The District Administrative Court of Kyiv has cancelled the results of the competition for broadcasting licenses that the national Television and Radio Broadcasting council held on January 27.
An informed source disclosed this to Ukrainian News. According to the source, the court issued the relevant decision early on June 8, upholding a lawsuit filed by the NTN, Enter Film, and Enter Music television companies.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the editorial board of the Channel 5 television station published an open letter to President Viktor Yanukovych on Monday, June 7, in which it accused the Security Service of Ukraine’s Chairman Valerii Khoroshkovskyi, who owns the U.A. Inter Media Group, of attempting to annihilate Channel 5 via a possible court decision reversing the results of the competition for broadcasting licenses that the national Television and Radio Broadcasting council held on January 27.
Khoroshkovskyi denied the accusation. The U.A. Inter Media Group, a Kyiv-based media holding company, decided in April to relinquish the broadcast license it acquired on January 27 via the competition organized by the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council, claiming that the competition was held in contravention of the law.
NTN, Enter Film, and Enter Music challenged the outcome of the competition in court. The highest numbers of frequencies were allocated to the TVi (33) and Channel 5 (26) television companies at the end of the competition. U.A. Inter Media Group received 20 frequencies.
