Tag: VID

VID (Russian: ВИD, lit. “View”; abbreviation of Vzglyad i Drugiye, “Glance and Others”) is a TV production company in Russia, started by Vladislav Listyev since 1990. It is best known for producing the television programmes Wait for Me, designed to help people find loved ones and Pole Chudes which is a popular Russian version of Wheel of Fortune.
VID is known both for its logo, which has attracted controversy and popularity in equal measure for being visually creepy and austere and its wordmark, which uses the Latin D instead of the Cyrillic Д, so the logo appears as ВИD as opposed to ВИД.
The VID company was founded in 1990 by Listyev in the course of seeking funding for a television project known as Vzglyad, (meaning “glance” in Russian) as the show was intended to be a critical glance on Soviet political life. VID was not able to obtain a television license but instead supplied programs to the state-run ORT. Listyev later found some other programs including Pole Chudes, Theme, Chas…