How the start of the TV channel should succeed is unclear. According to the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg, RT DE has not yet applied for a license to operate a television station.
There is also no known license application from another state media authority. Much more important, however, is that state-controlled broadcasters cannot obtain a broadcasting license in Germany.
"In order to be granted a license, RT DE would have to prove that the company was distant from the state," said the Berlin-Brandenburg media authority at the request of the NZZ.
"RT TV will be broadcast in accordance with German and European regulations," says Alexander Korostelev in a sibylline way.
What that could mean: RT procures a broadcasting license in a neighboring EU country that attaches less importance to being outside the state, and comes via this detour into the German cable network.
The Spanish and British programs from RT can already be received in Germany in this way.
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