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

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. 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"

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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

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(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

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

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, began in

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest city and municipality in Ukraine.

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 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 Pershyi ( uk, Перший, ; meaning First) is the Ukrainian public television channel, operated by the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine. It is the only Ukrainian TV channel covering over 97% of Ukraine's territory. Its programs are orien ...

, 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

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. Its radio division

Ukrainian Radio Ukrainian Radio ( uk, Українське радіо) is the publicly funded radio broadcaster in Ukraine since 1924. In 2017 has been merged with national TV company into country's public broadcaster Suspilne.

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.

Television

Currently the Suspilne network is organized into the following:

Nationwide

Suspilne Kultura Suspilne Kultura ( uk, Суспільне Культура) is a Ukrainian public TV channel A television channel is a terrestrial frequency or virtual number over which a television station or television network is distributed. For exampl ...

* Suspilne Novyny

Regional channels

*Suspilne Crimea (

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) *Suspilne Cherkasy (formerly Ros) ( Cherkasy Oblast) *Suspilne Chernihiv (formerly Siver) (

Chernihiv Chernihiv ( uk, Черні́гів, , russian: Черни́гов, ; pl, Czernihów, ; la, Czernihovia), is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within ...

Oblast) *Suspilne Chernivtsi (formerly Bukovina) (

Chernivtsi Chernivtsi ( uk, Чернівці́}, ; ro, Cernăuți, ; see also other names) is a city in the historical region of Bukovina, which is now divided along the borders of Romania and Ukraine, including this city, which is situated on the u ...

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

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; uk, Донецьк, translit=Donets'k ; russian: Донецк ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin and Stalino (see also: cities' alternative names), is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine loc ...

and

Luhansk Luhansk (, ; uk, Луганськ, ), also known as Lugansk (, ; russian: Луганск, ), is a city in what is internationally recognised as Ukraine, although it is administered by Russia as capital of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR). A ...

Oblast) (The channel was closed down on 21 November 2022) *Suspilne Dnipro (formerly 51) (

Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

Oblast) *Suspilne Ivano-Frankivsk (formerly Karpaty) (

Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вськ, translit=Iváno-Frankívśk ), formerly Stanyslaviv ( pl, Stanisławów ; german: Stanislau), is a city located in Western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk Ob ...

Oblast) *Suspilne Kharkiv (formerly OTB) (

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest city and municipality in Ukraine.

Oblast) *Suspilne Kherson (formerly Skifiya) (

Kherson Kherson (, ) is a port city of Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located on the Black Sea and on the Dnieper River, Kherson is the home of a major ship-building industry and is a regional economic centre. I ...

Oblast) *Suspilne Khmelnytskyi (formerly Podillya-Centr) ( Khmelnytskyi Oblast) *Suspilne Kyiv (formerly Centralnyi Kanal) (

and

Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast ( uk, Ки́ївська о́бласть, translit=Kyïvska oblast), also called Kyivshchyna ( uk, Ки́ївщина), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, ...

) *Suspilne Kropyvnytskyi (formerly Kirovohrad) ( Kirovohrad Oblast) *Suspilne Lviv (formerly TRC Lviv) (

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Oblast) *Suspilne Mykolaiv (formerly Mykolaiv) (

Mykolaiv Mykolaiv ( uk, Миколаїв, ) is a city and municipality in Southern Ukraine, the administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast. Mykolaiv city, which provides Ukraine with access to the Black Sea, is the location of the most downriver brid ...

Oblast) *Suspilne Odesa (formerly ODT) (

Odesa 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 administrati ...

Oblast) *Suspilne Poltava (formerly Ltava) (

Poltava Poltava (, ; uk, Полтава ) is a city located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the capital city of the Poltava Oblast (province) and of the surrounding Poltava Raion (district) of the oblast. Poltava is administrativel ...

Oblast) *Suspilne Rivne (formerly RTB) (

Rivne Rivne (; uk, Рівне ),) also known as Rovno (Russian: Ровно; Polish: Równe; Yiddish: ראָוונע), is a city in western Ukraine. The city is the administrative center of Rivne Oblast ( province), as well as the surrounding Rivne ...

Oblast) *Suspilne Sumy (

Sumy Sumy ( uk, Суми ) is a city of regional significance in Ukraine, and the capital of Sumy Oblast. The city is situated on the banks of the Psel River in northeastern Ukraine with a population of according to the 2021 census, making it the 23 ...

Oblast) *Suspilne Ternopil (formerly TTB) (

Ternopil Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Terno ...

Oblast) *Suspilne Vinntysa (formerly Vintera) ( Vinnytsia Oblast) *Suspilne Lutsk (formerly Nova Volyn) (

Volyn Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) ( ; uk, Воли́нь, Volyn' pl, Wołyń, russian: Волы́нь, Volýnʹ, ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. The ...

Oblast) * Suspilne Uzhhorod (formerly Tysa-1) ( Zakarpattia Oblast) *Suspilne Zaporizhzhia (formerly Zaporizhzhia) (

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Oblast) *Suspilne Zhytomyr (formerly Zhytomyr) (

Zhytomyr Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the administrative ...

Oblast)

Radio

Suspilne broadcasts on 3 national and 1 international radio channels:

(First Channel, UR-1), Radio "Promin", Radio "Culture" and Radio Ukraine International. 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. Ukrainian Radio 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. Ukrainian radio broadcasts on FM and AM, satellite and cable TV-networks throughout Ukraine. Also it has mobile app ''suspilne.radio'' for Android and iOS.

Radio channels

(UR-1) – 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: 192 settlements in 24 regions. * (UR-2) – the second channel of public Ukrainian radio. Music and talk radio station. * (UR-3) – the third channel of public Ukrainian radio. Cultural and educational radio station. * Radio Ukraine International (RUI) – international service in Russian,

Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania ** Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language ***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditiona ...

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Ukrainian 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 * So ...

and

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...

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. * Recording House of Ukrainian Radio – 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 radio orchestras and ensembles of Ukrainian Radio.

Radio ensembles

Radio ensembles are instrumental or vocal bands – i.e. radio orchestra – 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: *

Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra The Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra ( uk, Симфонічний оркестр Українського радіо, translit=Symfonichnyi orkestr Ukrainskoho radio; previously NRCU Symphony Orchestra, uk, Симфонічний оркестр ...

* Ukrainian Radio Choir Chapel * Ukrainian Radio Orchestra of folk and popular music * Ukrainian Radio Big Children Choir * Ukrainian radio Trio of Bandurists

Managers

Presidents (2005–2010)

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

Chairmen 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 – present: Zurab Alasania 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.

References

External links

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