Suspilne


The National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine JSC, also known as Suspilne or previously UA:PBC, is the national public broadcaster of Ukraine. As such it was registered on 19 January 2017. In its revamped form the company provides content for its three television and radio channels.
From 1995 until its current name, the television predecessors of the current broadcaster was named the National Television Company of Ukraine. Ukrainian Radio was its radio predecessor and a stand-alone company until it merged with NTU to be the first public broadcasting company of Ukraine.
Radio broadcasts in Ukraine, at the time part of the USSR, began in Kharkiv in 1924, and a nationwide radio network was initiated in 1928. In 1965 the first nationwide Ukrainian television channel Ukraiinske Telebachennia or UT was established.
The broadcaster was rebranded to Suspilne on 5 December 2019, with the new brand identity presented on 23 May 2022.

Overview

The Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine is a public joint-stock agency with 100% of its shares belonging to the state, and operates the television channel Pershyi, the only Ukrainian TV channel that has a coverage over 97% of Ukraine's territory and is the only state-owned national channel. Its programs are oriented at all social layers of the Ukrainian society and national minorities.
Its radio division Ukrainian Radio is the biggest radio network in the country, which broadcasts on FM and AM, satellite and cable networks throughout Ukraine, and is the most popular news and talk radio station in Ukraine.
Among priority directions of the network are informative publicism, popular scientific, culturologic, entertaining and sport-oriented ones. Pershyi, at one point, significantly trails all of its privately owned rival channels in terms of viewership. The National Television Company of Ukraine was changed to Public Television Network in 2009. The network consists of several channels such as Pershyi, "Second Channel", "Euronews Ukraine" and "Ukraine and the World". In 2014, a new law was passed to make the network independent from the government. With the creation of the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine in 2015, the National Radio Company of Ukraine merged into this new company, which was officially registered on 19 January 2017.
On 20 January 2025, coinciding with a change of Suspilne's Chair, JICA donated an outside broadcasting van and other equipment to the broadcaster.

Television

Currently the Suspilne television network is organized as follows:
  • Pershyi
  • *Suspilne Crimea
  • Suspilne Sport Also included the program "Week. Region" on Suspilne Regional channels
  • *Suspilne Cherkasy
  • *Suspilne Chernihiv
  • *Suspilne Chernivtsi
  • *Suspilne Donbas
  • *Suspilne Dnipro
  • *Suspilne Ivano-Frankivsk
  • *Suspilne Kharkiv
  • *Suspilne Kherson
  • *Suspilne Khmelnytskyi
  • *Suspilne Kyiv
  • *Suspilne Kropyvnytskyi
  • *Suspilne Lviv
  • *Suspilne Mykolaiv
  • *Suspilne Odesa
  • *Suspilne Poltava
  • *Suspilne Rivne
  • *Suspilne Sumy
  • *Suspilne Ternopil
  • *Suspilne Vinnytsia
  • *Suspilne Lutsk
  • *Suspilne Uzhhorod
  • *Suspilne Zaporizhzhia
  • *Suspilne Zhytomyr
  • '''Suspilne Kultura'''

    Digital

  • Suspilne Novyny - news portal
  • *Suspilne Regional - news portal from Suspilne regional networks
  • Suspilne Sport - sport portal
  • Suspilne Kultura - portal about culture, lifestyle, cinema, music and other thematics in actual and historical context
  • Suspilne Mediateka - portal with video- and audio-archives

    Radio

Suspilne broadcasts on 3 national and 1 international radio channels: Radio Ukraine, Radio "Promin", Radio "Culture" and Radio Ukraine International. The regional branches have their broadcasting slots in the broadcast schedule of the First Channel of Ukrainian Radio. General producer of Ukrainian radio channels since 2017 is Dmytro Khorkin.
Radio Ukraine Directorate of the Suspilne is a structural subdivision of the company, which integrates four broadcasting channels, the studios of Radio House and the House of Recording of Ukrainian Radio, and 5 radio ensembles.
Radio Ukraine broadcasts on FM and AM, satellite and cable TV-networks throughout Ukraine. Also it has mobile app suspilne.radio for Android and iOS.

Radio channels

  • Radio Ukraine – the first channel of public Ukrainian Radio. The most popular news and talk radio station in Ukraine. Also it is the biggest FM radio network in the country.
  • Radio Promin – the second channel of public Ukrainian Radio. Music radio station.
  • Radio Culture – the third channel of public Ukrainian Radio. Cultural and educational radio station.
  • Radio Ukraine International – international radio service in Belarusian, Slovakian, Hungarian, Romanian, Gagauz and Bulgarian languages.

    Studio complexes

  • Ukrainian Radio House – is a studio complex located at 26 Khreschatyk str, Kyiv. It's a broadcasting center for four channels of Ukrainian radio.
  • Recording House of Radio Ukraine – is a concert and studio complex in Kyiv. Large Concert Studio of the Recording House allows to record large orchestral and choral groups and is one of the largest such studios in Europe. The Recording House also serves as a rehearsal and concert venue for radio orchestras and ensembles of Ukrainian Radio.

    Radio ensembles

Radio ensembles are instrumental or vocal bands – i.e. radio orchestra – employed by public service broadcasters around the world, whose main tasks are to create stock records for broadcasting on public radio stations, as well as to promote national culture. The following radio ensembles are a part of Suspilne:

Presidents (1995–2010)

  • June 1, 1995 - August 21, 1996: Oleksandr Savenko
  • August 21, 1996 - November 18, 1996: Zynoviy Kulyk
  • November 18, 1996 - October 1, 1998: Viktor Leshyk
  • October 5, 1998 - November 17, 1998: Mykola Kniazhytskyi
  • November 17, 1998 - June 21, 1999: Zynoviy Kulyk
  • June 21, 1999 - July 15, 1999: Oleksandr Savenko
  • July 16, 1999 - November 19, 2001: Vadym Dolhanov
  • November 19, 2001 - March 28, 2003: Ihor Storozhuk
  • March 28, 2003 - February 25, 2005: Oleksandr Savenko
  • February 25, 2005 - September 8, 2005: Taras Stetskiv
  • October 27, 2005 - February 18, 2008: Vitaliy Dokalenko
  • February 25, 2008 - March 17, 2010: Vasyl Ilaschuknj

    Directors general (2010–16)

  • March 17, 2010 - February 20, 2013: Yehor Benkendorf
  • February 20, 2013 - March 24, 2014: Oleksandr Panteleymonov
  • March 25, 2014 - November 1, 2016: Zurab Alasania

    Chairs of the board (2017–present)

  • January 18, 2017 - May 13, 2017: Hanna Bychok
  • May 13, 2017 - June 24, 2019: Zurab Alasania
  • May 10, 2019 - June 30, 2019: Mykola Chernotytskyi
  • July 1, 2019 - April 26, 2021: Zurab Alasania
  • from April 27, 2021: Mykola Chernotytskyi
'''Notes'''

Current management

  • Iryna Slavinska, editor-in-chief
  • Hrygoriy Tychyna, producer, Suspilne TV
  • Ievhen Chyzh, producer, Radio Ukraine
  • Victoria Murovana, producer, Suspilne Digital Media platforms
  • Hrustyna Gavrylyuk, producer, ''Suspilne Info''

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