# Gazprom-Media

Gazprom-Media (Russian: ОАО Газпром-Медиа) is a Russian media holding company. Gazprom-Media was established in January 1998 as a subsidiary of Gazprom Media Holdings. It and its parent company are subsidiaries of Gazprom, a large Russian company founded in 1989, which engages in the business of extraction, production, transport, and sale of natural gas. The group owns more than 38 television channels and 10 radio stations.
As of September 2024, the Media and Journalism Research Center evaluated Gazprom Media to be "Captured Public or State Managed/Owned Media" under its State Media Matrix.

## History

In 2000 with pressure from Mikhail Lesin, Gazprom-Media acquired NTV, the only nationwide state-independent television in Russia at the time, as well as other media assets of Vladimir Gusinsky's Media Most group including the satellite operator NTV-plus, TNT-Teleset, the radio station Echo of Moscow (Ekho Moskvy), and the Seven days (publishing house) [ru] (Семь дней) publishing house, which raised a major controversy and resulted in considerable changes to its editorial policy.
After Gazprom-Media took over "Media Most" in 2000, Gazprom-Media received Filipp Bobkov's entire former KGB 5th directorate (Political police), including all its thousands of employees, its database, and the security service founded by Bobkov that was accused of attempting to assassinate Boris Berezovsky in 1994. The entire archive of 5th KGB Main Directorate was taken to Media-Most. In 2000, Bobkov created the Institute for Strategic Assessments and Analysis (ISOA) (Russian: Институт стратегических оценок и анализа (ИСОА)), a joint stock company (JSC). It operated as a think tank successor to Media Most's security department with the former head of KGB in Azerbaijan Vaqif Hüseynov [ru] (Russian: Вагиф Алиовсат оглы Гусейнов, b. born November 27, 1942, Quba, Azerbaijan). The director of ISOA from 2001 to 2002 Vladimir Zhizhin [ru] was chairman of the board.
In 2005, Gazprom-Media purchased Izvestia, a leading nationwide newspaper. In May 2008, Sergei Fursenko's National Media Group [ru] gained a 50.1% stake in Izvestia.
For 37.22 billion rubles in August 2005, Gazprom-Media Holdings was sold to Gazprombank. In 2012 OJSC Gazprom owned a 41.73% stake in Gazprombank and NPF Gazfond owned a 46.92% stake in Gazprom. As of 2012, most of the stake in Yuri Shamalov's associated Gazfond is managed by Anatoly Gavrilenko's Leader (management company) [ru] (Russian: ЗАО «Лидер») a management company which is part of the SOGAZ insurance group controlled by the Vladimir Putin associated Rossiya Bank. Yuri Kovalchuk is its largest shareholder. In March 2014, Rossiya Bank sold its indirect control of Lider to Gasfond which owns a 45% stake in Lider. As of November 2014, Gasfond is the largest shareholder in Gazprombank which controls Gazprom-Media.

## Media assets
### Television

   * 2×2
   * 365 Days TV
   * Pyatnitsa!
   * Match!
   * NTV
   * NTV Plus
   * TNT
   * TNT4
   * TV-3
   * Subbota! (Russian TV channel) [ru]

### Radio (via subsidiary GPM-Radio)

   * AvtoRadio
   * Comedy Radio
   * Detskoe Radio
   * Like FM
   * NRJ Russia
   * Radio Romantika (Moscow exclusive, formerly nationwide)
   * Radio Zenit (Saint Petersburg exclusive; joint venture with FC Zenit)
   * Relax FM
   * Yumor FM

### Paper publications

* Seven Days Publishing House
** Seven Days (TV guide)
** Story Caravan (monthly magazine)
** Story Caravan Collection (monthly magazine)

### Internet

* Rutube
* Вокруг ТВ
** SRSLY
* Sportbox.ru
* УМА-ТЕХ
* Premier
* Getintent
* 2x2.Медиа

### Movie and cinema

   * Central Partnership
   * Comedy Club Production
   * Red Media
   * NTV-Kino
   * October Cinema & Crystal Palace Cinema

## Directors General

* Viktor Ilyushin (December 1997 – June 1998)
* Sergey Zverev (June 1998 – May 1999)
* Alexander Astafyev (1999 – 2000)
* Alfred Kokh (June 2000 – October 2001)
* Boris Jordan (October 2001 – January 2003)
* Alexander Dybal (January 2003 – June 2004)
* Nikolay Senkevich (since July 2004)
* Aleksandr Zharov (since March 2020)

## Board of directors

    Alexey Miller (chairman)
    Aleksandr Zharov
    Yuri Shamalov
    Alaxey Matveev
    Sergey Kupriyanov
    Sergey Kuznets

## Management

Source:
    Aleksandr Zharov (CEO, Member of the Board of Directors)
    Svetlana Fefilova (Deputy CEO)
    Yulia Golubeva (Deputy CEO)
    Tina Kandelaki (Deputy CEO)