REN TV
On 16 October 2009, "Kommersant" newspaper reported that the owner of private television channels REN TV and Channel 5 had made changes to the managing structures of the channels. Referring to an anonymous source, "Kommersant" stated that as the result these channels would cease to broadcast independent news; instead, since 2010 they would receive the news from the state channel RT (known as Russia Today until 2009). As "Kommersant" wrote, "the Channel 5 and REN-TV are the only Russian TV channels today whose editorial policy is different than state news. Only through these channeles opposition politicians are aired, as well as other events adversed by authorities are reported." However, the head of a REN-TV analytical news program "Week" Marianna Maksimovskaya was quoted by "Kommersant" as saying she held optimistic about the new executive director of REN-TV and sure that its editorial policy would not be altered.