RT: Russian-backed TV news channel disappears from UK screens

[highplainsdem]

Source: BBC

Russian-backed news channel RT has disappeared from all broadcast platforms in the UK.

UK access to the TV network, formerly called Russia Today, has been affected by a ban imposed by the European Union.

Although the UK is no longer in the EU, the bloc applied sanctions to satellite companies in Luxembourg and France, which provided the RT feed to Sky, Freesat and Freeview.

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UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, who has described the channel as "Putin's polluting propaganda machine", said she hoped it would not return to UK screens.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60584092

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The one-line paragraph snipped out before the final one in the excerpt above was RT whining about the free press in Europe being just a facade. Yeah, right...

[Hiawatha Pete]

1. Good fucking riddance. n/t

[PSPS]

2. They have also shuttered their US operations (DirecTV had already dropped them.)