TV3 Plus

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TV3 Plus
Country Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania
Broadcast area Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania
Programming
Language(s) Russian
Picture format HDTV 1080i
(downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner TV3 Group
History
Launched November 1, 2003  ( 2003-11-01 ) (Latvia)
March 3, 2005  ( 2005-03-03 ) (Estonia, Original)
April 1, 2022  ( 2022-04-01 ) (Estonia, Renewed)
June 1, 2022  ( 2022-06-01 ) (Lithuania)
Replaced TV3 Life (Estonia, Original)
Closed March 1, 2022  ( 2022-03-01 ) (Estonia, Original)
Links
Website http://www.3plus.lv
Availability
Terrestrial
Telecentras (Lithuania) MUX in South-East Lithuania

TV3 Plus is a Baltic pay television channel owned by the TV3 Group broadcasting to the Russian-speaking community in the Baltic states . It was launched on 1 November 2003 in Latvia.

Its programming consists of simulcasts of Russian entertainment shows, and benefits from MTG's ownership in STS Media and Peretz .

TV3 Plus is the second most popular Russian channel in Latvia with a viewing share of 5.2% in May 2007, ahead of REN TV Baltic , but after the dominating First Baltic channel . [1]

TV3 Plus, as with other channels of the All Media Baltics group in the Baltic states , switched to HD broadcasting on 26 July 2018. [2] [ non-primary source needed ]

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, from 28 February 2022, TV3 Group has decided to stop rebroadcasting content produced in Russia, providing additional access to Ukrainian and world news channels. [3]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Share of TV channels and TOP programmes, April 2007" . TNS Latvia . 2007-06-13 . Retrieved 2007-06-22 .
  2. ^ "All Media Baltics media group's TV channels in Latvia now available in HD" . TV3 Group . 2018-07-26 . Retrieved 2021-09-04 .
  3. ^ Tv3.lv (2022-02-28). "TV3 Group приостанавливает распространение контента, созданного в России" . Tv3.lv (in Russian) . Retrieved 2022-03-10 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link )

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