Kanal 12 is the only local tv channel serving Cherepovets, a city in Russia's Vologda region, no other regional station really competes there. The channel first went on air on december 29, 1991, and has been run by OOO «Канал 12» ever since. After cycling through a few network partnerships early on, the station switched to fully self-produced programming back in 2008. By september 2023 the signal got bumped up to 1080i HDTV, a real step up from the older analog cable feed.
The lineup leans heavily on Cherepovets city life: a 30-minute evening newscast airs daily at 8:30 pm, with morning and late-night reruns for anyone who misses it live. Beyond news there's interactive talk programming, live coverage of local hockey and basketball games, plus movies and kids' shows filling out the rest of the schedule. The audience is mostly Cherepovets residents and a few nearby districts, people who care more about local roads, schools and clinics than national headlines.
Cable access is dead simple, since late 2021 the channel was designated a mandatory municipal public station, so it sits fixed at channel 22 on every cable network in Cherepovets, just flip to that number and it's there. For anyone off cable, the official kanal12.ru site is the starting point, and the station also runs a VKontakte page and streams live on RUTUBE for catching clips or live broadcasts, handy for younger viewers who don't sit through a fixed tv schedule anymore. Because the channel's whole distribution setup is built around that fixed cable slot, most people find it just by scanning to channel 22 rather than searching it out online. Some sports or film content can be geo-restricted for online viewing, pretty typical for a regional broadcaster like this.
Bottom line, this one makes sense if you're actually in Cherepovets and want a nightly local news habit, otherwise the main draw from outside the region is the news and sports coverage on VK or RUTUBE. Worth bookmarking the stream page so it's one click away next time, and passing the link along if a friend's looking for Cherepovets local news.
