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5 Kanal
5 Kanal (Ukrainian: 5 канал, lit. 'Channel 5') is a television station in Ukraine formerly owned by businessman and the fifth president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
The channel became well known as the first major broadcaster during the 2004 presidential election offering critical broadcasting on candidate Viktor Yanukovych. The whole staff of the channel went on hunger strike when (at the time, late 2004) the government threatened to close it. 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.
Poroshenko sold the channel shortly after an anti-oligarch law was passed in November 2021.
5 Kanal was founded by NBM, which was itself founded in Chernivtsi in 1995. At the time, the priority areas of the company's activity were its regional TV channel and the Western Ukrainian radio network Niko FM. The company received broadcasting licences in 12 regions soon afterwards, and then began satellite broadcasting.
TRK NBM cooperated with CJSC MMC-STB, which together with Intermart Corporation owned this channel (this was the structure of the channel: 21% controlled STB, 30% - a company, "Intermart", and 49% - a company, "Niko-PR") between 1998 and 2000. Due to disagreements between the owners of the founders of these partners were excluded. Afterwards 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.
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.
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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5 Kanal
5 Kanal (Ukrainian: 5 канал, lit. 'Channel 5') is a television station in Ukraine formerly owned by businessman and the fifth president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
The channel became well known as the first major broadcaster during the 2004 presidential election offering critical broadcasting on candidate Viktor Yanukovych. The whole staff of the channel went on hunger strike when (at the time, late 2004) the government threatened to close it. 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.
Poroshenko sold the channel shortly after an anti-oligarch law was passed in November 2021.
5 Kanal was founded by NBM, which was itself founded in Chernivtsi in 1995. At the time, the priority areas of the company's activity were its regional TV channel and the Western Ukrainian radio network Niko FM. The company received broadcasting licences in 12 regions soon afterwards, and then began satellite broadcasting.
TRK NBM cooperated with CJSC MMC-STB, which together with Intermart Corporation owned this channel (this was the structure of the channel: 21% controlled STB, 30% - a company, "Intermart", and 49% - a company, "Niko-PR") between 1998 and 2000. Due to disagreements between the owners of the founders of these partners were excluded. Afterwards 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.
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.
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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