Ukrainian television network
Television channel
5 Kanal
(
Ukrainian
:
5 канал
,
lit.
'Channel 5') is a television station in Ukraine formerly owned by businessman and fifth
President of Ukraine
Petro Poroshenko
.
[1]
[2]
The channel became well known as the first major broadcaster during the
2004 presidential election
offering critical broadcasting on candidate
Viktor Yanukovych
.
[3]
The whole staff of the channel went on
hunger strike
when (at the time, late 2004) the government threatened to close it.
[4]
According to the Ukrainian
media watchdog
Telekrytyka
Kanal 5 and
TVi
were the only remaining TV channels mid-May 2010 with independent and fair TV news coverage.
[5]
Poroshenko sold the channel shortly after the passing of the anti-oligarch law in November 2021.
[2]
History
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In 1995, the NBM TV and Radio Company was founded in
Chernivtsi
. At that time, the priority areas of the company's activity were the regional
TV channel
NBM and the Western Ukrainian radio network Niko FM. Subsequently, the company received broadcasting licences in 12 regions and went on
satellite
.
From 1998 to the spring of 2000, TRK NBM cooperated with CJSC MMC-
STB
, which together with Intermart Corporation owned this channel (then the structure of the channel looked like this: 21% controlled STB, 30% - the company " Intermart ", and 49% - the company" Niko-PR). But due to disagreements between the owners of the founders of these partners were excluded. After that, the channel was again an independent channel, until it was bought by Petro Poroshenko.
In February 2001, the Express-Inform TV and Radio Company, founded in 1993 in
Kyiv
as an economic news studio, appeared on the Ukrainian ether.
In August 2002, the channel began
broadcasting
in Kyiv.
In 2003, NBM and Express-Inform created 5 Kanal. The idea and concept of the channel belongs to journalists
Andriy Shevchenko
,
Roman Skrypin
and
Yevhen Hlibovytsky
, who left
Novyi Kanal
,
STB
and
1 + 1
TV channels due to censorship, respectively. Since its inception, 5 Kanal has positioned itself as an "honest news channel." In the same year, journalists, executives and owners of the channel signed an agreement on the principles of operation, which forbade the owners to interfere in the process of news production, and adopted the principles of editorial policy.
During the 2004 presidential election, 5 Kanal was the only television channel that provided airtime to both the government and the opposition. Employees of the channel complained of pressure from the authorities and pro-government politicians.
On October 7, 2004, 5 Kanal owner Petro Poroshenko sharply criticized and accused Volodymyr Sivkovych, chairman of the parliamentary commission on the case of
Viktor Yushchenko's
poisoning, of "fulfilling
Bankova's
scenario."
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One week later, at the request of Sivkovich, the channel's bank accounts were blocked, after which the channel's journalists went on a
hunger strike
and the accounts were unblocked.
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To protect itself from closure, the channel even began a partial retransmission of sittings of the
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
, agreeing on a relevant agreement.
During the
Orange Revolution
, 5 Kanal switched to round-the-clock news broadcasting and broadcast live on
Independence Square
in Kyiv and other hotspots in the Ukrainian capital. Due to this, the rating of the channel reached record levels - after the audience, "5 Kanal" ranked third in the country, leaving only "
Inter
" and "1 + 1", which had a large coverage of the national television network.
[9]
In February 2005, a change in the channel's format was announced - the channel declared itself the "first information" channel. On March 14, 2005, entertainment and music programs, feature films, etc. were removed from the airwaves, leaving only news, documentaries, analytical and journalistic programs, and programs about tourism. At the same time, the head of the news service, Andriy Shevchenko, left the channel and was replaced by Roman Skrypin.
In May 2006, Roman Skrypin also left the channel, claiming that there was no development and that the channel's decision-making system had been disrupted - in particular, the appointment of a new news editor-in-chief took place without discussion with him as editor-in-chief channel.
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[11]
In 2007, 5 Kanal started the new year with a new program grid built on the principle of "horizontal lines". All news content was divided into blocks, each of which had a fixed place in the program grid. A fundamentally new structure of news was built, the total number of information messages increased from 40 to more than 60.
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In early June 2010, the court upheld the demands of the Inter TV channel group, annulling the National Council's decision a year and a half earlier to allocate 5 Kanal and TVi frequencies for broadcasting.
[12]
Journalists of these TV channels stated the influence on the court decision of the head of the
Security Service of Ukraine
Valery Khoroshkovsky
, who was also the owner of the group "Inter".
[13]
On August 18, 2010, 5 Kanal's website shut down due to a
DDOS attack
.
[14]
On August 25, 2011, the Ukrainian Independence TV Marathon, hosted by
Tetyana Danylenko
and
Pavlo Kuzheev
, set a new world record - 52 hours of continuous broadcasting.
[15]
In October, the telethon was registered in the
Guinness World Records
.
[16]
In March 2012, 5 Kanal together with the RegioNews news agency began broadcasting press conferences in the RegioNews live media hall.
[17]
On February 18, 2014, 5 Kanal was disconnected from the terrestrial, cable networks and satellite broadcasts almost all over Ukraine due to the coverage of the assault by
Euromaidan
security forces on Independence Square in Kyiv, but the broadcast was later resumed.
[18]
Since the spring of 2014, the canal has been repeatedly reported by unknown individuals that the canal was mined (this happened for the thirteenth time on November 15, 2014), which stopped its operation at the time of the search for the explosive.
[19]
From September 5, 2016, the TV channel broadcasts in
16:9
format.
In January 2019, there was a re-switching of 5 Kanal and
Pryamiy kanal
, as a result of which Pryamiy kanal switched to MX-2 multiplex, and 5 Kanal switched to MX-5 multiplex.
[20]
On May 31, 2019, the host of 5 Kanal Vitaliy Haidukevich was elected to the central political council of the
European Solidarity
party.
[21]
On October 10, 2019, the TV channel launched an
HD
version on the Astra 4A satellite.
[22]
On the night of January 1, 2020, the TV channel together with Pryamiy kanal broadcast Petro Poroshenko's address to citizens instead of the
President's
New Year's address.
Volodymyr Zelensky's
address appeared on TV channels after midnight.
[23]
In November 2021, Poroshenko sold the channel, along with
Pryamiy
, shortly after president Zelenskiy signed the anti-oligarch bill into law.
[2]
The channel is now owned by Free Media Holding, which includes "media workers, public figures, opposition deputies from among journalists", according to a statement released on the channel's website.
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Criticism
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On December 1, 2016, the German newspaper
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
reported that seven employees of the channel's editorial office stated that they had been receiving money through the
double-entry bookkeeping
system for several years in a row.
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Satellite broadcasting
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- Satellite -
Astra 4A
(5 ° E)
- Frequency - 12284 MHz
- Polarization - vertical (V)
- The symbolic speed is 27500
- FEC - 3/4
- Coding - FTA
Anchors & Correspondents
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See also
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References
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External links
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