20 TV and radio channels to be switched off in major Kuzbass cities
Residents of several cities in the Kuzbass region, including Novokuznetsk, will experience temporary broadcasting interruptions due to scheduled maintenance work on transmission equipment.
Feb 2, 2026 0
Transmission equipment maintenance in the Kuzbass region will cause short-term broadcast interruptions.
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Interference and broadcasting suspensions may be observed in Kuzbass at the end of January. The breaks will be short, but will affect the main TV and radio channels, according to the official website of RTRS (Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network).
The first to experience signal disruptions will be residents of Kiselevsk — this will happen from 09:00 to 18:00 local time. Problems will be observed with the program packages «RTRS-1» and «RTRS-2», as well as with «Radio Rossiya» and «Nashe Radio».
The «RTRS-1» package includes Channel One, Rossiya 1, Rossiya 24, Rossiya Kultura, Match TV, NTV, TVC, ORT, Karousel, and Pyaty Kanal. The second package includes: Ren-TV, Spas, STS, Domashny, TV-3, Pyatnitsa!, TNT, Muz-TV, Zvezda, and Mir.
The next day, the suspensions, but only in television broadcasting, will be repeated in Prokopyevsk. Also, temporary outages will occur in Mezhdurechensk with the same channels and the «Radio Rossii» wave.
The next city on the list is Novokuznetsk. On Thursday, 29 January, the 20 main TV channels we know will be working with interference, as well as 12 radio stations at once: Radio Gordost, Mayak, Radio PI FM, Radio Rossii, Radio Vera, Vesti FM, Serebryany Dozhd, Nashe Radio, Detskoye Radio, MIR, TVN, and Comedy Radio.
As explained by RTRS, the inconveniences are related to maintenance work: specialists will be checking the transmission equipment from the end of January until 1 February. Some of the plans may be postponed due to bad weather.
Radio and TV broadcasts are often interrupted in the cities of Kuzbass, sometimes it is necessary for checking the emergency alert systems.
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