The last Soviet-era "Vremya" newscast was broadcast on 27 August 1991 and replaced with another news programme known as "TV-Inform" (ru: ) the following day. The closure was due to pressure from RSFSR President Boris Yeltsin claiming that the programme was "too tied to the CPSU", but according to the news anchors themselves it was due to CT USSR being forced to lay off a large number of their staff which were said to be KGB agents. When the USSR dissolved in December that year, the programme, now "Novosti Ostankino", changed broadcasters from Soviet Central Television to the new Ostankino Television 1 and 4. It stayed even until after the network's name change to ORT-1 (Public Russian Television-1, Russian: , "Obshchestvennoe Rossiyskoe Televidenie") in November 1994, and Ostankino 4's reformatting into NTV that same year.