– You have worked on television for quite a long time, reporting, doing analytics. Then they “left” you, it turns out? What happened? Reveal the secret.
– Yes, I collaborated with NTV-plus. This channel ceased to exist, MATCH TV was created. And they decided to fire all the “old people” who were over 60. They didn’t offer me a further contract, I remember that they kicked Gomelsky back then, he covered basketball. He also reported on matches on KHL TV. All these KHL, NTV-plus are one office, they are run by St. Petersburg people. I have a difficult relationship with them, to put it mildly.
I once reported from a St. Petersburg SKA match. I see the president of the Kontinental Hockey League, a Gazprom figure, Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev, sitting in a box wearing club paraphernalia: he tied himself with a scarf and all that. So I went on a tirade. How can it be: you are the president of the entire KHL, but you demonstrate that you belong to one team. Can you imagine that the head of the overseas NHL came to the match wearing a Washington or Detroit jersey? Yes, this is a scandal! But here, it turns out, everything is allowed to an official of a fairly high level. Well, after a while they said that the contract with KHL TV would not be renewed. Mayorov – on the way out.
– Did you regret that verbal escapade later? Still, television pays good fees.
– Not at all. At my advanced age, it is already problematic to comment on, for example, overseas NHL matches. These are nightly reports. At two o’clock I got up and a company car took me to the television center. I worked, got home at night, and went back to bed. In general, I haven’t lost anything, I think. And saved time and nerves…
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