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RT presents round-the-clock news bulletins, documentaries, talk shows, and debates, as well as sports news and cultural programs on Russia aimed at the [[international news channels|overseas news market]].<ref name="RTCorporate">[http://rt.com/about-us/ RT "About us" (formerly corporate profile) page] at Rt.com, accessed September 20, 2012.</ref> The network's signal is carried by 22 satellites and over 230 operators, which allows some 644 million people to watch the channel in more than 100 countries.<ref>[http://rt.com/about-us/distribution/ Distribution], ''RT'', accessed February 19, 2014.</ref> RT America is available to 85 million people in the [[United States]].<ref name="CSM2012">Fred Weir, [http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0125/Russia-gives-WikiLeaks-Julian-Assange-a-TV-platform Russia gives WikiLeaks' Julian Assange a TV platform], ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'', January 25, 2012.</ref> In 2011 it was the second most-watched foreign news channel in the U.S. after [[BBC World News]],<ref>[http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50157 Foreign News Channels Drawing U.S. Viewers – IPS]. Ipsnews.net. Retrieved on 2011-12-07.</ref> and the number one foreign station in five major U.S. urban areas in 2012.<ref name="russia-briefing.com">[http://russia-briefing.com/news/russia-today-to-double-its-u-s-audience.html/ 'Russia Today' Doubles its U.S. Audience], Russia Briefing News, June 7, 2012.</ref> It is also very popular among younger American people, U.S. college students, and in U.S. [[inner city]] neighborhoods.<ref name="russia-briefing.com"/> In 2013 RT has become the first TV news channel in history to reach 1 billion views on YouTube. According to the [[Broadcasters' Audience Research Board]] between 2.25–2.5 million Britons tuned their televisions to RT during the second half of 2012, making it the third-most watched [[rolling news]] channel in Britain, behind [[BBC News]] and [[Sky News]].<ref name="Bullough">Oliver Bullough [http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/world-affairs/2013/05/inside-russia-today-counterweight-mainstream-media-or-putins-mou "Inside Russia Today: counterweight to the mainstream media, or Putin's mouthpiece?"], ''New Statesman'', May 10, 2013.</ref><ref name="Laughlin">Laughlin, Andrew, Jan 14, 2013 [http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/media/news/a450812/rt-russian-news-channel-goes-hd-on-sky.html "RT Russian news channel goes HD on Sky"], [[Digital Spy]] , retrieved December 13, 2013.</ref>

The network, particularly due to its coverage of the [[2014 Crimean crisis]], has been criticizedrepeatedly byreferred [[Unitedto Kingdom–Unitedas States relations|Anglo-American]] media fora [[impartialitypropaganda]] tool.

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:"They get these extreme voices on that have this kind of hostile toward the West viewpoints towards the world, very extremist. These are the people that they have on. And when I was on the anchor desk, they would instruct you to egg on these guests and try to get them, you know, rallied up, to really fire off their anti-American talking points. Listen, I'm all about exposing government corruption. I'm all about being critical of the government. But this is different. This is promoting the foreign policy of somebody that is,[sic] has just invaded a country, has invaded the country and is then lying about it, is using the media as a tool to fulfill his foreign policy interests. And RT is part of Putin's propaganda network and it's very, very troubling in the wake of what is going on in Ukraine today."<ref name="Reliable Sources">{{cite news|title=Putin TV in Chaos|url=http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/03/23/rs-putin-tv-in-chaos.cnn.html|<!--http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/23/rs.01.html-->|publisher=CNN|date=March 24, 2014|author=Brian Stelter}}</ref>

[[New York Times]] [[op-ed]] columnist, [[Nicholas Kristof]] commented on [[Piers Morgan Live]] about Wahl's and Martin's initial actions, "Well, admire their outspokenness but, you know, at the end of the day, RT is a Russian propaganda arm, and I don't think its going to matter very much to the geopolitical consequences here."<ref name="Piers">{{cite video|title=New Cold War?|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/05/pmt.01.html|publisher=CNN|author=Piers Morgan|date=March 5, 2014}}</ref>

American political journalist [[Glenn Greenwald]] responded to criticism by writing, "American media elites awash in an orgy of feel-good condemnation in particular love to mock Russian media, especially the government-funded English-language outlet RT, as being a source of shameless pro-Putin propaganda, where free expression is strictly barred (in contrast to the Free American Media). That that network has a strong pro-Russian bias is unquestionably true.....For all the self-celebrating American journalists and political commentators: was there even a single U.S. television host who said anything comparable to this in the lead-up to, or the early stages of, the U.S. invasion of Iraq? Even now, how many American TV hosts on the major networks and cable outlets report on the types of American killings described in.. [Afghanistan].., or the ongoing extinguishing of innocent human lives by President Obama’s drone attacks, or the pervasive chaos and suffering left in the wake of the NATO intervention in Libya that they almost universally cheered, or the endless brutality of the West Bank occupation and Gaza domination by the U.S.’s closest Middle East ally, or, for that matter, U.S./EU interference in the very same country that Russia is now condemned for invading?"<ref>Greenwald, Glenn (March 4, 2014) [https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/04/rt-host-abby-martin-condemns-russian-incursion-crimea-rt/ RT Host Abby Martin Condemns Russian Incursion Into Crimea – On RT] [[The Intercept]] retrieved march 21, 2014</ref>

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