Four media groups will form the content for a Ukrainian TV channel broadcasting in the temporarily occupied territories, Deputy Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko has said.
He said this during a presentation of the concept of a new TV channel for the temporarily occupied territories held at Ukrinform on Monday.
“We held negotiations with the following media groups: StarLightMedia, 1+1, Media Group Ukraine and Inter. We reached an agreement with these four media groups and signed the so-called memorandum of cooperation. In the future, we will cooperate with various international broadcasters in order to receive content for the new channel,” Tymoshenko said.
At the same time, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee for Humanitarian and Information Policy Mykyta Poturayev noted that the content provided by the media groups would be entertaining.
“The media groups will not have an impact on the information policy of this channel. This is exclusively entertaining content,” he stressed.
(c) Ukrinform
“We held negotiations with the following media groups: StarLightMedia, 1+1, Media Group Ukraine and Inter.”
Let’s start with Starlight media – Owner, Pinchuk, CEO is Volodymyr Borodiansky, the current Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, so no conflict of interest there.
1+1 is probably the most Ukrainian of the 4. At least the CEO, Oleksandr Tkachenko is under Russian sanctions.
Media Group Ukraine is 100% owned by Akhmetov.
Inter is owned 100% by the well know Ukrainian patriot Dmytro Firtash.
I can expect a lot of prop Russian BS on this channel, and to think they scrapped the only honest TV channel in Ukraine when they cancelled the licence of UATV.
That’s a hell of a way to fight Russian propaganda by just showing entertainment.
Hell of a way to fight propaganda with companies that are pro Russian.