The channel said it reached an audience of 85 million people in the United States, but this figure is disputed. Owned by TV Novosti and operated by production company T&R Productions, it was a part of the RT network, a global multilingual television news network based in Moscow funded by the Russian government. RT America, also known as Russia Today, was a U.S.-based news channel headquartered in Washington, D.C. (ANO) TV-Novosti (on behalf of T&R Productions)įebruary 2010 ( 2010-02) (downgraded to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed) Part of the RT TV network that folded in 2022 RT America