Black screens for Northern Fleet TV
The Northern Fleet’s TV-channel will be abolished, the Ministry of Defense has decided.
From before, the Northern Fleet’s theatre has felt the Ministry’s intentions to optimize expenses and focus on core duties, having its staff more than halved in course of the last years.
The Northern Fleet’s TV-channel has operated for 18 years, giving some 100 000 sailors and inhabitants of naval bases and other military towns news about the service and local community six times per week, GTRK Murman reports.
News about the closing came out of the blue, and the last broadcast will go on air already on February 28.
- It is sad that Moscow’s reforms are done this way: axe everything down and then later sort things out, says Head of Severomorsk Vitaly Voloshin.
The local authorities in Severomorsk are hoping to be able to start up the TV-channel again, this time maybe on a commercial basis.
