Ostankino Technical Center

Ostankino Television Technical Center (Russian: Телевизионный технический центр Оста́нкино[1] им.

[2] In October 1940, it was transferred to the Committee for Radiofication and Radio Broadcasting of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union.

[3] On January 1, 1950, it was again transferred to the Soviet Ministry of Communications,[4] and the creative part was separated into the Department of Television Broadcasting, which remained within the framework of the Committee for Radio Information of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, a year later reorganized into the CST.

On November 5, 1967, to mark the half-century anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917, the Moscow Television Center was transferred the hardware and studio complex[7] built that same year at 12 Akademika Korolev Street,[7] which became ASK-1, the hardware and studio complex on 37 Shabolovka street which by that time already had 6 studio-equipment blocks, in which the main editorial office of popular science and educational programs and the main editorial office of programs for children and their studios remained, became ASK-2, the Moscow Television Center itself was renamed the Television Technical Center named after the 50th Anniversary of October.

Some of the production capacities of the television cinema hardware and studio units were idle,[29] for example, the camera shop is currently located in the hardware and studio unit where the animated television films of the Ekran Creative Association were produced on the 1st floor of ASK-1[30]..

The news program directorate has stopped using studio tapes and has completely switched to computer video editing.

TV test card drawn on facade of Ostankino Technical Center (May, 2016)