Inter (TV channel)
Encyclopedia
Inter is the major TV channel in Ukraine. Based on it later was formed the whole new media group with variety of different other channels. Inter is among the top-rated networks in Ukraine, competing with such as 1+1
and Pershyi Natsionalnyi channels. Inter features a general programming mix appealing to both young and old, including movies, music, drama, documentaries, news, kid's programs and much more.
n Channel One
29%, Pegas Television 20%. About 82.5% of Pegas Television was the personal property of Ihor Pluzhnikov. The other shares of the company were split between Pegas and Overseas sales Ltd. 17.3% and Bersted Ukraina .2%. Those two companies were his property as well. Besides Pegas he had some share in the Dilovyi Svit which consisted of Bersted Ukraina, RIF-Service, Play Enterprise, insurance company Sindek, and legal services of Konnov and Sozanovskyi. In 2005 unexpactedly died Ihor Pluzhnikov in a hospital. His death caused a lot of discussions on the political level. In August all of the shares Dilovyi Svit and half of Pegas Television (total of 61%) became a property of what it is later became known as Ukrainian Mediaproject headed by Valeriy Khoroshkovsky
. Pegas was overtaken by Pluzhnikov's wife, Svitlana, who has 10% ownership of the Ukrainian independent TV-corporation. There speculations that she does not have any influence on the business of the telechannel, Inter. In September Valeriy became the head of the Observing Council and in 2006 made some changes in the management. In 2007 on the base of Ukrainian Mediaproject was established U.A. Inter Media Group financial holdings.
Operation managers
Information service managers
Besides its international version of the channel as the business project, Inter now consists of several similar projects. Those are 07 Production - a studio of the documentary films, NIS - an information studio featuring Podrobytsi, Pirat Production - a studio of the entertaining shows. There are also over five other independent channels such as NTN, K1, K2, Megasport
, Enter-Film, and Enter-Music.
in the United States and in Germany through Kabel Deutschland
and encrypted in Europe & Russia on Sirius 2 & ABS 1 satellites. As of March 30, 2011, Inter Plus is no longer available on Dish Network.
Inter+ is also available in Canada via IMB+ Records, an IPTV provider.
, the former top-manager of Evraz Group
. In 2007 Komersant claimed that Dmytro Firtash
and Vitaly Hayduk bought all of the shares of the company. Same information was given from Tymoshenko and Turchinov. All of these claims were denied by the tele-channel and Khoroshkovsky threatening to file a legal suit.
According to critics the channel used to be directly controlled by the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) until the Orange Revolution
.
In January 2009 the current Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
refused to appear on Inter television programs criticizing the channel's associates of their professional ethics.
1+1
- History :TV channel "1+1" was founded in August 1995, headed by its original President Alexander Rodnyansky who also was its general director from 1996 to 2002...
and Pershyi Natsionalnyi channels. Inter features a general programming mix appealing to both young and old, including movies, music, drama, documentaries, news, kid's programs and much more.
History
The channel was founded by the Ukrainian Independent TV-Corporation in 1996. The Ukrainian independent TV-corporation's shareholders were Dilovyi Svit 51%, RussiaRussia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n Channel One
Channel One (Russia)
Channel One is the first television channel to broadcast in the Soviet Union. The channel was renamed Ostankino Channel 1 in 1991, after the Soviet Union broke up and the Russian SFSR became the Russian Federation. According to a recent government publication, the Russian government controls 51%...
29%, Pegas Television 20%. About 82.5% of Pegas Television was the personal property of Ihor Pluzhnikov. The other shares of the company were split between Pegas and Overseas sales Ltd. 17.3% and Bersted Ukraina .2%. Those two companies were his property as well. Besides Pegas he had some share in the Dilovyi Svit which consisted of Bersted Ukraina, RIF-Service, Play Enterprise, insurance company Sindek, and legal services of Konnov and Sozanovskyi. In 2005 unexpactedly died Ihor Pluzhnikov in a hospital. His death caused a lot of discussions on the political level. In August all of the shares Dilovyi Svit and half of Pegas Television (total of 61%) became a property of what it is later became known as Ukrainian Mediaproject headed by Valeriy Khoroshkovsky
Valeriy Khoroshkovsky
Valeriy Ivanovych Khoroshkovsky is a Ukrainian businessman, head of the Security Service of Ukraine and owner of U.A. Inter Media Group which owns majority shares in various Ukrainian TV channels such as Inter TV...
. Pegas was overtaken by Pluzhnikov's wife, Svitlana, who has 10% ownership of the Ukrainian independent TV-corporation. There speculations that she does not have any influence on the business of the telechannel, Inter. In September Valeriy became the head of the Observing Council and in 2006 made some changes in the management. In 2007 on the base of Ukrainian Mediaproject was established U.A. Inter Media Group financial holdings.
Operation managers
- Oleksandr ZinchenkoOleksandr ZinchenkoOleksandr Oleksiovich Zinchenko was a Ukrainian politician who was Director-General of the National Space Agency of Ukraine from 2009 to 2010...
1996-2001 - Vladyslav Riashyn 2001-2006
- Leonid Mazor 2006
- Hanna Bezliudna 2006-2009
Information service managers
- Hanna Bezliudna 1997-2001
- Oleksiy Mustafin 2001-2005
- Maksym Karyzhskyi 2006
- Anton Nikitin 2006-2009
- Oleksandr Pylypets 2009
Besides its international version of the channel as the business project, Inter now consists of several similar projects. Those are 07 Production - a studio of the documentary films, NIS - an information studio featuring Podrobytsi, Pirat Production - a studio of the entertaining shows. There are also over five other independent channels such as NTN, K1, K2, Megasport
Megasport
Mega , previously known as Megasport, is a television channel in Ukraine, a member of the "Inter" TV-Family. Until 2010, it was known as "Megasport" and positioned itself as a sport channel.-External links:*...
, Enter-Film, and Enter-Music.
Inter+
Inter Plus is the international network of Inter Channel that broadcasts the 'best of Inter' programming to Ukrainians abroad in North America & Europe. The channel first started broadcasting on January 13, 2003, available via Dish NetworkDish Network
Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...
in the United States and in Germany through Kabel Deutschland
Kabel Deutschland
-Company:Kabel Deutschland operates in 13 of the 16 states . In 2006, of the 15.4 million households passed by their cable the company served 9.6 million, however only one third of these are direct customers of Kabel Deutschland, since especially in large apartment complexes the in-house cable...
and encrypted in Europe & Russia on Sirius 2 & ABS 1 satellites. As of March 30, 2011, Inter Plus is no longer available on Dish Network.
Inter+ is also available in Canada via IMB+ Records, an IPTV provider.
Programming
- Ahenty Vplyvu (Agents of Influence)
- Kartata Potata
- Kliuchovy Moment (Key Moment) - a talk show led by Nataliya Sumska. The show is oriented to help people to find each other, or to restore long-forgotten relationships, or simply let one of the guests tell a story of their life that they would wish to change.
- Kvadratny metr (Square meter)
- Lehendy Bandytskoi Odesy (Legends of Criminal Odessa) - a historical show that was dicontinued in 2009. The show narrated criminal stories of the OdessaOdessaOdessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
city at the times known in history as Russian Civil WarRussian Civil WarThe Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...
and afterwards. - Liniya Konfliktu (Line of Conflict) - a talk show of Masha YefrosininaMaria EfrosininaMaria "Masha" Efrosinina , , is a Ukrainian television host.-Overview:Graduating from a high school with a gold medal , Efrosinina enrolled into the Department of Foreign Languages in the Kiev University to graduate as an interpreter of the English and Spanish languages.In 19 she debuted on the...
. It's a thrilling socially-psychological project. The show brings up the hottest topics of the everyday's life. The participants of the discussions are bright, inordinary, and confident in the correctness of their views characters. The main task of Masha in the project is to tilt the guests to the sharp debate, literally to the edge of a scandal. At the Line of Conflict will be laid the line of fire! - Na Svoyu Holovu (On Your Head) - a real-life, adventure-oriented game-show led by Ihor Pelykh.
- NayrozumnishyThe CleverestThe Cleverest is the Ukrainian and Russian telecast of the intellectually-entertaining character, one of the most popular versions of the British teleproject «Brainiest».-External links:* * * *...
(Smartest) - an intellectual game-show with a lightning-fast diction anchor-lady, Tina KandelakiTina KandelakiTina Kandeláki is a Russian journalist, young politician, TV presenter and producer. A co-owner of the Apostol Media Group company.- Bio :Tina’s father Givi Kandelaki was an economist and the director of a vegetable depot in Tbilisi. Lived in Moscow after his retirement. Givi Kandelaki is...
. - Novatsii i Shtukentsii (Inventions and Stuff)
- Park Avtomobilnoho Periodu (Park of the Automobile Era)
- Podrobytsi (Details)
- Podrobytsi Tyzhnia (Details Weekly)
- Pozaochi (Pass the Eyes) - a talk show with celebrities. The authors of the show are Hanna Bezliudna and Irina Ionova. The show is led by Yulia Lytvynenko. The goal of the show is to let the audience to get to know their favorite characters a little bit closer.
- Ranok z Interom (Morning with Inter)
- Sudovi Spravy (Court Affairs)
- Svoboda na Interi (Freedom on Inter)
- Vechirniy Kvartal (Evening Neighborhood)
- Vidverto pro Futbol (Sincerely about the Soccer)
- Znak yakosti (Sign of Quality)
Personalities
- Andriy Danilevych (Podrobytsi Tyzhnia)
- Hanna HomonaiHanna HomonaiHanna Stanislavivna Homonai is a Ukrainian TV news anchor. She was born in Kiev, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union .-Career in Journalism:* 1999—2004 — Noviy Kanal, correspondent.* 2004 — 5th Channel, news anchor....
(Novyny) - Volodymyr Horiansky (Ranok z Interom)
- Yevhen Koshovy (Vechirniy Kvartal)
- Olha Kotlytska (Na Pershy Pohliad)
- Olena Kravets (Vechirniy Kvartal)
- Yulia LytvynenkoYulia LytvynenkoYulia Lytvynenko , is a Ukrainian television host from Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.She graduated from the Department of Journalism of Dnipropetrovsk State University. Until 1999 Lytvynenko worked as a stringer for 1+1 and STB as well as the local regional TV network of the Dnipropetrovsk...
(Pozaochi) - Dasha Malakhova (Kartata Potata)
- Ihor Pelykh (Na Svoyu Holovu) (died in a car crash May 8, 2009)
- Ruslan Senichkin (Podrobytsi)
- Nataliya SumskaNataliya SumskaNataliya Sumska , is a Ukrainian actress and the host of the program Key moment on Inter. She is recognized as the People's Artist of Ukraine.-Biography:...
(Kliuchovy Moment) - Olha Sumska (Ranok z Interom)
- Masha YefrosininaMaria EfrosininaMaria "Masha" Efrosinina , , is a Ukrainian television host.-Overview:Graduating from a high school with a gold medal , Efrosinina enrolled into the Department of Foreign Languages in the Kiev University to graduate as an interpreter of the English and Spanish languages.In 19 she debuted on the...
(Liniya Konfliktu) - Iryna Yusupova (Podrobytsi)
- Anastasia Zavorotniuk (Kukhnia dlia Chaynykiv)
- Volodymyr Zelensky (Vechirniy Kvartal)
Controversies
U.A. Inter Media Group Ltd. is owned by Valeriy KhoroshkovskyValeriy Khoroshkovsky
Valeriy Ivanovych Khoroshkovsky is a Ukrainian businessman, head of the Security Service of Ukraine and owner of U.A. Inter Media Group which owns majority shares in various Ukrainian TV channels such as Inter TV...
, the former top-manager of Evraz Group
Evraz Group
Evraz Group is one of the world's biggest vertically integrated steel production and mining businesses, with operations mainly in Russia. In 2008, Evraz Group produced 17.7 million tonnes of crude steel.-Overview:...
. In 2007 Komersant claimed that Dmytro Firtash
Dmytro Firtash
Dmytro Firtash is a Ukrainian businessman and billionaire .Firtash first steps in business where in in the food industry in the early 1990s before moving into gas trading....
and Vitaly Hayduk bought all of the shares of the company. Same information was given from Tymoshenko and Turchinov. All of these claims were denied by the tele-channel and Khoroshkovsky threatening to file a legal suit.
According to critics the channel used to be directly controlled by the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) until the Orange Revolution
Orange Revolution
The Orange Revolution was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which was claimed to be marred by massive corruption, voter...
.
In January 2009 the current Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko , née Grigyan , born 27 November 1960, is a Ukrainian politician. She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She placed third in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful...
refused to appear on Inter television programs criticizing the channel's associates of their professional ethics.