The Media Group Ukraine has launched trial versions of the Kinotochka and NLO-TV channels, the company's director general, Fedir Oharkov, announced on Feb. 7.
According to him, the new TV channels are available in the Zeonbud Ltd. national digital TV network.
The Kinotochka channel will broadcast films, series, and documentary films, while the NLO-TV channel will broadcast programs about mysteries.
Oharkov also said that the TV channels are mostly broadcasting programs and films that were earlier shown on the Ukraina channel.
According to him, it is unreasonable to invest in channels that are not available to the mass audience at the moment.
While commenting on the future plans of the media group, Oharkov said that the group had decided not to develop the Novosti (News) channel, which was announced earlier.
"We are not planning to develop the Novosti channel, as we did not receive the license [for national digital broadcasting]," he said.
Oharkov added that the media group is planning to extend its news broadcasting on the Ukraina channel.
In a competition for digital broadcasting organized by the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting in August 2011, the Media Group Ukraine obtained the right to broadcast its three channels: Ukraina, Kinotochka and NLO-TV.
The group’s Novosti and Sport channels did not receive licenses.
In October 2010, SCM announced that it had decided to build a media group based on the Ukraina TV channel, which also included the Futbol and Futbol+ sports channel, the Donbass regional channel, Mediapartnerstvo and Internet Holding Digital Ventures (the tochka.net portal).
