Tricolor TV
National Satellite Company, CJSC was founded at 2005 and registered the trademark. It began test broadcast via Eutelsat W4 on the night of 1 October 2005. First of all, company solved the problem of broadcasting Russian TV channels, therefore new provider was named Tricolor TV (in association with Russian three-color flag). On 12 November Tricolor TV started full-time broadcasting. Subscribers gained access to five channels: Russia (it was rebranded as Russia-1 later), REN TV, Kultura (Russian "culture", rebranded as Russia-K), DTV (this channel was rebranded as Peretz, Russian "pepper") and TV-3 (broadcasts TV series in mystery, science fiction and fantasy genres). Broadcasting was free of charge and it made the provider popular and growing.