Contents tagged with broadcasting

  • Ukrainian MPs propose to ban broadcasting of FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia

    Four deputies of the Verkhovna Rada proposed to prohibit the broadcasting of 2018 FIFA World Cup that will be held in Russia,as stated in draft resolution Number 8343, submitted to the Verkhovna Rada on May 11.

    The authors of the document are the chairman of the Radical Party faction, Oleh Lyashko and the party deputies, Ihor Mosiychuk and Andriy Lozovyi, as well as the chairman of the Union Self Reliance faction, Oleh Bereziuk.

    Deputies proposed that broadcasting the matches "violates the …

  • Ukraine started broadcasting 13 TV Channels to separatist-held Donetsk

    Over the past three years, 13 Ukrainian analog TV channels have started broadcasting in the Donetsk region, as stated in a report titled, "The state of the information space of the Donetsk region: challenges and prospects," RBC-Ukraine reports.The report was prepared by the Public Association ‘Analytical Center, Thought Factory of the Donbas’, in cooperation with the Ministry of Information Policy and the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting.Analog television has been restored …

  • Kyiv unveiled plans on the launch of Ukrainian broadcasting in Crimea

    In 2018, Ukrainian authorities intend to start airing to the annexed Crimea several Ukrainian television channels and seven national radio stations, all via two towers, according to a recent post on Facebook written by Serhii Kostynskyi, a member of the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine.

    Kostynskyi illustrated his post with a picture of the launch of broadcasting from a transmission tower in Chaplynka in Kherson oblast, not far from the Russian border. “The opening …

  • Kyiv to block broadcasting of pro-Russian channels in the Donbas

    Systems to block the broadcasting of pro-Russian TV channels and radio stations are to be set up along the demarcation line in the Donbas, NSDC (National Security and Defense Council) Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov said in Pokrovsk in the Donetsk province, 06239.com.ua reports.

    “In Pokrovsk the first trial installation of the complex counter-information system has been created, which will make it possible to completely block the pro-Russian TV and radio channels and at the same time to receive …

  • Ukrainian TV channels to start broadcasting to Crimea on Ukraine’s Independence Day

    Five Ukrainian TV channels will start broadcasting to annexed Crimea on Ukraine’s Independence Day – August 24, Serhiy Kostinsky, a member of the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council, told Krym.Realii.

    “The National Council is supposed to issue licenses – this is a technical process. All of the necessary equipment for organizing digital TV broadcasting to Crimean territory has already been established, and is waiting for the broadcasters.

    Preparing the licenses will take some …

  • Ukraine begins broadcasting in separatist-controlled territory

    In the Donetsk region, from the city of Chasiv Yar, broadcasting of the First Channel of the Ukrainian Radio National Television Company (National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine) to the separatist-held territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions has begun on the frequency 873 kHz, as reported by the Press Service of the Donetsk Military Civil Administration.

    Pavlo Zhebrivskyi, the head of the Donetsk Regional State Aviation Administration, assured that the signal for the Ukrainian radio …

  • Ukrainian National Council official: There is a 'broadcasting duel' between Russia and Ukraine on the administrative border with the Crimea

    A duel is being fought on the administrative border with the Russian-annexed Crimea between radio stations broadcasting from mainland Ukraine and those broadcasting from the peninsula, as explained by a member of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine, Serhiy Kostynsky, to Krym.Realii.

    "And it is we who set the rules. It can be seen from their initiatives, that the Crimean authorities do not have enough resources. And all that they can do is install transmitters," …

  • Ukrainian National Council says that TV tower broadcasting to Crimea will run at full capacity by April

    A member of Ukraine’s National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting, Sergei Kostinsky stated on UA TV that the TV tower at Chonhar will run at full capacity by the end of March, Krym.Realii reported.

    “Currently, the TV tower at Chonhar is operating in test mode. However, it will begin to work in normal mode this month. All four radio stations should become operational as of April,” Kostinsky reported.

  • The DPR announces beginning of TV broadcasting in Ukraine

    The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) announced the expansion of "broadcasts" of their own television and radio stations to three Ukrainian regions: Kharkiv, Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk. This was stated by the head of the DPP, Alexander Zakharchenko, as reported by separatist media.

    It is reported that he gave the order to start the broadcasts to the Ukrainian territory directly at the press conference."It's time to launch this process. From now on, our television and radio …