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5 Kanal () is a television station in Ukraine formerly owned by businessman and fifth
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The channel became well known as the first major broadcaster during the 2004 presidential election offering critical broadcasting on candidate
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. The whole staff of the channel went on
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when (at the time, late 2004) the government threatened to close it.Russia, the US, "the Others" and the "101 Things to Do to Win a (Colour) Revolution": Reflections on Georgia and Ukraine
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According to the Ukrainian
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'' Telekrytyka'' Kanal 5 and
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were the only remaining TV channels mid-May 2010 with independent and fair TV news coverage. Poroshenko sold the channel shortly after the passing of the anti-oligarch law in November 2021.


History

In 1995, the NBM TV and Radio Company was founded in
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. At that time, the priority areas of the company's activity were the regional TV channel NBM and the Western Ukrainian radio network Niko FM. Subsequently, the company received broadcasting licences in 12 regions and went on
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. From 1998 to the spring of 2000, TRK NBM cooperated with CJSC MMC-
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, which together with Intermart Corporation owned this channel (then the structure of the channel looked like this: 21% controlled STB, 30% - the company " Intermart ", and 49% - the company" Niko-PR). But due to disagreements between the owners of the founders of these partners were excluded. After that, the channel was again an independent channel, until it was bought by Petro Poroshenko. In February 2001, the Express-Inform TV and Radio Company, founded in 1993 in
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as an economic news studio, appeared on the Ukrainian ether. In August 2002, the channel began
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in Kyiv. In 2003, NBM and Express-Inform created 5 Kanal. The idea and concept of the channel belongs to journalists
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, who left
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TV channels due to censorship, respectively. Since its inception, 5 Kanal has positioned itself as an "honest news channel." In the same year, journalists, executives and owners of the channel signed an agreement on the principles of operation, which forbade the owners to interfere in the process of news production, and adopted the principles of editorial policy. During the 2004 presidential election, 5 Kanal was the only television channel that provided airtime to both the government and the opposition. Employees of the channel complained of pressure from the authorities and pro-government politicians. On October 7, 2004, 5 Kanal owner Petro Poroshenko sharply criticized and accused Volodymyr Sivkovych, chairman of the parliamentary commission on the case of Viktor Yushchenko's poisoning, of "fulfilling Bankova's scenario." One week later, at the request of Sivkovich, the channel's bank accounts were blocked, after which the channel's journalists went on a
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and the accounts were unblocked. To protect itself from closure, the channel even began a partial retransmission of sittings of the
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, agreeing on a relevant agreement. During the
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, 5 Kanal switched to round-the-clock news broadcasting and broadcast live on Independence Square in Kyiv and other hotspots in the Ukrainian capital. Due to this, the rating of the channel reached record levels - after the audience, "5 Kanal" ranked third in the country, leaving only "
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" and "1 + 1", which had a large coverage of the national television network. In February 2005, a change in the channel's format was announced - the channel declared itself the "first information" channel. On March 14, 2005, entertainment and music programs, feature films, etc. were removed from the airwaves, leaving only news, documentaries, analytical and journalistic programs, and programs about tourism. At the same time, the head of the news service, Andriy Shevchenko, left the channel and was replaced by Roman Skrypin. In May 2006, Roman Skrypin also left the channel, claiming that there was no development and that the channel's decision-making system had been disrupted - in particular, the appointment of a new news editor-in-chief took place without discussion with him as editor-in-chief channel. In 2007, 5 Kanal started the new year with a new program grid built on the principle of "horizontal lines". All news content was divided into blocks, each of which had a fixed place in the program grid. A fundamentally new structure of news was built, the total number of information messages increased from 40 to more than 60. In early June 2010, the court upheld the demands of the Inter TV channel group, annulling the National Council's decision a year and a half earlier to allocate 5 Kanal and TVi frequencies for broadcasting. Journalists of these TV channels stated the influence on the court decision of the head of the
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Valery Khoroshkovsky, who was also the owner of the group "Inter". On August 18, 2010, 5 Kanal's website shut down due to a
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. On August 25, 2011, the Ukrainian Independence TV Marathon, hosted by Tetyana Danylenko and
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, set a new world record - 52 hours of continuous broadcasting. In October, the telethon was registered in the
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. In March 2012, 5 Kanal together with the RegioNews news agency began broadcasting press conferences in the RegioNews live media hall. On February 18, 2014, 5 Kanal was disconnected from the terrestrial, cable networks and satellite broadcasts almost all over Ukraine due to the coverage of the assault by
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security forces on Independence Square in Kyiv, but the broadcast was later resumed. Since the spring of 2014, the channel has been repeatedly reported by unknown individuals that the channel was mined (this happened for the thirteenth time on November 15, 2014), which stopped its operation at the time of the search for the explosive. From September 5, 2016, the TV channel broadcasts in 16:9 format. In January 2019, there was a re-switching of 5 Kanal and Pryamiy kanal, as a result of which Pryamiy kanal switched to MX-2 multiplex, and 5 Kanal switched to MX-5 multiplex. On May 31, 2019, the host of 5 Kanal Vitaliy Haidukevich was elected to the central political council of the
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party. On October 10, 2019, the TV channel launched an HD version on the Astra 4A satellite. On the night of January 1, 2020, the TV channel together with Pryamiy kanal broadcast Petro Poroshenko's address to citizens instead of the President's New Year's address. Volodymyr Zelenskyy's address appeared on TV channels after midnight. In November 2021, Poroshenko sold the channel, along with Pryamiy, shortly after president Zelenskiy signed the anti-oligarch bill into law. The channel is now owned by Free Media Holding, which includes "media workers, public figures, opposition deputies from among journalists", according to a statement released on the channel's website.


Criticism

On December 1, 2016, the German newspaper
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reported that seven employees of the channel's editorial office stated that they had been receiving money through the
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system for several years in a row.


Satellite broadcasting

* Satellite -
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(5 ° E) * Frequency - 12284 MHz * Polarization - vertical (V) * The symbolic speed is 27500 * FEC - 3/4 * Coding - FTA


Anchors & Correspondents

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Andriy Shevchenko Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko (, ; born 29 September 1976) is a Ukrainian former Manager (association football), football manager and Football player, player. Shevchenko is considered one of the greatest Striker (association football), strik ...
(2003–05), *
Roman Skrypin Román Skrýpin (born 27 May 1973) is a Ukrainian media manager, journalist, television host, a chief of the Ukrainian independent media union. Biography He was born on 27 May 1973 in Poltava, Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He is married ...
(2003–06), * Hanna Homonai (2004), * Tetyana Danylenko (2004–2017) * Yevhen Hlibovytsky (2005–06), * Svyatoslav Tseholko (2004–2014), * Lidiya Taran (2006–09)


See also

* List of Ukrainian language television channels


References


External links

* {{Ethnic Channels Group Television stations in Ukraine Ukrainian-language television stations in Ukraine 24-hour television news channels in Ukraine Television channels and stations established in 2003 Ukrainian brands Organizations based in Kyiv 2003 establishments in Ukraine Mass media of the Euromaidan Petro Poroshenko