Viacom International Media Networks unit is partnering with Russian telecom giant Mts for its first-ever local co-production in the country.
The series will follow 25 contestants who have impressed in auditions with judges that include two-time Russian Olympic figure skating silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva. Living and performing together, the contestants will be narrowed down to the final five winners.
K-pop MTCamp will go out on MTV ...
- 12/19/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Russian Bobsledder Fails Doping Test, Curlers Stripped of Bronze, Casting Shadow Over Olympics Close
A Russian bobsledder at the 2018 Winter Olympics has failed a doping test for a banned, metabolism-boosting drug, it was announced Friday. The news came a day after officials stripped two Russian curlers of their bronze medals for use of a different illegal substance.
Nadezhda Sergeeva, who placed 12th in a bobsledding event Feb. 17, had tested clean four days earlier, according to an announcement by the Russian Bobsled Federation. But a doping test administered Feb. 18 showed she had taken trimetazidine, a heart drug on the prohibited list for Olympic athletes.
It couldn’t have come at a worse time for Russia,...
Nadezhda Sergeeva, who placed 12th in a bobsledding event Feb. 17, had tested clean four days earlier, according to an announcement by the Russian Bobsled Federation. But a doping test administered Feb. 18 showed she had taken trimetazidine, a heart drug on the prohibited list for Olympic athletes.
It couldn’t have come at a worse time for Russia,...
- 2/23/2018
- by Kurt Pitzer
- PEOPLE.com
Twenty years ago, at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, two American women battled for the gold medal spot in the ladies’ singles competition: Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan.
As we know now, Lipinski ended up with gold and Kwan the silver. In 2002, it was much of the same: American Sarah Hughes took gold while Kwan won bronze. At the World Championships, too, American women dominated: From 1996 to 2006, there were only three years where an American woman didn’t land the top spot, and even then, the United States still had one (or even two) women on the podium.
Fast forward...
As we know now, Lipinski ended up with gold and Kwan the silver. In 2002, it was much of the same: American Sarah Hughes took gold while Kwan won bronze. At the World Championships, too, American women dominated: From 1996 to 2006, there were only three years where an American woman didn’t land the top spot, and even then, the United States still had one (or even two) women on the podium.
Fast forward...
- 2/23/2018
- by Diana Pearl
- PEOPLE.com
Officially, Russia isn't participating in the Xxiii Winter Games because of the fallout of a doping scandal, but they owned the ice in PyeongChang as Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva proved last night. While formally competing under the neutral Olympics Athlete from Russia banner, the duo scored a close gold and silver in ladies’ figure skating. Zagitova's near-perfect performance is the first gold Russia or the Oar has earned in the 2018 Games. The apprentice has…...
- 2/23/2018
- Deadline TV
The return of America to the Olympic podium in women’s figure skating won’t be for at least another four years. The three female U.S. skaters competing in the 2018 Winter Games finished on Friday no better than ninth.
It was, according to one longtime figure skating reporter, collectively the worst performance by the country’s women figure skaters — “ever.”
“I am extremely disappointed, I’m not going to lie,” Karen Chen told the press after her free skate in the final on Friday afternoon (Thursday night stateside).
“I know I’ve trained myself to skate better than that,...
It was, according to one longtime figure skating reporter, collectively the worst performance by the country’s women figure skaters — “ever.”
“I am extremely disappointed, I’m not going to lie,” Karen Chen told the press after her free skate in the final on Friday afternoon (Thursday night stateside).
“I know I’ve trained myself to skate better than that,...
- 2/23/2018
- by Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
If you thought I, Tonya was the most dramatic few hours of women’s figure skating you’d see in 2018, the Winter Olympics set out to beat that record on Thursday night.
Though 18-year-old Russian competitor Evgenia Medvedeva was expected to dominate in PyeongChang, she finished Wednesday’s short program in second place, behind 15-year-old teammate Alina Zagitova. But which young woman finished Thursday’s free skate at the top of the podium?
In the end, Zagitova eked out a win over Medvedeva, earning the gold medal with a score of 239.57. Medvedeva nabbed silver (with a score of 238.26), and Canada’s Kaetlyn Osmond,...
Though 18-year-old Russian competitor Evgenia Medvedeva was expected to dominate in PyeongChang, she finished Wednesday’s short program in second place, behind 15-year-old teammate Alina Zagitova. But which young woman finished Thursday’s free skate at the top of the podium?
In the end, Zagitova eked out a win over Medvedeva, earning the gold medal with a score of 239.57. Medvedeva nabbed silver (with a score of 238.26), and Canada’s Kaetlyn Osmond,...
- 2/23/2018
- TVLine.com
Don’t call them Russians. They’re “Olympic athletes from Russia.” Or Oar. At least until the closing ceremonies, then they can be Russians again.
That’s part of the awkward compromise devised by the International Olympic Committee (Ioc) as they allow some Russian athletes to compete while trying to enforce a supposed outright ban on Russia’s participation for state-sponsored doping at the Sochi Winter Olympics four years ago.
Russia denies any systemic doping of its athletes. But an investigation by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) after Sochi found widespread evidence of Russia tampering with urine samples meant to...
That’s part of the awkward compromise devised by the International Olympic Committee (Ioc) as they allow some Russian athletes to compete while trying to enforce a supposed outright ban on Russia’s participation for state-sponsored doping at the Sochi Winter Olympics four years ago.
Russia denies any systemic doping of its athletes. But an investigation by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) after Sochi found widespread evidence of Russia tampering with urine samples meant to...
- 2/9/2018
- by Kurt Pitzer
- PEOPLE.com
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