The Alyona Show
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| Presented by | Alyona Minkovski |
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| Location(s) | Washington, DC |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
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| Original network | RT |
| Original release | October 9, 2009 – July 30, 2012 |
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The Alyona Show was a current affairs television program hosted by Alyona Minkovski that aired on RT from 2009 to 2012. The show featured in-depth analysis of news stories and also frequently criticizes the mainstream media, national politics in the United States, and the U.S. financial industry.
The show's final edition aired on July 30, 2012, after which Minkovski left RT to join HuffPost Live. Past episodes are still available on the RT website.
Alyona Minkovski joined RT as a producer in December 2008 and was given an on-air assignment on Inauguration Day in January 2009. After doing a second pilot show, she was then tapped to become host of RT's first live show. The hour-long show premiered in October, 2009, airing weekdays. It was broadcast live from RT's studios in Washington, DC.
In the 2010 Halloween broadcast, Minkovski spent the entire episode parodying the Glenn Beck program on Fox News. While covering the Republican primaries in June 2011, Minkovski called Sarah Palin—who announced she was not running—a "money-grabbing media whore" for taking attention away from other candidates.
The show was broadcast from New York City during the height of the Occupy Wall Street protests in the fall of 2011.
The Alyona Show's editorial premise was "bringing you the real headlines with none of the mercy". The show began with a segment where Minkovski pointed out news stories under-covered or over-covered by the mainstream media. She wanted to bring her generation, which ignores mainstream reporting and goes online for hard news, back to television. Minkovski has said that the show's sarcastic and satirical tone is aimed at a younger audience. The programs focus on topics like government spying, the Federal Reserve, and America's undeclared wars, as well as media laziness, Washington corruption, Wall Street tomfoolery because, according to Minkovski, "there is a need to open people’s eyes. I think that unfortunately some people don’t always want to hear the truth, and it might not be pretty, but unless you put it in their face and make them hear that truth, there can’t be change. I think that’s the way the country becomes better."
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