TVI (channel)
Encyclopedia
History
TVI launched on March 17, 2008. The station covers over 65% of households in UkraineUkraine
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...
(summer 2010). The target audience are people from 18 to 54 years old in cities with
a population of more than 50,000. The audience's share in the first semester of 2010 is 0,9%. TVi was set up by two exiled Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n businessman: Vladimir Gusinsky
Vladimir Gusinsky
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky is a Russian media baron, is known as the founder of Media-Most holding that included Most Bank, the NTV channel, the newspaper Segodnya and magazines.-Life and career:Gusinsky was born in Moscow....
and Konstantin Kagalovsky. They split due to a business dispute but Kagalovsky controls and continues to fund TVi.
According to Ukrainian media watchdog Telekrytyka TVi and Kanal 5
Kanal 5 (Ukraine)
5 Kanal is a television station in Ukraine controlled by businessman Petro Poroshenko. It became well known as the first major broadcaster during the 2004 presidential election offering balanced or critical broadcasting on candidate Viktor Yanukovych...
were the only remaining TV channels in mid-May 2010 with independent and fair TV news coverage.
Staff
General Director is Mykola Knyazhytsky.General Producer is Serhiy Demyanchuk.
Editor-in-chief is Vitaly Portnikov
Vitaly Portnikov
Vitaly Portnikov is a Ukrainian editor and journalist.-Biography:Portnikov was born in 1967 in Kiev, at the time in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union . He graduated from the MSU Faculty of Journalism in 1990...
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Penetration
Satellite reception of TVi is available at all the territory of Ukraine. TVi is available in more than 90% of cable networks in Ukraine. Having a lot of partner agreements with regional companies TVi is available Free To Air in KharkivKharkiv
Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...
, Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...
, Zaporizhia
Zaporizhia
Zaporizhia or Zaporozhye [formerly Alexandrovsk ] is a city in southeastern Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative center of the Zaporizhia Oblast...
, Kryvyi Rih
Kryvyi Rih
Kryvyi Rih or Krivoy Rog is a city in central Ukraine. It is situated in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, to the southwest of the oblast's administrative center, Dnipropetrovsk, at the confluence of the Inhulets and Saksahan rivers...
, Mykolaiv
Mykolaiv
Mykolaiv , also known as Nikolayev , is a city in southern Ukraine, administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast. Mykolaiv is the main ship building center of the Black Sea, and, arguably, the whole Eastern Europe.-Name of city:...
, Simferopol
Simferopol
-Russian Empire and Civil War:The city was renamed Simferopol in 1784 after the annexation of the Crimean Khanate to the Russian Empire by Catherine II of Russia. The name Simferopol is derived from the Greek, Συμφερόπολις , translated as "the city of usefulness." In 1802, Simferopol became the...
, Sloviansk
Sloviansk
Sloviansk is a city in eastern Ukraine, an administrative center of the Slovianskyi Raion within the Donetsk Oblast. It was founded in 1676, and has a population of 129,600.-History:...
, Kramatorsk
Kramatorsk
Kramatorsk is a city in the eastern Ukraine within Donetsk Oblast. Its population is about 200,000 people, including surrounding settlements under Kramatorsk City Council government....
, Melitopol
Melitopol
Melitopol is a city in the Zaporizhia Oblast of the southeastern Ukraine. It is situated on the Molochna River that flows through the eastern edge of the city and into the Molochnyi Liman, which eventually joins the Sea of Azov....
. TVi was not granted a digital license in the summer of 2011; this will mean that TVi will through existing cable and satellite networks have access to about 45 percent of Ukraine’s population (while the selected channels will have more than 90 percent nationwide coverage) from the autumn of 2011. According to TVi it did not get a digital license because of its critical approach to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician who has been the President of Ukraine since February 2010.Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002...
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Satellite reception
Satellite: Amos 2 4,0° WTransponder: TP 22L
Downlink Freq: 10722 H
FEC Rate: 3/4
Symbol Rate: 27500 Msym/sec
Encoding: Mpeg2
Channel Name: TBi
CAS: absent
Programming
Every day TVi presents two 1-hour slots of the new production documentaries from National Geographic, AETN, Discovery. Our target audience enjoy world’s famous series like “Numbers” and action feature films. TVi produces 10 hours per week of own production that correlites to nationalwide Ukrainian channels:Siohodni
“Сьогодні” (“Today”) is a news service programme that comes on the screen on week days at 6PM and 8:30PM. Syogodni is one of only few and independent impartial news programs on Ukrainian TV, that’s why it is the most rating program in a schedule.Pravda
“Правда” (“The Truth”) is a daily talk-show with famous people about events of the day. The anchors are Ukrainian’s famous journalists Roman SkrypinRoman Skrypin
Román Skrýpin – Ukrainian media-manager, famous journalist, TV anchor, Chief of the Ukrainian Independent media union.He was born on the 27th of May, 1973 in Poltava, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union...
and Vitaliy Portnikov. The program is on-air on week days at 11PM.