America channel airs from a Washington, DC studio while RT UK broadcasts from London. Today, RT is available to 700 million people in more than 100 countries spanning 5 continents.

RT creates news with an edge for viewers who Question More. RT covers stories overlooked by the mainstream media, provides alternative perspectives on current affairs, and acquaints international audiences with a Russian viewpoint on major global events.

RT is the winner of the Monte Carlo TV Festival Awards for best 24-hr newscast, and the only Russian TV channel to become a four-time finalist for the International Emmy Award for News. The channel was nominated in 2010 for its coverage of U.S. President Barack Obama’s first visit to Moscow; in 2012 for covering Occupy Wall Street protests in the United States in 2011; and in 2014 for a series of reports on a Guantanamo Bay inmates’ hunger strike. It received its fourth nomination in August 2016 for producing a series of special reports covering the 70th session of the UN General Assembly. RT also holds multiple medals from the New York Festivals for its documentary and news programming and has taken home 37 international media awards in 2016 alone.

According to a November 2015 Ipsos - a leading audience research firm - survey of TV news consumption conducted in 38 countries of the more than 100 where RT broadcasts are available, 70 million people watch RT channels every week. 35 million – watch RT daily.

RT enjoys its largest regional audience in Europe, with more than 36 million people watching RT weekly in 10 European countries, placing it in the top 5 pan-regional news channels. RT also makes the top-5 list of the most watched international TV news channels in the US, with a weekly audience of more than 8 million viewers. 11 million people watch RT weekly in the Middle East and Africa, where news consumers were polled in 16 different countries.

In South America, RT is part of the national TV network of Argentina. It was picked up as a state-operated satellite system in Bolivia and the FESCOM Association in Colombia, which includes 200 cable operators. RT’s programming also airs on Cuba’s and Venezuela’s national TV channels.

Online, RT is the top non-Anglo-Saxon TV news network in terms of online PC audience, according to comScore. More than 3 million unique visitors access RT.com’s multilingual news content daily, according to Google Analytics, while comScore reports that RT receives nearly 50 million unique users monthly. The best of RT broadcasts can be found on its YouTube channel, which in 2013 became the first TV news channel in YouTube’s history to reach one BILLION views. Today, RT is the #1 TV news network on the platform with more than 4 billion views across its channels and 4.5 million subscribers. RT is at the forefront of adopting new media technology and was one of the first TV news channels to start creating 360 video content in 2015.

The study was conducted in 38 countries through telephone or online interviews with representative samples of the total population (15 years plus) from August-November of 2015 by Ipsos, a leading global audience research company. The study was carried out in Russia, Poland, Greece, Ireland, UK, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, USA, Canada, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, India, New Zealand, Australia, Libya, Palestine, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Lebanon, Tunisia, KSA, Kuwait, Oman, Iraq, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Nigeria.