The first channel. Worldwide Network

JSC "First Channel. The World Wide Web (PCVS) is a subsidiary of Channel One, responsible for distributing its television signal outside of Russia. On November 27, 1995, the company "ORTV-Region" (now - "Channel One. The World Network" or Channel One Russia Worldwide), which was tasked with the development of foreign broadcasting. In the first years of its existence, the company was engaged in broadcasting the updated First Channel in the countries of the former USSR, such as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Baltic States, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova. On September 27, 1999, the company began to carry out satellite broadcasting, launching the TV channel "ORT-International", broadcasting the programs of the First Channel for residents of Europe. PCVS broadcasts all the products of Channel One, which has a license to broadcast abroad.

PCVS is available anywhere in the world. The audience of the PCVS theoretically exceeds 250 million viewers.