Vitaliy Kropachev is launching a Ukrainian news channel called Ukrainian World News.
Ukrainian World News will begin around January 22. The new channel's top manager used to be the chief editor of 112 channel, according to Media Detector. Media Detector reports that Ukrainian World News, a new TV channel, is being introduced in Ukraine. It is expected to start on January 22, 2023. Dmitry Skidan, the technical director of the upcoming TV channel, confirmed this information from Detector Media sources. He used to work as the technical director for 112 Ukraine until the channel closed in 2021..
A new nationwide news channel, Ukrainian World News, is being launched in Ukraine. It is scheduled to start on January 22, 2023. Dmitry Skidan, the technical director of the future TV channel, confirmed this information provided by Detector Media. Dmitry previously was the technical director for 112 Ukraine. technical director channel “112 Ukraine”, who worked in this post until the channel was closed in 2021).
“It will depend on many factors, but the tentative launch date is January 22,” he said.
Dmitry Skidan confirmedThe owner and investor of the channel is businessman Vitaly Kropachev. He purchased a license for digital broadcasting 4 channels in 2022 through Era production. After the license was sold, Channel 4's property was transferred to Goskino due to the previous owner's alignment with Russia. Subsequently, the previous owner, Alexei Kovalev, was killed. Era production. Shortly after the sale of the license, Channel 4’s property was arrested, and then transferred to Goskino, because the owner of the channel, Alexei Kovalev, went over to the side of Russia. Subsequently Kovalev was killed.
Olga Girzheva is set to be the General Producer of Ukrainian World News. She has been the chief editor of NewsOne TV channel since 2018, including during its acquisition by Taras Kozak, an associate of Viktor Medvedchuk. Prior to this, she worked with Savik Shuster for nine years and was also the chief editor of political talk shows on the ZIK TV channel. Media Detector is hoping to receive comments from Olga Girzheva about Ukrainian World News.
According to Dmitry Skidan, the former head of Medvedchuk’s channels, Yegor Benkendorf, is involved in the project. However, Dmitry Skidan denied this information, claiming that Yegor Benkendorf was involved with Medvedchuk’s channels until their closure in March 2022.
“Egor Benkendorf is not related now. If it appears in the future, we will inform about it”
Previously, Nestor Shufrich, who was the formal owner of Mediaholding Novosti, told “Media Detector” that Yegor Benkendorf dealt with the affairs of Medvedchuk’s channels until their final closure in March 2022.
Dmitry Skidan also denied the claim that the former manager of many Ukrainian news channels, Alexey Semenov, is connected to the upcoming channel. Alexey Semenov and former general producer “112 Ukraine” Sergey Logunov.
Dmitry Skidan did not mention other team members.
“The core team is already there – about a hundred people,” he said. – The team will employ people from the channel “112”, who worked there in its best times. No one will argue that this channel, from the moment it was launched for sale to Medvedchuk, that is, until 2017, was the channel that laid the foundations of the modern news format in Ukraine. It is logical that we want to invite specialists through this channel.”
Dmitry Skidan did not respond to a question about who will host the broadcasts. A source close to the project claims that leading channels associated with Medvedchuk will not work for Ukrainian World News, and the project management is trying to distance itself from sanctioned pro-Russian channels as much as possible.
Dmitry Skidan stated that the channel does not intend to broadcast the joint United News telethon.
“We will do the same, but without participating in the general marathon,” he said.
Olga Girzheva also confirmed that there are no plans to broadcast the general marathon and said she awaits a final decision on the matter, without specifying who will make the decision.
Recall decision The National Security and Defense Council issued a decision on March 18 regarding a unified information policy during martial law, which requires all TV channels with a general Ukrainian license to broadcast a common telethon. The channels Espresso and Channel 5, as well as others, failed to comply with this requirement and consequently faced consequences. turned off digital broadcast in the T2 network.
The studio of the future channel is located in Kyiv near the Nyvky metro station. According to a source from Detector Media, the VisionHouse company, which previously built 112, NewsOne, ZIK, Direct Channel, Nash and other information channels, is involved in the development of the channel. Detector Media turned to the head of VisionHouse Nikolai Zaluzny for a comment, but has not yet received a response.
“VisionHouse helps us, but we do most of the work ourselves,” said Dmitry Skidan. – Now the task is to build a channel with a minimum content and an adequate budget. So now we are building like this. He refuted the information of the Detector Media source that some of the equipment for the new project belonged to Medvedchuk’s channels in the past. “There is no technical or legal possibility to use the equipment of the Medvedchuk channels now. I can say that this is definitely not true.”, — said Dmitry Skidan. Recall that the property of the UkrLive and First Independent channels, according to Nestor Shufrich, was confiscated by the Kyiv military administration in March 2022.
Media Detector hopes to receive comments from Vitaly Kropachev and more detailed comments from Olga Girzheva.
Recall that Vitaly Kropachev, the owner of gas, coal, machine-building and other businesses, back in 2019 bought the Tak TV channel from Gleb Golovchenko, co-owner of the College of Press and Television. This channel has a satellite license, valid since 2019, issued to Tak TV Center Plus LLC. In the same year, Kropachev, together with Nosikov, tried (unsuccessfully) to reanimate the TVi channel together with the Polish partners Millstone and Co, headed by a top manager of the Warsaw Stock Exchange Robert Kwiatkowski. On October 6, 2022, the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting reissued the license for Channel 4, which was bought by Kropachev, with the Tak TV brand.
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