National Public Broadcasting Company Of Ukraine

The Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine ( uk, Національна суспільна телерадіокомпанія України, Natsionalna Suspilna Teleradiokompaniia Ukrainy; abbr. NSTU), shortened to Suspilne ( uk, Суспільне, lit=Public), is the national public broadcaster in Ukraine. As such it was registered on 19 January 2017.EBU WELCOMES NEW PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN UKRAINE
EBU (20 Jan 2017)The state registered a "public broadcaster"
Ukrayinska Pravda (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; uk, Національна Телекомпанія України, ''Natsionalna Telekompaniia Ukrainy''). 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
Interfax-Ukraine (8 April 2015)

Radio broadcasts in Ukraine, at the time part of the USSR, began in Kharkiv.) In 1965 the first nationwide Ukrainian television channel ''Ukraiinske Telebachennia'' or ''UT'' (‘Ukrainian Television’) 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, satellite 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.

Television

Currently the Suspilne network is organized into the following:

Nationwide

*Pershyi
* Suspilne Kultura
* Suspilne Novyny

Regional channels

*Suspilne Crimea ( Autonomous Republic of Crimea)
*Suspilne Cherkasy (formerly Ros) (Cherkasy Oblast)
*Suspilne Chernihiv (formerly Siver) (Chernihiv Oblast)
*Suspilne Chernivtsi (formerly Bukovina) ( Chernivtsi Oblast)
*Suspilne Donbas (formerly DoTB in Donetsk Oblast and LOT in Luhansk Oblast) (Donetsk and Luhansk Oblast) (The channel was closed down on 21 November 2022)
*Suspilne Dnipro (formerly 51) ( Dnipropetrovsk Oblast)
*Suspilne Ivano-Frankivsk (formerly Karpaty) ( Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast)
*Suspilne Kharkiv (formerly OTB) (Kharkiv

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