Itar-Tass announced that Russian and foreign pay TV operators are planning to create an Association of Thematic Television. Such idea appeared because of the implemented restrictions on advertising distribution on pay TV in Russia starting 1 January 2015.
12 companies can become founders of organization, among them Russian and foreign companies: Amedia (TV channels Amedia), Russian representatives of NBC, Sony, Fox, Viasat (TV channel TV1000), Turner Broadcasting (CNN, TNT) etc. Companies are already preparing documents for association registration in the Ministry of Justice.