Echo of Moscow (38 photos)

The radio station "Echo of Moscow" first went on air on August 22, 1990 in Moscow under the name "Radio-M" and became the first non-state radio in the USSR. Today it is one of the most popular radio stations in Moscow with an audience of almost a million people.

"Echo of Moscow" is an information radio station. 70% of the airtime is taken up by informational and conversational programs, 30% by music. Moreover, music programs are broadcast mainly at night. The photo shows one of the studios where news is recorded.

Konstantin Pokhmelov, sports columnist.

Despite the fact that the controlling stake in ZAO Ekho Moskvy belongs to Gazprom-Media (66%), according to Russian media law, the founders or shareholders do not have the right to interfere in editorial policy. The statute of Ekho Moskvy prescribes that the editorial course can be determined exclusively by the editor-in-chief. "Echo" is positioned as a professional radio. Regarding the opposition, editor-in-chief Venediktov said: “We are not an opposition radio, we are an information radio - once again. We are a platform for discussions of various forces - two. We are a place for analytics and opinions of various political structures, forces, ideas - three. We are not opposition radio.”

Due to its interactivity (in many programs, calls from radio listeners are accepted without pre-moderation), the radio station is subject to attacks from the community of pranksters - telephone hooligans. The attackers dial up and use obscene language live on air, including using obscenities, provoking the presenters to respond. Despite the fact that obscene language on air is classified according to the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation as hooliganism and in relation to presenters may violate Article 130 of the Criminal Code “insult”, the search for the perpetrators still remains unsuccessful. The result of the attacks was the banning of calls in the programs of Nikolai Tamrazov and Alexander Pikulenko.

Olga Zhuravleka about methods of dealing with telephone hooligans: “Everything is based on talent, everything is on intuition. When you hear a prankster, you already begin to guess from the intonation that this is a prankster and simply take him off the air, since the presenter himself regulates calls, but in reality In fact, it all happens live."

In the middle is Oksana Chizh - production editor and next to Vladimir Varfolomeev - first deputy editor-in-chief of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" (everyone calls him VV), on the left - Alena Vershinina.

Feeder.

Timur Olevsky. I posed too actively, so here’s a photo). Timur claims that if he doesn’t cut his hair for a year, he will have the same hairstyle as me.

In the "red corner" Khodorkovsky is behind bars.

Every day everyone gathers for a planning meeting to discuss the main news of the day.

- How many people, off the top of my head, are currently working at Echo?
- There are definitely about 200 people, if you count only journalists, and we also have accounting and other all sorts of commercial... The advertising service is generally a separate life, but it doesn’t live with us, so we don’t even know everyone.
- How many people want to get to work, is there a lot of turnover?
- We don’t have staff turnover, we have a talent pool. It’s a completely different story, when you turn on any wave, you’ll definitely hear a familiar voice, because someone once worked for us at least for some time, but in principle there is a turnover. Do they want to? They want to. When you come to visit some unfamiliar company, someone will definitely ask if I would bring him to work for Echo of Moscow.

The famous corridor with portraits of guests. Olga Zhuravleva answered the questions.
- How long has Echo had this office and when was the last time renovations were done?
- That's what I don't know... no, we moved in 93-94. I remember that after the events of ’93 we moved here, but, exactly, it seems to me, in ’94. So from now on it is. Repairs are only cosmetic.
- Are there any legends? Like ghosts or something else.
- Well, it depends on how much you drink, then ghosts will appear. On the night shift you see everything, although I haven’t worked at night for a long time.
- How many portraits are on the walls now, are there any statistics?
- I didn’t count. So many walls, so many portraits. They will be changed, some will be removed, others will be hanged.
- It's clear. Do you remember when it started?
- Well, in fact, the gallery was started by Seryozha Abramenko, whose portrait hangs in the first studio. He worked for us as a reviewer, a senior reviewer, he really loved photography, and it started with him. I bought myself such a chic camera and started taking very good photographs in an artistic sense. And when they saw how he worked, he was offered to do this constantly, and he began to do it constantly. Unfortunately, Seryozha died... at the age of 21 he died in an accident, and this case was simply continued, and Seryozha Abramenko himself even had his exhibition at Olga Sviblova, under her auspices, his other Ekhov workers.

- There is a lot of office humor on the walls, including political humor. Do they film anything before certain guests arrive? Well, for example, Putin will come to you, and there will be a caricature of him on the wall. Will you be filming or not? Have there been any funny stories you can remember involving guests and wall jokes?

Important portraits hang at the entrance to the office. They say the photo of Putin was taken before he became president.

- Well, I don’t remember the wall jokes, but the most famous story is with the order regarding polygamy, on which Aushev signed, well, that is, read. In general, guests, of course, don’t read, but, in my opinion, no one bothers to check this cheerful humor of ours in front of guests. This is hung there and hangs there for so many years, sometimes it falls off on its own, sometimes something new is hung on top. Probably one of the guests is reading something, but if I were them, I wouldn’t get carried away.

Mysterious second eye.

But the most important announcements are posted in the toilet for everyone to read.

From here you have a good view of New Arbat.

Evgeniy Buntman: “There is a Black climber, a White speleologist, a Black monk, and so on... We have a Black referent. Several years ago, as always, in the summer, when countless girls from different faculties were interning, and one came to get hired and went to meet a guest. Nobody saw her again. And to this day I tell all newcomers, both assistants and correspondents, that the Black assistant still meets night guests, and somewhere between the 1st and 14th floors she travels like that. "

- What was the most interesting gift given to “Echo”, do you remember anything?
- Well, the most outstanding thing is the bell, of course, which was given to Venediktov and which so decorates our lives. Only a lazy person, passing under the bell market for the first time, would not make a noise, and it could be heard in every sense.
- Note that it was given as a gift before...
- Yes, our market is older, of course.

Venidiktov's office. Do you recognize the calendar? Alexey Alekseevich has been working at the radio station "Echo of Moscow" since August 1990. He started as a newspaper columnist and correspondent (in particular, he was in the White House during the confrontation between President Boris Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet), then became a political observer, headed the information service and, finally, in February 1998, was elected to the post of editor-in-chief of the radio station. Alexey Alekseevich spoke about how he got to Echo and about his first job: “At the first stage, the phone was not connected to the remote control. and drink, they said: “We’re on air now. So sit under the table, pick up the phone and check. If there is a call, you show two fingers like this and we put the phone on the air." My first job on Echo was sitting under the table and picking up the phone."

- Were there any conflict situations?
“The guards were specially placed in the middle of the corridor so that idly people would not wander too far, would not wander between offices and studios, and now they are monitoring this. In general, we even had such episodes when there was no security at all, when all sorts of peddlers entered, they came into this building and came to different floors, selling blankets, books, saucepans, screwdrivers, and a couple of times such people stopped by to the studio during the broadcast with the microphone on with these shouts - “oh, here’s who ...”, and I had to somehow work on it.
- Have there been any thefts?
- Yes, we have. Once upon a time, many years ago, there were stories with whiskey, then, in my opinion, even with money, but somehow it ended with some people leaving.

New television studio of the radio station "Echo of Moscow".

- Do listeners send anything?
- 20 years ago, or rather in 1991, listeners simply brought food. When there were some cruel events like this, they brought us bread, coffee, sugar, cakes, homemade pies, cigarettes, in general - everything in a row... tea. It was actually very cool, very pleasant, and to this day I just want to thank all these people. Well, even now sometimes good people are brought homemade pies. They bring Boris Alekseev baked mushrooms, in the form of cookies, a very skillful work, just a man sacrificing himself.

In 1997, Echo of Moscow was the first among Moscow radio stations to have a website on the Internet. And in 1998, the first broadcast channel appeared in RealAudio. There were several versions of the site in 1997, 2000, 2004, 2008. In November 2008, the website www.echo.msk became the winner of the Runet Prize 2008 in the Culture and Mass Communications category. Now the Echo of Moscow website is visited by about 200,000 people a day. In the photo there is an editorial website.

Blogs are also followed here. My blog on the Echo website can be viewed here - echo.msk/blog/varlamov_i/. Despite the fact that some posts from LiveJournal are completely copied there, the audience there is completely opposite to LiveJournal. Sometimes I like to read the opinions of readers who pay for my reports ;).

Shortly after American President Bill Clinton's visit to the radio station, a letter arrived from the White House.

Gift from Novaya Gazeta.

Previously, carrots and sticks hung on the wall. Then the carrot was stolen, leaving only the stick.

These are the books and magazines that radio listeners win. If they don't claim the prize within two weeks, it will be given to someone else.

According to the Medialogia company, Ekho Moskvy is the most influential radio in Russia, and among other media in this indicator it is on a par with such media as Kommersant, Channel One, Vedomosti, ahead of Rossiyskaya Gazeta ", "Izvestia", TV channel "Russia" and NTV. In 2007, Ekho Moskvy took 12th place in the Top 100 Most Mentioned Runet Brands rating. In 2008, according to the Medialogia company, Ekho Moskvy is cited much more often than other radio stations and takes first place in the TOP-5 of the most influential Russian radio stations for a business audience.

And yet, yesterday on Triumfalnaya some bastard took all the contents out of my pocket: a press card, batteries for the camera and a NOTEBOOK! At least return the notebook, it’s small, black, there are materials for many of my posts!