List of Ukrainian language television channels
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Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
in Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
was introduced in 1951
Timeline of the introduction of television in countries
This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included....
.
History
The first official broadcast took place in KievKiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
on 1 February 1939. It was 40 minutes long and showed the portrait of Sergo Ordzhonikidze. After the World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
on 6 November 1951, a Kiev tele-centre made a debut with a live broadcasting of the patriotic movie "The Great Glow". Next day the telecentre went on air again by broadcasting the solemn measures of celebrating the 34th anniversary of the October Revolution
October Revolution
The October Revolution , also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution , Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917...
.
On 1 May 1952, a concert went on air (shot in the small and only pavilion of the telecentre knwon as "Studio B") of great Ukrainian singers, soloists of the Kiev Taras Shevchenko
Taras Shevchenko
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko -Life:Born into a serf family of Hryhoriy Ivanovych Shevchenko and Kateryna Yakymivna Shevchenko in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven...
Opera Theater. The anchorwoman of the concert was the Kiev Telecentre's first announcer - Novela Separionova. In 1953, the construction of the building of the Kiev Telecentre on Khreshchatyk was finished right after the finishing of the Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
and Leningrad
Leningrad
Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...
Telecentres. Regular programs started to go on air in 1956. Until that year, the Telecentre went on air twice a day showing feature films or documentaries. Live broadcasting was the only form of broadcasting. Recording video became usual in the mid-1960s.
The first regular national channel appeared on January 20, 1965 under the name UT-1 (Ukrainian television - 1, today - Pershyi National), while on March 6, 1972 there was created the second channel UT-2. In 1983 the new telecenter started to be built at the 42 Melnyk Street, which was opened already after the fall of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
in 1993.
Political manipulation
After the Orange RevolutionOrange Revolution
The Orange Revolution was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which was claimed to be marred by massive corruption, voter...
Ukrainian television became more free. In February 2009 the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting claimed that "political pressure on mass media increased in recent times through amending laws and other normative acts to strengthen influence on mass media and regulatory bodies in this sphere".
As of January 2009 Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko , née Grigyan , born 27 November 1960, is a Ukrainian politician. She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She placed third in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful...
refused to appear in Inter TV-programmes "until journalists, management and owners of the TV channel stop destroying the freedom of speech and until they remember the essence of their profession - honesty, objectiveness, and unbiased stand".
Digital television
In 2007 and 2008 experimental DVB-T broadcasts of few channels started in Kiev and OdessaOdessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
. Those turned out to be successful. Yet the DTT
Digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals...
National Program is not approved by the government, thus the process is stuck. Because there're two versions of the Program submitted: from the Ministry of transport and communications as well as from the State committee of television and radio there's no particular progress in 2008.
On 26 November 2008 the National Program of the Ministry was approved, but the final version and the public announcement of this fact is still on hold. Current version of the Program does not take into notice any kind of Government financing, and the budget is to be private only, which will highly affect the TV industry and commercial broadcasters.
Besides there are 3rd parties, such as Television Industry Committee and National Association of Broadcasters which represent the communities of National and regional broadcasters respectively. Both organizations help the switchover not to affect the business of over 20 National and over 150 regional broadcasters.
The International Forum 'Digital Broadcasting in Ukraine' is the annual event that takes place in Kiev, Ukraine. Its mission is to gather the most of international consultants and Ukrainian specialists to solve industry's problems in the DTT field. In 2008 the 2nd International Forum took place in Kiev also. BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
, Deloitte and the Ministry of Communications of Finland representatives share the vision of possible plan of DTT implementation in Ukraine, delivering the best experiences from UK, Finland, France and US. Still none was taken into notice yet.
It is now confirmed that Ukraine's national terrestrial TV network, which is scheduled to be launched in September 2011, will use the DVB-T2 standard for all four nationwide FTA
Free-to-air
Free-to-air describes television and radio services broadcast in clear form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription or one-off fee...
multiplexes, for both SD and HD broadcasts. Before settling for DVB-T2, Ukraine was testing both DVB-T/MPEG-2 and DVB-T/MPEG-4 options, and some experimental transmitters operating in those standards are still live.
Other technologies
Commercial MMDS digital TV services work in Kiev and some other cities.DVB-C services delivering premium channels (in addition to standard analogue channels) launched in cable networks of Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
, Odessa
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
, Kremenchuk
Kremenchuk
Kremenchuk is an important industrial city in the Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Kremenchutskyi Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast, and is located on the banks of Dnieper River.-History:Kremenchuk was...
, Poltava
Poltava
Poltava is a city in located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Poltava Oblast , as well as the surrounding Poltava Raion of the oblast. Poltava's estimated population is 298,652 ....
, Donetsk
Donetsk
Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region...
and some other cities.
Top 12 Channels Rating
As of March 1, 2011 by GfKGfK
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| Place | Channel | Percent (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inter | 19.2 |
| 2 | 1+1 | 13.5 |
| 3 | "Ukraina" | 11.4 |
| 4 | ICTV | 8.4 |
| 5 | STB (СТБ) | 6.3 |
| 6 | Novyi kanal | 5.1 |
| 7 | NTN | 4.6 |
| 8 | Pervyi kanal (Russia) | 2.2 |
| 9 | Pershyi National | 2.2 |
| 10 | TET | 2.2 |
| 11 | K1 | 2 |
| 12 | 5 kanal | 1.1 |
Terrestrial channels
- 1+11+1- History :TV channel "1+1" was founded in August 1995, headed by its original President Alexander Rodnyansky who also was its general director from 1996 to 2002...
- Kanal 5
- ICTVICTV (Ukraine)ICTV is a privately-held TV channel in Ukraine. Its coverage area allows it to be received by 56.6 % of the Ukrainian population, making the channel the fourth in the nation in terms of coverage , and third by the viewers' ratings.The channel is owned by...
- InterInter (TV channel)Inter is the major TV channel in Ukraine. Based on it later was formed the whole new media group with variety of different other channels. Inter is among the top-rated networks in Ukraine, competing with such as 1+1 and Pershyi Natsionalnyi channels...
- K1
- M1M1 (TV channel)m1 is a Hungarian television channel own and operated by Magyar Televízió. It is also transmitted in high definition.It was 24 hours in 2000 along with m2...
- Novyi KanalNovyi KanalNovyi Kanal is a Ukrainian television channel.- History :The channel was launched on August 15, 1998. At first, it was broadcast only in Kiev, but since 1999, it has extended its range to six other regions of Ukraine, and from 2000, is received in more than 17 major cities...
- NTN
- UT-1: the main state-run television channel in UkraineUkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
- STBSTB (Channel)STB is a Ukrainian commercial television network. Today, the coverage area of the network is 85% of Ukraine's territory. It is broadcast in all oblast centers and all Ukrainian cities with a population greater than 50,000...
- TET
- Tonis
- TRK Era
- TRK Ukrayina
- 2+2
- 24 News
- KRT
- Mega
- City
- TViTVI (channel)-History:TVI launched on March 17, 2008. The station covers over 65% of households in Ukraine. The target audience are people from 18 to 54 years old in cities with...
Satellite and Cable
- UTRUkrainian Television and RadioUTR is the Ukrainian state owned TV channel targeting a foreign Ukrainian-speaking audience. Programming is provided with English subtitles. The channel is broadcast via satellite in Eurasia, North and South Americas, with a high quality signal available in 82 countries. UTR can also be found on...
: state owned television channel for a foreign Ukrainian-speaking audience - Rada TVRada TVParliamentary TV-channel «RADA» is an official television channel of the Ukrainian parliament: the Verkhovna Rada. It shows live broadcasts of the parliament's meetings, and others programs related to the law-making process....
: another state-run network assigned to the Ukrainian parliament - 1+1 International
- 2T
- Biz-TV
- English Club TVEnglish Club TVEnglish Club TV is a TV channel for those who study English. The channel’s content consists of documentaries, feature films, cartoons and music videos, which are adapted for learning English. The program schedule is divided into several blocks that correspond to different levels and age groups. The...
- Enter-Music
- Enter-Film
- Maxxi TV
- MTV UkraineMTV UkraineMTV Ukraine is a Ukrainian language music channel, owned by MTV Networks Europe, a division of Viacom. The channel was launched on 24 August 2007, 6:00 a.m. local time and is available to the whole country of Ukraine through cable and satellite: in Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lutsk, Lviv and...
- Music Box Ukraine
- News OneNews OneLaunched on November 27, 2007, News ONE is Pakistan's premier news channel and is licensed by Air Waves Media Ltd. and comes under the umbrella of the largest advertising group in Pakistan, The Interflow Group of Companies....
- OTVOTV- Science and technology :* Odor threshold value a measure of odor intensity* Orbital Test Vehicle, another name for the Boeing X-37 unmanned spacecraft* Orbital transfer vehicle, a space tug used to move a spacecraft from one orbit to another...
- PRO ВСЕ
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- Real Estate TVReal Estate TVReal Estate TV, also known as RETV, was an award-winning UK-based television channel and multi-media company that formed part of News Corporation’s Fox International Channels’ network....
- RU Music
- SCISCI-Companies:*SCi, formerly Sales Curve Interactive, a video game developer*Sanmina-SCI, an Electronics Manufacturing Services company*Sequential Circuits Inc, a synthesizer company*Service Corporation International, a large company in the funeral industry....
- Shopping TV
- Star TVStar TVStar TV is a Turkish nationwide TV channel. It was owned by Cem Uzan until it was sold to Aydın Doğan for 306,5 million USD in 2005 by the Turkish Government.It is available online on JumpTV, the World's online television network.- History :...
- UBCUBC- Universities :* University of British Columbia, a major Canadian university with its main campus in Greater Vancouver* UBC Okanagan, the campus in Kelowna, British Columbia* UBC Thunderbirds, the athletic program of the main campus- Athletics :...
- Humor TV / Babay TV
- GammaGammaGamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Gimel . Letters that arose from Gamma include the Roman C and G and the Cyrillic letters Ge Г and Ghe Ґ.-Greek:In Ancient Greek, gamma represented a...
- GlasGlasHans Glas GmbH is a former German automotive company, which was based in Dingolfing. Originally a maker of farm machinery, Glas evolved first into a producer of motor scooters, then automobiles...
- Eko-TV
- Inter HD
- Inter+
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- KiKoKikoKiko may refer to:*Kiko , a list of individuals with the name*Kiko , the Japanese form of Qigong*Kiko , by Los Lobos*Kiko goat, a breed of goat from New Zealand-See also:*Tropical Storm Kiko *KIKO...
- Kultura (Culture)Kultura (Ukrainian television channel)Kultura is state owned TV channel showcasing culture in Ukraine.- History :State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company “Culture” emerged in Ukraine in 2003 as part of the State Committee of Television and Radio of Ukraine. It was first broadcasted at First National and Second National channels...
- Malyatko TV
- Menu TV
- Novyny
- OK (channel)
- Pershyi Avtomobilny Channel
- Pershyi Dilovyi Channel
- Pershyi Natsionalnyi Channel (Int.)
- PlanetaPlanetaPlaneta Corporación, S.R.L., doing business as Grupo Planeta, is a Spanish media group based in Barcelona. The company operates in Spain, Portugal, France and Latin America. Editorial Planeta, its flagship, was founded in 1949. Planeta owns over 70 publishing houses worldwide. It publishes the...
- Pogoda TV
- SvitSvitSvit is a small town and municipality in Poprad District in the Prešov Region in northern Slovakia. It lies west of the city of Poprad, at the foothills of the High Tatras.-History:Svit is one of the youngest Slovak towns...
- Sport 1Sport 1Sport 1 is a European sports channel which is currently available in Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania broadcasting in different languages...
- Sport 2
- Sport 3
- Sport 4
- Sport HD
- UBR (Channel)
- Unian TV
- UNT
- Football TV СhannelFootball TV СhannelFootball TV Сhannel is the first specialized TV channel in Ukraine, dedicated exceptionally to football broadcasts. Football TV Сhannel broadcasts Ukrainian and European club competitions, International matches and other football events.-Coverage:...
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