Inter ( uk, Інтер) is a Ukrainian television channel. It covers 99.7 percent of Ukraine's territory.According to the channel's own information According to

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it is among the most-watched television channels in

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.Shills no more? Inter TV comes cleaner on ownership, pledges fairer news coverage

(27 December 2012) Inter features a general programming mix appealing to both young and old audience, includes movies, music, drama, documentaries, news, kids' programs etc. In between of 2014 and 2016 the channel was heavily criticized by pro-western political activists and accused of spreading pro-Russian propaganda and advancing Russian political agenda in context of ongoing

Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War; uk, російсько-українська війна, rosiisko-ukrainska viina. has been ongoing between Russia (alongside Russian separatists in Ukraine) and Ukraine since February 2014. Following Ukraine's Rev ...

at the time.

History

The channel was founded by the ''Ukrainian Independent TV-Corporation'' in 1996. Besides its international version of the channel as the business project, Inter now consists of several similar projects. Those are ''07 Production'' - a studio of the documentary films, ''NIS'' - an information studio featurin
Podrobytsi
''Pirat Production'' - a studio of the entertaining shows. There are also over five other independent channels such as NTN, K1, K2, Megasport, Enter-Film, and Enter-Music (a Ukrainian version of MTV). On September 15, 2016, Kateryna Shkuratova was appointed Chairperson of the Board of Inter TV channel.

Inter Plus

Inter Plus ( uk, Інтер+) is the international network of Inter Channel that broadcasts the 'best of Inter' programming to Ukrainians abroad in North America & Europe. The channel first started broadcasting on January 13, 2003, available via

Dish Network DISH Network Corporation (DISH, an acronym for DIgital Sky Highway) is an American television provider and the owner of the direct-broadcast satellite provider Dish, commonly known as Dish Network, and the over-the-top IPTV service, Sling TV ...

in the United States and in Germany through Kabel Deutschland and encrypted in Europe & Russia on Sirius 2 & ABS 1 satellites. As of March 30, 2011, Inter Plus is no longer available on Dish Network. Inter+ is also available in Canada via IMB+ Records, an IPTV provider.

Programming

* Ahenty Vplyvu (Agents of Influence) * Kartata Potata * Kliuchovy Moment (Key Moment) - a talk show led by Nataliya Sumska. The show is oriented to help people to find each other, or to restore long-forgotten relationships, or simply let one of the guests tell a story of their life that they would wish to change. * Kvadratny metr (Square meter) * Lehendy Bandytskoi Odesy (Legends of Criminal Odessa) - a historical show that was discontinued in 2009. The show narrated criminal stories of the

Odessa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrat ...

city at the times known in history as

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and afterwards. * Liniya Konfliktu (Line of Conflict) - a talk show of Masha Yefrosinina. It is a thrilling socially-psychological project. The show brings up the hottest topics of the everyday's life. The participants of the discussions are bright, inordinary, and confident in the correctness of their views characters. The main task of Masha in the project is to tilt the guests to the sharp debate, literally to the edge of a scandal. At the Line of Conflict will be laid the line of fire! * Na Svoyu Holovu (On Your Head) - a real-life, adventure-oriented game-show led by Ihor Pelykh. * Nayrozumnishy (Smartest) - an intellectual game-show with a lightning-fast diction anchor-lady,

Tina Kandelaki Tina Kandelaki (russian: Тина Канделаки, ka, თინათინ კანდელაკი born 10 November 1975) is a Russian journalist, television presenter, producer, and a co-owner of the Apostol company. Biography Kan ...

. * Novatsii i Shtukentsii (Inventions and Stuff) * Park Avtomobilnoho Periodu (Park of the Automobile Era) * Podrobytsi (Details) * Podrobytsi Tyzhnia (Details Weekly) * Pozaochi (Pass the Eyes) - a talk show with celebrities. The authors of the show are Hanna Bezliudna and Irina Ionova. The show is led by Yulia Lytvynenko. The goal of the show is to let the audience to get to know their favorite characters a little bit closer. * Ranok z Interom (Morning with Inter) * Sudovi Spravy (Court Affairs) * Svoboda na Interi (Freedom on Inter) * Vechirniy Kvartal (Evening Neighborhood) * Vidverto pro Futbol (Sincerely about the Soccer) * Znak yakosti (Sign of Quality)

Personalities

* Andriy Danilevych (Podrobytsi Tyzhnia) *

Hanna Homonai Hanna Stanislavivna Homonai ( uk, Ганна Станіславівна Гомонай, born 29 May 1979) is a Ukrainian TV news anchor. She was born in Kyiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in present-day Ukraine). Career in Jour ...

(Novyny) * Volodymyr Horiansky (Ranok z Interom) *

Yevhen Koshovy Yevhen Viktorovich Koshovyy (born April 7, 1983, in Kivsharivka, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian showman, TV presenter, and comic actor. In the past, he was a member of the KVN team "Va-Bank" from Luhansk (2000–2005). Since 2 ...

(Vechirniy Kvartal) * Olha Kotlytska (Na Pershy Pohliad) * Olena Kravets (Vechirniy Kvartal) *

Yulia Lytvynenko Yulia Lytvynenko ( uk, Юлія Литвиненко, born 7 November 1976 in Inhulets), is a Ukrainian television host and politician from Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Biography She graduated from the Department of Journalism of Dniprop ...

(Pozaochi)
Dasha Malakhova
(Kartata Potata) * Ihor Pelykh (Na Svoyu Holovu) (died in a car crash May 8, 2009) * Ruslan Senichkin (Podrobytsi) * Nataliya Sumska (Kliuchovy Moment) * Olha Sumska (Ranok z Interom) * Masha Yefrosinina (Liniya Konfliktu) * Iryna Yusupova (Podrobytsi) * Anastasia Zavorotniuk (Kukhnia dlia Chaynykiv) *

Volodymyr Zelensky Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...

(Vechirniy Kvartal) *

Yevgeny Kiselyov Yevgeny Alexeyevich Kiselyov (russian: Евгений Алексеевич Киселёв, uk, Євген Олексійович Кисельов; born 15 June 1956) is a Russian television journalist. As the host of the NTV weekly news show ''I ...

(in charge of the news production)Shuster back at Inter channel

(19 February 2013)

Ownership

The channel was founded by the ''Ukrainian Independent TV-Corporation'' in 1996. The

Ukrainian independent TV-corporation Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * S ...

's shareholders were Dilovyi Svit 51%,

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n Channel One 29%,

Pegas Television Pegas may refer to: * Meletius I Pegas (1549–1601), Greek Patriarch of Alexandria * Pegas (bicycle company), a Romanian bicycle manufacturer * Pegas 2000, a Czech manufacturer of paragliders and other aircraft * Tomashevich Pegas, a WWII Sovie ...

20%. About 82.5% of Pegas Television was the personal property of

Ihor Pluzhnikov Igor ( be, Ігар, Ihar ; russian: Игорь, Igor' ; sr-Cyrl, Игор ; uk, Ігор, Ihor ; ) is a common East Slavic given name derived from the Norse name Ingvar, that was brought to ancient Rus' by the Norse Varangians, in the fo ...

. The other shares of the company were split between ''Pegas and Overseas sales Ltd.'' 17.3% and ''Bersted Ukraina'' .2%. Those two companies were his property as well. Besides ''Pegas'' he had some share in the Dilovyi Svit which consisted of ''Bersted Ukraina'', ''RIF-Service'', ''Play Enterprise'', insurance company ''Sindek'', and legal services of ''Konnov and Sozanovskyi''. In 2005 Ihor Pluzhnikov unexpectedly died in a hospital. His death caused a lot of discussions on the political level. In August all of the shares Dilovyi Svit and half of Pegas Television (total of 61%) became a property of what later became known as Ukrainian Mediaproject headed by

Valeriy Khoroshkovsky Valeriy Ivanovych Khoroshkovsky ( uk, Валерій Іванович Хорошковський, born 1 January 1969 in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian businessman, former head of the Security Service of Ukraine, former Minister of Finance, and former Firs ...

. ''Pegas'' was taken over by Pluzhnikov's wife, Svitlana, who has 10% ownership of the

. There is speculation that she does not have any influence on the business of the telechannel, ''Inter''. As of December 2012 61% of the shares are owned by Ukrainian Mediaproject, 29% by Channel One and 10% by Pluzhnikov's widow. According to Yaroslav Porokhniak, head of the management board of Inter, the Russian shareholders have no say in the channel's editorial or programming policies. In September Valeriy became the head of the ''Observing Council'' and in 2006 made some changes in the management. In 2007 on the base of ''Ukrainian Mediaproject'' was established

U.A. Inter Media Group Inter ( uk, Інтер) is a Ukrainian television channel. It covers 99.7 percent of Ukraine's territory.According to the channel's own information According to Kyiv Post it is among the most-watched television channels in Ukraine.Oleksandr Zinchenko (20 October 1996 – 27 May 2002) *

Vladyslav Riashyn Vladyslav ( uk, Владисла́в, Vladysláv ) or Volodyslav ( uk, Володисла́в, Volodysláv {{IPA, /wɔlɔdɪˈslɑu̯/) is a Ukrainian given name for males. The female variant is the same with the addition of 'a' at the end. The ...

(20 October 1996 – 15 January 2006) *

Leonid Mazor Leonid (russian: Леонид ; uk, Леонід ; be, Леанід, Ljeaníd ) is a Slavic version of the given name Leonidas. The French version is Leonide. People with the name include: *Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919), Russian playwright an ...

(24 March-31 December 2006) *

Hanna Bezliudna Hanna Vitaliyivna Bezliudna ( uk, Ганна Віталіївна Безлюдна, born on 15 July 1972) is a Ukrainian media manager, producer, and public figure. Starting from 2013 – Head of Inter Media Group, Member of the Supervisory Board ...

(1 January 2007 – 6 September 2009) ;Information service managers *

1997-2001 * Oleksiy Mustafin 2001-2005 * Maksym Karyzhskyi 2006 * Anton Nikitin 2006-2009 *

Oleksandr Pylypets Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

2009 The channel is part of GDF Media Limited; since

Dmytro Firtash Dmytro Vasylovych Firtash ( uk, Дмитро́ Васи́льович Фі́рташ; born 2 May 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman who heads the board of directors of Group DF. He was highly influential during the Yuschenko administration and th ...

bought 100 percent of Inter Media Group Limited (back) from Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi on 1 February 2013.Khoroshkovsky sells Inter channel to Firtash (UPDATED)

(1 February 2013) In June 2007 Khoroshkovskyi had expanded his U.A. Inter Media Group Ltd with various other channels bought from Firtash. GDF Media Limited also owns NTN, K1, Mega, Enter-Film, K2, Pixel and Zoom.

Clock

Clock is shown before information programs to indicate the beginning and the end of air, and before and after preventive prevention. From October 20, 1996 to October 19, 2000 the clock was silent. * From October 20, 1996 to October 19, 2000 on a black background show the watch with a green dial, white numbers, white lettering ІНТЕР, white hour and minute hands, red second hand. The clock was silent. * From 20 October 2000 to 23 August 2007 on a blue background in the lower left corner shows the blue cubes in the center on a white strip running news line (in the morning and in the afternoon in the Ukrainian language, in the evening - in Russian), below there were sites www. inter.ua and www.podrobnosti.ua on the gray bar, even lower on a white strip - electronic time. In the evening, there was podrobnosti.ua site on the right. * From 24 August 2007 to 30 June 2013 a clock in the earth-TV format was shown, against cities in the world above shows a city, country information, current time, the weather in the city, the word "ПРЯМЕ ВКЛЮЧЕННЯ" at the bottom of the inscription "В КІЄВІ" and electronic time. * From 6 September 2010 to 30 June 2013 on the background of Ukrainian cities at the top was shown the information about the city, the word "ПРЯМЕ ВКЛЮЧЕННЯ", in the bottom right corner the electronic time. * From July 1 to August 25, 2013 on a blue background in the center was shown up the globe, "signals" in the center of a three-dimensional ball, white dial, hands also white. * Since August 26, 2013 to the present time, against the backdrop of a cloudy sky is shown an electronic time on the windows of a skyscraper.

Controversies

According to critics the channel used to be directly controlled by the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) until the 2004

Orange Revolution The Orange Revolution ( uk, Помаранчева революція, translit=Pomarancheva revoliutsiia) was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate afterm ...

. In January 2009 (former) Ukrainian Prime Minister

Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();Inter TV Channel Denies Businessman Firtash's Being Among Shareholders Of Company
, Ukrainian News Agency (January 23, 2009) On 21 February 2014, 16 journalists of the channel claimed to have been the victim of censorship (in the form of having been forced to make "pro-

government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government ...

propaganda") and called on the higher management to objectively cover events concerning

Euromaidan Euromaidan (; uk, Євромайдан, translit=Yevromaidan, lit=Euro Square, ), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of Political demonstration, demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protes ...

. On 22 February 2014 the channel normal programming was replaced, amid rumours of a possible attack or arson on its headquarters, by live broadcast of Parliamentary sessions. On 22 February 2014, as a part of the "

Maidan revolution The Revolution of Dignity ( uk, Революція гідності, translit=Revoliutsiia hidnosti) also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution,

", President

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of D ...

(the one the 16 journalist had complained about being forced to make propaganda for) was removed from office.Ukraine: Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov named interim president

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(23 February 2014)
Ukraine protests timeline

(23 February 2014) Early September 2016 the Inter studios were attacked and then blockaded for three days by

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who accused it of being to pro-

n amidst of the

.Ukrainian siege of 'pro-Russian' Inter TV studios ends

(6 September 2016)

Criticism

In 2014 "Inter" the TV channel informational policy repeatedly caused negative reaction of society. There even was created a Facebook group ''Blacklist Inter'' ( uk, «Інтер в ігнор»). Also

activists have called for boycott of this TV channel and asked its employees not to lie in air. Censorship on "Inter" was reported earlier.

Russian and Russian-language broadcasting content

Since 2014 "Inter" was criticized for the broadcasting of Russian serials. According to results of monitoring made by "Boycott Russian cinema" activists, in September "Inter" took 3rd place among top-10 nationwide TV-channels which demonstrate Russian films and serials. During the period from 8th to 14 September Russian content lasted in average 11 hours and 15 minutes per day.Російське кіно все ще домінує на українському телепросторі
. Espreso TV. 09.09.2014 According to monitoring data of 27 September Russian content took already 67% on this channel. On December 11, 2014 " Boycott Russian Films" activists were picketing "Inter" main office in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

. During the action named "Do not kill our protectors by Russian propaganda!" young people placed photos of Ukrainian soldiers, killed during the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine, on the main entrance. Activists claimed that "Inter" takes second place among TV channels concerning the amount of Russian origin content. Protesters announced that Russian films and serials on "Inter" glorify Russian armed forces, which is unacceptable during the war. According to monitoring results held from 1 to 7 December the amount of Russian origin content has increased up to 13 hours and 15 minutes per day.

Scandal on New Year's night TV shows

From December 31, 2014 to January 1, 2015 during celebration of the New Year this channel broadcast New Year show "Wait for me in the New Year" (russian: «Жди меня в Новый год») with Russian stars who have supported occupation of Crimea by Russia (

Joseph Kobzon Iosif (Joseph) Davydovich Kobzon (russian: link=no, Ио́сиф Давы́дович Кобзо́н; 11 September 1937 – 30 August 2018) was a Russian singer, known for his crooner style. Early life Kobzon was born to Jewish parents in the ...

, Oleg Gazmanov, Valeriya, etc.). This event immediately caused a burst of resentment in Ukrainian blogosphere and

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. On January 1, a number of Ukrainian high-ranked officials, politicians and cultural workers reacted. Particularly, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov announced that National Council of Television and Radio of Ukraine must consider about cancellation of channel's licence immediately. In the evening the news program of the channel " Podrobnosti" publicly dissociated from New Year shows with Russian stars participating, and announced that the timetable of TV programs was changed incorrectly. Member of expert commission on distributing and showing films Serhiy Osnach claims that "Inter" violates regulation about compulsory 50% of Ukrainian content (article 9 of Law Of Ukraine "About television and radiobroadcasting"). From December 5 to 11, 2015 activists of " Boycott Russian Films" campaign have made a monitoring, results of which confirmed what expert said. Activists calculated that there is 17% of Ukrainian content on "Inter".Телеканали «Україна» та «Інтер» порушують закон, - Громадянський рух Відсіч
. Galinfo. 12.01.2015 On January 15, 2015 National Council for Radio and Television of Ukraine gave a warning to "Inter" for program broadcasting.
. ТСН. 1+1. 16.01.2015 In January 2015 " Kyivstar" company cancelled its advertisement movies on "Inter": "''We stopped placing advertisement movies on "Inter". It is important for us that our advertisement correspond with patriotic values, which "Kyivstar" puts in advertisement as a national Ukrainian operator.''"

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