TV channel ‘Multimedia platform of foreign broadcasting of Ukraine’ (UA TV) has started broadcasting in a test mode in territories of Donetsk region and annexed Crimea that are not under Ukraine’s control.
According to the press release of the Information Policy Ministry, from the TV tower in Volnovakha (Donetsk region), the Broadcasting, Radio Communication and Television Concern has switched on UA TV in a test mode on channel 22nd of 1 kW in DVB-T digital format. From TV tower in Chonhar (Kherson region) LLC ‘TV network of Ukraine’ started broadcasting UA TV in a test mode on the 50th channel with the capacity of 1 kW in DVB-T2 digital format.
“Broadcasting from the television towers in Chonhar and Volnovakha is just the beginning. The ministry undertakes to ensure the full broadcasting of UA TV to Crimea and Donbas. We will fulfill this commitment,” Information Policy Minister Yuriy Stets said.
According to him, in the near future, UA TV will start broadcasting also to Luhansk region.
The state operator fulfills all technical tasks on time in the framework of the work of the Commission on ensuring the stable functioning of the national television and radio broadcasting system under the Ministry of Information Policy, Director General of the Broadcasting, Radio Communication and Television Concern Petro Semerei said.
Liudmyla Berezovska, director general of the state-run enterprise ‘The International broadcasting multimedia platform of Ukraine’ said that the main goal of creating the country’s foreign broadcasting system is to provide the audience with the opportunity to form their own independent view of the events and phenomena that are taking place.
“This is very much lacking in territories oversaturated by Russian propaganda along the contact line in the east of the country and on the administrative border with Crimea. In the near future UA TV will also occupy this niche together with other Ukrainian TV channels,” she said.
UA TV started broadcasting on October 1, 2015. The legal basis for its work was the Law on the System of Foreign Broadcasting of Ukraine, developed by the Ministry of Information Policy.
The channel broadcasts news and programs of its own production through satellite and cable networks in five languages – Ukrainian, English, Russian, Arabic and Crimean Tatar.
