Russia’s leading pay-TV operator Tricolor has launched a proprietary channel named Scream.
It made its debut on Halloween (October 31) and offers viewers US, European and Asian horror and mystery films, with those released between 2018 and 2022 accounting for 70% of its library. Many films will be shown for the first time on Russian television.
Commenting on the new channel, Marina Gasparyan, director of content production at Tricolor, said: “Tricolor sees a huge audience interest in the line of channels of its own production and continues its development. Scream is aimed at fans of spicy entertainment genres, and we are sure that they will appreciate the rich film library of the channel, which will take your breath away when you watch it”.
Scream is available to customers as part of Tricolor’s main services: United Ultra, Super Ultra Children, Super Ultra Adult and United. It can be watched via satellite and online in the Tricolor Cinema and TV application for mobile devices and smart TV, on hybrid receivers connected to the internet and TV Box and on the website of the online cinema kino.tricolor.tv.
In addition to Scream, Tricolor produces 19 TV channels: Premium, Action, Romantic, Ours, Soulful, Favourite, Comedy, Shocking, Criminal, Our Male, Comedy, About Love, Hit, Blockbuster, Film Screening, Our Film Screening, Victory Day, TipTop and Chizhik, as well as Infochannel and Kinozaly – a service with 12 screens and 12 channels on satellite.
It also produces three 4K channels – Promo UHD, Kino UHD and Serial UHD – which are broadcast via satellite.