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| Country |  Ukraine |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Ukraine |
| Headquarters | |
| Programming | |
| Languages | |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV (downscaled to16:9576i for theSDTV screen) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Media Group Ukraine (owns 99.93% of shares)[1][2] |
| Sister channels | Domestic :
International :
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| History | |
| Launched | March 13, 1993 (1993-03-13) |
| Closed | July 22, 2022 (2022-07-22), 10:00 AM |
| Replaced by | My-Ukraina |
| Links | |
| Website | kanalukraina |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digital terrestrial television | MX-1 (2) |
Ukraina (Ukrainian:Україна), officiallyTRC Ukraina (ТРК «Україна»), was a nationalUkrainian-language television channel owned byMedia Group Ukraine. It began broadcasting as a regionalDonetsk channel on March 13, 1993, gaining national status in 2004. It ceased broadcasting in July 2022.[3] The channel aired TV shows and films, both domestic and foreign.
The channel was established in Donetsk in March 1993 as the state utility company Doka-TV. The operator was under Donetsk City Council. The channel started broadcasting in Donetsk on Channel 7, where it shared time with other TV companies, ASKET 7x7 and Sket.
By the end of the 1990s, ASKET TV was bought out by a corporation owned by tycoonRinat Akhmetov. The new owners of ASKET TV offered to unite with Doka-TV on mutually beneficial terms. In March 2001, the joint-stock company TRK Ukraina was established; it received a license for a channel in Donetsk, and later for a number of channels inDonetsk andLuhansk regions. At that time, Akhmetov's SCM group owned 75% of the channel's shares. In 2007, SCM became the owner of 99%,[4] and in 2010 it owned 100% of the channel's shares.[5]
In 2002–2003, the company continued its active development, receiving more than a hundred television frequencies throughout Ukraine, includingVHF channel 11 inKyiv, where the channel began broadcasting in June 2003. In the same year, the channel also started broadcasting viasatellite. In April 2003, TRK Ukraina became one of the most accessible packages of the Kyiv cable operator Volia.[6][7] In 2004 during the Orange Revolution, TRK Ukraina was associated as the media resource of Viktor Yanukovych's pro-Russian camp and seen as sharing the ideology of the Party of Regions (and later the Opposition Bloc) and promoting Rinat Akhmetov for president.[citation needed] Moreover, in the same year, the channel received national status.
In 2008, Media Group Ukraine was founded, launching the sports channel Football TV. In the autumn of 2009, TRK Ukraina moved their broadcasting facilities to Kyiv. In 2010, the channel was rebranded to "Ukraine", dropping "TRK".[7]
In 2013, the channel officially signed the agreement to broadcast theUEFA Euro 2016 andFIFA World Cup 2018. In 2020, the channel officially broadcast inhigh definition.
Rinat Akhmetov, the beneficial owner ofMedia Group Ukraine, returned the licenses of all media assets of the media group to the state in July 2022. The station stopped broadcasting on 22 July 2022 at 10:00 a.m.Kyiv Time. According to an official statement, the group returned the licenses due toa new oligarch law in Ukraine.[8][9] On 21 July 2022, theNational Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine (NRADA) had canceled the licenses of the eight television channels of Media Group Ukraine.[10] On 18 October 2022, its previous team launched the channelMy-Ukraina.[citation needed]
In 2003, in a document of theAccounting Chamber of Ukraine, it was stated that NRADA should force the channel to broadcast in Ukrainian, and that the reason for the lack of Ukrainian-language broadcasting was the lack of control over their compliance by NRADA.[11] In 2014, after theEuromaidan protests and the reduction of Russian culture, the channel equally shifted the use of the Ukrainian language to promote national identity.
| Suspilne |
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| 1+1 Media Group |
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| Inter Media Group |
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| Starlight Media | |||
| Free Media Holding (former assets ofPetro Poroshenko) | |||
| Other terrestrial channels |
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| State-owned channels |
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| UP Hub |
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| Film.UA Group |
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| Volia (DVL) |
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| Torfey |
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| Poverkhnost+ |
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| Megogo |
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| Adjara Media Group |
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| Maincast |
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| Vianet |
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| Music Box Group |
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| Islandiya |
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| Nashe Media |
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| Eco Media |
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| Other channels |
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| Defunct channels |
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