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. As such it was registered on 19 January 2017.EBU WELCOMES NEW PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN UKRAINE

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(20 Jan 2017)The state registered a "public broadcaster"

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(19 January 2017) In its revamped form the company provides content for its three television and radio channels.The Public Broadcasting Company has been launched in Ukraine
Den (8 April 2015) From 1995 until its current name, the television predecessors of the current broadcaster was named the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU; ). Ukrainian Radio () was its radio predecessor and a stand-alone company until it merged with NTU to be the first public broadcasting company of Ukraine.Poroshenko signs law on public broadcasting company

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(8 April 2015) Radio broadcasts in Ukraine, at the time part of the

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, began in

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in 1924, and a nationwide radio network was initiated in 1928. (In the first years of the USSR Kharkiv was the capital of Ukraine, from December 1919 to January 1934, after which the capital relocated to

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.) In 1965 the first nationwide Ukrainian television channel ''Ukraiinske Telebachennia'' or ''UT'' ( ‘Ukrainian TV’) was established. (Ukraine was part of the USSR from 1920 until it declared its independence on 24 August 1991.) The broadcaster was rebranded to Suspilne on 5 December 2019, with the new brand identity presented on 23 May 2022.

Overview

The Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine is a public joint-stock agency with 100% of its shares belonging to the state, and operates the television channel Pershyi, the only Ukrainian TV channel that has a coverage over 97% of Ukraine's territory and is the only state-owned national channel. Its programs are oriented at all social layers of the Ukrainian society and national minorities. Its radio division Ukrainian Radio is the biggest radio network in the country, which broadcasts on FM (covers 192 settlements in 24 regions) and AM,

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and cable networks throughout Ukraine, and is the most popular news and talk radio station in Ukraine. Among priority directions of the network are informative publicism, popular scientific, culturologic, entertaining and sport-oriented ones. Pershyi, at one point, significantly trails all of its privately owned rival channels in terms of viewership. The National Television Company of Ukraine (NTCU) was changed to Public Television Network in 2009. The network consists of several channels such as Pershyi, "Second Channel", "Euronews Ukraine" and "Ukraine and the World". In 2014, a new law was passed to make the network independent from the government. With the creation of the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine in 2015, the National Radio Company of Ukraine merged into this new company, which was officially registered on 19 January 2017. On 20 January 2025, coinciding with a change of Suspilne's Chair,

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donated an outside broadcasting van and other equipment to the broadcaster.

Television

Currently the Suspilne TV network is organized as follows:

Nationwide

* Pershyi ("First channel") * * Suspilne Kultura

Regional channels ("Second channel" network)

*Suspilne Crimea (

Autonomous Republic of Crimea The Autonomous Republic of Crimea is a ''de jure'' administrative division of Ukraine encompassing most of Crimea that was unilaterally annexed by Russia in 2014. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea occupies most of the peninsula,Cherkasy Oblast Cherkasy Oblast (, ), also referred to as Cherkashchyna (, ) is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in central Ukraine located along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. The Capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the cit ...

) *Suspilne Chernihiv (formerly Siver) (

Chernihiv Oblast Chernihiv Oblast (), also referred to as Chernihivshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in northern Ukraine. The capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the city of Chernihiv. There are 1,511 sett ...

) *Suspilne Chernivtsi (formerly Bukovina) (

Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast (), also referred to as Chernivechchyna (), is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the historical regions of Bukovina and Bessarabia. It has an international border with Romania and Moldo ...

) *Suspilne Donbas (formerly DoTB in Donetsk Oblast and LOT in Luhansk Oblast) (

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; ; ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capita ...

and

Luhansk Luhansk (, ; , ), also known as Lugansk (, ; , ), is a city in the Donbas in eastern Ukraine. As of 2022, the population was estimated to be making Luhansk the Cities in Ukraine, 12th-largest city in Ukraine. Luhansk served as the administra ...

oblasts) *Suspilne Dnipro (formerly 51) (

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in simultaneously southern, eastern and central Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country. It was created on February 27, 1932. Dnipropetro ...

) *Suspilne Ivano-Frankivsk (formerly Karpaty) (

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna () or simply Frankivshchyna, is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. It has a pop ...

) *Suspilne Kharkiv (formerly OTB) (

Kharkiv Oblast Kharkiv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Kharkivshchyna (), is an oblast (province) in eastern Ukraine. Kharkiv borders Luhansk Oblast to the east, Donetsk Oblast to the southeast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to the southwest, Poltava Oblast to the w ...

) *Suspilne Kherson (formerly Skifiya) (

Kherson Oblast Kherson Oblast (, ; ), also known as Khersonshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in southern Ukraine. It is located just north of Crimea. Its administrative center is Kherson, on the northern or right bank ...

) *Suspilne Khmelnytskyi (formerly Podillya-Centr) (

Khmelnytskyi Oblast Khmelnytskyi Oblast (), also known as Khmelnychchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in western Ukraine covering portions of the historical regions of western Podolia and southern Volhynia. The Capital (political) ...

) *Suspilne Kyiv (formerly Centralnyi Kanal) (

and

Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast (, ), also called Kyivshchyna (, ), is an Administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, which is administered as a city with special sta ...

) *Suspilne Kropyvnytskyi (formerly Kirovohrad) (

Kirovohrad Oblast Kirovohrad Oblast (), also known as Kirovohradshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (''province'') in central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Kropyvnytskyi. The oblast's population is It is ...

) *

Suspilne Lviv Suspilne Lviv () is a public regional television and radio channel in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It is the local branch of the Suspilne broadcaster. Prior to the merger of Lviv's television and radio stations in 2018, both had been involved in the pre ...

(formerly TRC Lviv) (

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) *Suspilne Mykolaiv (formerly Mykolaiv) (

Mykolaiv Oblast Mykolaiv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Mykolaivshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Mykolaiv. At the most recent estimate, the population ...

) *Suspilne Odesa (formerly ODT) (

Odesa Oblast Odesa Oblast (), also referred to as Odeshchyna (Одещина), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of southwestern Ukraine, located along the northern coast of the Black Sea. Its administrative centre is the city of Ode ...

) *Suspilne Poltava (formerly Ltava) (

Poltava Oblast Poltava Oblast (), also referred to as Poltavshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava. Most of its territory was par ...

) *Suspilne Rivne (formerly RTB) (

Rivne Oblast Rivne Oblast (), also referred to as Rivnenshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Rivne. The surface area of the region is . Its population is: Before its annexation by the ...

) *Suspilne Sumy (

Sumy Oblast Sumy Oblast (), also known as Sumshchyna (), is an oblast (province) in northeast Ukraine. The oblast was created in its modern-day form, from the merging of raions from Kharkiv Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, and Poltava Oblast in 1939 by the Presid ...

) *Suspilne Ternopil (formerly TTB) (

Ternopil Oblast Ternopil Oblast (), also referred to as Ternopilshchyna () or Ternopillia (), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its Capital (political), administrative center is Ternopil, through which flows the Seret (river), Seret, a tribu ...

) *Suspilne Vinnytsia (formerly Vintera) (

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) *Suspilne Lutsk (formerly Nova Volyn) (

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) *

Suspilne Uzhhorod Suspilne Uzhhorod (), is a regional Ukrainian-language Television channel, TV channel for the Zakarpattia Oblast, Zakarpattia region of Ukraine. It is part of Suspilne, the national public broadcaster. It is the brand name of the ''Transcarpathi ...

(formerly UA:Zakarpattia, Tysa-1) (

Zakarpattia Oblast Zakarpattia Oblast (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Закарпатська область), also referred to as simply Zakarpattia (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Закарпаття; Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''Kárpátalja'') or Transcar ...

) *Suspilne Zaporizhzhia (formerly Zaporizhzhia) (

Zaporizhzhia Oblast Zaporizhzhia Oblast (), commonly referred to as Zaporizhzhia (), is an oblast (region) in south-east Ukraine. Its administrative centre is the city of Zaporizhzhia. The oblast covers an area of , and has a population of The oblast is an import ...

) *Suspilne Zhytomyr (formerly Zhytomyr) (

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)

Digital

*Suspilne Novyny - news portal *Suspilne Sport - sport portal *Suspilne Kultura - portal about culture, lifestyle, cinema, music and other thematics in actual and historical context *Suspilne Regional - news portal from Suspilne regional networks *Suspilne Mediateka - portal with video- and audio-archives

Radio

Suspilne broadcasts on 3 national and 1 international radio channels:

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(First Channel, UR-1), Radio "Promin", Radio "Culture" and

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. The regional branches have their broadcasting slots in the broadcast schedule of the First Channel of Ukrainian Radio. General producer of Ukrainian radio channels since 2017 is

Dmytro Khorkin Dmitry Khorkin (also transliterated as Dmytro Khorkin, ''Dmytro Mykolayovych Khorkin''; born 9 March 1986) is a Ukrainian television and radio host and media manager, general producer of Ukrainian Radio. He is the main voice (narrator) of offici ...

. Radio Ukraine Directorate of the Suspilne is a structural subdivision of the company, which integrates four broadcasting channels, the studios of ''Radio House'' and the ''House of Recording of Ukrainian Radio'', and 5 radio ensembles. Radio Ukraine broadcasts on FM and AM, satellite and cable TV-networks throughout Ukraine. Also it has mobile app ''suspilne.radio'' for

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and

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Radio channels

– the first channel of public Ukrainian Radio. The most popular news and talk radio station in Ukraine. Also it is the biggest FM radio network in the country. *

Radio Promin Radio Promin (), literally "Radio Bridges", also known as UR-2, is the second radio station of Radio Ukraine, itself a part of Suspilne. Its format is a youth-oriented music and entertainment service. Its FM transmitter network covers 71 transmit ...

– the second channel of public Ukrainian Radio. Music radio station. *

Radio Culture Radio Culture (), also known as UR-3, is the third radio station of Radio Ukraine, itself a part of Suspilne. The station broadcasts a cultural and educational format, delivering programs related to topics such as theatre, literature, classical m ...

– the third channel of public Ukrainian Radio. Cultural and educational radio station. *

– international radio service in

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, Slovakian, Hungarian,

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, Bulgarian and Gagauz languages.

Studio complexes

* Ukrainian Radio House – is a studio complex located at 26 Khreschatyk str, Kyiv. It's a broadcasting center for four channels of Ukrainian radio. *

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– is a concert and studio complex in Kyiv. Large Concert Studio of the Recording House allows to record large orchestral and choral groups and is one of the largest such studios in Europe. The Recording House also serves as a rehearsal and concert venue for

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s and ensembles of Ukrainian Radio.

Radio ensembles

Radio ensembles are instrumental or vocal bands – i.e.

– employed by public service broadcasters around the world, whose main tasks are to create stock records for broadcasting on public radio stations, as well as to promote national culture. The following radio ensembles are a part of Suspilne: *

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* Ukrainian Radio Capella Choir * Ukrainian Radio Folk Music Orchestra * Ukrainian Radio Big Children's Choir * Ukrainian radio Trio of Bandurists

Managers

Presidents (1995–2010)

* June 1, 1995 – August 21, 1996: Oleksandr Savenko * August 21, 1996 – November 18, 1996: Zynoviy Kulyk (interim) * November 18, 1996 – October 1, 1998: Viktor Leshyk * October 5, 1998 – November 17, 1998:

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* November 17, 1998 – June 21, 1999: Zynoviy Kulyk * June 21, 1999 – July 15, 1999: Oleksandr Savenko (interim) * July 16, 1999 – November 19, 2001: Vadym Dolhanov * November 19, 2001 – March 28, 2003: Ihor Storozhuk * March 28, 2003 – February 25, 2005: Oleksandr Savenko (second term) * February 25, 2005 – September 8, 2005: Taras Stetskiv * October 27, 2005 – February 18, 2008: Vitaliy Dokalenko * February 25, 2008 – March 17, 2010: Vasyl Ilaschuknj

Directors general (2010–16)

* March 17, 2010 – February 20, 2013: Yehor Benkendorf * February 20, 2013 – March 24, 2014:

Oleksandr Panteleymonov Oleksandr Yevhenovych Panteleymonov (; born 2 February 1978) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian editor and television producer. He was the acting CEO of the National Television Company of Ukraine from February 20, 2013, until March 25, 2014. On March 18, 201 ...

(interim) * March 25, 2014 – November 1, 2016: Zurab Alasania

Chairs of the board (2017–present)

* January 18, 2017 – May 13, 2017: Hanna Bychok (acting) * May 13, 2017 – June 24, 2019: Zurab Alasania * May 10, 2019 – June 30, 2019: Mykola Chernotytskyi (acting) * July 1, 2019 – April 26, 2021: Zurab Alasania * from April 27, 2021: Mykola Chernotytskyi Notes : 1.The Supervisory board of UA꞉PBC decided to break the contract with Zurab Alasania effective May 6, 2019. However Alasania took vacation and thus his firing was postponed. Nevertheless both Alasania for the period of his vacation and the Supervisory Board after breaking of the contract with him assigned Mykola Chernotytskyi as acting chairman of the board. Alasania has been later renewed on his position by Shevchenkivskyi District court of the city of Kyiv.

Current management

* Iryna Slavinska,

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* Hrygoriy Tychyna, producer, Suspilne TV * Ievhen Chyzh, producer,

* Victoria Murovana, producer, Suspilne

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platforms * Hrustyna Gavrylyuk, producer, Suspilne Info

Logos

File:UA-PBC.png, 2015–2017 File:UA PBC logo.svg, 2017–2020 File:Suspilne logo.svg, 2020–2022 File:Suspilne ENG.svg, 2020–2022, English version

References

External links

* {{European Broadcasting Union Members State companies of Ukraine Eastern Bloc mass media European Broadcasting Union members Television networks in Ukraine Ukrainian brands Television channels and stations established in 1965 1965 establishments in Ukraine 2017 establishments in Ukraine Government-owned companies of Ukraine Institutions with the title of National in Ukraine Publicly funded broadcasters