ICTV (Ukraine)

ICTV

Country	Ukraine
Headquarters	Kyiv, Ukraine
Programming
Picture format	1080i (HDTV) (downscaled to 576i for SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	StarLightMedia Group (Victor Pinchuk & Olena Pinchuk)
Key people	Olexandr Bogutskiy
History
Launched	15 June 1992
Links
Website	www.ictv.ua
Availability
Terrestrial
DVB-T2	MX-1 (7)

ICTV (in full, International Commercial Television) is a privately held TV channel in Ukraine. Its coverage area allows it to be received by 56.6% of the Ukrainian population, making the channel the fourth in the nation in terms of coverage (trailing the state-controlled UT1 and privately held Inter and 1+1), and third (well ahead of UT1) by the viewers' ratings.

The channel is owned by several business structures connected to the Ukrainian businessman Viktor Pinchuk. It first went on-air on 15 June 1992, and since 1995 it has broadcast 24 hours a day.

Related to the Crimean crises 2014 ICTV broadcasts in Sevastopol ended on 9 March 2014, 14:30 o'clock East European time.^[1]

Criticism[]

Since 2014 ICTV channel was criticised for broadcasting Russian serials. According to the results of monitoring made by "Boycott Russian Films" campaign activists in September this channel was broadcasting 7 hours and 40 minutes of Russian content per day.^[2][3] At the end of month the part of Russian origin content took 43% of all broadcasting time.^[4] Also, according to activists, ICTV shows almost the biggest amount of serials about Russian law enforcement and army.^[5]

References[]

External links[]

• ICTV website

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