Ukrainian Media Monitoring on EU Issues
The Project is funded by the EU
Ukrainian regional media: overview
by:
International NGO Internews-Ukraine
with support by:
Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine
Kyiv, 2012
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Contents
Ukrainian regional media: brief overview of the major regions ...... 10 Donetsk region...... 11 Lviv region ...... 16 Crimea...... 21 Kharkiv region ...... 26 Lugansk region ...... 37 Mykolaiv region ...... 42 Odesa region...... 48 Zakarpattia region...... 52 Detailed overview of Ukrainian regions by key media outlets...... 58 Autonomous Republic of Crimea...... 59 TV channels...... 60 TV channel “Chernomorka”...... 60 TV and Radio Company “Devkom”...... 61 TV and Radio Company “Мorion” ...... 62 Newspapers...... 62 “Krymskaya Pravda”...... 62 “Sevastopolskaya Gazeta”...... 63 “Golos Cryma”...... 64 “Sevastopolskie Izvestiya”...... 65 “Sudakskiy Vestnik”...... 66 On-line resources ...... 67 The portal of the newspaper “Persha Krymska”...... 67 News Agency “E-Krym” ...... 68 Cherkasy region ...... 69 TV channels...... 70 TV company “Vikka”...... 70 TV company “Uman’” ...... 71 Cherkasy Regional State TV and radio company (Ros’) ...... 72 Newspapers...... 73 “Vechirni Cherkasy”...... 73 “Dilova Cherkashchyna” ...... 74 “Sil’ski Obrii” ...... 75 “Cherkas’kyi Kray” ...... 76 “Ot i Do”...... 77 On-line resources ...... 78 Internet project “Press Center” ...... 78 Media group “Antena” ...... 79 Newspaper “Novyny Tyzhn’a” ...... 80 Chernigiv region ...... 81 TV channels...... 82 Chernigiv Regional State TV and Radio Company...... 82 TV channel “TV–Pryluky” ...... 83 TV and radio company “Obriy” ...... 84 Newspapers...... 85 “Chernigivski Vidomosti”...... 85 “Chernigovskaya nedel’a”...... 86 3
“Chernigivskyi Visnyk” ...... 87 “Sivershchyna” ...... 88 “Visti”...... 89 On-line resources ...... 90 Project “Chernigivs’kyi Monitor” ...... 90 Gorod.cn.ua – Chernigiv city portal ...... 91 Internet newspaper “Vysokiy Val” ...... 92 Chernivtsy region...... 93 TV channels...... 94 TV and radio company “Chernivtsy”...... 94 TV and radio company “AS” ...... 95 Chernivtsy Regional State TV and Radio Company (BUK)...... 96 Newspapers...... 97 “Bukovina”...... 97 “Molodyi Bukovynets”...... 98 “Chernivtsy” ...... 99 “Chas”...... 100 “Chernivtsy city plus”...... 101 On line resources ...... 102 Chernivtsy Independent News Agency “Buk Info”...... 102 Web-page of newspaper “Doba”...... 103 Dnipropetrovsk Region...... 104 TV channels...... 105 TV channel “TET – Dnopropetrovsk”...... 105 TV and Radio Company “STERH”...... 106 TV channel “Avtor TV” ...... 107 TV and Radio Company “ETIS” ...... 108 Newspapers...... 109 “Dnepr Vecherniy” ...... 109 “Dneprovskaya Nedel’a”...... 110 “Dneprovskaya pravda” ...... 111 “Nashe misto”...... 112 “Nova Gazeta”...... 113 On-line resources ...... 115 “Sovremennik”...... 115 “Gazeta po-dneprovski” (online version)...... 116 Donetsk Region...... 117 TV channels...... 118 TV company “Stirol-TV” ...... 118 TRC “Ukraina” ...... 119 TV and Radio Company “UNION” ...... 121 TV company “TV-7”...... 123 Newspapers...... 124 “Vecherniy Donetsk”...... 124 “Donetskie Novosti”...... 126 “Vyrobnyk Ukrainy”...... 127 “Donechchyna”...... 128 “Zheleznodorozhnik Donbasa” ...... 129 Online resources...... 130 “Novosti.dn.ua”...... 130 4
Ivano-Frankivsk Region...... 132 TV channels...... 133 Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State TV and Radio Company ...... 133 TV and radio company “3-studiya”...... 134 TV and radio company “Vezha” ...... 135 Newspapers...... 136 “Vpered” ...... 136 “Halychyna” ...... 137 “Kolomyiskyy Visnyk” ...... 138 “Vilnyy Holos” ...... 139 “Halytske Slovo”...... 140 On-line resources ...... 141 News agency ifPortal.net...... 141 “PIAR”...... 142 Kharkiv region...... 143 TV channels...... 144 “TV company “ATN” ...... 144 Kharkiv Regional State TV and Radio Company ...... 145 Newspapers...... 146 “Slobids’kyy Kray”...... 146 “Vecherniy Kharkov”...... 147 “Novyy Den’”...... 148 “Vremya” ...... 149 “Sobytie”...... 150 Online resources...... 151 “MediaPort”...... 151 “Status quo”...... 153 “Gorodskoy Dozor” ...... 154 Kherson region ...... 155 TV channels...... 156 “Scythia” (Kherson Regional State TV and Radio Company) ...... 156 TV and radio company “TOP”...... 158 TV “Vita” ...... 159 Newspapers...... 160 “Bulava”...... 160 “VIK – chas, podii, lyudy”...... 161 “Gryvna” ...... 162 “Novyi Den’”...... 163 “Vestnik priazov’ya”...... 164 Online resources...... 165 Web-portal of Nova Kahovka city...... 165 Khmelnytskyi region ...... 166 TV channels...... 167 Khmelnytskyi Regional State TV and Radio Company ...... 167 TV and radio company “Contact”...... 168 “Dyt’ache televiziine agenstvo”...... 169 Newspapers...... 170 “Khmelnytskyy ta Khmelnychany”...... 170 “Khmelnychchyna”...... 171 “Podils’ki visti” ...... 172 “Blagovist Khmelnychchyny – Podil’ski Eparhialni Vidomosti”...... 173 5
“VSIM” ...... 174 On-line resources ...... 175 News Agency “Context – Khmelnytskyi”...... 175 Media corporation “Ye!” ...... 176 Kirovograd region ...... 178 TV channels...... 179 TV and radio company “KTM” ...... 179 Kirovograd Regional State TV and Radio Company ...... 180 Newspapers...... 181 “Kirovogradska Pravda”...... 181 “21 kanal” ...... 182 “Narodne Slovo”...... 183 “Nova Gazeta”...... 184 “Silskyy Visnyk”...... 185 Online resources...... 186 Internet portal “Ves’ Kirovograd” ...... 186 On-line media outlet of the city of Svitlovodsk ...... 187 Kyiv region ...... 188 TV channels...... 189 “Maidan-TV”...... 189 Newspapers...... 190 “Hromads’ka Dumka” ...... 190 “Visnyk Pereyaslavshchyny”...... 191 “Yagotyns’ki Visti” ...... 192 “Peremoga”...... 193 Online resources...... 194 “Kyiany – Obozrevatel” ...... 194 “Khreshchatyk”...... 196 Lugansk Region...... 197 TV channels...... 198 Lugansk Regional State TV and radio company (“LOT”)...... 198 TV and radio company “STV”...... 199 TV and radio company “IRTA”...... 200 Newspapers...... 201 Vecherniy Lugansk...... 201 “Vesti Regiona” ...... 202 “Luganskaya Pravda”...... 203 “Nasha Gazeta”...... 204 On-line resources ...... 205 “Novyny Luganska” ...... 205 “Rakurs Plus”...... 206 “Agentstvo Regionalnykh Novyn”...... 207 Lviv region...... 208 TV channels...... 209 Lviv Regional State TV and Radio Company...... 209 NTA...... 210 Newspapers...... 211 Vysokyi Zamok...... 211 Lvivs’ka Hazeta...... 212 Argument Gazeta ...... 213 Ratusha...... 214 6
Subotn’a Poshta ...... 215 Online resources...... 216 News Agency “LvivNews” ...... 216 ZIK...... 217 Zaxid.net ...... 218 Mykolaiv region...... 219 TV channels...... 220 Mykolaiv Regional State TV and Radio Company ...... 220 TV and radio company “Mart”...... 221 TV channel “35 kanal”...... 222 Newspapers...... 223 “Vecherniy Nikolaev”...... 223 “Vestnik Pribuzhya” ...... 224 “Shchotyzhn’a” ...... 225 “Yuzhnaya obshchestvenno-politicheskaya gazeta”...... 226 “Yuzhnaya Pravda”...... 227 Online resources...... 228 Internet media “Mukola.net”...... 228 Internet media “novosti-n.mk.ua” ...... 229 Internet media outlet “mk.mk.ua” ...... 230 Odessa region...... 231 TV channels...... 232 Odessa Regional State TV and Radio Company...... 232 Media group “Glas”...... 233 TV and radio company “Illichivske Telebachennya-3”...... 234 Newspapers...... 235 “Odesskiy Vestnik”...... 235 “Gazeta po-odesski”...... 237 “Vechern’aya Odessa”...... 238 “Delovaya Odessa”...... 239 “Chornomors’ki novyny”...... 240 Online resources...... 241 News Agency “Reporter” ...... 241 Portal of the newspaper “Akkermenski Visti” ...... 242 “Misto” (Odessa News web-page) ...... 243 Poltava Region ...... 244 TV channels...... 245 Poltava Regional State TV and Radio Company (“Ltava”) ...... 245 TV channel Misto...... 246 TV channel “Astra” ...... 247 Newspapers...... 249 “Zor’a Poltavshchyny” ...... 249 “Vechirnia Poltava” ...... 250 “Pyr’atyns’ki Visti” ...... 251 “Poltavs’kyi Visnyk” ...... 252 “Visnyk Kremenchuga” ...... 253 Online resources...... 254 Portal “Novyny Poltavshchyny” ...... 254 Portal “Kremenchug On-Line”...... 255 Rivne region...... 256 TV channels...... 257 7
Rivne Regional State TV and Radio Company ...... 257 LLC “TV and radio company Rivne-1”...... 258 TV and radio company “Rivne-atom” ...... 259 Newspapers...... 260 “7 dniv”...... 260 “Vil’ne Slovo” ...... 261 “Visti Rivnenshchyny” ...... 262 “Volyn’” ...... 263 “Rivne Vechirn’e” ...... 264 On-line resources ...... 265 Regional portal “Rivne”...... 265 Portal of newspaper “Rakurs Rivne” ...... 266 Portal of the publishing house “OGO” ...... 267 Sumy region...... 268 TV channels...... 269 Sumy Regional State TV and Radio Company ...... 269 TV and radio company “Vikidion”...... 270 “Telecom Service” ...... 271 Newspapers...... 272 “Slobids’kyy Visnyk” ...... 272 “Domashnya Gazeta”...... 273 “Sumschina” ...... 274 “Slobozhanshchyna i Slobozhany” ...... 275 “Narodna Trybuna”...... 276 On-line resources ...... 277 Informational web-site sumy.net.ua...... 277 Sumy news portal dancor.sumy.ua ...... 278 “Panorama”...... 279 Ternopyl region ...... 280 TV channels...... 281 Ternopil Regional State TV and Radio Company ...... 281 “TV-4”...... 285 TV channel “TTS” ...... 286 Newspapers...... 287 “RIA plus” ...... 287 “Visnyk Ternopolyan” ...... 288 “Nova Ternopils’ka Gazeta” ...... 289 “Podil’ske Slovo” ...... 290 “Ternopil Vechirniy” ...... 291 On-line resources ...... 292 “Novyny Ternopilshchyny”...... 292 “I-plus” ...... 293 Vinnytsia Region ...... 294 TV channels...... 295 TV and Radio Company “Lada” ...... 295 TV and Radio Company “Pilot”...... 295 TV and Radio Company “TODOR”...... 296 Newspapers...... 297 “Vinnytska Hazeta” ...... 297 “Vinnychyna” ...... 298 “Pivdennyi Bug”...... 299 8
“Trybuna Praci” ...... 300 “Shargorodshyna”...... 301 “Misto”...... 302 “33 kanal” ...... 303 Volyn Region...... 304 TV channels...... 305 Volyn Regional State TV and Radio Company...... 305 TV and radio Company “Avers”...... 307 Newspapers...... 308 “Visnyk i Ko” ...... 308 “Viche” ...... 309 “Volynski i gubernski vidomosti”...... 310 “Volyn” ...... 311 “Dzvony Volyni”...... 312 Online resources...... 313 “Volynska Pravda” ...... 313 Web portal of the newspaper “Volodymyr Vechirnyy” ...... 314 Zakarpattia Region ...... 315 TV channels...... 316 “Tisa-1”...... 316 “M-studio”...... 317 Newspapers...... 318 “Zakarpatska Pravda” ...... 318 “Novyny Zakarpattia”...... 319 “Visti Uzhgorodshyny”...... 320 Online resources...... 321 Zakarpattia on-line...... 321 Zaporizhia region...... 322 TV channels...... 323 TV company “TV-5”...... 323 “Aleks TV” ...... 324 TV and radio company “Azovs’ka Hvyl’a”...... 325 Newspapers...... 326 “Zaporizka Pravda”...... 326 “Gorozhanin” ...... 327 “Nashe Vremya Plus”...... 328 “Region” ...... 329 “Industialnoe Zaporozhie” – “IZ-Panorama”...... 330 Online resources...... 331 “Prospect” ...... 331 Zhytomyr region ...... 332 TV channels...... 333 Zhytomyr Regional State TV and Radio Company ...... 333 TV and radio company “VIK” ...... 334 TV and radio company “ORTA-Forum”...... 335 Newspapers...... 336 “RIA-Tyzhden”...... 336 “Ekho” ...... 337 “Zhytomyrshchyna”...... 338 “Slovo Polissya” ...... 339 On-line resources ...... 340 9
Portal of Zhytomyr newspaper “Svoboda”...... 340 10
Ukrainian regional media: brief overview of the major regions
Ukrainian regional market reflects general situation at Ukrainian central media market. They continue to be subject to considerable political influence, which is even stronger than political influence at the national level. In each region competition between key political and economic stakeholders is projected to competition between media outlets / holdings owned by these stakeholders. This creates a significant setback in development of independent regional journalists in Ukraine. Despite this trend, it would be unjust to underestimate potential of Ukrainian regional journalism, including its interest to EU-related information. Regional journalists are normally more enthusiastic, less cynical, and more open to new information, including that coming from the EU. They know especially well situation in their regions and their economic and social needs, therefore cooperation with them is extremely important for the EU and its diplomatic missions. Another interesting element of the Ukrainian regional press market concerns distribution techniques. In contrast to European national distribution markets, dominated usually by a limited number of delivery companies, the Ukrainian distribution market is over-fragmented and dominated by big media holdings. About 200 media distribution companies are acting throughout the whole country; many of them are closely linked to owners of media outlets. This creates a double setback: the distribution market is over-fragmented, and no clear tool to objectively measure the number of copies really published by each particular media outlet is available. Some Ukrainian regions are dominated by monopolist distribution companies, usually linked to one or two leading media holdings, which in turn are linked to leading economic, financial or political groups of the region. This creates another monopolist trap, as distribution companies remain major information source about rating and coverage of a media outlet, which enables dominating holdings manipulate figures, attract advertisers, and in this way increase their influence on public opinion. This constellation creates a tricky situation for any media monitoring research, as Ukraine still lacks a nationally recognized certifying or monitoring company able to objectively assess the number of copies which really reached out to the audience. Now this report will make a brief overview of 8 key Ukrainian regions, in order to provide more narrative information about key regional players on Ukrainian media market. The report is prepared by local journalists, knowing the situation in the region on the grassroots level, specially for this report. More detailed analysis of each media is provided in region-focused chapters of this paper. 11
Donetsk region By Olexandr Larin
Key media owners
Financial and economic group SCM, owned by Rinat Akhmetov, is, beyond doubt, the biggest media owner in the region. In Donetsk oblast Media Group Ukraine, owned by SCM, owns TV channel Donbass ; horizontal web-portal tochka.net (managed by Digital Ventures that belongs to Media Group Ukraine). Segodnya Multimedia, an SCM’s company managing its print media business, manages newspapers Donetskie novosti (Donetsk news), Vecherniy Donetsk (Evening Donetsk), Segodnya-Donbas. SCM, through these companies, controls majority of the media outlets of the region.
Other big media owners are not that transparent. Non-state TV and radio company Union was ranked 13th (out of 42) in the rating of Ukrainian channels broadcasting in the region (according to data published by GfK Ukraine). According to unofficial information, the TV channel was linked to former mayor of Makeevka Vasyl Dzharty (until recently the Prime Minister of the Crimean autonomy who died in August, 2011) who even after moving to Simferopol did not lost his influence on Makeevka TV (reports from Crimea were often broadcasted on Union). Due to Dzharty TV channel Union was quite successful in its municipal tender bids : in 2010 it won the tender of the municipal council on TV services, worth more than UAH 1,5 million (about EUR 130 thousand). TV channel also has beneficial contracts with the municipal council on coverage of regional news.
Anatoliy Blyznuk, now the head of the Donetsk regional state administration, is also one of the most influential media owners in the region. Regional newspaper Zhyzn (Life), unofficially called a « Blyzniuk’s newspaper », during Yushchenko’s presidency was financed from the budget of Donetsk regional council (regional authority elected on the ground). When Yushchenko lost his presidential race to Yanukovych, Blyznuk was appointed the head of the regional state administration (regional institution appointed by the central authorities), and the paper Zhyzn received funds from the administration’s budget. The paper’s case is one of the numerous examples in Ukraine how much Ukrainian regional press depends on regional authorities, on a possible controversy between central (or Kiev-appointed) and regional (regionally elected) authorities, and how pubic money is used to represent and advocate a biased political position.
Political influence
Most media outlets in the region are vehicles to communicate ideas of the Party of the Regions. However, outlets also actively seize an opportunity to earn on political « jeansa » (paid materials). For example, Donetskie novosti were advertising Yanukovych during the latest presidential elections. However, despite sympathy to Yanukovych, this newspaper also advertised Yulia Tymoshenko, unpopular in the region, in articles apparently written in Tymoshenko headquarters and advertising her achievements under the mask of an objective journalist report. The same articles were published by other media outlets of the region. 12
After Yanukovych won the presidential elections, materials about the opposition have become mostly full of mockery, while actions taken by the Yanukovych’s team are now mostly welcomed. Bulk of the pro-Yanukovych articles, whose authors express their full support to Yanukovych, are written by unknown political experts, economists or journalists. Sometimes articles published in some newspapers, are word-by-word reproduced in articles published by other papers.
Newspaper Zhyzn earlier balanced between pro-Yanukovych (Anatoliy Blyznuk) and pro- Yushchenko (Volodymyr Lygvynenko, head of the Donetsk regional council, appointed by Yushchenko) camps; but after Yanukovych’s victory at the latest elections, it fully supports Yanukovych.
Latest trends of the media market
Closure of once popular newspaper Salon Dona i Basa has been one of the key events on the Donetsk regional media market. The newspaper was published on Tuesdays (40 pages) and Fridays (92 pages), in 9-15 thousand copies. The newspaper was owned by Segodnya Multimedia holding (SCM) but recently the holding decided to merge its regional newspapers with the central office (newspaper Segodnya), saying the merger will cut costs in the group’s media business. On January, 21st, 2011, newspaper Salon Dona i Basa was officially closed.
In February, 2011, Ukraine’s National TV and Radio Broadcasting Council refused to prolong broadcasting licenses to two affiliated Donetsk regional TV companies : CAT- plus and Vostok-plus. The Council said that the companies spend bulk of their broadcasting time to rebroadcast other channels’ products, primarily TV channel TVi. As TVi is one of the key opposition TV channels in Ukraine, this ban was seen by many as a political move.
Key media of the region
Press
Donetskie novosti (Donetsk news) – weekly social and political magazine-format newspaper. Published in 52 pages, including chapters focused on advertising, thematic pages (Sports, Discovery, Donbass history, Show business, etc). Outreach : 20-28 thousand copies. The paper is a part of the media holding Segodnya Multimedia, owned by Rinat Akhmetov.
Segodnya-Donbass (Donetsk regional supplement to newspaper Segodnya, published in 4 pages daily, which includes regional news and announcement of the upcoming events) – daily social and political newspaper, published by the media holding Segodnya Multimedia, owned by Rinat Akhmetov.
Vecherniy Donetsk (Evening Donetsk)¸ a regional newspaper focused on the older-age audience, who remember « Vecherka » as the key Soviet-time municipal newspaper (the same phenomenon was present in Kyiv, in which Soviet municipal newspaper Vechirniy Kyiv maintained its audience long after dissolution of the Soviet Union). Newspaper 13 publishes 16 issues per month, in about 20 thousand copies. Owned by Segodnya Multimedia.
Priazovskyi rabochiy (Azov Region Worker) – daily regional newspaper based in Marioupol but distributed by subscription throughout the whole Donetsk region. Published in 50-65 thousand copies. Owned by Segodnya Multimedia.
Zhyzn (Life) – daily social and political newspaper of the Donetsk regional council and Donetsk regional state administration. Published four times a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday), in about 25 thousand copies.
Donbas – regional newspaper. Published three times a week (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday), in 17-40 thousand copies.
Munitsipalnaya gazeta (Municipal newspaper) – official media outlet of the Donetsk city council. Established by the Donetsk city council and the 9 regional councils. Weekly 16- page newspaper, published on Fridays. No credible information about the number of copies per issue is available.
TV
27 Kanal – is a part of the Donetsk regional TV and radio company. The channel has the biggest territorial outreach in the region. Main chapters : “We help see the region”, “Topical interview”, “Vector of economy”, “Personal focus”, “Tourist Donbass”, “Donbass education”, “Miners’ horizons”, “My land”, “Meeting the people”, “All about medicine”. News (10-15 minutes) broadcasted three times a day.
First municipal channel – is a part of the Advertising agency “Zolotoy gramophon”. The channel broadcasts in Donetsk and its suburbs. Key programs: “Kult-Tura”, “Psychology”, “PostFactum”, “Health formula”, etc. The channel also issues 12-15- minutes news blocks.
Union – regional information channel. The channel is believed to be the key channel of the Makiivka town, but also covers Donetsk, Horlivka, Khartsyzk, Yenakievo and some other cities of the Donetsk region.
Donbas – twenty-four-hour TV channel oriented on audience of the Eastern region. The channel has a political talk show “A question of power” broadcasted live. The TV channel covers Donetsk, Makeevka, Yasynovata, and a network of cable operators throughout the Donetsk region. Owned by SCM (Rinat Akhmetov).
Radio
Donetsk regional radio («Radio Centre») – a 24-hour radio station. The station broadcasts 3-5 minute news blocks four times a day, from Mondays through Saturdays. Integrated into the Donetsk regional state TV and radio company.
Wired radio – 12 radio organizations with wired radio broadcasting are working in the Donetsk oblast. Their broadcasting activity fluctuates from 28 minutes per week 14
(« Radiokompania » of the Yenakievo municipal council) to 28 hours and 52 minutes per week (Donetsk regional state TV and radio company).
FM-radio stations – 13 FM radio stations (most of them broadcast 24 hours per day) are active in the Donetsk region. Almost all of them broadcast their products under the aegis of the Russian FM stations : Radio Klass, Russkoie radio, Radio Alla, Mega-Radio, Kiss-FM, Radio Chanson etc. News are imported.
Internet
«OstroV» (http://www.ostro.org) – a web-site of the Research Centre on Donbass Social Prospects. In April 2011 the web-site was registered in the Justice Ministry as a news agency. The site implements its projects under grant support from the National Endowment for Democracy; US Embassy’s Foundation on Ukrainian media development; International Renaissance Foundation. Besides, the news agency tries to commercialize its activities and provides advertising services. The site does not have any clear political preferences. It is visited by 10-13 thousand unique users daily.
KID (http://zadonbass.org) – the site does not disclose information about its publishers and owners. However, it full supports current authorities and ideology of the Party of the Regions. The site’s editorial board is located in the regional headquarters and public reception office of the Party of the Regions. The site is visited by 10-12 thousand unique users daily.
«Novosti Donbassa » (News of Donbass) (http://novosti.dn.ua) – The site does not disclose information about its publishers and owners. The outlet positions itself as an opposition resource. Its editorial board is located in the headquarters of the regional office of Narodna Partija Ukrainy (Ukraine’s People’s Party), controlled by MP Olexandr Klymenko (NUNS). The outlet’s editor in chief Olexiy Matsuka earlier was a member of the Regional Council (regional authority elected on the ground), representing Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. At the same time, despite the site’s close ties to opposition, it is one of the leaders in publishing « jeansa » (paid news or articles), both economic and political.
Restrictions of the media freedom
Donetsk oblast, due to mayor of Slaviansk Nelia Shtepa, was ranked 5th in the list of « enemies of press » created by National trade-union of journalists. During 100 days of her stay in the office, Shtepa was involved into a number of conflicts with journalists. She, for example, could make journalists leave the official events, including sessions of the municipal councils. She also initiated closure of the municipal newspaper Nash Slaviansk (Our Slaviansk). She created an alternative newspaper, « Slavianska pravda », unofficially called in the region a « Shtepa’s newspaper ». Finally, during a press conference she insulted a journalist (calling her a “bitch”) who asked an uncomfortable question.
The head of Donetsk state regional administration was not ranked an « ennemy of the press », but his style of communication with the media also deserves attention. He advocates an idea of « positive news », arguing that journalists try to depict a black picture of the region. He even established a media competition aimed to « create a 15 positive image of the Donetsk oblast as an investment-attractive region ». Blyzniuk was furious when western and then local journalists covered the situation of children in Torez orphaline, saying these materials are « paid » to discredit regional authorities. A journalist who wrote about the orphanage in the newspaper Zhyzn, was fired.
State-owned media outlets in the region mostly focus their work on coverage of activities of the local authorities. Oleg Dzholos, the director general of the Donetsk regional state TV and radio company did not agree with accusations of the independent journalists that blamed the company for predetermining information broadcasted by the TV channel and return to an old Kuchma-style work with the media (the so-called « temniks »). Every week Oleg Dzholos distributes a detailed weekly work plan among the journalists, covering key topics of the news and their ideological focus (« key message of the day ») and a clearly defined content. Local measures involving the head of the regional state administration and his deputies are considered to be the key events of the day. These officials are considered by the TV channel as key speakers of the news. Journalists regret that they face difficulties to get equipment and transport to cover news outside of the « weekly plan » most focused on measures involving regional officials.
In June 2011 Donetsk police tried to get access to data of the information agency OstroV. The police addressed the provider of the web-hosting services and required, on the basis of the inexistent criminal case, to provide it with access to the OstroV’s database. Sergiy Harmash, the editor in chief of the outlet, said that the actions taken by law enforcement services are illegal; they might be linked with an attempt of Ukrainian MP Yuriy Ivanushchenko to delete critical materials published by OstroV.
Another important problem of the media sector of the region consists in the fact that regional authorities try to avoid implementation of the recently adopted law « On access to public information », trying to stamp information they want to hide as information « for internal use ». Even after the law took effect, the regional authorities do not reply to journalists’ questions, or refuse, without grounds, in disclosing this information. 16
Lviv region By Dmytro Borysov
Main media outlets in the region
Print media
Dailies:
Newspaper “Express” – an interregional media outlet of general profile that is published three times a week. The audience of one issue constitutes 174,020 readers according to the research done by the company TNS - NRS 2010/2.
Newspaper “Visokiy Zamok” (“High Castle”) – an interregional media outlet of general profile published five times a week. The audience of one issue constitutes 162,880 readers.
Newspaper “Lvivska Poshta” (“Lviv Post”) - a local media outlet of general profile published three times a week. Data about the audience are not available.
Local daily newspapers “Express” and “Visokiy Zamok” have larger audience of one issue than nation-wide daily newspapers.
Weeklies:
“Lvivska Gazeta” (“Lviv Newspaper”) – a municipal media outlet of general profile. The audience of one issue constitutes 32,180 readers.
“Informator – the newspaper of the Agency of journalist investigations – a regional media outlet specializing in journalist investigations. The audience of one issue constitutes 20,870 readers.
Newspaper “Ratusha” (“City Hall”) – a municipal media outlet of general profile; data about the audience are not available.
Newspaper “Noviy Pogliad” “(New View”) – a municipal media outlet of general profile, data about the audience are not available.
Internet media:
ZAXID.NET (http://www.zaxid.net) – analytic Internet media of Lviv; 472,000 hosts monthly according to Bigmir rating (as of July 3, 2011)
ZIK (http://ww.zik.ua) a news agency “Zahidna Informaciyna Korporatsiya” (“Western Information Corporation”) having 519,000 hosts monthly.
Vgolos http://www.vgolos.com.ua) – an Internet newspaper; 87,000 hosts monthly. 17
Gal-info (http://www.galinfo.com.ua) – an agency of regional information and analytics having around 171,000 hosts monthly.
Television:
TV channel ZIK – an interregional information and education channel broadcasted in Lviv and nearby regions, accessible in cable networks and on satellite TV.
12th channel - a regional information and entertainment channel broadcasted in Lviv and nearby regions, accessible in cable networks and on satellite TV.
News TV channel “24” – an all-Ukrainian information channel broadcasted in Khmelnitsky and oblast, in Lviv and oblast, in Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil, accessible in cable networks and on satellite TV.
TV channel “NTA” – a regional information and entertainment channel broadcasted in Lviv and nearby regions, accessible in cable networks and on satellite TV.
Radio:
Radio station “Lvivska Khvylia” (“Lviv Wave”) – a local information and entertainment radio station in Lviv (frequency 100.8 MHz).
Radio station “Lux FM”– an all-Ukrainian information and entertainment radio station (frequency 104.7 MHz in Lviv)
Radio station “FM Galychyna”– an interregional musical and information radio (frequency 89.7 MHz in Lviv)
Radio station 24 – an interregional musical and information radio that plans to become a nation-wide radio network (frequency 102.1 MHz in Lviv)
Radio station “Nezalezhnist” (“Independence”) – a local information and educational radio (frequency 106.7 MHz in Lviv).
According to the research of 17 radio stations broadcasting in Lviv conducted on February 19-28, 2011, the radio station “Lvivska Khvylia” has the highest rating – 116,000 listeners daily. “Lux FM” ranks second, with 79.000 listeners daily. The rating of other Lviv radio stations is considerably lower.
Main media groups and media owners in Lviv and oblast
Media holding “Television and radio company “Lux”” (Lviv). It includes Internet-editions ZAXID.NET, a television news service “Nash Reporter” (“Our Reporter”), TV channel “24”; a radio network “Lux FM”, Internet projects http://football24.ua; http://prikolchik.ua/; http://lux.fm/; http://mam.ua/. Owners of major shareholdings of the TV and radio company “Lux”: the company’s general director Roman Andreyko, a long-time business partner of the Lviv city mayor Andriy Sadoviy, and Katerina Kit- 18
Sadova, a wife of Andriy Sadoviy. Roman Andreyko together with Oksana Andreyko are also owners of the television and radio company “PrimeMedia Ltd” (Radio 24).
Media group “ZIK” (“Zahidna Informaciyna Korporatsiya” Ltd.) This group includes Internet-outlet ZIK and a regional TV channel ZIK. The group is indirectly owned by the president of the soccer club “Karpaty”, an entrepreneur Petro Dyminskiy.
Media group “Express” includes the newspaper “Express” (including regional inserts for Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Rivne, Lutsk, Uzhgorod), a monthly newspaper “PostPOSTUP”, a weekly magazine “TeleExpress”, a monthly newspaper “Poradnyk Gospodaria” (“Adviser to the Owner”), a bi-weekly newspaper “Dobriy Likar” (“Good Doctor”), a monthly magazine “Zhinochiy Poradnik” (“Women’s Adviser”), a monthly magazine “Express Cool”, a monthly magazine “Retsepty Gospodyni” (“Recipes for Housewife”), Internet media Expres.ua, and a polygraphic complex. The media group is owned by Igor Pochynok, a general director of Express Media Group Ltd. and a chief editor of the newspaper “Express”. Together with Roman Chmil, Igor Pochynok is a co- owner of the network of newsstands “Interpress” (“Interpress Ltd.”)
Media group “Vysokiy Zamok” (“High Castle”). The group includes the newspaper “Vysokiy Zamok” with regional inserts and a bi-weekly newspaper “Dobriy Gospodar”. A network of newsstands that uses a trade mark “Vysokiy Zamok” is also related to this group. A chief editor of the newspaper “Vysokiy Zamok”, Natalia Baliuk, and her husband, an MP, member of the BYuT faction in the parliament, Stepan Kurpil, are the owners of major shareholdings of this media group.
Media group “Dubnevichi” (“Energy Consulting Ltd.”) This group includes a weekly “Lvivska Gazeta” (“Lviv Newspaper”) and a radio network “FM Galychyna”. The group is owned by entrepreneurs, brothers Yaroslav and Bogdan Dubnevich, deputies of the Lviv oblast council, members of the faction “Vidrodzhennnia” (“Renaissance”). Yaroslav Dubnevich is also a representative of Ukrainian Railroad Company in Verkhovna Rada.
Media group Prominfo (integrates a number of companies). This group includes specialized media outlets: newspapers “Derevoobrobnyk” (“Woodworker”), “Elektrotema” (“Electro themes”), “Metals. Technology & Equipment”, “Budekspert” (“Building Expert”), “Harchovyk" (“Food Industry Worker”), "Meat Industry", "Bakery and Confectionery", "Print "magazine", “Furniture technologies”, “Own Business”, “Real HOME”, "Angelyatko" (“Small Angel”) as well as a number of industry portals. Publisher is Vasil Masyuk. Owners: Vasil Masyuk and minority investors.
Political influence on media
The media holding “TV and radio company Lux” is close to the city mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadoviy (non-partisan, in 2010 was nominated by the Republican-Christian Party). The wife of Andriy Sadoviy owns shares of “TRC Lux”. Another owner of these shares is a long-standing business partner of Andriy Sadoviy, Roman Andreyko.
The media group ZIK is subject to the influence of personal political sympathies of Petro Dyminskiy who sympathizes with the Party of Regions. In 2010, during the elections of a city mayor of Lviv, he supported the main rival of Andriy Sadoviy – an MP, member of the faction of the Party of Regions, entrepreneur Petro Pysarchuk. Therefore, ZIK supports the head of the Lviv oblast state administration, Mykhailo Tsymbaliuk, Petro Pysarchuk, politicians from the party “Svoboda” (“Liberty”, leader – 19
Oleh Tiahnybok), and is biased towards Andriy Sadoviy. The former candidate for the Lviv mayor, Petro Pisarchuk, is affiliated with the weekly newspaper “Informator” – a newspaper of the Agency of journalist investigations.
The media group “Vysokiy Zamok” is influenced by the political activity of a husband of the chief editor of the newspaper “Visokiy Zamok”, Natalua Baliuk – an MP Stepan Kurpil, a member of the BYuT.
The influence of the brothers Dubnevich is now notable only on the “Lvivska gazeta” (“Lviv newspaper”). Currently both brothers are deputies of Lviv oblast council. They were nominated by the party “Vidrodzhennia” (Renaissance).
The Lviv oblast state television and radio company is traditionally controlled by the oblast state administration.
Restrictions of the freedom of speech and media in the region: censorship, self- censorship, administrative pressure, jeansa, persecution of journalists.
The wide-spread violations of journalism standards (first of all, “jeansa” – paid materials) constitute the biggest problem of media in Lviv and oblast. Political “jeansa” prevails in the run-up to elections, during election campaigns, while in other periods the level of economic and political “jeansa” is comparable. “Jeansa” is inherent to all types of media – print, Internet, television. Owners of the media outlets that are not self-sustained directly or indirectly encourage management to publish “jeansa”. In 2008-2011, “jeansa” in Lviv media was monitored by experts Oleg Onysko, Borys Potyatynnyk and Anatoliy Romaniuk. Oleg Onysko, an executive director of the infographics agency Ukrainian Media Service and a former editor-in-chief of the newspapers “Postup” and “Lvivska Gazeta”, says: “For those media that publish “jeansa”, this is a question of survival. No media outlet in Lviv is rich. Regrettably, position of commercial directors and advertising managers that media can earn money only through “jeansa” and the expansion of their advertising markets has prevailed. But this is harmful for media outlets themselves and for their reputation”.
Censorship is used only towards state or communal media or media outlets that are dependent on the Lviv oblast state administration. In particular, in November 2010, the TV channel ZIK complained about the pressure from the then-head of the Lviv oblast state administration Vasyl Gorbal who wanted to get leverage on the channel, and his assistant demanded to cover the activity of local authorities in a positive way.
In contrast, self-censorship is typical for private media. According to Oleg Onysko, “self-censorship is rather a loyalty of journalists to media’s owner, a duty to take into account the owner’s political sympathies and his/her political associations. Loyalty has both ideological and business parameters. But journalists are free to be unbiased towards the owner’s opponents”. In the case of the newspaper “Express”, this rule is only partly true since both the owner and chief editor are not politicians. Therefore, journalists have to take into account only business interests of the owner.
Lawsuits from civil servants and politicians represent an important potential instrument of pressure on media and journalists. Today these instruments are not used systemically. In December 2010, the Galytskiy district court of the city of Lviv supported the lawsuit of the head of Lviv railroad, Bogdan Pikh, against the TV channel ZIK. As a result, it was prohibited for ZIK to broadcast on December 15, 2010 the 20 program “Who lives here?” where Pikh was a main protagonist. In 2010, then-prosecutor of Lviv oblast, Oleksiy Baganets and a deputy of Lviv oblast council, Yaroslav Dubnevych, sued the company – publisher of the newspaper “Express”. Yet, in this particular case there were grounds to believe that there was a hidden motivation in the publications of “Express” – the protection of interests of the newspaper’s owner and destruction of the opponent’s reputation.
Main problems of media in the region
The main problem of local media is a small advertisement market congested with media outlets of general profile. Vasyl Khomin, a publisher of Internet edition on Lviv media “Press Center” says: “The market is too congested. We have Internet media ZAXID.NET, ZIK, ”Vgolos”, “Gal-info”, “Lvivskiy portal”, “Mediastar”. The same holds true for newspapers – they all work on a quite small market of advertisement where they landed because of ambitions of their owners, editors and journalists. It is almost impossible to survive there. Some start to understand this and look for niches for themselves. For example, “Informator” has its unique content – journalistic investigations. “Lvivska gazeta” starts to experiment with infographics. Internet projects of the media holding “Lux” have also appeared in promising sectors.”
The audience of print media is shrinking not only because of the spreading of Internet and its easy accessibility. Oleg Onysko comments: “The problem of Lviv newspapers is not that their audience runs away to Internet but in their content. They have increasingly low-quality, unprofessional content. Only “Express”, “Ratusha”, “Noviy pogliad” have original content. Those newspapers that have original content will have the future in Internet. Lviv also has a place for new online media, but they have to produce their own original content”. Vasyl Masiuk from the “Prominfo” group says: “We also have the leakage of the audience of print media, but not to Internet. The reason is that editors do not fully understand readers’ needs and fill their editions with knowledge that is useless for readers. At the same time, the audience is becoming more demanding, asking for more specific knowledge that satisfies its needs and does not want to read everything. For example, our newspaper “Derevoobrobnyk” (“Woodworker”) that used to work for 2-3 audiences is compelled to publish separate editions for narrower segments of the audience. If we make a separate product for them, these narrow audiences grow, and we give them more specific knowledge”. Oleg Onysko adds to this point: “Abundance of information results in the fact that media outlets look for original news less often, resorting to copy-paste from each other. As a result, there is nothing to read, though there is seemingly plenty of news”.
Media in Lviv region work blindly – they do not conduct own research of their audiences and do not order any surveys from experts. This holds true for most of print media with the exception of “Express” and “Vysokiy Zamok” and for all TV channels except news channel “24”. The statistics of all Lviv Interned media in the Bigmir rating is closed which casts doubt on the reliability of statistical data. 21
Crimea By Polina Markova
Crimean media landscape is influenced by the fluctuating political sentiments and frequent changes of media owners, especially after elections and change of power.
Key media groups, owners and their political affiliation
In 2010, the market for conventional media groups in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has changed dramatically following the results of the presidential and local elections.
Namely, Lev Mirimskiy (a deputy of the Verkhovna rada (Supreme Council, the Crimean parliament, and a leader of the party “Soyuz”) who for years had owned influential local media, including a popular newspaper “Crimean time”, left the circle of large media tycoons. Mirimskiy ran for a mayor of Sevastopol in 2010 and was defeated by a candidate from the Party of Regions, Viktor Ageev. Soon afterwards he left the media business and sold most of his media to a deputy of the Crimean parliament, Aleksandr Melnik. Today Melnik controls such media as TV channel ITV, a Crimean editorial office of the country-wide newspaper “Segodnia” (“Today), and newspapers “Krymskoe vremia” (“Crimean time”) and “Crimean Telegraph”.
The newspaper “Krymskaya Pravda” (“Crimean Truth”) can be named the least politically engaged among the local print media. Its chief editor, Konstantin Baharev, for years was a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Yet, last year he was appointed a deputy Head of the Crimean parliament. As a result, Baharev started to gravitate to the politics of the Party of Regions, and the newspaper has become more politically biased.
Rustam Temirgaliyev, a head of the “KrymMediaHolding” and a deputy of the Crimean parliament, is another important actor on the market of media owners. His holding includes a TV and radio company “Neapol”, a radio station “Trans-M-Radio” and one of the leading regional information agencies “e-Krym” ("e-Crimea"). Earlier the holding also included a newspaper “Glavniy prospect” (“Main avenue”), but it was closed during the economic crisis of 2009. In 2010-2011, the holding has actually become an affiliate of Aleksandr Melnik representing the Party of Regions. Today Melnik is the largest figure on the Crimean media market, and his influence is actively expanding.
Ukrainian MP from the opposition, a member of the electoral union “Batkivschyna” (Yulia Tymoshenko’s party), Andriy Senchenko, is another influential personality in the Crimean media environment. He owns the radio station “Assol” and the TV Channel “Black Sea Broadcasting Company”. In the run-up to almost any election, this TV channel used to come under pressure and intimidation, was threatened to be deprived of its license and faced other obstacles from the politicians who are opposite to BYuT- Batkivschyna.
In 2001, the state television and radio company “Krym” has been gradually passing on to the Prime Minister of the Crimea, Vasiliy Jarty and becoming a “mouthpiece of the Council of Ministers of Crimea”. 22
Main regional media and their profile
NEWSPAPERS:
Krymskoe vremia (Crimean time) - Crimean socio-political newspaper; circulation – about 20,000 copies.
Krymskie izvestiya (Crimean news) - newspaper of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. It has been published since October 18, 1991, 5 times a week. Weekly circulation: 22,349 copies.
Krymskaya pravda (Crimean Truth) - socio-political newspaper that has been published since 1918.
Pervaya krymskaya (First Crimean) – and informational and analytical newspaper; circulation - 40,000 copies. It is a part of the JSC “Kartel”.
Sobytiya (Events) - Crimean socio-political weekly; circulation – 40,000 copies. Is has been published since December 2005 on Fridays. The newspaper is distributed across all the Crimea, including Sevastopol.
Krymskiy telegraph (Crimean Telegraph) – Crimean socio-political weekly that has been published since 2008; circulation - 40,000 per month.
Komsomolskaya pravda v Krymu (Komsomol truth in Crimea) - Crimean socio-political newspaper. The circulation of daily edition – 7,000 – 15,000 copies; of Friday's edition – 20,000-35,000.
ONLINE MEDIA :
News agency "e-Crimea" (http://e-crimea.info/) – one of the leading regional news agencies, a part of the KrymMediaHolding. Has operated since 2008 and has around 30,000 unique visitors daily.
News agency "KIA" (http://www.kianews.com.ua/) - Crimean news agency. Has operated since 1998 and has up to 40,000 unique visitors daily.
News agency "Context Krym" (“Context Crimea”) (http://vastinfo.crimea.ua/) and its media product - "Portal of Crimean news" (http://context.crimea.ua/) that was created with the support of U-Media program of Internews Network in 2009. The Portal has around 3,000 unique visitors daily.
“Novosty Kryma” (“News of the Crimea”) (news.allcrimea.net) - Crimean online news service. Average attendance constitutes 6,000 visitors daily. "News of the Crimea" grew out of the Yalta city newspaper "Yaltinskie vesti" (“Yalta news”) that is still being published. The newspaper has been published since 1995 and is presented in Internet since 2002. "News of the Crimea" is a component of an Internet portal “Virtual Crimea” (http://allcrimea.net/) 23
"Noviy Region - Krym" (“New Region Crimea”) – Crimean office of the Russian news agency (http://www.nr2.ru/crimea/). Has operated since 2004 and usually generates radical “pro-Russian” news.
Portal "V gorode Krym" (“In the city of Crimea”), crimea.vgorode.ua, a part of "Yuzhnoukrainskiy media holding” (South-Ukrainian media holding). Has been actively expanding in Crimea since 2011.
Komsomolskaya Pravda Krym (crimea.kp.ua), a part of "Yuzhnoukrainskiy media holding” South-Ukrainian media holding. Internet-version of the website exists since 2008.
Crimean Information Center "INFO KRYM" (icrimea.org). Has operated since 2000.
The most popular media among Crimean Tatars is the news agency "Crimean News" (http://qha.com.ua/).
TV COMPANIES:
CHTRK (Black Sea Broadcasting Company) - was established in December 1993. It is the only TV channel in the Crimea that openly demonstrates its opposition political views. The Black Sea Television is “de facto” owned by a Ukrainian MP, a member in of the “Baktkivschyna” (“Motherland") political bloc, Andriy Senchenko.
STRC "Crimea" – was established in 1959. Prior to 1992, it was called the Crimean Committee of Television and Radio broadcasting. A state-owned TV channel founded by Ukraine’s State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting. STRC "Crimea" broadcasts in seven languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Crimean Tatar, Armenian, Bulgarian, Greek and German.
ITV television and radio company was established on April 23, 1996. As of today, it is “de facto” owned by a Member of the Supreme Council of Crimea, Alexander Melnik.
TV Channel "Neapol” (“Napoli") is a part of the "KrymMediaHolding" (“CrimeaMediaHolding”) owned by Rustam Temirgaliev.
ATP - an independent Crimean Tatar channel that has broadcasted since 2006. This spring it has started twenty-four-hour broadcasting. A media holding that includes the ATP is in ownership of a businessman Isa Haybullaev who is considered close to the first deputy chairman of Majlis, Refat Chubarov.
RADIO (REGIONAL RADIO STATIONS):
Trans-М-Radio – information and musical radio, a part of the "KrymMediaHolding". Established in 1992, it is now the largest radio station in FM range in the Crimea.
Assol – a structural unit of CHTRK (Black Sea TRC) and a single opposition radio station in the region. Broadcasts mainly rock music.
Meidan - a first independent Crimean Tatar radio station that has broadcasted since 2005. Together with ATP channel, it belongs to a media holding of Isa Haybullaev. 24
Latest trends on the media market in 2010-2011. New projects
- Throughout 2010, the influence of the news agency “Context Krym” has been weakening, while the news agency “e-Krym” has upheld its leadership.
- “Segodnia” (“Today”), one of the largest and most popular Ukraine’s newspapers, continues its expansion across Ukraine. It has recently established its printing and distribution point in the Crimea through the establishment of a local editorial office.
- In 2010, national minorities in the Crimea have moved closer to multimedia. In particular, this year saw the emergence of a project "crimeantatars.org" that was created with the support of the U-Media program of Internews Network. The website represents a first and quite successful attempt to gather multimedia content about the life of Crimean Tatars, including videos from the TV Channel “ATP”. It is also planned to start an online radio “Meidan”.
- 2011 saw the emergence of a new local media outlet – a weekly newspaper “Respublika” (“Republic”). The newspaper has started with the publication of openly critical materials about local officials and exposure of major corruption deals. Its political affiliation is not clear.
Restriction on the freedom of speech in local media.
- “Jeansa” (paid, and therefore clearly biased, materials) remains the most common negative trend in the work of Crimean media. The monitoring conducted in April 2011 by the Institute of Mass Information and its regional partners has confirmed this fact.
- The newspaper “Sobitiya” showed jeansa symptoms more often than others.
- Political “jeansa” in Crimean media is most frequently attributed to Tyhypko and Symonenko.
- The newspaper “Krymskoe vremia” more often than other media violates the standards of the balanced coverage of opinion of different parties.
- Most Crimean media do not label advertising materials as such.
Generally, notorious incidents of the harassment or attacks against journalists are not typical for the Crimea, except of the case when a correspondent of the newspaper "Zarya Tarkhankuta" (Dawn of Tarkhankut), Sergiy Antipenko, was beaten with iron bars. He has worked on disclosing illegal dealings with land and budget by a village head.
In 2010, the human rights activists who had provided media with the information on living conditions of psychiatric patients in hospitals of the Crimea faced pressure and intimidation. In particular, Andrey Fedosov from the organization UZER was threatened and urged not to disclose to media the results of his journalistic investigations about living conditions of patients in local psychiatric hospitals.
The main trend among Crimean media is self-censorship in favour of the owner of a media holding to which this media belongs. 25
In the run-up to elections, Crimean media usually massively resort to “black PR” (discreditation of the opponents) and politically engaged materials. There is hardly any exclusion to this rule.
Main problems and challenges in the Crimean media space
1. Independent local media are de facto absent in Crimea. The newspaper “Kafa” in the Eastern Crimea (editorial office is based in Theodosia) is relatively independent, but it manages to survive due to self-censorship. The economic failure of the Crimean media market makes it impossible to create truly independent media. Political actors are the primary media customers in the region.
2. After the presidential elections in 2010, the media business in Crimea is still going through the process of restructuring.
3. Periodicals of Crimean national minorities are published in their ethnic languages, while bilingual print media are mostly absent. Therefore, the media of ethnic minorities enjoy only a very small audience. At the same time, such media often become dependent on their national elites and focus on their problems, turning into a mouthpiece of propaganda.
4. According to the data of the NGO “Crimean Center of Legal Initiative”, violations of journalist ethics in ethnical issues constitute a serious problem of the Crimean media. More than 100 Crimean journalists have been questioned, and 73% of respondents have identified the lack of tolerance among journalists as a main problem of ethnic relations in the press.
Answering the question «What influences lack of ethnic tolerance in the Crimea?”, 64% of respondents blamed political ambitions. Also journalists emphasized that they had not always professionally covered the issue of multi-ethnic situation in the Crimea, having given preference to one of ethnic groups and having condemned the others.
Suggesting how to cope with this situation, 67% of respondents claimed that education should start from with kindergartens and schools, and 30% believe that it is necessary to change the policy and the division of the society into the “dominant” and non-dominant nations. Only few respondents expressed an opinion that there was a need to create such conditions that hostile publications would cost a lot for a journalist. 26
Kharkiv region By Mykola Sukhomlyn
In Kharkiv oblast the media situation has been changing almost every year. Some media projects die, losing sponsors or political support; others emerge, backing businessmen or politicians dominating at that moment.
Despite the fact that Kharkiv is an educated city, often referred to as Ukraine’s « cultural capital », efforts to launch business or social and political daily newspapers or magazines regularly failed. At the same time, entertainment and infotainment outlets, like Telenedelia or Art-Mosaika continue to be very popular in the region.
Every year some media projects emerge or die in the region. The following outlets were closed recently : Sobytie (Event : a weekly close to former director of the Kharkiv aviation plant Pavlo Naumenko), Sobytija (Events, close to the Republican Party), Kharkovskie vedomosti (close to former governor of the Kharkiv oblast Evgen Kushnariov), Megapolis (a newspaper of Andriy Shantarovich, opposition Belarusian journalists who left his home country), regional versions of newspapers 24 and 15 minut. Weekly MediaPost (established by Zurab Alasania, a well-known local journalist) was also closed, but then reemerged in the online version. Newspaper Novyi den financed by Viktor Subotin, head of board of the Megabank (that supported Olexandr Moroz’ Socialist party) was also closed.
The reason for this « short life » of Kharkiv social and political newspapers is simple : Kharkiv is generally indifferent to social and political outlets. It is indeed rarely when a weekly or a daily newspaper is published in more than five thousand copies. Newspaper Vremia (http://timeua.info), controlled by former Tymoshenko-loyal politician Olexandr Feldman, is perhaps the only exception from the rule. Vremia, a rebranded heir of a soviet-time newsppaer Krasnoie znamia, maintained many of its subscribers and outreach. A media holding was established on the basis of the outlet, a web-site was also launched.
Another newspaper with Soviet roots, Vecherniy Kharkov (http://vecherniy.kharkov.ua), linked to Olexandr Kaganovsky (son-in-law of Evgen Kushnariov, former governor of the oblast, who mysteriously died at a chase), has been less successful.
Slobidskyi kray is another post-Soviet newspaper (http://www.slk.kh.ua) called Sotsialistychna Kharkivshchyna (Socialist Kharkiv region) during USSR, controlled and financed by the reigonal budget. The paper is oriented on country dwellers, rayon state administration, village councils, big agricultural enterprises. Citizens subscribe to this newspaper often under pressure from regional authorities. Some years ago Slobidskyi kray was the only Ukrainian-language newspaper in the region. After Party of the Regions won on the Ukrainian elections, the paper was reorganized and started publishing Russian- and Ukrainian-language articles mostly aimed to advocate policies of the Party of the Regions.
Another newspaper – Kharkovskie izvestia – is a toy in the hands of the Kharkiv city council and the city’s mayor Gennadiy Kernes. After Mikhail Dobkin and Gennadiy Kernes came to power in the region, the newspaper of the city executive committee Sloboda was closed and its place was taken by Kharkovskie izvestia. A relevant news service was created on 7th TV channel. 27
Special place in the region is occupied by newspaper « Glavnoe » (the title can be translated as « Main information ») and internet portal http://glavnoe.ua. Both resources belong to Arsen Avakov.
Distribution remains one of the biggest problems of the region. The number of newspaper booths has been recently significantly reduced, but instead a new network was established. City authorities explaining the action said the company (Pressa Kharkova) owning the network and close to the former governor of the oblast Arsen Avakov did not have necessary documents to run the distribution business; however, external observers say a real fight for Kharkiv media market is behind the scenes.
A paradox situation exists on 7 Kanal, the region’s biggest TV channel. The channel is owned jointly by the former (« orange ») governor of the oblast Arsen Avakov and Kharkiv mayor Gennadiy Kernes. A permanent conflict between the two led to a specific situation, when the channel has two separate news programs, produced by Avakov-close news company ATN and Kernes-close Kharkovskie izvestia (produced by mayor- controlled « Independent news service ») respectively. The two news services report with opposing perspectives and construct two different virtual worlds aimed to achieve different communication tasks.
Interestingly, this situation is not an exception in the region. Many channels also communicate contradictory messages, depending on the forces which are behind particular programs or news services. For example, state-owned OTB gives its prime time to TV company R-1, linked to Mr Kaganovsky, a politician and businessman from the Party of the Regions. Above-mentioned ATN (broadcasting on the 7 kanal), also rebroadcasts its news on TV channels ATVK, Fora and Favorit-novosti (all three companies are linked to Mr Avakov); and Kharkovskie izvestia had its service broadcasted on ATVK and Favorit until 1 July, 2011, when this TV channel ceased to exist (however, a part of the Kharkovskie izvestia’s editorial team will work on the reorganized TV channel ATN, now enlarging and preparing new projects).
A special position in the region is held by Media Group « Objektiv » created on August 31st 2000, on the basis of the information service of a Kharkiv-based TV channel « Simon ». The objective of the new group was to integrate four information areas : TV and radio broadcasting, internet and print media. The TV channel and the media group are owned by a millionaire Olexandr Davtian, sympathizing to Arseniy Yatsenuk, one of Ukraine’s opposition politicians.
Kharkiv region practically lacks radio stations providing platform for social and political debate. The only exception – official regional radio focused on audience listening to it by attachement datign from Soviet times) and « Novaya volna » (New Wave) owned by former head of the Kharkiv regional state administration Arsen Avakov.
Those who want more fresh news, more objective and balanced coverage, go to Internet. Web-site MediaPort (http://www.mediaport.ua) is widely said to be the most popular, having its place in the top-30 of Ukrainian information web-sites. Until May 2006 it was known as a web-site of the Media Group « Objective » but after a conflict with the group’s founder Olexandr Davtian (a businessman close to Arseniy Yatsenuk), the web-site needed to rebrand itself.
MediaPort is owned by Kharkiv well-known journalist, former director of the Kharkiv regional state TV and radio company Zurab Alasania. 28
Internet is also a place for more scandal-focused journalism. A number of scandal- focused web-sites specializing on Kharkiv emerged recently. There are also two more news projects called Gorodskoy Dozor (City Watch) and Nastoyashchiy Dozor (Real Watch): although they earlier constituted a single project, a conflict between its owners - brothers Protas (local businessmen) and city authorities (Mikhail Dobkin and Gennadiy Kernes) - caused a split between the two. Gorodskoy Dozor now mainly criticizes Dobkin and Kernes, while Nastoyashchiy Dozor is focused on critique of « orange » politicians of the region, primarily Avakov, Feldman and others. Main objective of both « Dozors » consists in propaganda, instead of information ; therefore both web-sites often use insulting of the political opponents and misinterpretations in their information activities.
An important role in the Kharkiv media area is played by an information agency «Status Quo» http://www.sq.com.ua and by a Gorshenin Institute project « Most-Kharkov » http://most-kharkov.info.
Party of the Regions’ victory at the latest presidential elections led to important transformations in the regional media area. TV channels showed a clear drift to more loyalty to the new authorities. Disappearance of Vasyl Klimentiev, editor in chief of the newspaper Novyi stil (August 11, 2010 ; the journalist was not found since that date) was an event that raised concern both in Ukraine and abroad. According to Kharkiv journalists, disappearance of Klimentiev is directly linked to a number of very critical materials (journalist investigations) related to corruption of the local officials and law enforcement services.
Brief summary of the structure of the Kharkiv media area:
TV news produced by :
«ATN » (Agency, TV, News): close to Arsen Avakov, « orange » political forces
«Kharkovskie izvestia »: close to Arsen Avakov, « orange » political forces
«Objectiv-Novosti»: close to Olexandr Davtian, Front of changes (Arseniy Yatsenuk)
«Kharkovskie vesti»: close to Avakov, « orange » political forces
«Novosti OTB »: close to Mikhail Dobkin, the Party of the Regions
«Novosti R-1»: close to Olexandr Kaganovsky, the Party of the Regions
Print media
«Vremia» : Olexandr Feldman, formerly close to Tymoshenko, « orange » political forces
«Vecherniy Kharkov » : close to Olexandr Kaganovsky, the Party of the Regions 29
«Slobidskyi kray » : controlled by the Regional council and Regional state administration, the Party of the Regions
«Kharkovskie izvestia» : close to Gennadiy Kernes, the Party of the Regions
«Glavnoie» : close to Arsen Avakov, « orange » political forces
«Gazeta po-Kharkovski » : owned by a Kyiv-based holding, close to « orange » political forces
«Objectiv-No» : close to Olexandr Davtian, Front of Changes (Arseniy Yatsenuk)
What do Kharkiv dwellers read and watch ?
According to opinion polls1, 23,7% of the respondents consider Kharkiv local newspapers as an important source of information. 17% of the respondents say the same about the national newspapers ; 4,3% - Russian newspapers and weeklies.
The following table also shows the distribution of active and non-active readers in Kharkiv (% from the total number of respondents, N = 997)
30 27,8 26 25 22,5
20 18,2
15
10
5 2,5
0 Reading Reading Rading rarely Not reading Difficult to say regularly occasionally
What do the Kharkiv dwellers read in local newspapers and magazines ?
(% from the total number of respondents)
Types of information % from the total number
1 Information about the poll are based upon a report prepared by Regional Policy Research Instittue of the Kharkiv National Karazin University ; information provided by the company MediaUkraine ; information provided by a company Ukrainian Sociological Standard. 30
of respondents
Local political news 37,6
Ukraine’s political news 31,6
World’s political news 14,6
Activities of the regional and local authorities 13,7
Economic news of the city and of the region 25,5
Ukraine’s economic news 18,9
World’s economic news 9,5
Science news (popular version) 12,2
Criminal news 17,3
Sports 19,5
Celebrities and show business 11,1
Entertainment (jokes, cross words...) 14,2
Health, family, advice 17,5
TV program 11,7
Advertising 5,8
Weather 19,6
Sex, intimity news 3,0
Abnormal phenomena 8,3
Culture, art, cinema 18,0
Other 1,6
Difficult to say 17,8 31
What do the Kharkiv dwellers read in national newspapers and magazines ?
(% from the total number of respondents)
Types of information % from the total number of respondents
Local political news 15,4
Ukraine’s political news 43,1
World’s political news 19,0
Activities of the regional and local authorities 7,2
Economic news of the city and of the region 11,9
Ukraine’s economic news 26,6
World’s economic news 14,5
Science news (popular version) 11,3
Criminal news 14,1
Sports 18,8
Celebrities and show business 11,4
Entertainment (jokes, cross words...) 12,6
Health, family, advice 14,0
TV program 6,8
Advertising 4,2
Weather 13,7
Sex, intimity news 2,6
Abnormal phenomena 7,6
Culture, art, cinema 18,5
Other 1,8
Difficult to say 21,2 32
RATING OF NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
(% of the total number of respondents, N = 932)
0 5 10 15 20
Argumenty i 18,8 fakty
Art-mozaika 16,2
Telenedelia 12,9
Fakty 11,5
Segodnia 10,6
Vecherniy 10,5 Kharkov
Komsomolskaya 9,8 pravda
Premier 9,8
Semen 8,5
Kharkovskyi 7,8 kurier
Vremia 6,4
Kharkovskie 5,2 izvestia Gazeta po- 3,6 Kharkovski
What do Kharkiv dwellers watch ? 33
Rating of TV channels in Kharkiv media area (% from the total number of respondents, N=978)
N TV channel % п/п
1. Inter 70,1
2. 1+1 56,3
3. ICTV 28,3
4. Russian TV channels (cable and satellite) 27,5
5. STB 23,9
6. Noviy Kanal 23,3
7. TRC Ukraina 21,0
8. 7 Kanal 14,6
9. Western (European and American) channels (cable and satellite) 9,6
10. А/TBC 9,1
11. 5 Kanal 8,6
12. Simon 8,6
13. UT-1 (Ukraine’s 1st National TV channel) 6,6
14. К-1 5,6
15. М-1 4,5
16. Fora 4,2
17. Kharkiv (regional TV) – OTB – R1 4,1
18. Favorit 3,0
19. S-tet 1,5
20. TBi 0,5
21. Other 9,1
22. Difficult to say 1,5
Rating of the national and local TV news 34
(% from the total number of respondents, N=978)
News TV programs %
1. Podrobnosti (Inter) 57,4
2. TSN (1+1) 32,9
3. Fakty (ICTV) 24,3
4. Vikna-novyny (STB) 15,0
5. Novosti (TRC Ukraina) 10,9
6. Reporter (Noviy Kanal) 7,1
7. Novyny (UT-1) 5,7
8. Other news 5,1
9. Chas Novyn (5 Kanal) 4,5
10. Svidok (NTN) 3,8
11. Odyn den (К-1) 1,7
12. Segodnia (TBi) 0,6
13. Not watching the news 8,0
14. Difficult to say 2,6
Rating of regional news programs on Kharkiv local TV channels
(% from the total number of respondents, N=979)
N Regional TV programs % п/п
1. «Novosti ATN» (7 Kanal, Fora, Favorit) 32,3
2. Kharkovskie izvestia (7 Kanal) 20,7
3. Kharkovskie novosti (А/ТVC, Fora, Favorit) – no longer broadcasts from 1 18,0 July, 2011
4. Objectiv-Novosti (Simon) 12,6
5. Kharkovskie vesti (Fora, Favorit) 7,2
6. Novosti OTB (OTB) 5,8
7. Novosti MediaPort (S-tet, Fora) 3,1 35
8. Novosti R-1 (R-1) 1,2
9. Not Watching news programs 23,5
10. Difficult to say 10,8
Rating of Ukrainian and world’s web-sites in Kharkiv
(% of total number of respondents, N=143)
Web-site %
1. www.korrespondent.net 38,5
2. Russian sites 25,2
3. www.obozrevatel.com 24,5
4. www.ukr.net 24,5
5. www.segodnya.ua 15,4
6. www.unian.net 13,3
7. www.interfax.com.ua 12,6
8. Other Ukrainian sites 11,9
9. www.for-ua.com 11,2
10 Web-sites in English (other foreign web-sites) 9,8 .
11 www.censor.net.ua 8,4 .
12 www.pravda.com.ua 7,0 .
13 www.glavred.info 5,6 .
14 www.4post.com.ua 1,4 .
15 Not visiting news web-sites 4,9 .
Rating of the Kharkiv-based web-sites 36
(% from the total number of respondents, N=143)
№ Web-site %
1. Not visiting Kharkiv news sites 30,8
2. www.kharkovforum.com 25,2
3. www.objectiv.tv 21,7
4. www.dozor.in.ua 18,9
5. www.mediaport.ua 16,8
6. www.atn.kharkov.ru 11,2
7. www.kharkovnews.info 9,8
8. www.vecherniy.kharkov.ua 9,1
9. Other web-sites 4,9
10 Status Quo (www.sq.com.ua) 3,5 .
11 www.dozor.kharkov.ua 2,8 .
12 www.glavnoe.kharkov.ua 1,4 . 37
Lugansk region By Volodymyr Lermontov
Brief statistics
According to official statistics (provided by department on press and information of the Lugansk regional state administration), 600 newspapers and journals are registered in the Lugansk region, as of January 2011, with the total weekly coverage of 1 million 900 thousand copies. However, only about 200 media outlets are indeed published and reach their audience. Economic crisis has had a negative impact on the payment capacities of the potential readers.
The most influential newspapers are published in Lugansk itself. 80% are registered and published as bilingual newspapers.
Most print media outlets are private. 45 media outlets were founded by local governance institutions and local executive authorities. However, these outlets are not society-owned or public outlets but rather instruments of the party-inspired information, controlled by the Party of the regions. The domination of the Party of the regions is exemplified with the distribution of the seats in the Lugansk regional council : 106 out of 124 seats are taken by the Party of the regions, 13 by the Communist party, 4 by Silnaya Ukraina (Strong Ukraine, a party headed by Sergiy Tigipko) and one non- allied MP. Regional non-private media owned by territorial communities are in fact controlled by the regional state administrations and economically dependent on them. Journalists do not intend to refuse from the control by the authorities as, according to Ukraine’s laws, they have a status of civil servants.
Press Market
According to a research « Information outlets rating » published by SocioLab Group, http://sociolab.net/reyting-informatsionnyih-izdaniy/ in May 2011, 52% of Lugansk dwellers with higher education and 56% with incomplete higher education don’t read newspapers. 12% could not name their favourite newspaper. Local newspapers, as a key information source, exert the biggest impact on 5% of the respondents.
Luganska pravda is published since 1917. During the Soviet period the paper was printed daily; today it is published on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The paper is published in 44 thousand copies in total (on Thursday – more than 25 thousand copies). The paper has not changed its format since the Soviet times: 4-6 pages in A-2 format. Retired older people constitute the bulk of the paper’s audience: they read it because they used to read this newspaper in their youth.
60% of the newspaper is distributed in Lugansk city, 40% in the oblast. Web-site: www.pravda.lg.ua. The paper is de facto owned by the MP of the Lugansk regional council (Party of the Region) Olexandr Kyseliov. In 2009-2011 its quality went down, with original materials becoming less and less frequent, substituted by internet reprints and advertising (including the latent advertising). Editor in chief – Volodymyr 38
Mykhaylychenko (15 years in the newspaper) ; director – Olexandr Berestenko (appointed in 2007). The two officials are in controversy with each other.
«Nasha gazeta» (Our Newspaper) – a media outlet of the Lugansk regional council. The paper publishes legal acts of the representative and executive authorities of the region. The paper is published 4 times a week. 16-24 pages, A3 format, in 44 thousand copies. 70% is distributed in Lugansk, 30% in the region. 80% is distributed through subscription, among enterprises and state-owned enterprises.
Editor in chief – Nikolay Severin (joined the newspaper in early 2009); his appointment brought more social and life-focused materials. The newspaper has a web-site (nashagazeta.com.ua), updated irregularly. The paper is financed from the regional budget. Salaries are a bit higher than in other outlets.
«Izvestia Luganshchyny » (News of the Lugansk region) – an outlet owned by the regional council (regional authority elected on the ground). The paper is aimed to communicate achievements of the regional council, of the Party of the Region and of the head of the regional council Valeriy Golenko. The paper often published big texts allegedly written by Mr Golenko. It is financed from the regional council budget, under the chapter « public administration ». Published in 100-200 thousand copies.
Newspaper « Molodogvardeets » is published since 2001. The paper was established and published by Olexandr Smetankin; earlier partly financed by the MP (Yulia Tymoshenko bloc) Anatoliy Agoferov. Now relations between the newspaper and its earlier sponsor became less friendly. The paper is published weekly, 16 pages, A3, in 12 thousand copies. Editor in chief – Olexandr Belokobylskyi. The paper has a web-site www.mgm.com.ua updated on the issue-to-issue basis. During the election campaign the paper supported Yulia Tymoshenko. Highly critical articles, including those against the leadership of the oblast and of the Party of the Regions, often provoked actions brought to the court. Financial difficulties of 2010-2011 made the paper neutral, if not friendly, to the authorities.
«XXI vek» (XXI century) – published 2 times a week. Published on Wednesdays (A3 format, 24 pages) and on Saturdays (16 pages), in 20 thousand copies in total. Yuriy Yurov is the paper’s editor in chief and owner of the outlet. The paper often publishes pre-paid materials ; focuses on tabloid style, loyal to the Party of the Regions. Sometimes the paper can publish two opposing publications next to each other. Web- site: www.xxivek.com.ua.
Vecherniy Lugansk (Evening’s Lugansk) is a weekly newspaper published since 2001. During ten years it changed three editors in chief. The newspaper, jointly with the news agency Irta-FAW, TV channel IRTA and radio stations Europa Plus and Chanson is a part of a media holding NTRK «IRTA» Ltd (owned by Ukrainian MP, Party of the Regions, Volodymyr Landyk). The newspaper’s chapter on the « Irta-Fax » portal is not updated regularly.
The newspaper sometimes criticizes local and central authorities. During 7 years the paper was headed by Olexiy Bluminov. Under Bluminov’s management the paper was published in 11 thousand copies; 8,5 thousand were usually sold ; now the paper is published in 10 thousand copies, and barely half of the run is sold, primarily in Lugansk (90%). In 2008 Bluminov was replaced by German Borysov; since December 2009 – by Vita Kravtsova (Resmetova). Borysov created an alternative web-site, Novyi Vecherniy Lugansk (New Evening’s Lugansk). 39
«Zhyzn Luganska» (Lugansk’s Life) is a weekly newspaper published since 1990. The paper was established by Lugansk city council. Director: Oleg Tkachuk, appointed in 2009. Volume: 20 pages, format A3, published in 10 thousand copies. 2-3 thousand is distributed through subscription; however, the newspaper is badly sold in the distribution network. The paper publishes a lot of legal documents of the city council and non-critical laudatory articles praising city authorities and mayor Sergei Kravchenko. City council pledged UAH 500 thousand into the budget of the newspaper in 2011.
« Realnaya gazeta » (« Real newspaper »). The paper is owned by Ukrainian MP Natalia Korolevska who headed the election campaign of Yulia Tymoshenko in the region. After the elections practically all Korolevska’s projects in the Lugansk oblast were closed. The paper was not published in spring, 2011. Editor Andrei Dikharenko was fired (he has worked more than 5 years); a new editor, Olexandr Sukharevsky, was appointed.
Most materials are focused on Yulia Tymoshenko bloc, Korolevska herself and critique of the authorities. Original materials are scarce. The paper is published in 5 thousand copies. Sales are not very optimistic. Web-site www.realgazeta.com.ua is updated when the new issue is published.
Nedelia plus (Week+), a regional weekly, established in Alchevsk. The paper is owned by Lugansk regional council MP and businessman Kostiantyn Petrov. Web-site - www.nedelya.net.ua. The paper is published in 8 thousand copies; established in Alchevsk, it tries to reach out to wider audience in Lugansk oblast.
Weekly «Svobodnyi reporter» (Free reporter), published since 2007, in 8 thousand copies. Editor: Anna Zhylenko. Owner: businessman Grygoriy Prygeba. The newspaper takes an opposing position to public authorities ; Prigeba himself often participates in actions against the authorities. Popular among the audience as people like reading critique of the authorities http://freereporter.com.ua/
Newspaper Zhyzn regiona (Region’s life) is a paper established by regional institution of the Party of the Regions. 8 pages, A-3 format, distributed free of charge. The paper aims at popularizing President Yanukovych and the head of the Party of the regions faction in the Parliament Olexandr Yefremov. Editor in chief – Andriy Kuznetsov. The paper is published in 24 thousand copies.
« Sovetskaya Luganshina » (Soviet Lugansk Region) – a newspaper published by the Lugansk branch of the Communist Party. The paper is financed by communist MP Spiridon Kilinkarov. Published in 12 thousand copies. Editor in chief : Natalia Maksymets, member of the Lugansk municipal council. Web-site : www.lugkpu.info
Radio stations
73% of Lugansk adults listen to the radio; however, as in other Ukrainian regions, these radio stations are mostly focused on entertainment. The following radio stations are the most popular in the region : «Evropa Plus» - 22% (of the market), «Avtoradio» - 11%, «Chanson» - 11%, «Hit FM» - 33%, «Wire radio» — 22%.
TV 40
According to a research published by SocioLab, http://sociolab. net/reyting- telekanalov/ , 87% Lugansk dwellers watch TV. The figure is 3% lower than SocioLab data published in 2010. TV remains the most accessible information source for most of the citizens. However, for people aged between 18 and 41 TV plays a less important role, compared to internet. 41% of the Lugansk dwellers say that TV is for them the most important source of information. In the rating of the “most favourite” TV channels citizens name the following: IRTA – 34%, LKT – 16%, LOT – 12%, difficult to say - 1%. 24% say they don’t watch local TV; 13% say they don’t watch TV at all.
«IRTA» - a TV company established in 2000. MP (Party of the regions) Volodymyr Landyk is the channel’s honorable president. Director: Carolina Poltavska (who replaced previous director Volodymyr Tkachenko in December, 2010. IRTA has a number of reporter’s points in different places of the Lugansk region and in Kyiv. Audience: more than 1,6 million people. Mostly focused on Southern (industrial) zones of the Lugansk oblast. Web-site : http://tv. irtafax. com.ua/ IRTA is the only company having a license on satellite broadcasting, but still didn’t launch digital broadcasting.
«Lugansk cable TV» (LCT), founded in 1991. Director general: German Kudinov. Actually owned by the member of the regional council Olexandr Kyseliov. 24-hour broadcasting; 10 news releases daily, original program production. Audience: 1,2 million people. Web- site http://lkt. lg. ua/ regularly updated. Antitrust committee penalized the channel many times because of the high prices. Key competitor: « Triolan ».
Lugansk regional state TV and radio company (LOT)
Regional channel. Audience : 89,7% of the citizens living in the region ; 2,2 million spectators. Director General: Vitaliy Garkusha. Rodion Miroshnyk was a Director General until 2010. Now he is a deputy governor of the Lugansk oblast on humanitarian issues. In June, 2011, Lugansk regional TV and radio company reduced its broadcasting time from 24 hours to 18 hours ; remaining 6 hours can be put on sale by the National TV and radio broadcasting council. The TV channel intends to go digital by 2015, according to Ukraine’s national plans.
Internet agencies, internet outlets
Lugansk portal TOP www.top.lg.ua – the most popular (the most visited) portal of the region. The web-resource was founded in 2000. It calls itself a « Lugansk site No 1 ». It does not produce its own news, however, and mostly republishes news produced by other resources. However, TOP hosts a number of blogs and forums attracting the audience, which makes it a leading resource in the region. It has 3-4 thousand readers daily. Despite the resource’s popularity, little information is known about the site’s owners. MP from Lugansk city council Volodymyr Medianyk and former police general Volodymyr Guslavskyi are said to be among the owners of the site.
Eastern-Ukrainian news agency Skhid.info — http://cxid.info/ produces own news. The web-site aims at supporting local authorities, namely the Party of the Regions. Until recently the outlet was directed by Mykhaylo Fedotov (in 2011 – head of the press and information department of the Lugansk regional state administration). It has 3-4 thousand visitors daily. The outlet entered the market in 2001 supported by the governor of the region (now member of the national parliament) Olexandr Yefremov. Officially the outlet is owned by « Vostok Media Group » Ltd. The company is owned by « Management Limited » registered in the British Virginia islands controlled by 41
Ukrkommunbank. Rodion Miroshnyk, member of the regional council, is said to be one of the key owners of the company.
City news — http://www.citynews.net.ua/ has been working since 2003. The site used grant support given by the US Embassy. Owner and director – Danila Ageev who tries to follow an independent policy line. Audience : 1,4-1,6 thousand people daily.
Web newspaper « Vostochnyi variant » (http://v-variant.lg.ua/) has been the key breakthrough event of 2010. The web-site attracts 1,4-1,9 thousand people daily. Affiliated with former MP Volodymyr Ivanov.
Portal «Irta-FAX» - www.irtafax.com.ua: created in 2006. Owned by Volodymyr Landik. Editor : Evgenia Kostina. The web-site is popularized due to affiliation with TV channel IRTA and radio stations Evropa Plus and Chanson, as well as newspaper Vecherniy Lugansk (all of them belong to V. Landik). The web-site has 1,5-1,7 thousand visitors daily.
«Lugansk. Kommentarii» http://lugansk.comments.ua/news/ created in 2007 as a regional resource of the pan-Ukrainian information portal Kommentarii-proUA. Owned by a Ukrainian national media holding Evolution media. Has 2,2 thousand visitors daily. Director : Victor Volokita.
Lugansk reporter point of the web-site Ostrov - www.ostro.org/regions/36/ The project has been implemented due to support of the National Democracy Endowment, Ukrainian Media development Fund of the US Embassy to Ukraine. Head of the reporter point: Natalia Kononova. Editor policy consists in promoting critical attitude of the society to the local authorities. Statistics of audience is unavailable.
«Parallel media» www.paralel-media.com.ua — media outlet focused on news of Lugansk and the region. The outlet is working since 2009. Daily audience reaches 1000 people. Editor in chief: Volodymyr Lermontov. The outlet cooperates with NGOs and promotes civic journalism. It became a partner of many actions: Stop Censorship, Let’s make Lugansk a clean region, cinema festivals, etc. The outlet cooperates with EU Delegation, USAID, Polska Pomoc.
One of the key problems of the media sector of the region consists in the fact that media outlets are gradually turned into advertising vehicles: newspapers are used to advertise commercial goods or political parties, quite often in the articles. Free journalists try to escape this pressure, going to internet where ambiance is a bit more liberal. 42
Mykolaiv region By Maksym Hardus
Main media groups and media owners in Mykolaiv and oblast
Absence of large financial and political groups owning media outlets is a remarkable feature of the Mykolaiv region. Most media outlets belong either to the state or to publishers (who often are simultaneously editors).
Largest media owners in the region:
The Ukrainian state: controls the oblast state television and radio company, newspaper “Ridne Prybuzzhia”
The state community of Mykolaiv: controls TV and radio company “Mart”, newspaper “Vecherniy Nikolaev”
3. Financial and political groups a) "Russkiy Aluminiy” (“Russian Aluminum"): owns TV and radio company “Saturn”. b) Group of Ukraine’s MP Gennady Zadyrko: owns TV company "NIS-TV", newspaper "KRYK” (the paper version is no longer being published, except for the pre-election period), and the news agency “Zadira” (in fact, an Internet newspaper). c) Group of Bogomaz-Merikov (party “Front of Changes”): owns newspaper “Nikolaevskiy Business” (+newspaper’s website), the news agency “MIG” and a share in “Nikvesti”
Publishers/editors
1. The group of A. Diordiev: owns internet newspapers “Biznes-novosti Nikolaeva”, "PRAVDA.mk.ua"
2. The group of A. Onofriychuk: owns newspaper “Nash gorod Nikolaev”, the website novosti-n.mk.ua
3. The group of D. Dmitriyev: owns Internet-newspapers “Nikvesti” and “Prestupnosti.net”.
4. All other media outlets.
Political influence on media
The Party of the Regions has the influence on the following media outlets: the oblast state TV and radio company, TV and radio company “Mykolaiv”, radio company 43
“Mykolaiv”, newspapers “Ridne Prybuzzhia” (+ newspaper’s website), “Yuzhnaya pravda” (+ newspaper’s website), "Schotizhnya", “Yuzhniy Region”, and “PRyncyp”.
The following media outlets are formally and financially independent, but in fact are controlled by supporters of the Party of the Regions:
The group belonging to a member of the oblast executive committee, Gleb Golovchenko: “TAK-TV”, “Gubernskaya Nedelia” (a paper version is not being published anymore, the newspaper exists only in Internet)
The group "Russkiy Aluminiy” (Russian Aluminum") - TV and radio company “Saturn” (director A. Nedo – a deputy of the oblast council from the Party of Regions)
The group of the city mayor, a member of the Party of Regions, V.Chayka: “Vecherniy Nikolaev” (+ newspaper’s website), TV and radio company ”Mart”
The group of D. Dmitriev: “Nikvesti”, “Prestupnosti.net”.
Party “Narodna Vlada” (“People’s Power”) (leader – Gennadiy Zadyrko)
A group belonging to a people’s deputy of Ukraine, a member of parliamentary majority, Gennadiy Zadyrko, controls the TV and radio company “NIS-TV”, the newspaper “KRYK”, and the news agency “Zadira”.
Party “Front Zmin” (“Front of Changes”) (leader – Arseniy Yatseniuk)
The party “Front Zmin” controls the group “Bogomaz-Merikov” owning newspaper “Nikolayevskiy Business”, the information agency “MIG” and having its share in the newspaper “Nikvesti”. The group of D. Dmitriyev (“Nikvesti”, “Prestupnosti.net”) is also affiliated with the party “Front Zmin”.
Party “Tretiya Sila” (“Third Force”) cooperates with the newspaper “Nash Gorod” on business grounds.
The group of A.Diordiev (the newspaper “Business Novosti Nikolaeva” and the website “PRAVDA.mk.ua") and the group of A. Onofriychuk (the newspaper “Nash Gorod Nikolaev” and the website novosti-n.mk.ua) are close to the party “Tretiya Sila”.
Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT)
The newspaper “SKIF” is close to BYuT.
Overview of the main media outlets in the region (print, online, TV, radio) 44
Print media
Newspaper “Vecherniy Nikolaev” (“Evening Mykolaiv”) (www.vn.mk.ua) – a newspaper of the Mykolaiv city council published three times a week.
Newspaper “Yuzhnaya Pravda” (“Truth of the South”) (www.up.mk.ua) – a socio- political newspaper that is published three times a week.
Newspaper “Schotyzhnia” (“Weekly”) – a weekly appendix to the newspaper “Yuzhnaya Pravda”.
Newspaper “Tsentraliniy Rynok” (“Central Market”) – a weekly newspaper for vendors and consumers in the Mykolaiv oblast.
Newspaper “Sobytia i Kommentarii” (“Events and Comments”) – a weekly newspaper.
Newspaper “SKIF” – a weekly independent newspaper issued by the local charity fund “Social Project”.
Newspaper “Rodnoy Prichal” (“Home Berth”) – a weekly newspaper of the Mykolaiv oblast organization of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.
Newspaper “Ridne Prybuzzhia” (“Native Buh Region”) (www.rp.mk.ua) – a newspaper of the Mykolaiv oblast council.
Newspaper “Partner-inform” – a Mykolaiv independent weekly newspaper.
Newspaper “Novaya Nikolaevskaya Gazeta” (“New Mykolaiv Newspaper”) – a weekly newspaper.
Newspaper “Vzgliad” (“View”) – an independent weekly newspaper.
Newspaper “Novaya Nikolaevskaya Gazeta” (“New Mykolaiv Newspaper”) – a weekly newspaper.
Newspaper “Partner-inform” – a Mykolaiv independent weekly newspaper.
Newspaper “Nikolaevskiy Business” – an information and analytical weekly.
Newspaper “Nikolaevskie Novosti” (“Mykolaiv News”) (www.niknews.mk.ua) – an oblast socio-political newspaper published three times a week.
Newspaper “Nash Gorod Nikolaev” (“Our City Mykolaiv”) – a weekly newspaper.
Newspaper “Gubernskaya Nedelia” – a weekly newspaper.
Internet media:
“Business-novosti Nikolaeva” (“Business News of Mykolaiv”) (www.novosti.mk.ua) – political and economic life of the city; publisher – A.Diordiev ; www.pravda.mk.ua – political, economic, social and cultural life of the city; publisher – A.Diordiev; 45 http://novosti-n.mk.ua/; publisher – A.Onofriychuk;
“Nikvesti” (“Mykolaiv News”) (http://nikvesti.com/); publisher – D.Dmitriev;
Prestupnosti.net (“Criminality.net”) (http://www.pn.mk.ua/); publisher – D.Dmitriev;
A news agency “Zadira” (“Bully”) (http://www.zadira.info/) ; publisher – G.Zadyrko; http://mycity.mk.ua/; publisher - M.Popov.
Television and radio companies:
TV and radio company “Mart” (“March”) – owned by the Mykolaiv city council;
TV and radio company “NIS-TV”;
Mykolaiv oblast state TV and radio company (www.trk.mksat.net);
TV company “Nikolaev”;
TV and radio company “Saturn”;
TV company “TAK-TV” (www.kptv.in.ua);
TV and radio company “Kraevid” (www.kraevid.mk.ua);
Nikolaevskoe kabelnoe televidenie (“Mykolaiv cabel TV”) (www.nktv.mk.ua);
Radio channel “Nikolaev”.
Latest trends on the media market of Mykolaiv and oblast in 2010-2011
The launch of a personal blog of the city mayor and the appointment of Dmytro Tochylkyn, an owner of several entertainment and commercial websites, to the position of a staff adviser to the mayor belong to recent important events for the local media market. The strategic purpose of these steps was to radically improve communications of the mayor with the audience of new media and social networks.
2. The exit of a party group “Bogomaz and Merikov” from BYuT in late 2009 - early 2010 led to the removal of the BYuT influence on the media outlets controlled by these owners. This fact had very deplorable results for the coverage of BYuT activities in the region that had been quite modest before.
3. Transfer of a press secretary of BYuT, Yaroslav Indikov, to the “Front Zmin”, has finally weakened the already weak position of this coalition in mass media. The quality of press releases and press conferences has seriously deteriorated. The bloc BYuT is in fact not represented not only in state and communal, but even in private media, with the exception of direct advertisement.
4. Strategic convergence of the website “Nikvesti” and the popular local TV channel NIS TV with an oblast party office of the “Front of Changes” has been also a notable 46 development on the media market. The website “Nikvesti”, which has a young and middle-aged target audience, very actively covers the activity of the party in the region (at least 2-4 materials per week, on a paid basis).
5. Appointment of a chief editor of the newspaper “SKIF”, Borys Orel, to a press secretary of a local party office of BYuT has secured an access to at least one popular local media outlet for the BYuT, the largest opposition political force in the region.
6. A strategic decision of the Party of Regions to appoint the chief editor of “Nikolaevskiy Business”, a deputy from the political party “Front Zmin”, T. Fabrikova, a chief editor of “Ridne Prybuzzhia” has inflicted a powerful blow to the media bloc of the “Front Zmin”, since it will be very hard to issue the newspaper of this party without Ms. Fabrikova – an experienced media professional.
7. Dismissal of Igor Pokh (a chief editor of the newspaper "Partner-inform") from the position of a press secretary of the local party office of “Sylna Ukraina (“Strong Ukraine”; leader – Sergiy Tyhypko) and the stagnation of the Internet media "Nikkurer" have led to the almost complete disappearance of the party “Sylna Ukraina” from the local media space.
8. Appointment of D. Dmitriev (ex-supporter of the “Narodna Samooborona” (“People’s Self-Defence”; leader – Yuriy Lutsenko) to the position of an adviser to the head of the oblast council, a representative of the Party of Regions, Igor Diatlov, has reached a number of important goals for the Party of Regions, in particular:
1) Seriously reinforced the Internet presence of the party that had been very weak before. The party of Regions has received a guaranteed access to the two Internet outlets with the highest rating: “Nikvesti” and “Prestupnosti.net”.
2) Restricted the access of opposition (BYuT and Narodna Samooborona) to the above- noted media outlets.
3) Considerably improved the party’s professionalism in dealing with media. This was achieved through the appointment of young journalists of the holding to press secretaries of I. Diatlov and A. Iliuk (a head of the faction of the Party of Regions in the city council). The frequency and positive tonality of mentioning these officials in media, including the media not controlled by the Party of Regions, have tremendously grown. e) Restrictions of the freedom of speech and media in the region: censorship, self- censorship, administrative pressure, jeansa, persecution of journalists
“Jeansa” (paid and biased materials) is a wide-spread phenomenon.
Self-censorship is also a predominant phenomenon both in state and private media. Persecution of journalists is extremely rare in the region. In those cases when it does happen, this is usually a consequence of business conflicts, i.e. punishment for the ordered materials placed for money.
Main problems of the regional media area 47
The main problem of media in the region is that the absolute majority of media outlets are not self-sustained.
Most media outlets receive funds from the state or from political forces. Moreover, often this share of funds is so big that its loss will question the very fact of the existence of this media. In particular:
Hidden subsidies in the form of a small rent payment for the placement of the editorial office in state/communal institutions are received by “Nikolaevskie Novosti”, “Rodnoy Prichal”, “Yuzhnaya Pravda”, “Schotyznia”, “TAK-TV”, and “Gubernskaya nedelia”.
2. Hidden subsidies in a form of the overrated payment for “information services” are received by “Novaya Nikolaevskaya gazeta”, “Partner-inform”, “Pravda”, “Business novosti Nikolaeva”, and “Morskie business novosti Ukrainy”.
Few other media outlets share political views of the opposition. It is not possible to find any truly independent media of the region.
In these conditions, the authorities do not feel any need to introduce any formal forms of censorship. The necessary content and tonality of media is secured by media owners and publishers without any interference of tax or law-enforcement bodies. 48
Odesa region By Sergiy Dibrov
Media landscape in Odesa oblast is characterized by diversity and a large number of various media outlets belonging to different owners and business groups. The main challenge faced by the local media market consists in administrative interference into the media activity from both media owners and local authorities.
Print media
Though regional print media still retains its impact and authority, it gradually cedes its leading positions to electronic media.
The most popular print media in the city of Odessa and Odessa oblast are the following: newspaper “Odeskie izvestiya” (Odesa news) – a print edition of Odesa oblast council, “Odeskiy vestnik” (Odesa bulletin) - a print edition of Odesa city council, “Vecernyaya odesa” (Evening Odesa), “Yug” (South), “Porto-Franko”, “Slovo” (World). There is also a large number of specialized information and advertising newspapers and magazines, media outlets of national minorities, etc.
Until 2010, the city council subsidized the subscription to the newspaper “Odeskiy vestnik” for low-income citizens, which automatically helped this newspaper to become a regional leader. This year this practice ceased which negatively affected both the media outlet’s rating and the general popularity of local media.
In the opinion of the well-known Odessa journalist Leonid Shtekel, today regional print media have small audiences and small circulations. Still, critical publications in the press cause public response. The relatively independent local print outlets, such as “Vecherniya Odesa” (“Evening Odesa”) and “Yug” (“South”), try to avoid speaking about acute public or political problems. The newspaper “Komsomolska Pravda v Ukraine” and all-Ukrainian newspaper “Segodnia” (“Today”) that pay serious attention to local issues of Odesa region are best selling print outlets in the region. Generally, the media reaction to local events in Odesa is one of the factors that local authorities have to reckon with. One of the illustrative examples consists in repeated cases when all- Ukrainian weekly “Zerkalo Nedeli” (Mirror of the Week) that contained critical publication on Odesa local issues were fully sold out (most probably by the authorities) during delivery and did not reach out to the readers through the retail trade.
Television
Broadcasting in VHF / UHF bands is carried out on 20 channels, where nationwide and 11 local TV companies operate. In addition, Odesa has extensive coverage of cable networks broadcasting nationwide, foreign and local channels. In particular, “Chornoe More” (Black Sea) company that is one of the largest cable television providers broadcasts 73 channels.
Local TV channels successfully compete on the market, first due to active coverage of local issues and discussion of local problems. Most popular TV channels of Odesa region 49
– such as ATV, GLAS, RIAK, ART, “Krug”, “Novaya Odesa”, - enjoy the audience of 20- 30% of Odesa population. However, outside the city of Odesa, the influence and authority of local TV stations remarkably decreases as compared to nation-wide channels.
Given high start-up costs for TV broadcasters, the strong exposure to the so-called “administrative resource” and the high influence of this type of media on citizens, it is not surprising that most of Odesa TV channels directly or indirectly belong to regional politicians or openly sympathize with them. For instance, the ATV channel belongs to a leader of the political party “Rodina” (“Motherland”), a deputy of the city council, Ihor Madkov. Currently ATV openly supports the city major Aleksey Kostusev, who also is a co-owner of the TV Channel “Odesa Plus”. A number of other local TV companies support the current city government and the mayor, in particular: TV companies ART, GRAD and ART-24 that are influenced the former people’s deputy, Aleksey Kozachenko; TV channels GLAS and “Strana Sovetov” (Country of Councils) belonging to the head of the Party of Regions faction in the city council, Gennadiy Trukhanov; TV companies “Academia” (Academy), “Zdorovie” (Health), “Reporter” that are controlled by the people’s deputy from the Party of Regions and Head of the Supreme Council of Justice, Sergiy Kivalov; TV companies ONT, «100%» and «Renome» belonging to the head of the Party of Popular Trust, Andrey Azarov.
The group of TV channels supporting local politicians who are in the opposition to the current government is much smaller and includes TV channels RIAK and “Krug” (Circle) that are controlled by the former Odesa mayor, Eduard Gurvits, and the TV company “Novaya Odesa” (New Odesa) which management also sympathizes the former city mayor.
In recent years, TV companies in the Odesa region have been repeatedly subject to administrative pressure from local authorities. In particular, Odesa authorities demanded to revoke the license of the ATV Channel in 2009 and threatened to remove opposition channels from the broadcasting grid of cable television. In addition, both previous and current city authorities use administrative leverages to prevent the activities of the opposition media. Namely, in 2009, the rent contracts of ART and GRAD TV channels were terminated.
Radio broadcasting
Generally, radio broadcasting in Odesa region is characterized by relative independence from political and administrative influence as well as financial independence. Advertising budgets of the most radio stations are sufficient to support their work. Yet, in the opinion of the head of the board of the NGO “Top-Media” Vlad Maslov, radio journalism fails to make any palpable influence on political processes in the oblast, since the overwhelming majority of Odesa radio stations work in a musical format with short news programs. Radio stations that are part of the TV and radio companies (GLAS, Grad) and some radio stations whose format is not solely musical (such as “Garmoniya Mira” (World Harmony) make an exception from this rule. They broadcast educational programs, political discussions, programs of Ukrainian and Russian services of Radio Liberty, BBC and Deutsche Welle.
Internet media 50
The city of Odesa traditionally occupies the second place in Ukraine (after Kyiv) both in view of the percentage of Internet users among the population and the absolute number of Internet users. Internet coverage in Odesa oblast is not that broad but shows the positive dynamics.
The most popular Internet media in Odesa region include “Timer” (timer.od.ua), “Reporter” (reporter.com.ua), “Dumskaya” (dumskaya.net), “Revisor” (revisor.od.ua), and “Odesa-daily” (odessa-daily.od.ua). Besides, traditional media also actively master Internet space: almost all Odesa media outlets have their own Internet sites. For example, the TV and radio company GLAS (glasweb.com) regularly places videos of its programs in Inernet, and the website of the TV company ATV hosts active discussion of TV programs by Internet users. A number of Odesa radio stations, for example, “Prosto Radio” (prosto.fm), use Internet-broadcasting and place podcasts of their programs in Internet.
In addition to information websites, communities also play an important role in Internet space of Odesa. The largest in Ukraine Internet forum, Odesa forum (forum.od.ua), host more than 55,000 visitors. The importance of this forum as an instrument of electoral campaign is illustrated by the powerful pressure on the forum’s owner, Internet provider “Tenet”, by the local authorities in the run up to local elections. The purpose of this pressure was to get control over contents of the forum’s political sections through giving forum’s moderating and administrative powers to proxies of the city council.
Absence of excessive regulation and relatively low start-up costs enable the existence of both independent Internet media and the media that do not hide their political engagement and affiliation. In particular, Internet resource “Dumskaya” openly supports the deputy chairman of the oblast council Aleksey Goncharenko, and Internet websites “Revizor” and “Timer” – to the party “Rodina”. Editorial offices of Internet media include experienced staff members who previously worked in traditional media, thus enabling them to successfully compete with print media.
Problems, trends and prospects
Administrative interference into journalists’ work through both direct pressure on journalists from media owners and the use of administrative resource of local authorities against opposition media is the main problem of media in Odesa region. Most of media owners, especially owners of TV channels, have their own political ambitions or affiliations and treat their media resources solely as an instrument to realize these ambitions. This leads to a catastrophic decrease in professionalism and neglect of ethical standards of journalism. Repeated statements by a former chief editor of the ATV channel Natalya Perevalova that this channel is not a media outlet, but a mouthpiece of the party “Rodina” is an illustrative example of this deplorable situation.
As a result, local journalists have been divided into competing groups. This led to political conflicts within the journalistic community, absence of a common position and reaction to attempts to violate the freedom of speech. Such definitions as “pro- government” and “opposition” media that do not cause rejection of the readers’ audience anymore have firmly established in the region. Another negative consequence from this situation consists in social indifference to the facts of interference into media work, intimidation and even attacks on journalists. The reason is that Odesa residents 51 perceive print media and TV channels as instruments of politics, and journalists – as campaigners for one or another political party. In such context, violations of the freedom of press are treated as a certain type of political struggle.
Probably, that is why a recent outrageous case of jeansa (paid and therefore clearly biased materials) in Odesa did not draw a wide response. In particular, a group “Sanitary efira” ordered the placement of a news item which had nothing common with reality on the ATB channel. Negotiations with the management of TV company when the fees for the production and placement of news items, special reports and journalist research including the use of dummies fabrication of the missing materials were voiced. This scandal has not caused any particular outrage among Odessa residents, and there was no response from the owners of the channel in relation to dishonest employees.
Another threatening signal consisted in a record number of journalists and media professionals (more than 50 persons) who ran as candidates to local authorities during the elections in autumn 2010. It is remarkable that none of them won in a single- mandate constituency: only media representatives who ran on party lists became members of the local councils.
In the opinion of the editor in chief of the largest news agency in the south of Ukraine, “Kontext-Prychernomorye” (Context Black Sea region), an honored journalist of Ukraine Oleksandr Ostashko, the forthcoming elections will be the last when print media will be actively used in Odesa. Instead, we should expect the large-scale use of dirty Internet and TV technologies that have been upgraded and have repeatedly proved their effectiveness.
As to the long-term prospects of local Odesa media, Oleksandr Ostashko believes that print media will gradually die out due to the lack of professionals and inadequate “costs-effect” correlation, liberating the market for central media and new media. The radio broadcasting field will hardly experience any significant changes except of the emergence of new projects and formats of musical and informational broadcasting.
It is likely that we will see a series of changes in nominal founders of Odesa TV companies or the growing publicity of their actual owners. The struggle over the control of Odesa media may toughen in the case if the declared transition to digital broadcasting in Ukraine will take place. This may provoke the total redivision of the market and spheres of influence. 52
Zakarpattia region By Volodymyr Feskov
Key media outlets of the region
Newspaper RIO : 15 050 copies, published on Saturdays, in 24 color pages. Own information constitutes about 40% of the content. The paper is distributed in 13 rayons of the oblast.
Newspaper FEST: 7010 copies, published on Thursdays, 16 pages. Own information constitues abot 30% of the content. The paper is distributed mostly in Uzhgorod. A part of thecopies are distributed in Uzhgorod rayon, the town of Mukacheve.
Newspaper Evropa Centre : 2 800 copies, published on Saturdays, 8 pages. Own information constitues abot 40% of the content. The paper is distributed in the city of Uzhgorod and Uzgorod rayon.
Novyny Zakarpattia : published on Tuesdays (3210 copies, 8 pages), and Saturdays (20073 copies, 24 pages). Own information constitutes about 90% of the content. The paper is distributed in all 13 rayons of the oblast ; subscription public institutions and organizations constitues the key part of the distribution.
Newspaper Tribuna : published on Saturdays (1800 copies, 8 pages). Own information constitues about 70% of the content. The paper is distributed in Uzhgorod city and Uzhgorod rayon.
Newspaper Uzhgorod : published on Saturdays (16 pages, 3000 copies). Own information constitutes about 80% of the content. Distributed in Uzhgorod.
Newspaper Zakarpatska pravda : published on Saturdays (16 pages, full color, 18350 copies). The paper is distributed in Uzhgorod, as well as in Uzhgorodsky, Mukachivsky, Tiachivsky, Rahivsky, Hustsky, Vynogradivsky, Irshavsky, Mizhirsksky, Uzhgorodsky rayons, as well as in other rayons upon subscription.
Newspaper Nedilia – published on Saturdays (13075 copies, 8 pages, partly full color). Own information constitutes about 30% of the content. The paper is distributed in Uzhgorod and Mukacheve.
Newspaper Stariy Zamok “Palanok” – published on Thursdays (12000 copies, 16 pages, full colour). Own information constitutes about 90% of the content. Distributed in Uzhgorodskyi, Mukachivsky, Irshavsky, Tiachivsky, Hustsky, Vynogradivsky rayons. The paper is also distributed in other rayons upon subscription.
TV channel Tysa 1 – regional state-owned television. The channel has own broadcasting frequency ; it also broadcasts through a satellite.
TV channel M-Studio - regional TV channel. Broadcasts in Uzhgorodsky, Mukachivsky, Berigivskyi, Irshavsy, partly Vonogradivsky, Hustsky, Tiachivsky, Perechynsky rayons.
TV channel 21 Danio – local TV channel in Uzhgorod. The channel also broadcasts in Uzhgorodsky rayon. Broadcasts several hours per day on the M-Studio frequency. 53
Radio Tysa FM, Versiya FM, Svit FM, state-owned radio – coverage on the whole territory of the Zakarpattia oblast.
Popular internet outlets Zakarpattia online, Mukacheve net, Vsia Zakarpatska pravda, Karpat-News, Klipnews
Key media owners in the region
Key media resources are concentrated in two key political parties: the Party of the Regions (represented by the acting governor O. Ledyda) and the Single Centre (represented by the Minister for emergencies Victor Baloga). Both political parties occupy their power clusters, therefore they almost never criticize each other.
Affiliation of the newspapers:
«RIO» – affiliated with former Uzhgorod mayor Serhiy Ratushniak;
«Staryi Zamok Palanok» – affiliated with minister for emergencies Victor Baloga, head of the regional council Ivan Baloga, MP Vasyl Petiovka;
«Zakarpatska pravda» – affiliated with the head of the Zakarpattia regional state administration Olexandr Ledyda;
«Novyny Zakarpattia» (newspaper of Zakarpattia regional council and administration) – affiliated with the head of the regional state administration Olexandr Ledyda and the head of the regional council Ivan Baloga;
«Uzhgorod» (newspaper of the city council and of the executive committee) – affiliated with the Uzhgorod city head Victor Pogorelov;
«Nedilia» – no politician can be clearly said to influence the newspaper; however, the outlet often publishes jeansa (paid articles);
“Sribna Zemlia Fest” – same as with Nedilia: no politician clearly influences the newspaper; however the outlet often publishes jeansa (paid articles). The paper is owned by its editor in chief;
«Tribuna» - affiliated with former Uzhgorod city head Sergiy Ratushniak;
«Evropa Centre» - affiliated with Eduard Matviychuk, the head of the Odessa regional state administration
TV:
TV channel Danio is affiliated with Alla Petrova, member of the Zakarpattia regional council from the Party of the regions;
State TV company Tysa-1 is affiliated with the head of the regional state administration Olexandr Ledyda; 54
TRC “M-studio” is affiliated with Ukraine’s minister for emergencies Victor Baloga, the head of the regional council Ivan Baloga and MP Vasyl Petiovka;
Radio:
«Zakarpattia FM », «Svit FM », «Versija FM » are affiliated with Ukraine’s minister for emergencies Victor Baloga, the head of the regional council Ivan Baloga and MP Vasyl Petiovka;
Internet outlets:
«Vsia Zakarpatska pravda» is affiliated with MP from the Uzhgorod city council Ivan Voloshyn;
«Karpatnews» is affiliated with the head of the Zakarpattia regional state administration Olexandr Ledyda;
«Zakarpattia-online» is affiliated with Oleg Dyba, who is close to Victor Baloga as he was an member of teh Uzhgorod city council from “Nasha Ukraina”
«Mukachevo.net» is affiliated with Ukraine’s MP Igor Kril, “Single Centre” party;
«Klipnews» is affiliated with Uzhgorod’s former city head Sergiy Ratushniak
Last trends on the Zakarpattia media market in 2010-2011:
Print media outlets have their clusters, with no outlet willing to leave it.
Media materials continue to be superficial: bulk of the journalists are not interested in issue on which they write.
Difficult period for print media: decrease of the advertising volumes, development of internet, increase of printing costs, big dependence on the owner’s position, jeansa (paid materials), false scandals and sensations in the outlets; many newspapers expect “better times” since it is always difficult to renew the newspaper than to continue publishing it;
Web-site boom which gradually enhances quality of the web media in the region;
Deficit of the high-quality media materials; rare journalist investigations; many journalists refuse to write analytic materials on political issues, since, as they say, non- biased material will not be published by any outlet.
Political jeansa (paid materials), published by many newspapers; clear presence of the owner’s position or interests in the publications of media outlets that he or she owns.
Local grassroots media outlets mostly lose their fight in the battle with Uzhgorod- or Mukacheve-based media. Newspapers of the national minorities constitute the only exception. 55
Fast development of internet, and enhanced interest to internet outlets. Increase of the youth audience has been very dynamic, and now it has a trend to calm down; instead, there is a clear rise of the internet audience among the 50-year-olds or older.
New stage in the development of radio and TV, due to emergence of the new creative young people. However, this trend mainly concerns entertainment products.
National minorities-focused press does not play a leading role in the life of the local minority communities.
Media freedom restrictions in the region
Restrictions and violations of the media freedom and freedom of expression constitute a widespread phenomenon in the life of the region.
In May, 2011, unknown people burnt a car of the editor of a Vynogradiv weekly “Chorna Hora”; as he says, the action was linked to his journalistic activities.
In early August, 2009, a Novyi Kanal’s reporter Vitaliy Glagola was fired by the Zakarpattia regional state TV and radio broadcasting company, following publication of his scandalous interview with Uzhgorod’s mayor Sergyi Ratushniak.
Self-censorship is widespread in the regional media. Most respondents of our review2 say that it is unnecessary to put the pressure over journalists since they would censor themselves on their own. Journalists are fully aware of the fact in which media outlets they work, who pays them, who finances the outlet, and therefore what topics, sensitive for the owner, must be avoided.
Most young respondents say that when they applied to the job, they were informed about the political affiliation of their outlet and the “forbidden” topics. Therefore, while writing the material, a journalist tries to censor himself or herself.
There is no independent print outlet (the only exception – newspapers Fest and Nedilia; however, their influence is limited, and they often publish “jeansa”), web-site or TV channel in the region. Therefore, information that appears in these media is politically filtered. Quite often owners or founders read the issue before it is published. For example, a representative of the Party of the Regions comes to the office of the newspaper “Zakarpatska pravda” every Friday to read the issue before publication. Representatives of owners of affiliated political parties also read the upcoming issue in newspapers “Staryi Zamok Palanok” and web-newspaper “Vsia Zakarpatska pravda”.
While earlier only political materials were censored, now almost any media material can become filtered. Some journalists said that when they were preparing a report about spoiled goods in supermarkets or parkings in Uzhgorod, they were banned from publishing the message in one of the regional newspapers. In the first case, the publication was banned since representatives of the political party owning the outlet, also own supermarkets selling spoiled goods; in the other case, it appeared that money from parkings go to other co-owners of the outlet. Similar cases were registered with bans on reports about public transport in Uzhgorod or homeless dogs in Mukacheve.
2 We asked 58 local journalists from the biggest print, TV, radio and web media outlets, as well as 6 editors in chief of the biggest print and electronic outlets. 56
When an outlet is not directly controlled by an owner, where there are relatively free conditions for work, the so-called jeansa (paid materials) becomes a widespread phenomenon. By publishing materials paid by the client, an outlet or journalist earns money it lacks.
Most journalists say that “jeansa” is a good way to earn some extra money. Most editorial boards do not try to hide the fact that they published “paid material”: everybody will decipher “jeansa” even if is well-hidden.
Key problems of the media area in the region
Apart from censorhip and jeansa, most respondents say that the key problem of the region consists in low salaries (91% of the respondents) and lack of altarnative financial sources (43%).
Average monthly wages of a regional journalist in Zakarpattia:
Radio: UAH 1200 (approx. EUR 110);
TV: UAH 1000-1500 (EUR 90-130)
Newspapers: UAH 1200-1400 (EUR 110-125), sometimes UAH 2000; sometimes a journalist can earn UAH 3000 due to additional materials.
Lack of journalists’ competence: the local journalists are least informed in legal issues, economy, justice, the work of local authorities and international relations. 58
Detailed overview of Ukrainian regions by key media outlets 59
Autonomous Republic of Crimea 60
TV channels
TV channel “Chernomorka”
Title of the media outlet: TV channel “Chernomorka” (Chernomorskaya TRC)
Owners: The channel belongs to Ukrainian MP (Yulia Tymoshenko bloc) Andriy Senchenko. The channel is managed by the member of the Crimean parliament ( Yulia Tymoshenko bloc) Tetyana Krasikova
Management: Head of the editors’ board: Natalia V. Kondratieva; President: Tetyana Krasikova
Rating and coverage: Crimean peninsula. The channel has 6 correspondent offices, and a special correspondent office in Kiev.
Products: 120 own TV programs created in the last 15 years. 6 live news releases daily.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Assol radio
Contact information: • Post address: 4, vul. Radio, Simferopol. • Tel: (0652) 51-56-98, 22-95-27 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://blacksea.tv/ 61
TV and Radio Company “Devkom”
Title of the media outlet: TRK “Devkom”
Cable channels Devkom inform, and Devkom Inform Plus
Owners: According to non-official sources, the channel is influenced by member of the Sevastopol city council Dmitriy Belik (the Party of the Regions)
Management: Director : Igor Gvozdik
Positioning: Infotainment
Audience: People aged between 6 and 70 years
Products: 18 hours of broadcasting daily; 50% of the programming is broadcasted in Ukrainian. The channel also rebroadcasts Russian TV channels NTV, ORT, RTR.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: “Telemir Devkom” (newspaper)
Contact information: • Post address: 10, Khrukina st., Sevastopol • Tel: (0692) 45-49-41 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: 62
TV and Radio Company “Мorion”
Title of the media outlet: TRC “Morion” (TV channel and a radio station)
Management: Director General : Mykola Filatov. Producer and Development Manager: Nadiya Rakitina
Rating and coverage: Evpatoria, Saky, Lakskyi region, Zaozerne, etc. The radio station covers Simferopol, Bakchisaray, Chervonohvardiyskyi and other rayons.
Audience: 1,5-2 mln people living in the Crimea’s South Coast
Products: Media projects, including local news of Evpatoria (Crimean city). The channel also rebroadcasts Ukrainian national TV channel 24 Kanal Contact information: • Post address: 43, Nekrasova av., 97400 , Evpatoria • Tel: (06569)3-35-41, 6-03-15 , • e-mail: fax.(06569)2- 77-78 • URL: [email protected], [email protected] 62
Newspapers
“Krymskaya Pravda”
Title of the Media outlet: “Krymskaya Pravda”
Owners: The most circulated newspaper in Crimea. Editor in Chief: the member of Crimean Parliament, member of block “For Yanukovych!”, Kostjantyn Bakharev. His father, the vise-speaker of Crimean parliament, is a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
Management: Editor in Chief – Kostiantyn Bakharev
Positioning: Social-and-political newspaper. “Newspaper for Russians, and everybody who feels Russian, speaks and thinks in Russian” (citation from the newspaper’s web-page)
Rating and coverage: 5 times per week. Circulation - 50 000 copies. 80% is distributed through subscription, 20% through retail trade. Newspaper coverage: the whole Crimean peninsula, including Simferopol and Sevastopol
Audience: Russian ethnic population of Crimea
Products: The commission on journalism ethics in 2004 made claims that “Krymskaya Pravda” publications on the ethnical issues suffer from the lack of tolerance, and sometimes stand for the direct call for confrontation.
Contact information: • Post address: 44, vul. Generala Vasyljeva, 95000, Simferopol • Tel: (0652) 44-69-40. [email protected], • e-mail: [email protected] http://www.kp.crimea.ua/ • URL: 63
“Sevastopolskaya Gazeta”
Title of the Media outlet: “Sevastopolskaya Gazeta”
Owners: LLC “Poligraphia”, editor – Oleksandr Deinega
Management: Director – Andriy Sobolev, Editor in Chief – Iryna Klochkova.
Positioning: Newspaper claims to be an independent media outlet that does not reflect positions of power authorities or local self government institutions, and does not support any political party and/or religious group.
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper. Circulation — 17500 copies. The newspaper is distibuted primarily in Sevastopol
Audience: Designed for all readers
Products: City news and comments on the important events Contact information: • Post address: 34, vul. Batumska, 99011, Sevastopol • Tel: (0692) 55-74-27 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://gazeta.sebastopol.ua/ 64
“Golos Cryma”
Title of the Media outlet: “Golos Cryma”
Owners: Founders – State Committee on Nationalities and Migration of Ukraine and the editorial board of the all-ukrainian weekly “Golos Ukrainy” (official newspaper of the Ukrainian parliament).
Management: Editor-in-Chef – Eldar Seitbekirov, former member of mejlis, today opposed to its leaders.
Positioning: Social-and-political newspaper
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, covering the whole territory of the Crimean peninsula.
Audience: Crimean Tatars. Golos Cryma is the most circulated newspaper for the Crimean Tatar audience. Contact information: • Post address: 17, vul. Chehova, 95001, Simferopol • Tel: (0652) 25-81-01 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.goloskrima.com/ 65
“Sevastopolskie Izvestiya”
Title of the Media outlet: “Sevastopolskie Izvestiya”
Owners: Sevastopol city council
Management: Editor – Dmytro Chumak
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published twice a week, circulated in 35 000 copies in total. The paper is distributed in Sevastopol and its rayon. 40% of copies are distributed through retail trade, 60% - through subscription.
Products: The only media outlet in Sevastopol that prints decisions of the city council and subpoenas. The paper also publishes much business information, news about social services, social, political and cultural life of the region. Contact information: • Post address: 11, 3, vul. Lenina, 99011, Sevastopol (0692) 54-34-65, • Tel: 53-53-01 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 66
“Sudakskiy Vestnik”
Title of the Media outlet: “Sudakskiy Vestnik”
Owners: Sudak city council
Management: Editor – Mukola Plyasov
Positioning: Social-and-political newspaper
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, circulated in 2 200 copies. The newspaper covers the city of Sudak and its rayon Contact information: • Post address: 36, vul. Zhovtneva, 98000, Sudak • Tel: (06566) 2-25-04 • e-mail: • URL: 67
On-line resources
The portal of the newspaper “Persha Krymska”
Title of the Media outlet: The portal of the newspaper “Persha Krymska”
Owners: One of the most circulated Crimean newspapers that covers the whole peninsula. Controlled by the company IFD Capital
Management: Editor in Chief – Lilia Budzhurova, Executive Editor – Oleksandr Voronin
Positioning: Analytic newspaper
Rating and coverage: The print version of the newspaper is circulated in 32 000 copies. The paper is distributed throughout the whole peninsula
Products: News and analytic reviews of the events in Crimea. Categories: Politics, Infrastructure, Social care, Crime, Life, People, TV Programme. The paper also has the following regular chapters: Your Auto, Health, Shopping, Celebrities
Contact information: • Post address: 9, vul. Plotynna, Simferopol • Tel: (0652) 60-85-82 • e-mail: • URL: http://1k.com.ua 68
News Agency “E-Krym”
Title of the Media outlet: News Agency “E-Krym”
Owners: “KrymMediaHolding” ltd.
Management: Director: Evgen Volchenko, former head of the Public Relations Department of a NGO “Revival of Slavic Unity”, created upon the initiative of the Head of Sevastopol State Administration Sergiy Kunitsyn and the governor of Moscow oblast Boris Gromov
Positioning: News Agency of the Crimean peninsula
Audience: Media, enterprises, organizations, politicians and civil authorities
Products: The agency produces information on activities of the pubic authorities, law enforcement services, as well as about political, cultural and social events. The agency is mostly focused on economic events, related to functioning of enterprises, sectors, state regulation of business etc.
Contact information: • Post address: Simferopol • Tel: (0652) 48-55-88 • e-mail: [email protected], • URL: [email protected] http://www.e-crimea.info/ 69
Cherkasy region 70
TV channels
TV company “Vikka”
Title of the media outlet: TV company “Vikka”
Management: Director – L’ubov Pravdina
Contact information: 249, vul. Shevchenka, 18000 Cherkasy • Post address: (0472) 35-05-55 • Tel: [email protected] • e-mail: • URL: 71
TV company “Uman’”
Title of the media outlet: TV company “Uman’”
Rating and coverage: The signal of a TV channel covers Cherkasy region Contact information: • Post address: 10, vul. Pushkina, 20300, Uman’ • Tel: (04744)3-10-65 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://umantv.org.ua 72
Cherkasy Regional State TV and radio company (Ros’)
Title of the media outlet: Cherkasy Regional State TV and radio company (Ros’)
Owners: State Committee of TV and Radio Broadcasting
Management: Director General - Mykhailo Kalinichenko
Rating and coverage: The outlet covers about 70% of the region’s population
Contact information: • Post address: 35/1, vul. Vyshnyvetskogo, 18002, Cherkasy • Tel: (0472) 45-40-15 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: www.tvros.org.ua 73
Newspapers
“Vechirni Cherkasy”
Title of the media outlet: “Vechirni Cherkasy”
Management: Editor in Chief – Stanislav Zhurylo
Positioning: Social-and-political newspaper
Rating and coverage: Regional weekly newspaper, circulated in 78 000 copies
Contact information: • Post address: 251, vul. Khreshchatyk, 18000, Cherkasy • Tel: (0472) 45-02-71, • e-mail: [email protected],
• URL: http://vechirka.ck.ua 74
“Dilova Cherkashchyna”
Title of the media outlet: “Dilova Cherkashchyna”
Management: Editor in Chief – Anatoliy Saukh
Positioning: Social-and-economic newspaper
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, with circulation of 20500 copies. The paper is distributed throughout the region
Contact information: • Post address: 6/431, vul. Lazareva, 18000, Cherkasy • Tel: (0472) 45-00-00, 36-10-71 • e-mail: [email protected] , • URL: [email protected] 75
“Sil’ski Obrii”
Title of the media outlet: “Sil’ski Obrii”
Owners: Rayon state administration, rayon council
Management: Editor in Chief – Kalynovska Tetyana
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper. Circulation: 2800- 4000 copies. Newspaper is distributed throughout the Cherkasy rayon. Contact information: • Post address: 157, vul. Engelsa, 18003, Cherkasy • Tel: (0472) 64-86-01 • e-mail: • URL: 76
“Cherkas’kyi Kray”
Title of the media outlet: “Cherkas’kyi Kray”
Owners: Regional council, Regional state administration
Management: Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Golovkovs’kyi
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Newspaper is distributed twice a week in 20 000 copies thoughout the Cherkasy region.
Contact information: • Post address: 251, vul. Khreshchatyk, 18000, Cherkasy • Tel: (0472) 37-31-52, 37-14-15 • e-mail: [email protected] , • URL: [email protected] 77
“Ot i Do”
Title of the media outlet: “Ot i Do”
Management: Editor – Sergiy Malyovanyi
Positioning: Weekly newspaper of free of charge advertisement and announcements
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 10 000 copies, throughout the region.
Contact information: • Post address: 205, Shevchenka av., 18000, Cherkasy • Tel: [email protected] • e-mail: http://www.otido.com.ua/ • URL: 78
On-line resources
Internet project “Press Center”
Title of the media outlet: Internet project “Press Center”
Management: Editor in Chief – Andriy Kravets Deputy editor in chief – Vitaliy Latyshev Rating and coverage: Printed version of the media outlet is distributed in Cherkasy (40%) and Cherkasy region (60%) in 10 000 copies. 70% is distributed through subscription, 30% through retail trade. The newspaper is a weekly media outlet published on Wednesdays.
Audience: Media outlet sees its audience as composed primarily of heads of commercial, banking and industrial enterprises; agricultural companies; private businesses and public authorities.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Newspaper “Press Center”
Contact information: • Post address: 31/1, vul. Lenina, 18002, Cherkasy • Tel: (0472) 540-095 • e-mail: [email protected], editor@pres- centr.ck.ua • URL: http://www.pres-centr.ck.ua 79
Media group “Antena”
Title of the media outlet: Media group “Antena”
Owners: LLC "NIA"
Management: Editor in Chief – Valeriy Vorotnik
Rating and coverage: Newspaper Antena, a part of the media group, is published weekly and distributed in 20,000 copies, throughout the region.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Project Antena integrates a weekly newspaper, a web-page and an on-line 24-hour TV channel
Contact information: • Post address: 220, Shevchenko av., 18000, Cherkasy • Tel: +380 472 38-21-12, +380 472 32-81-74 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://antenna.com.ua/main.php 80
Newspaper “Novyny Tyzhn’a”
Title of the media outlet: Newspaper “Novyny Tyzhn’a”
Management: Editor in Chief – Ihor Kosenko
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 17,000 copies, throughout the Cherkasy region
Audience: The newspaper targets both male and female audience, with equal distribution (self-estimation).
People aged between 25 and 44 constitute 81% of the audience, with 89% of the readers having permanent jobs.
The audience has the following structure: managers - 8,3%, businessmen - 6%, high- skilled workers - 43,7%, low-skilled workers - 40,6%. People with higher education constitute 67% of the audience.
People with mid- or high income constitute 69,2% of the audience.
Products: Media outlet produces own news
Contact information: • Post address: 39/211, vul. Dashkovycha, 18002, • Tel: Cherkasy • e-mail: (0472)320-176 • URL: http://nt.ck.ua/content.php 81
Chernigiv region 82
TV channels
Chernigiv Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the media outlet: Chernigiv Regional State TV and Radio Company
Owners: State Committee of TV and Radio Broadcasting
Management: Anatoliy T’ut’unnyk
Resources: Media outlet is financed from the local budget.
Rating and coverage: Signal of the TV and Radio Station covers 70% of the territory of Chernigiv region and 70 % of its population.
Contact Information: • Post address : 62, Peremogy av., 14000, Chernigiv • Tel: (0462) 10-13-07, 4-24-81, 65-13-07 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.trk.cn.ua 83
TV channel “TV–Pryluky”
Title of the media outlet: TV channel “TV–Pryluky”
Owners: Pryluky city council
Management: Director - V. Sak
Positioning: Information-and-education TV channel
Rating and coverage: TV channel broadcasts in the city of Pryluky (Chernigiv region), and neighbour rayons
Audience: Potential audience of a TV channel – 400 000 inhabitants.
Products: TV channel produces local news covering city and rayon events. 10 hours per day (42%) are covered by own production.
Contact Information: • Post address: 190, vul. Kyivska, 17500 Pryluky, Chernigiv region • Tel: (04637) 3-43-21 • e-mail: • URL: 84
TV and radio company “Obriy”
Title of the media outlet: TV and radio company «Obriy»
Products: TV channel produces local news of the city Bobrovyts’a (Chernigiv region)
Contact Information: • Post address: 25, vul. Komunarska, 17400, Bobrovyts’a, Chernigiv region • Tel: (04632) 21510, (04632) 21108 • e-mail: • URL: 85
Newspapers
“Chernigivski Vidomosti”
Title of the media outlet: Newspaper “Chernigivski Vidomosti”
Owners: Chernigiv city council
Management: Editor in Chief – Iryna Mokrousova
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper. Monthly circulation – 27,500 copies; 65% is distributed through subscription.
Audience: Civil servants and workers, intellectuals and students, businessmen and politicians, housewives and unemployed
Contact Information: • Post address: 50a, vul. Kotsubynskogo, 14000, Chernigiv • Tel: (0462) 164-631, 614-687 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://vid.cn.ua/ 86
“Chernigovskaya nedel’a”
Title of the media outlet: “Chernigovskaya nedel’a”
Management: Deputy editor – Ludmyla Parhomenko
Positioning: Social–and-political, family newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 32,000 copies throughout Chernigiv region
Products: Newspaper produces own articles in the following key categories: City Events, Guest room, Without taboo, Unforgotten cinema, etc
Contact Information: • Post address: 62, Peremogy av., 14017 Chernigiv • Tel: (04622) 44007, (04622) 42300 • e-mail: • URL: 87
“Chernigivskyi Visnyk”
Title of the media outlet: “Chernigivskyi Visnyk”
Owners: Chernigiv regional state administration
Management: Editor in Chief – Sergiy Narodenko
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 51,000 copies, throughout the region.
Contact Information: • Post address: 12, vul. Priobrazhenskaya, 14000, • Tel: Chernigiv • e-mail: (0462) 675-442 • URL: [email protected] 88
“Sivershchyna”
Title of the media outlet: “Sivershchyna”
Owners: Pan-Ukrainian organization “Prosvita”
Management: Editor in Chief – Vasyl’ Chepurnyi
Rating and coverage: Pan-Ukrainian weekly newspaper, circulated in 11,100 copies. 90% is distributed through subscription.
Contact Information: • Post address: 10, Vorovs’kogo, 14000, Chernigiv • Tel: (04622) 4-92-83. • e-mail: • URL: http://www.sіver.com.ua 89
“Visti”
Title of the media outlet: “Visti”
Owners: Nizhyn city council
Management: Editor in Chief – Anna Zhyglovska
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Newspaper is published weekly, circulated in 5,100 copies. The newspaper covers the city of Nizhyn and its rayon.
Contact Information: • Post address: 1/9, Lenina square, 15600, Nizhyn, Chernigiv region • Tel: (04631) 5-37-07 • e-mail: • URL: 90
On-line resources
Project “Chernigivs’kyi Monitor”
Title of the media outlet: Project “Chernigivs’kyi Monitor”
Management: Leader of the project – Yuriy Papernyi
Audience: The project is aimed to meet information demand of media representatives, public authorities, political parties, NGOs of Chernigiv region
Products: City news and comments on the important events
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: • Magazine "Chernigivs’kyi Monitor" • Regional information agency active in media monitoring, marketing and sociological research. • Newspaper “Vchasno” • Internet portal http://www.monitor.cn.ua/
Contact Information: • Post address: • Tel: • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://www.monitor.cn.ua/ 91
Gorod.cn.ua – Chernigiv city portal
Title of the media outlet: Gorod.cn.ua – Chernigiv city portal
Positioning: Information portal of the city of Chernigiv
Contact Information: • Post address: 114/1, Peremogy pr., 14000, Chernigiv • Tel: 8 (0462) 653-653 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.gorod.cn.ua 92
Internet newspaper “Vysokiy Val”
Title of the media outlet: Internet newspaper “Vysokiy Val”
Management: Founder and leader of the project – Oleg Golovatenko
Rating and coverage: The outlet estimates itself as a “leading regional on-line media”. It hosts about 7 000 visitors daily.
Products: Internet media outlet aimed at providing objective and comprehensive information about political, financial, and cultural life of Chernigiv region
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The outlet is affiliated with TV and radio company “Vysokiy Val”, which also integrates an Internet-radio station
Contact Information: • Post address: 20/1, vul. Polubotka, 14000, Chernigiv • Tel: (0462) 611-617, 931-931 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://val.ua 93
Chernivtsy region 94
TV channels
TV and radio company “Chernivtsy”
Title of the media outlet: TV and radio company “Chernivtsy”
Owners: According to non-official information, the TV channel is controlled by city mayor Mykola Fedoruk; majority of materials are loyal to local government.
Management: Director General – Genadiy Sergeev
Rating and coverage: TV and radio company covers the whole territory of the city of Chernivtsy and its region
Audience: Designed for all audience categories
Products: TV and radio station produces 24 hours of broadcasting in total, mostly in Ukrainian. TV channel rebroadcasts programs of Ren TV, a Russian independent TV channel. “Chernivtsy reports”, “Three questions to the mayor”, “Unknown Chernivtsy”, “Karaoke by the Fountain” are the most popular programs of the TV channel.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The channel is affiliated with Blysk radio
Contact Information: • Post address: 2, vil. Eminesku, 58000, Chernivtsy • Tel: (0372)-58-52-22 • e-mail: • URL: http://mtrk.com.ua/ 95
TV and radio company “AS”
Title of the media outlet: TV and radio company “AS”
Management: Director General – Vasyl’ Fedoryak
Products: TV and radio company, also known for production of advertisement for local and regional TV and Radio broadcasters. Media outlet also recently produces news for Ukrainian central TV channels 5 kanal and STB.
Contact Information: • Post address: 111, Nezalezhnosti avenue, 58000 Chernivtsy • Tel: (0372) 515444, 515 446 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://acc.in.ua/index.php?mcmd=show 96
Chernivtsy Regional State TV and Radio Company (BUK)
Title of the media outlet: Chernivtsy Regional State TV and Radio Company (BUK)
Owners: State Committee for TV and Radio Broadcast
Management: Director General – Lubov Gondn’uk
Profitability: TV and radio company is financed from the regional budget
Rating and coverage: The signal of TV and radio station covers up to 90% of the territory of the Chernivtsy region.
Audience: Designed for all age categories
Products: The media outlet broadcasts in Ukrainian and Romanian. It also produces own TV projects, including programs called “News”, “Business”, “Family of the Bukovina”, “Improvisation”, “On the European Wave”.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The holding integrates a TV channel Bukovyna and a radio station Bukovyna
Contact Information: • Post address: 91-A, vul. Golovna, 58001, Chernivtsy • Tel: (0372) 55-06-75, 51-47-83 • e-mail: • URL: http://www.bukodtrk.gov.ua/ 97
Newspapers
“Bukovina”
Title of the media outlet: “Bukovina”
Management: Editor in Chief – Anatoliy Isak
Profitability: The newspaper is financed mostly from the regional budget
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The paper is one of the oldest and most popular media outlets of the Chernivtsy region
Products: The paper produces news about local political, economical and social activities. It also issues articles on particular topics, including health, nature, etc
Contact Information: • Post address: 22, vul. Ukrains’ka, 58000, Chernivtsy • Tel: (0372) 55-32-12, 52-47-37 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://bukovyna.at.ua/index/0-4 98
“Molodyi Bukovynets”
Title of the media outlet: “Molodyi Bukovynets”
Owners: Owned by Bogdan Zagaiskyi, its Editor in Chief
Management: Editor in Chief - Bogdan Zagaiskyi
Profitability: The newspaper is the only financially independent and self-financed printed media outlet in the Chernivtsy region
Positioning: Social-and-political family newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper covers the territory of Chernivtsy region, and is circulated in 52 000 copies. Web-page of the media outlet (http://www.molbuk.com) hosts 2 000 visitors daily
Audience: All audience groups
Products: The media outlet produces local news. Articles are focused on large variety of social topics interesting for all social groups. The newspaper is published three times per week with regular annexes: Ukrainian auto market, Land and Real Estate, Jobs, Business catalogue etc
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The newspaper “Molodyi Bukovynets” is also affiliated with an Internet portal http://www.molbuk.com
Contact Information: • Post address:
• Tel: (0372) 55-34-82 • e-mail: • URL: http://www.molbuk.com/ 99
“Chernivtsy”
Title of the media outlet: “Chernivtsy”
Owners: Chernivtsy city council
Management: Editor in Chief - Vasyl Babukh
Profitability: The newspaper is financed mainly from the local budget
Positioning: Social-and-political weekly newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published once a week, circulated in 10 000 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The newspaper produces news from local authorities, coverage of local events, history, culture, sports, and also ads and information on services
Contact Information: • Post address: 2, vul. Kobylyanskoi, 58000, Chernivtsy • Tel: (0372) 55-37-79 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 100
“Chas”
Title of the media outlet: “Chas”
Owners: Media outlet is owned by Editor in Chief – Petro Kobevko
Management: Editor in Chief – Petro Kobevko, Editor – Nataliya Bogachuk
Positioning: Social-and-political regional weekly. Editor in Chief is a member of Chernivtsy regional council, and represents the pro- presidential Nasha Ukraina party. However, the newspaper often publishes articles opposed to local government, Nasha Ukraina and Yulia Tymoshenko bloc
Rating and coverage: The media outlet is circulated in 10 000 copies and distributed through its own delivery service. The paper covers the territory of Chernivtsy region and neighbouring rayons of other oblasts (Ternopil’, Ivano-Frankivsk, etc)
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The newspaper is also affiliated with “Chas Halychyny” – a subsidiary of of the newspaper “Chas”, published for the readers of Ternopil’ region
Contact Information: • Post address: 20, vul. Ruska, Chernivtsy
• Tel: (0372)553930 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://www.chas.cv.ua/ 101
“Chernivtsy city plus”
Title of the media outlet: “Chernivtsy city plus”
Owners: The newspaper is owned by Vasyl’ Zabrods’kyi, who also owns a regional media holding “City” that includes TV company “TVA”, radio station “City”, advertisement newspaper “City” and entertainment portal www.citi.cv.ua
Management: Editor in chief - Vasyl’ Zabrods’kyi
Positioning: Weekly newspaper, mostly focused on advertisements
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is circulated in 110 000 copies and covers the city of Chernivtsy and most rayons of Chernivtsy oblast
Audience: The paper is designed for all audience categories
Products: The newspaper produces free of charge announcements and advertisement information about supply and demand on car market, real estate market, labour market, etc
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The paper is also affiliated with a newspaper “City Info”, distributed free of charge in the postal boxes throughout the city of Chernivtsy
Contact Information: • Post address: 13, vul. Chervonoarmiys’ka, 58000, Chernivtsy • Tel: (0372) 585555 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: 102
On line resources
Chernivtsy Independent News Agency “Buk Info”
Title of the media outlet: Chernivtsy Independent News Agency “Buk Info”
Management: Head of the News Agency – Sergiy Zarais’kyi
Positioning: Independent news agency
Products: The online news agency produces daily information about social, political and financial situation in the Chernivtsy region, activities of the local government, and also tries to focus on distant and rarely covered rayons of the region.
Contact Information: • Post address:
• Tel: (0372) 59-63-15, 8(050)5005066 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://www.bukinfo.cv.ua 103
Web-page of newspaper “Doba”
Title of the media outlet: Web-page of a newspaper “Doba”
Owners: The newspaper was founded by a company called Interval, having no direct relation to media, but interested in local infrastructure projects
According to non-official information, the media outlet is controlled by the city mayor.
Management: Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Stefanets'
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Contact Information: • Post address: 17, vul. Grebinky, 58001 Chernivtsy • Tel: (0372) 51-44-70 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://www.doba.cv.ua 104
Dnipropetrovsk Region 105
TV channels
TV channel “TET – Dnopropetrovsk”
Title of the Media outlet: LLC “TV and Radio Company “TET - Dnipropetrovs’k” (TV channel “TET-Dnipropetrovs’k”)
Owners: Media outlet is a regional Office of TET TV and Radio Company (see more information about the TV channel TET in the chapter on Ukrainian central media)
Management: Director General – Oleg Tymchenko
Contact information: • Post address: Office 1, 1b, vul. Televizijna, 49010, Dnipropetrovs’k
• Tel: (0562) 39-86-54 • e-mail:
• URL: 106
TV and Radio Company “STERH”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and Radio Company “STERH” (11th TV channel)
Owners: The company is affiliated with the media holding of Victor Pinchuk, the richest Ukrainian oligarch, and is indirectly controlled by “Interpipe”, his biggest enterprise.
Sterh subsidiary, “Agency Sobor”, is controlled by „Interpipe”
Management: Director: Sergiy Pedashenko
Positioning: Infotainment media outlet
Rating and coverage: Media outlet covers the cities of Dnipropetrovs’k, Kryvyi Rig, Nikopol, Dniprodzerzhynsk, Novomoskovsk, Pidgirne, Verhnjodniprovsk, Synelnykove and other cities of Dnipropetrovsk region.
Audience: The channel’s audience is estimated at 3 million people
Products: The media outlet produces own TV projects. Projects “News on the 11th Channel”, “The Fact”, “Big Family” and others have been honored with national media awards.
Contact information: • Post address: Office 419, 1-a, vul. Pisarzhevskogo, 49005, Dnipropetrovs’k. • Tel: (0562) 37-49-200; 37-49-201; 37-49-210 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.11channel.dp.ua 107
TV channel “Avtor TV”
Title of the Media outlet: TV channel “Avtor TV” ltd
Management: Director General - Ljudmyla Kachanova
Rating and coverage: The media outlet covers the city of Dniprodzerzhyns’k and neighbouring rayons
Products: The TV channel broadcasts 24 hours a day, with both own and re-broadcasted production. The channel rebroadcasts products of 5 kanal, Ukrainian national TV channel. 95% of the broadcasting is in Ukrainian.
Contact information: • Post address: 35, 50-richcha SRSR av., apt. 79 Dnoprodzerzhynsk, Dnirpopertovsk Region • Tel: (05692) 2-14-73, 2-92-03 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 108
TV and Radio Company “ETIS”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and Radio Company “ETIS” ltd
Management: Director – Mykola Fedorov
Contact information: • Post address: 2, vul. Barnaylska, Office 101, 52300 Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Region • Tel: (05662)96021 • e-mail: 109
Newspapers
“Dnepr Vecherniy”
Title of the Media outlet: “Dnepr Vecherniy”
Owners: The paper is owned by a legal company “Yurydychna Firma Pravnyk”, connected to Mykhailo Sokolov, MP, a member of Yulia Tymoshenko bloc
Management: Editor in Chef – Valentyn Taranenko
Positioning: Russian-language regional newspaper focused on news, analysis and advertisement
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is one of the most read print media outlets in the region. The paper is published four times a week and distributed throughout the country (19% of distribution goes through retail trade, 81% - through subscription). 18% of the paper is covered by advertising.
Products: The media outlet covers Ukrainian national news, and also news of the region and the city of Dnipropetrovs’k. Categories: Medicine, Economy, Private life, History, Literature, etc.
Contact information: • Post address: 57, vul. Komsomolska, 49000 Dnipropetrovsk • Tel: (056) 374 34 05 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 110
“Dneprovskaya Nedel’a”
Title of the Media outlet: “Dneprovskaya Nedel’a”
Positioning: Advertisement newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is circulated in 80 000 copies. 95% of the paper is covered by advertising.
Products: Main categories: Jobs, Real estate, Business-Ukraine, Furniture, Auto etc.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The paper’s subsidiary: “Dneprovskaya Nedel’a +” Contact information: • Post address: 9, vul. Geroiv Stalingradu, Dnirpopetrovs’k • Tel: (0562) 322-666 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: www.nedelka.dp.u a 111
“Dneprovskaya pravda”
Title of the Media outlet: “Dneprovskaya Pravda”
Owners: The paper is owned by “Dneprovskaya Pravda ltd”, a media company, related to political bloc of Pavlo Lazarenko, Ukraine’s former prime-minister, imprisoned in the US for corruption.
Management: Editor in Chief – Tetyana Valigurska, MP of the city council, Pavlo Lazarenko bloc
Positioning: Social-and-political weekly newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published once a week and distributed throughout the region
Contact information: • Post address: 701, 55, Pushkina av, 49006, • Tel: Dnipropetrovs’k • e-mail: (0562) 31-82-08 [email protected] , d-pravda@a- • URL: teleport.com 112
“Nashe misto”
Title of the Media outlet: “Nashe Misto”
Owners: The newspaper was established by the city council, and is now controlled by Dniproperovs’k mayor Ivan Kulychenko
Management: Editor in Chief – Mykola Kravchuk
Positioning: Social-and-political newspaper
Rating and coverage: Newspaper is published four times a week, circulated in 109 000 copies, and distributed throughout Dnipropetrovsk region
Contact information: • Post address: 14, vul. Lenina, 49000, Dnipropetrovs’k • Tel: (056) 232-07-87 (-89), 744-60-43, 744-34- 74 • e-mail: [email protected] , • URL: [email protected] 113
“Nova Gazeta”
Title of the Media outlet: ”Nova Gazeta”
Owners: LLC "Poligraf"
Management: Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Skalenko
Positioning: Information-and-advertisement weekly newspaper
Rating and coverage: Media outlet is circulated in 12 000 copies, distributed throughout Dnipropetrovs’k region. Newspaper is published once a week.
Contact information: • Post address: 16-2, vul. Perekopska, 51925, Dniprodzerzhynsk, Dnipropetrovsk region • Tel: (0569) 53-15-51, 53-18-81 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 114 115
On-line resources
“Sovremennik”
Title of the Media outlet: “Sovremennik”
Positioning: Social and political internet newspaper
Audience: Audience oriented on communist and socialist ideology
Contact information: • Post address: • Tel: • e-mail: • URL: http://www.sovr.krivbassinfo.com 116
“Gazeta po-dneprovski” (online version)
Title of the Media outlet: “Gazeta po-dneprovski” (online version)
Owners: The newspaper is integrated into the media network of city newspapers, owned by the publishing office Press Center, which is itself affiliated with Glavred- Media and financial and economic group Privat.
Manager of the project – Vjacheslav Manger.
Management: Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Mamchenko
Positioning: Weekly Russian-language newspaper
Rating and coverage: The weekly newspaper is circulated in 52 300 copies, and distributed though the city of Dnipropetrovsk and its region. 15% of a single copy is covered with advertising.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The paper is affiliated with other city papers of the Press Center group, including “Gazeta po Kievski”, “Gazeta po Donetski”, “Gazeta po Odesski” etc
Contact information: • Post address: 15, vul. Furmanova, 49027, Dnipropetrovsk • Tel: (056) 770-20-42, 770-41-29 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://po-dneprovski.dp.ua 117
Donetsk Region 118
TV channels
TV company “Stirol-TV”
Title of the Media outlet: TV company “Stirol-TV” (TV channel „Centr”)
Owners: OJSC "Concern Stirol", one of the biggest chemical industry company in Ukraine
Management: Director – Oleg Poplavskyy
Products: “Stirol-TV” produces own TV projects and advertising
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The TV company is a subsidiary of OJSC “Concern Stirol”
Contact information: • Post address: 61a/5, vul Gagarina
• Tel: • e-mail: (0624) 52-1011, (06242) 7-3494 [email protected] • URL: 119
TRC “Ukraina”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and Radio Company “Ukraina” (TRC Ukraina)
Owners: The company is owned by System Capital Management, SCM (99,67% of stock), a large economic and financial group owned by Rinat Akhmetov, one of the richest Ukrainian businessmen.
Management: President: Genadij Kondyarov Director General – Valdemar Dziki
Rating and coverage: LLC «TV Company “Ukraine” is one of the biggest national TV stations (see more information about the channel in the section focused on Ukrainian central media).
Initially based in Donetsk, the channel now has two major headquarters, both in Donetsk and Kiev.
Audience: All audience groups
Products: TV channel broadcasts information, entertainment, youth, sport and other programs through satellite, cable and air.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: TV channel «Futbol»
Contact information: • Post address: 74, vul. Artema, 83000, Donetsk 8(062) 332-72-09, 8(044) 495-85-55 • Tel: [email protected] • e-mail: http://kanalukraina.tv/ • URL: 121
TV and Radio Company “UNION”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and Radio Company “UNION”
Owners: TV and Radio company is controlled by Vasyl Dzhatry, ex-mayor of Makyivka (an industrial city in the Donetsk oblast), MP, member of the Party of the regions
Management: Executive Director - Natalia Zakhatrchenko (Member of the Party of the Regions faction in Makyivka city council);
Editor in chief – Yuriy Kirasir
Positioning: News TV channel «Union»
Rating and coverage: The channel is the most influential and popular media outlet in Makyivka. The signal covers the city of Makyivka and its 60-km surroundings.
According to the data provided by Makyivka institute of social sciences and technology, 60% of local population regularly watches TV channel “Union”. “Union” was chosen to participate in IREX Ukrainian Media Partnership Programme.
Audience: Potential audience – 500 000 people, representing all audience groups of the region
Products: Information mostly focused on Makyivka city and Donbas in general. The channel also broadcasts movies, education programs, and analytic programs. The channel has 13 own TV projects, including news program “Panorama”, a media project “Mestnoe Vremja”, as well as education and advertising products.
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Contact information: 7, Radjanska Square, 86157 Makiivka, • Post address: Donetsk Region 8(0623)22-22-78, 8(0623)22-22-87 • Tel: [email protected], 69 • e-mail: [email protected] http://union.makeevka.com/ • URL:
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TV company “TV-7”
Title of the Media outlet: LLC “TV company “TV-7”
Owners: The company is owned by Azomash, one of the biggest industrial and machinery- producing plants in Ukraine
Management: Director - Ajna Chagir (member of Marioupol City Council, the Party of the Regions)
Positioning: The channel positions itself as the most dynamically developing TV company of Marioupol
Products: TV company produces 13 own information, education, cultural and political projects. In total TV company produces 19-22 hours of airtime.
It also purchases licensed products from "1+1 Distribution", "Avrora Distribution", "Amadei", "KiT" and others.
Contact information: • Post address: 7, Dachnyy per., 87500, Mariupol, Donetsk region. • Tel: (0629)34-94-53 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.beta.tv7.co m.ua/
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Newspapers
“Vecherniy Donetsk”
Title of the Media outlet: Closed joint-stock company «Newspaper “Vecherniy Donetsk”
Owners: The paper belongs to media holding “Segodnya Multimedia”, owned by System Capital Management, a large financial and economic group controlled by Rinat Akhmetov.
Management: Editor in Chief – Leonid Lapa
Positioning: Social-and-political family newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published four times a week, and circulated in 30 000 copies. Its distribution covers both Donetsk and Donetsk oblast
Audience: According to survey of "Marketing and media index" (MMI Ukraine), managed by TNS Ukraine, the total audience of one issue reaches 124,100 readers. Audience structure: people with higher education – 48,2% high-qualified workers – 35,3% qualified workers – 31,5% students – 23,1%. Age categories: people aged between 16 and 34 – 30,3% people aged between 35-54 – 43,3% people aged between 55-65 – 26,5%.
Products: The media outlet produces news in the following categories: “Business World", "A look into the future", "We criticize, we demand, we offer", "Did You know this?", "Pages of the history", "Painful points", "From the courtroom” 125
Contact information: • Post address: 48, Kyivskyy av, 83118, Donetsk • Tel: (062) 311-66-54, 311-65-96 • e-mail: [email protected] , [email protected], [email protected] 72 • URL: http://www.vecherka.donetsk.ua/ 126
“Donetskie Novosti”
Title of the Media outlet: LLC “Newspaper “Donetskie Novosti”
Owners: The media outlet is a part of the media holding Segodnia Multimedia, owned by System Capital Management (Rinat Akhmetov’s financial and economic group).
The newspaper is the official information sponsor of the football club Shakhtar Donetsk which also belongs to Akhmetov.
Management: Editor – Rymma Fil’
Positioning: Social-and-political weekly newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is circulated in 28,000 copies, distributed in the city of Donetsk and Donetsk region (24, 500 copies); in Donbass-Airlines airplanes (800 copies) and in Kiev (300 copies)
Products: Information provided by the newspaper covers events in Donetsk and region, on business, politics, culture, sports, and also regular reviews of events in the country.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Newspapers “Donetskie Novosti” and “Courier Donetskikh Novostey” are parts of a publishing house “Donetskie novosti”
Contact information: • Post address: 4, Shevchenka av, 83050 Donetsk • Tel: (062) 335-35-62 , 335-74-60 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.dnews.ukr-info.net/
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“Vyrobnyk Ukrainy”
Title of the Media outlet: “Vyrobnyk Ukrainy” (the title can be translated into Ukrainian as: “Producer of Ukraine”)
Owners: CJSC "Group "Nord", CJSC "Varta"
Management: Editor in Chief – Sergiy Shatskyy
Positioning: The newspaper positions itself as a key media outlet for Ukrainian producers
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published weekly and circulated in 10 000 copies, throughout Ukraine.
Audience: The paper sees its target audience as primarily composed of Ukrainian commodity producers
Contact information: • Post address: 2, Zhukovskogo av, 83112, Donetsk • Tel: (062) 263-47-43, 385-00-95, 385-05-01 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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“Donechchyna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Donechchyna”
Owners: The newspaper was established by the Donetsk Regional State Administration. The outlet is influenced by the Group “Nord” and MP Valentyn Landik, member of the Party of the Regions.
Management: Editor in Chief – Ihor Zots
Positioning: Social-and-political weekly newspaper in Ukrainian
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is circulated in 5 000 copies and distributed throughout the region. It is published once a week.
Contact information: • Post address: 48, Kyivskyi av, 83054, Donetsk (0622) 55-14-70 55-79-64 • Tel: [email protected] • e-mail: • URL:
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“Zheleznodorozhnik Donbasa”
Title of the Media outlet: “Zheleznodorozhnik Donbasa” (the title can be translated as: Donbas Railway Worker)
Owners: The paper is owned by administration of Donetsk railway and the railroad trade union
Management: Editor in Chief – Boris Sverdlov
Positioning: “Industry-oriented” weekly newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is circulated in 48 900 copies, distributed throughout Donetsk and Lugansk regions
Audience: 70 thousands workers of Donetsk railway service
Contact information: • Post address: 198b, vul. Chel’uskintsiv, 83015, Donetsk • Tel: (0622) 31-62-10 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.railway.dn.ua
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Online resources
“Novosti.dn.ua”
Title of the Media outlet: Donbas Internet-newspaper “Novosti.dn.ua”
Owners: Owner and Editor in Chief – Oleksiy Matsuka (Member of Voroshylov rayon in the city of Donetsk council, member of the Yulia Tymoshenko block)
Management: Editor in Chief – Oleksiy Matsuka
Positioning: The biggest business online edition in Donetsk region
Rating and coverage: The on-line media outlet daily hosts about 12,000–18,000 visitors (convergent data by rating services - bigmir.net, i.ua, rambler.ru, liveinternet.ru)
Audience: The audience of the media outlet has the following structure:
Top management of Donetsk companies- 30%
Heads of departments of Donetsk State Regional Administration, city councils, and other authorities- 20%
Management of enterprises (large and medium business) - 15%
(data by Donetsk institute of information, 2008)
Products: The media outlet produces news in the following categories: daily news, publications, forum, Donetsk media review, blogs, citizen journalism etc
Contact information: • Post address: 127, vul. Postysheva, 83001, Donetsk (62) 348-95-25, 348-95-26 • Tel: • e-mail: http://novosti.dn.ua 77 • URL: 131
“OSTRO”
Title of the Media outlet: Internet media outlet “OSTRO” (Centre of the research of social perspectives of Donbas; analytical and news agency “Ostro”)
Owners: Project is supported by the National Fund for Democracy, Fund for Ukrainian Media development of the USA Embassy to Ukraine, International Renaissance Foundation.
Management: Leader of the project – Sergiy Garmash
Products: Donetsk news, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lugansk news, all-Ukrainian news
Contact information: • Post address:
• Tel: • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.ostro.org/ 132
Ivano-Frankivsk Region 133
TV channels
Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State TV and Radio Company
Owners: State Committee of TV and Radio Broadcasting
Management: Director – Roman Andriyashko Acting as Director General – I. Cyperd’uk
Contact information: • Post address: 30a, vul. Sichovyh Stril’civ, 76000, Ivano- Frankivsk • Tel: (0342(2) 750063 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://odtrk.if.ua/ 134
TV and radio company “3-studiya”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “3-studiya”
Owners: The company is owned by TV and radio company “Karpaty”, and a private person
Management: Director – Mykhailo Rokosh
Profitability: Today “3-studiya” is one of the few commercially successful media projects in the region
Positioning: Regional TV company, one of the most popular in the region
Rating and coverage: The company covers the city of Ivano Frankivsk and its region. Broadcasting time: 24 hours in Ivano-Frankivsk and 18 hours in Kalush.
Audience: Total audience is estimated about 1 million people
Products: Media outlet produces own projects, including; “Weekly News”, “Business Project”, “Ornaments of the Faith”, “This is Football”, “Pulse” etc
Contact information: • Post address: 56, vul. Sichovyh Stril’civ, 76000 Ivano- Frankivsk • Tel: (0342) 55-21-21, (03422) 2-24-19, 2-33- • 76, 2-57-73 • e-mail: [email protected] 135
TV and radio company “Vezha”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “Vezha”
Owners: TV and radio company was established by Ivano-Frankivsk City Council, and now controlled by the city mayor, affiliated with Lytvyn Block
Management: Director – Olena Tretyak
Profitability: The company receives annual subsidies from the local budget, estimated at UAH 600,000 (about EUR 50-50,000) in 2008.
Positioning: News TV and radio company
Rating and coverage: The company does not have its own transmission channel and broadcasts through frequency of the “3-studiya”.
Audience: Daily audience is estimated at 100,000 people, primarily civil servants, businessmen and politicians (self- estimation).
Products: Media outlet produces own TV programs: Characters of the play, Pro and Contra; radio programs: News, Secrets of Success, Experts on-line, Avenue 107, Health thoughts, Secrets of the old city. The radio also rebroadcast programs of the Voice of America.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: On-line resource Vezha.org, radio Vezha
Contact information: • Post address: 22, vul. Galyc’ka, 76000 Ivano-Frankivs’k • Tel: (0342) 776128, 8050-555-33-13 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.vezha.org/ 136
Newspapers
“Vpered”
Title of the Media outlet: “Vpered”
Management: Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Zanyk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Newspaper is distributed in 2,500 copies throughout Tysmenets rayon of Ivano- Frankivsk oblast. It is published once a week.
Contact information: • Post address: 11, vul. Korolya Danyla, 76010, Ivano- Frankivsk • Tel: (0342) 51-13-74 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 137
“Halychyna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Halychyna”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Ivano- Frankinsk Regional council. It is presently influenced by Ihor Oliynyk, the head of the oblast council, Nasha Ukraina party
Management: Editor in Chief – Vasyl Nazarchyk
Profitability: Media outlet is subsidized from the regional budget (about UAH 500,000 – EUR 40,000-50,000 - a year).
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet. The paper positions itself as a centre-right newspaper, loyal to regional government.
Rating and coverage: Newspaper is published three times a week. It is distributed in the city of Ivano- Frankivsk and its oblast, in 32,000 copies. 98% is distributed through subscription.
Audience: The newspaper’s audience is estimated at some 120 thousand people, mainly businessmen, managers, intellectuals, civil servants, farmers
Contact information: • Post address: 25, vul. Sichovyh Stril’civ, 76000, Ivano- Frankivsk • Tel: (0342) 22-50-90 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://www.galychyna.if.ua 138
“Kolomyiskyy Visnyk”
Title of the Media outlet: “Kolomyiskyy Visnyk”
Owners: The media outlet was established by Kolomiya city council in 1990.
However, recent history of the newspaper was marked with conflicts of editor in chief Vasyl Demyaniv and mayor of Kolomiya Mr. Ovcharenko.
The newspaper also attracts foreign grant assistance
Management: Editor in Chief – Vasyl Demyaniv
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Newspaper is published twice a week. It is distributed in 5,000 copies throughout the city of Kolomiya and its rayon.
Contact information: • Post address: 27, Konovaltsya, 78200, Kolomiya, Ivano- Frankivsk region • Tel: (03433) 2-07-19, 4-73-38, 2-14-86 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 139
“Vilnyy Holos”
Title of the Media outlet: “Vilnyy Holos” (the title can be translated into English as: Free Voice)
Owners: The media outlet was established by Kolomiya rayon council jointly with Kolomiya rayon state administration.
Management: Editor in Chief – Olga Gavrylyuk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published twice a week. It is distributed in 5,000 copies throughout the city of Kolomiya and its rayon.
Contact information: • Post address: 5a, vul. Shyhevycha, 78200, Kolomiya, Ivano-Frankivsk region • Tel: (03433) 2-27-90, 2-06-01 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 140
“Halytske Slovo”
Title of the Media outlet: “Halytske Slovo”
Owners: The media outlet was established by Halych rayon council jointly with Halych rayon state administration.
Management: Editor in Chief – Emilia Nakonechna
Positioning: The newspaper of Halych rayon council and rayon state administration
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published once a week. It is distributed in 2,500 copies throughout the city of Halych and its rayon.
Contact information: • Post address: 5, vul. Konovalc’a, 77100, Halych, Ivano- Frankivsk region • Tel: (03431) 2-13-43, 2-15-56 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://galslovo.if.ua/ 141
On-line resources
News agency ifPortal.net
Title of the Media outlet: News agency ifPortal.net
Owners: The media outlet has recently shown constant political loyalty to Yulia Tymoshenko block
Management: Editor in Chief and owner – Taras Kobets
Profitability: Like many other regional newspapers, the outlet is profitable primarily during the election period
Positioning: Information resource ifPortal.net
Audience: The media outlet is targeting mainly population of Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, but also other Ukrainian regions, including Kiev
Products: Media outlet provides information services: daily news (RSS), monitoring of the main media outlets of Prykarpattya, analysis of key events in the region, expert opinions etc. Categories: economy, politics, culture, sport, crime, etc
Contact information: • Post address: • Tel: (066) 27-45-119; (067) 888-5-666 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://ifportal.net 142
“PIAR”
Title of the Media outlet: “Prykarpatska Informaciyna Agenciya I Reklama “PIAR”
Owners: The media outlet is said to be close to Ihor Bahmatyk, Narodna Partiya (Volodymyr Lytvyn block)
Management: Editor in Chief – Yuriy Druk
Products: The media outlet provides all sorts of advertising and PR services, information support, etc
Contact information: • Post address: 23, vul. Akademika Saharova, Ivano- Frankivsk • Tel: (0342)98727 • e-mail: • URL: 143
Kharkiv region 144
TV channels
“TV company “ATN”
Title of the Media outlet: LLC “TV company “ATN”
Owners: The media outlet is owned by the company „Investor” (Kharkiv), and the company’s Director General Oleg Yukht. The company is close to the governor of the region Arsen Avakov.
Management: Director General – Oleg Yukht
Positioning: News TV channel
Rating and coverage: The media outlet produces own news programs, which are also re-broadcasted at the 7th TV channel.
40% of the respondents, living in Kharkiv, regularly watch the news of ATN (data of 2003).
Audience: Target audience is aged between 18 and 50 Contact information: • Post address: 4, Teatralnyi av., 61057, Kharkiv • Tel: (057) 766-71-43, 766-71-44 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: atn.ua 145
Kharkiv Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: Kharkiv regional state TV and radio company (OTB)
Owners: The OTB made a serious rebranding after the management change in summer 2005.
Appointment of Zurab Alasania, a famous journalist, as Director General was lobbied by Arsen Avakov, the governor of the Kharkiv oblast.
However, Mykhailo Dobkin, Khrarkiv mayor, last year called for Alasania dismissal.
The channel positions itself as a balanced outlet providing information room for for all political forces.
Management: Director – Zurab Alasania, Editor – Hanna Prokaeva
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Audience: Target audience: people aged 25+
Contact information: • Post address: 5, Svobody square, 61506, Kharkiv • Tel: (057) 705-09-60, 705-00-66, 705-09-65 • e-mail: [email protected], • URL: [email protected] www.otb.com.ua 146
Newspapers
“Slobids’kyy Kray”
Title of the Media outlet: Slobids’kyy Kray (the title can be translated into English as: Sloboda Land)
Owners: The newspaper was established by Kharkiv regional council jointly with Kharkiv regional state administration
Management: Editor in Chief – Volodymyr Rvenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three times a week. It is distributed in 35,500 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The newspaper provides information in the following categories: Official Information, Details, Politics, Finance, Hot Line, Interviews, Culture, Sports, etc
Contact information: • Post address: 6, Derzhprom., 61022, Kharkiv • Tel: (057) 720-04-72
• e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://slk.kh.ua/ 147
“Vecherniy Kharkov”
Title of the Media outlet: “Vecherniy Kharkov” (the title can be translated into English as: Evening Kharkiv)
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by Alexander Kaganovskiy, a Kharkiv businessman, son-in-law of Kharkiv former governor Evhen Kushnariov.
Management: Editor in Chief – Tetyana Kostenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three times per week
Products: The newspaper provides information in the following categories: Mega polis, Governance, Politics, Finance, Events, Sports, Culture, Ukraine, World News
Contact information: • Post address: 4, vul. Sums’ka, 61057, Kharkiv • Tel: (057) 760-45-81; 760-47-01 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://www.vecherniy.kharkov.ua 148
“Novyy Den’”
Title of the Media outlet: “Novyy Den’”
Owners: The newspaper is controlled by Viktor Subbotin (Director General of “Turboatom” company, owner of Megabank and the Head of regional organization of Ukraine’s Socialist party)
Management: Editor in Chief – Olena Konopl’a
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three times a week, and distributed in 20,000 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The newspaper provides information in the following categories: Region, Money, Society, Interview, Point of View, etc
Contact information: • Post address: 46, vul. Artema, 61002, Kharkiv • Tel: (057) 715-52-75(76) • e-mail: • URL: 149
“Vremya”
Title of the Media outlet: Media company “Vremya” (newspaper “Vremya”)
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by Ukrainian MP Oleksander Feldman (Yulia Tymoshenko blok)
Management: Editor in chief: Olena Strunova
Rating and coverage: Daily regional newspaper covering 9 Ukrainian oblasts - Sumy, Kherson, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Lugansk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya
Products: The newspaper provides information in the following categories: Today, Traditions, Health, Born in Kharkiv, World news, etc
Contact information: • Post address: 247/10, Moskovskyy av., 61301, Kharkiv • Tel: (0572) 92-20-57, 92-20-59 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: www.timeua.info 150
“Sobytie”
Title of the Media outlet: “Sobytie” (the title can be translated into English as: “Event”)
Management: Director, Editor in Chief – Evhen Avergyn, Deputy Director – Vitaliy Bulat
Products: The newspaper provides information in the following categories: Kharkiv and regional news, Ukraine and CIS, history, sports, music, etc
Contact information: • Post address: 6247/8, Moskovskyy av., 1304, Kharkiv • Tel: (0572) 92-40-42, (0572) 92-33-16 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 151
Online resources
“MediaPort”
Title of the Media outlet: News Agency “MediaPort”
Owners: Owner – Zurab Alasania, a Ukrainian journalist, director general of a TV company OTB
Management: Director – Tetyana Landesman
Rating and coverage: The media outlet is the most popular Kharkiv news portal (data by BigMir.net, a Ukrainian online and rating project)
Audience: MediaPort hosts 25,000 visitors daily.
The audience has the following key groups: civil servants, bank managers, businessmen, media representatives, etc.
Products: The project combines both TV and Internet production. News produced by the MediaPort are broadcasted on local Kharkiv TV channels.
The internet portal provides news and analysis, and accumulates MediaPort products for the last 7 years. The information is provided in three languages – Ukrainian, Russian and English.
Key news projects: “Ob’ektiv Novosti” and “Novosti MediaPort”, personal projects of Zurab Alasania, documentaries, etc 152
Contact information: • Post address 74/7, vul. Sumska, 61022, Kharkiv • Tel: News-room: +38 (057) 763-01-06, +38 (057) 763-0107. Administration:+38 (057) 763-01-09, +38 (057) 705-10-58 fax: (057) 700-29-328 • e-mail: 97 • URL: http://www.mediaport.ua/ (www.media- objektiv.com ) 153
“Status quo”
Title of the Media outlet: News agency “STATUS QUO”
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by Viktor Subbotin, director general of Turboatom, one of the biggests enterprises in the region
Management: Editor in Chief – Olena Konopl’a
Positioning: The news agency positions itself as a non- governmental regional news agency
Audience: The media outlet’s target audience is defined mostly as media representatives and managers
Products: News up-dated on-line every 10-15 min.
The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Government, Finance, Politics, Society, Culture, Sports. It also produces an economy- focused thematic program “SQ - Economy”.
The on-line outlet also produces news covering recent trends in different sectors of economy, including machinery, oil production, energy, agriculture, pharmaceutics, investments, banking, law, etc.
Press center "STATUS QUO" holds various round tables and press conferences every week.
Affiliations: The news agency is affiliated with Novyi Den, another newspaper controlled by Viktor Subbotin
Contact information: • Post address: 46, vul. Artema, 61002, Kharkiv (057) 715- • Tel: 52-76, 715-52-66 (67) • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] 98 • URL: www.sq.com.ua 154
“Gorodskoy Dozor”
Title of the Media outlet: NGO and media project “Gorodskoy Dozor” (the title can be translated into English as: City Watch)
Owners: The media-project “Gorodskoy Dozor” was created by the group of Kharkiv journalists in spring 2006 to support a civic initiative on the local elections (also called Gorodskoy Dozor). The media outlet was later financed by the international enterprise TARGET.
Rating and coverage: The media outlet is in the top five outlets of the Kharkiv on-line media.
Products: The project produces own projects and plots for news programs, and further broadsasts on the local TV channel (7th channel)
Contact information: • Post address: • Tel: • e-mail: • URL: http://dozor.kharkov.ua/
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Kherson region 156
TV channels
“Scythia” (Kherson Regional State TV and Radio Company)
Title of the Media outlet: “Scythia” (Kherson Regional State TV and Radio Company)
Owners: After the Orange Revolution Director General Valeriy Dolyna conflicted with governor of the region Boris Synelnykov, who unsuccessfully lobbied Dolyna’s dismissal.
Today the outlet is influenced by the Head of regional council, member of the Party of the Regions, Volodymyr Demekhin.
Management: Director General – Valeriy Dolyna
Profitability: The media outlet is financed from the local budget. Recently financing was reduced, which led to closure of a weekly newspaper “Ether”, affiliated with the company.
Rating and coverage: The TV channel broadcasts for 24 hours. The company also produces 18 hours of radio broadcasting. Media outlet reaches out to 65% of the region’s population.
Audience: The TV and radio company targets all audience groups
Products: The TV and radio company provides information in the following categories: Regional news, central and local governance (25%), cultural and education programs (25%), youth-oriented programs (8%), social programs (12%). 157
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: TV and radio channels "Scythia", "Ranok", "Dnipro", "Tavria", "Fact".
Contact information: • Post address: 10, vul. Perekops’ka, 73000, Kherson 100 • Tel: (0552)224242 • e-mail: [email protected] 158
TV and radio company “TOP”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “TOP”
Owners: The TV and radio company is owned by Deirector General Oleksandr Solyarchuk
Management: Director General - Oleksandr Solyarchuk
Rating and coverage: The radio signal covers entire Kherson region. Potential audience: 559,550 poeple.
Audience: The media outlet is designed for all audience groups.
Products: The company rebroadcasts production of Radio Era, a pan-Ukrainian debates- focused “talk radio”.
The company also produces news on politics, finance, culture, etc; it broadcasts for 24 hours.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Concert agency “Stolyarchuk”
Contact information: • Post address: 1a, vul. Suvorova, 73000 Kherson (0552) • Tel: 493203, (0552) 224395 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://050.ks.ua/trktop/main.php?page= melonas&menu =mnmelodiya&logo=melodiya
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TV “Vita”
Title of the Media outlet: TV “Vita”
Management: Director - Evgenia Khvorost
Positioning: A social TV channel of the Kherson oblast
Rating and coverage: All-Ukrainian satellite channel. TV company produces 15 hours of broadcasting.
Audience: Audience of all age categories
Products: The media outlet produces own news, education, history-focused projects: «News», «Tvoya Myzika», «Тviy mikrofon», «M-project», «Тvoya sprava», «Piznayko».
Contact information: Ukrainian TV network • Post address: 25/311, Shevchenko av., 83017, Donetsk • Tel: (062) 312-78-16, 312-79-25, (062) 345-26- • e-mail: 01 • URL: [email protected]
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Newspapers
“Bulava”
Title of the Media outlet: “Bulava”
Management: Editor in Chief – Larysa T’ut’unnyk
Positioning: The media outlet positions itself as news and op-ed newspaper of the independent TV and radio company
Rating and coverage: Newspaper is distributed in 16,000 copies, throughout the region. The paper is published once a week.
Audience: Total audience: 45-60 000 people, mostly aged between 25 and 70. The paper sees its audience is economically active citizens.
Products: Newspaper produces information in the following categories: News, Law and Crime, City, Region, Society, Sports, Beauty, Youth page, Star life, Ads
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The newspaper is a part of TV and radio organization “Bulava”
Contact information: • Post address: 46, vul. Radyans’ka, 73000, Kherson • Tel: (0552)42-00-22 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], • URL: [email protected] http://paper.bulava.com.ua/index.php
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“VIK – chas, podii, lyudy”
Title of the Media outlet: “VIK – chas, podii, ljudy” [the title can be translated into English as: Time, events, people]
Owners: NGO “Hromadskyy Control’”
Management: Editor in Chief – L’udmyla Vedmid’
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Raiting and coverage: The nNewspaper is distributed throughout the city of Kherson
Contact information: • Post address: 10b, vul. Suvorova, 73000, Kherson • Tel: (0552) 42-16-09 • e-mail: • URL:
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“Gryvna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Gryvna”
Management: Editor in chief – Valeriy Boyanzhu
Positioning: The media outlet positions itself as an information, financial, cultural and education-focused newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published twice a week, and distributed in 65,000 copies, throughout Kherson region and in other Ukrainian oblasts.
Contact information: • Post address: 3, Murnyi av., 73000, Kherson • Tel: (0552) 26-26-88, 26-28-76, 26-28-76 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.grivna.kherson.ua
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“Novyi Den’”
Title of the Media outlet: “Novyi Den’”
Owners: The newspaper is influenced by the Party of the Regions
Management: Editor in Chief – Anatoliy Zhupyna
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published weekly in 35,000 coplies. It is istributed in the city of Kherson (20%), and Kherson region (80%).
Products: Categories: Politics, Crime, Society, Finance, etc
Contact information: • Post address: 26, vul. Dekabrystiv, 73003, Kherson • Tel: (0552) 45-42-60, 45-49-24 • e-mail: [email protected], • URL: [email protected] http://www.newday.kherson.ua
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“Vestnik priazov’ya”
Title of the Media outlet: “Vestnik priazov’ya”
Owners: The media outlet was estanlished by the Geniches’k rayon state administration, jointly with Geniches’k local council
Management: Editor in Chief – Vira Azza
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published once a week. It is distributed in 5600 copies, thoughout the city of Geniches’k and its rayon
Contact information: • Post address: 35, Myru av., 75500, Geniches’k, Kherson • Tel: region • e-mail: (5534) 2-56-54, 3-70-36 • URL:
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Online resources
Web-portal of Nova Kahovka city
Title of the Media outlet: Web-portal of Nova Kahovka city
Owners: Dmytro Donchenko
Management: Director: Dmytro Donchenko
Positioning: Independent news resource
Audience: The media outlet targets the population of Nova Kahovka
Products: The portal provides information in the following categories: Politics, Finance, Society, People, etc
Contact information: • Post address: 74900, Nova Kahovka, Kherson region • Tel: 20554970707 • e-mail: • URL: http://nova.kahovka.org.ua/
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Khmelnytskyi region
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TV channels
Khmelnytskyi Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: “Podillya Centr” (Khmelnytskyi Regional State TV and Radio Company)
Owners: The TV channel belongs to state-owned network controlled by Ukraine’s State Committee of Television and Radio Broadcasting
Management: Olena Pavliuk– Director General.
Rating and coverage: Regional TV and Radio company. Its signal covers 90 % of the territory of the region.
Audience: All age and social groups
Products: The company produces own news and programs. All broadcasting is made in Ukrainian language
Contact information: • Post address: 92, vul. Volodymyrs’ka, 29000, • Tel: Khmelnytskyi • e-mail: (0382) 795946, (0382) 70-06-70 [email protected], [email protected] • URL: [email protected]
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TV and radio company “Contact”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “Contact” (Khmelnytskyi non-governmental music and information radio station and TV corporation “Contact”)
Owners: LLC „Financial company „RANP” (Kyiv), “Contact” (Khmelnytskyi) (cable TV provider), LLC “TV company “FNB” (Dunaivtsi) and two physical persons.
Management: President – Anatoliy Luk’yanchykov
Rating and coverage: TV and radio company broadcasts in the cities of Khmelnytskyi and Kamyanets- Podilskyi
Audience: All age and social groups living in Khmelnytskyi and Kamyanets- Podilsk (Khmelnytskyi oblast)
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Contact radio (FM)
Contact information: • Post address: 59, Myru av., 29000, Khmelnytskyi • Tel: (03822) 3-12-30, 3-30-74, (0382) 78-93- 34, 78-93-32, 78-93-37 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL:
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“Dyt’ache televiziine agenstvo”
Title of the Media outlet: “Dyt’ache televiziine agenstvo” (33 channel)
Management: Director – Olena Filatova
Positioning: Children-and-youth channel
Audience: Media outlet is designed to produce and broadcast programs for children and youth.
Products: TV channel produces entertainment and education programs.
Contact information: • Post address: 4/3, Proskurivska, Khmelnytskyi • Tel: (0382) 79-70-34 • e-mail: [email protected], 33tv@mitel- • URL: ua.com
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Newspapers
“Khmelnytskyy ta Khmelnychany”
Title of the Media outlet: “Khmelnytskyy ta Khmelnychany”
Owners: The media outlet is owned by LLC "Krayany-Podillya"
Management: Editor – Sergiy Soltus
Positioning: Free of charge advertisement newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published weekly. It is distributed in 105,000 copies throughout the city of Khmelnytskyi
Contact information: • Post address: 53, vul. Svobody, 29000, Khmelnytskyi • Tel: (0382) 79-49-05, 76-28-54, 65-53-39 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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“Khmelnychchyna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Khmelnychchyna”
Management: Editor - Ivan Fedorov
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published once a week and distributed in 15,000 copies, throughout the Khmelnytsk region.
Contact information: • Post address: 71, vul. Proskurivskogo pidpillya, 29000, Khmelnytskyi • Tel: (0382) 79-46-30, 79-55-79 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://gazetahmeln.km.ua
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“Podils’ki visti”
Title of the Media outlet: “Podil’ski visti”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Khmelnytskyi regional council, jointly with regional state administration. It is influenced by Ivan Gladunyak – the Head of the Khmelnytska oblast regional council
Management: Acting Editor in chief – Mykola Shokalo
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three times per week. The outlet is the most circulated newspaper of the Khmelnytsk region.
Contact information: • Post address: 59, Myru av., 29015, Khmelnytskyi • Tel: (0382) 78-95-97, 3-30-63, 3-61-57 [email protected], [email protected] • e-mail: • URL:
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“Blagovist Khmelnychchyny – Podil’ski Eparhialni Vidomosti”
Title of the Media outlet: “Blagovist Khmelnychchyny – Podil’ski Eparhialni Vidomosti”
Owners: The media outlet was established by Khmelnytskyi Diocese Administration of Ukrainian Orthodox church
Management: Editor in chief – Metropolitan Antoniy
Positioning: Religious newspaper
Rating and coverage: Biweekly newspaper, distributed in 5,000 copies throughout Ukraine.
Contact information: • Post address: 113, vul. Volodymyrs’ka, 29013, Khmelnytsk • Tel: (0382) 65-03-32 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.fialco.org
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“VSIM”
Title of the Media outlet: “VSIM”
Owners: LLC "Media-Holding "VSIM"
Management: Editor – Anatoliy Drozdyk
Positioning: Advertisement-and-business newpaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published once a week, and is distributed in 12,600 copies, throughout the region. The paper is also delivered to directors of 130 biggest regional enterprises.
Audience: Economically active citizens, having mid- and high income.
Contact information: • Post address: 10, vul. Teatralna, 29013, Khmelnytskyi • Tel: (0382) 70-33-69 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL:
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On-line resources
News Agency “Context – Khmelnytskyi”
Title of the Media outlet: News Agency “Context – Khmelnytskyi”
Management: Director – Vadym Oleks’uk
Products: The news agency provides information on politics, finance, business, social questions, sports, etc.
Contact information: • Post address: 1, vul. Radgospna, • Tel: Khmelnytskyi (0382)79-21-94 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.context-km.info
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Media corporation “Ye!”
Title of the Media outlet: Media corporation “Ye!”
Management: Editor – Sergiy Ishchuk
Positioning: Regional social-and-political media outlet, also family and entertainment- oriented
Audience: Target audience is different for different projects of «Ye Podillya». For «Ye telenavigator» 55% of the audience are women aged between 25 and 55. For «Ye simeyna gazeta» up to 80% of the audience are women aged between 25 and 34, and also between 46 and 60. «Vsim.ua» target audience: women and men aged between 24 and 35.
Products: The media corporation produces a number of publications, covering the whole region, targeting different audiences. The projects are distributed by subscription and retail trade; some of them are free of charge. Newspaper «Ye Podillya» produces the latest news of the region, analysis and interviews. Weekly newspaper „Ye telenavigator” produces show-biz and celebrities-focused news. “Ye simeyna gazeta” is a family newspaper focusing on advice and consultation information, interview with medical workers, psychologists, lawyers, etc. Monthly newspaper«Vsim.ua» contains adverisemenr and information, market reviews, etc. Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: • «Ye Podillya» • «Ye telenavigator» • «Ye simeyna gazeta» • «Vsim.ua» Contact information: • Post address: 38, vul. Shevchenka, Khmelnytskyi • Tel: (0382) 702-602, (0382) 765 381, 704-604 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 119 • URL: http://ye.ua 178
Kirovograd region
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TV channels
TV and radio company “KTM”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “KTM” (The title KTM can be translated as “Cable television networks”)
Owners: Founders: S. Chechitko, O. Nuzhna, V. Burlakov
Management: Director – Stanislav Chechitko
Positioning: Cable and air broadcasting company
Rating and coverage: The company broadcasts in the Kirovograd region
Audience: Audience is estimated to reach up to 24,000 people
Products: TV and radio company produces 17 own information programs and op-ed materials. It also rebroadcasts national, local and foreign channels.
Contact information: • Post address: 57a, vul. Pershotravneva, 28000, Oleksandria, Kirovograd region • Tel: (05235) 7-23-75, 7-24-44 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://www.ktm.net.ua/
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Kirovograd Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: Kirovograd Regional State TV and Radio Company
Owners: The company is integrated into a network of Ukraine’s State Committee of TV and radio broadcasting
Management: Director General – Andriy Bogdanovych
Rating and coverage: The media outlet covers about 78% of population of the region. It daily broadcasts for 2 hours in wired radio and for 24 hours on radio “Scythia Centr” (106.7 FM).
Audience: Designed for all audience categories
Contact information: • Post address: 1, Kirova square, 25022, Kirovograd • Tel: (0522) 24-88-60, (0522) 24-14-60 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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Newspapers
“Kirovogradska Pravda”
Title of the Media outlet: “Kirovogradska Pravda”
Owners: LLC “Kirovogradpresgrupa”
Management: Editor in chief: Volodymyr Belinskyy
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three times a week. It is distributed in 30,000 copies, throughout the city of Kirovograd and its region.
Products: The newspaper provides new in the following categories: Economics, Politics, Events, Kirovograd, Free Time, Forecasts, etc
Contact information: • Post address: 40, vul. Egorova, 25015, Kirovograd • Tel: (0522) 24-84-44, 24-59-82, 2-50-15 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: www.pravda-kr.com/
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“21 kanal”
Title of the Media outlet: Newspaper “21 kanal”
Owners: The newspaper is owned by the regional organization of journalists. Olena Shvorak, journalist of this newspaper, was elected to Kirovograd regional council from Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.
Management: Editor’s in Chief Deputy – Yuriy Yarovyy
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 50,000 copies, throughout the region. 50% of it is distributed through retail trade, 48% - through subscription, and 2% is distributed free of charge.
Audience: Media outlet is designed for all age, sex and social categories of readers
Products: The newspaper provides latest regional news, news of Kirovograd, pan-Ukrainian news, social news, advertisement. It also provides additional services, such as advertisement articles, PR, etc
Contact information: • Post address: 36, vul. Chornovola, 25006, Kirovograd • Tel: (0522) 24-66-72 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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“Narodne Slovo”
Title of the Media outlet: “Narodne Slovo”
Owners: The newspaper was established by the Kirovograd Regional council, jointly with regional state administration.
Valeriy Myatovych, its editor in chief, is a member of the Batkyvshchyna party (Yulia Tymoshenko bloc)
Management: Editor in Chief – Valentyna Bazhan
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published tree times a week. It is distributed in 21,000 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The newspaper produces news on the regional and national politics and social life
Contact information: • Post address: 46, vul. Chornovola, 25006, Kirovograd • Tel: (0522) 22-08-19, 22-47-62, 22-35-49 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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“Nova Gazeta”
Title of the Media outlet: “Nova Gazeta”
Management: Editor in chief: Iryna Petlya
Positioning: Business media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 18,000 copies, throughout the region.
Audience: Target group: economically active citizens the population of Kirovograd region.
Contact information: • Post address: 43/2, vul. Chornovola, 25006, • Tel: Kirovograd • e-mail: (0522) 22-45-78 • URL: [email protected]
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“Silskyy Visnyk”
Title of the Media outlet: “Silskyy Visnyk”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Oleksandria rayon council, jointly with rayon state administration
Management: Editor in chief: Natalia Lysenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 3,000 copies, throughout Oleksandria rayon of the Kirovograd region. 100% is distributed through subscription.
Audience: All categories of readers.
Products: The newspaper provides news of the city of Oleksandria and its rayon. The paper also focused on social projects.
Contact information: • Post address: 100, vul. Shevchenka, 28000, Oleksandria, Kirovograd region. • Tel: (05235) 2-27-03 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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Online resources
Internet portal “Ves’ Kirovograd”
Title of the Media outlet: Internet portal “Ves’ Kirovograd” (the title can be translated into English as: All Kirovograd)
Owners: The project was established by a regional media group “Ves’ Kirovograd”. The group also owns the portal Kirоvоgrad.biz, magazine “Lanrouge”, promotion agency “Ves’ Kirovograd”.
Profitability: The internet project is partially supported by foreign grants. A list of the donors of the project include Institute of Social and Cultural management and Stefan Batory Foundation.
Positioning: The web page has been created by journalists and civil society leaders of Kirovograd to develop civil society, freedom of speech and access to information for Kirovograd population (self-estimation).
Rating and coverage: The media outlet positions itself as a major news resource of the region.
Products: The outlet provides news in the following categories: Politics, Economy, Society, Science and Culture, Sports and leisure, Picture gallery etc
Contact information: • Post address: • Tel: • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.kirovograd.net/
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On-line media outlet of the city of Svitlovodsk
Title of the Media outlet: On-line media outlet of the city of Svitlovodsk
Owners: Author and manager of the project – Bogdan Drozdov
Positioning: Independent news resource
Audience: People living in Svitlovodsk
Products: The news resource provides Svitlovodsk news, information about everyday events, holidays, issues related to communal services, etc
Contact information: • Post address:
• Tel: • e-mail: • URL: http://svetlovodsk.com.ua/
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Kyiv region
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TV channels
“Maidan-TV”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “Maidan-TV”
Owners: Director and owner – Oleksandr Maidanyk
Positioning: Local non-governmental infotainment TV channel of Bila Tserkva (a town in the Kyiv region).
Rating and coverage: TV channel has 18 hour programming daily. All the products are in Ukrainian.
Contact information: • Post address: 8, Torgova ploshcha, 09101, Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region • Tel: (04463) 9-11-17, 9-98-55 • e-mail: • URL:
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Newspapers
“Hromads’ka Dumka”
Title of the Media outlet: “Hromads’ka Dumka”
Owners: The media outlet was established by city council of Bila Tserkva (a town in Kyiv region)
Management: Editor – Olena Kutsenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, circulated in 5,000 copies, covering the city of Bila Tserkva and its rayon
Contact information: • Post address: 60, Pyatdes’atyrichcha Peremogy av., 09100, Bila Tserkva, Kyiv Region • Tel: (04463) 6-50-43 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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“Visnyk Pereyaslavshchyny”
Title of the Media outlet: “Visnyk Pereyaslavshchyny”
Owners: The media outlet was established by Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi city council jointly with Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi rayon council
Management: Editor – Halyna Karpenko
Profitability: The newspaper is mainly financed from the local budget, and partially raises funds through advertisement. In the 1990s it also benefited from assistance of international donors organizations.
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 7,000 copies, throughout the city of Pereyaslav- Khmelnytskyi and its rayon.
Audience: All age and social groups.
Contact information: • Post address: 45, vul. Shkil’na, 08404, Pereyaslav Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv region • Tel: (04467) 5-13-44 , 5-16-11 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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“Yagotyns’ki Visti”
Title of the Media outlet: “Yagotyns’ki Visti”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Yagotyn rayon council, jointly with rayon state administration
Management: Editor in chief: Anatoliy Sasa
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published twice a week and is distributed in 7,000 copies, throughout Yagotyn rayon
Contact information: • Post address: 1, vul. Pyr’atyns’ka, 07700, Yagotyn, Kyiv region • Tel: (04475) 5-48-53 , 5-55-52, 8-275-54853 • e-mail: • URL:
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“Peremoga”
Title of the Media outlet: “Peremoga”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Fastiv city council, jointly with Fastiv rayon council and rayon state administration.
Management: Editor in Chief - Viktor Urlapov
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper distributed in 4,200 copies. 98% of copies are distributed through subscription, 1% - through retail trade, and 1% - free of charge.
Contact information: • Post address: 40, vul. Soborna, 08500, Fastiv, Kyiv • Tel: region • e-mail: (04465) 6-21-22, 5-15-21 • URL: [email protected] http://fastiv.in.ua/taxonomy/term/1
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Online resources
“Kyiany – Obozrevatel”
Title of the Media outlet: “Kyiany – Obozrevatel”
Owners: Media outlet is owned by internet holding “OBOZ.ua” (see more information about the holding in the section “Key media groups”).
Editor in chief – Albert Feldman
Management: Editor – Tetyana Andrushchenko
Positioning: Kyiv-focused online newspaper, a web- page about and for the population of Kyiv
Rating and coverage: On-line media hosts up to 70,000 visitors daily
Products: The outlet provides information in the following categories: Kyiv news, local government performance, real estate market review, financial news, cultural news, video etc
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The outlet is affiliated with other mainly online projects integrated into Oboz.ua holding: online newspapers Obozrevatel and Ohliadach, web-portals Oboz.ua and uaportal.com, infotainment portal Kiev 2000 (target group: people living in Kyiv), entertainment web-site Veseli Yaytsia, sports web-site Sport.oboz.ua, tabloid Show.oboz.ua, cinema web-site Kino.oboz.ua, car-focused site auto.oboz.ua, recreation site rest.oboz.ua, photo portal photo.oboz.ua, video web-site video.oboz.ua etc 195
Contact information: • Post address: 17, vul. Panasa Myrnogo, 01011, Kyiv (044) • Tel: 585 46 20 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://kiyany.obozrevatel.com 196
“Khreshchatyk”
Title of the Media outlet: “Khreshchatyk”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Kyiv city council, and is largely controlled by Kyiv municipal authorities
Management: Acting as Editor in Chief – Yevgen Gaglovskyi
Deputy of the Editor in Chief – Oleksandr Marushchak
Positioning: Kyiv municipal newspaper, a social-and- political media outlet
Contact information: 51b, vul. Volodymyrs’ka, 01034, Kyiv • Post address: (044) 502-34-37 • Tel: • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] http://www.kreschatic.kiev.ua • URL: 197
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TV channels
Lugansk Regional State TV and radio company (“LOT”)
Title of the media outlet: Lugansk Regional State TV and radio company (“LOT”)
Owners/affiliation: Head of the board – Rodion Miroshnyk, a member of the Party of the Regions, former spokesman of the leader of PoR faction in the national parliament Olexandr Efremov
Management: Rodion Miroshnyk, head of board
Rating and coverage: The biggest TV channel in the region, with 90% of citizens living in the oblast saying they regularly watch its production. The company also has radio broadcasting projects.
Audience: All social groups, living in the region
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Puls radio (103,6 FM)
Contact Information: • поштова адреса: 25, vul. Demiohina, 91016, Lugansk • телефони: (0642) 35-16-82, 53-00-87 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://lot.lg.ua/ 199
TV and radio company “STV”
Title of the media outlet: TV and radio company “STV”
Owners: Media outlet is a communal enterprise, founded, among others, by Severodonetsk city council
Management: Acting as Director – O. Martynenko
Rating and coverage: The media outlet covers 35,603 households, including 5,000 of those using digital TV.
Audience: People aged between 25 and 49 years
Products: The media outlet rebroadcasts 80 channels, including 59 digital channels. It has its own TV channel and radio station.
Contact Information: • Post address: 93, vul. Gagarina, 93400 Severodonetsk, Lugansk region • Tel: (06452) 3-01-34 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://stv.ua 200
TV and radio company “IRTA”
Title of the media outlet: LLC Independent TV and radio company “IRTA”
Owners: Belongs to LLC “Independent TV and Radio company “Continent” (Lugansk) and Volodymyr Landyk, MP, a member of the Party of the Regions
Management: Director General – Karolina Poltavska
Positioning: Infotainment TV channel
Audience: All social and age groups living in the region.
Products: The TV and radio company produces own news and thematic programs, and rebroadcasts TV channels “Kino” (Central Media Enterprises) and “Ru Music”.
Contact Information: • Post address: 22a, vul. Khersonska, 91053, Lugansk • Tel: (0642) 55-18-72, 34-58-87, 34-58-82 • e-mail: • URL: 201
Newspapers
Vecherniy Lugansk
Title of the media outlet: “Vecherniy Lugansk”
Owners: The media outlet is close to Volodymyr Lanyk, a Ukrainian MP, a member of the Party of the Regions. However, officially the newspaper is owned by Mr. Zhdanik, a businessman.
Management: Acting Editor in chief: German Borysov
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is one of three most popular regional press outlets
Products: The newspaper has a scandalous reputation, producing materials on acute social and political issues.
Contact Information: • Post address: 7, vul. Eryomenko, Lugansk • Tel: 44382 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 202
“Vesti Regiona”
Title of the media outlet: “Vesti Regiona”
Owners: The newspaper is owned by LLC "Vlanyk".
Management: Editor – Lyudmyla Prokopova
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 29,020 copies, throughout the region.
Audience: The newspaper prioritizes people with mid- and low income.
Products: Media outlet provides information in the following categories: Facts and Events, History in Faces, TV Program, Behind the Scenes, etc
Contact Information: • Post address: 89a, vul. Vatutina, 91040, Lugansk • Tel: (0642) 46-66-45, 34-48-33 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 203
“Luganskaya Pravda”
Title of the media outlet: “Luganskaya Pravda”
Owners: The newspaper is controlled by Oleksandr Efremov, Ukrainian MP, the Party of the Regions
Management: Editor in chief: Volodymyr Mykhailychenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three times per week, and distributed in 42,800 copies, throughout the region. 60% of the paper distributed within the city of Lugansk, 40% - in Lugansk region. 90% of copies are distributed through subscription, and 10% - through retail trade.
Products: The media outlet provides news of the Lugansk city and its region
Contact Information: • Post address: 20/318, vul. Radyanska, 91021, Lugansk • Tel: 33-14-69, 33-14-68 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.pravda.lg.ua/ 204
“Nasha Gazeta”
Title of the media outlet: “Nasha Gazeta”
Owners/affiliation: The newspaper was established by Lugansk regional council. It is close to former head of the council Victor Tikhonov and actual head of the council Valeriy Golenko
Management: Editor in chief: Oleksandr Pankov
Positioning: Social-and-economical media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 43,335 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet covers issues related to local governance, regional economy development, social agenda, city planning and construction, education, science, history, etc.
Contact Information: • Post address: 1b, vul. Lermontova, 91055, Lugansk • Tel: (0642) 53-60-44, 53-22-32, 53-62-27 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.nashagazeta.com.ua 205
On-line resources
“Novyny Luganska”
Title of the media outlet: “Novyny Luganska”
Rating and coverage: The media outlet is one of the most visited (top-5) Lugansk internet resources.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Lugansk news, Ukrainian news, Finance, Politics, Sports Contact Information: • Post address: • Tel: 8(066)763-41-52 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://citynews.net.ua/ 206
“Rakurs Plus”
Title of the media outlet: Portal of the newspaper “Rakurs Plus”
Owners: The media outlet belongs to its Editor in Chief Mykola Severyn, member of the regional council, Ukraine’s Communist Party
Management: Editor in Chief - Mykola Severyn
Positioning: The newspaper outlet positions itself as an independent on-line media outlet.
Products: The online newspaper provides information in the following categories: Politics, Finance, Society, Crime, Sport, Culture, Lugansk from A to Z, Quality of life, etc
Contact Information: • Post address: 1b, vul. Lermontova, Lugansk • Tel: 53-11-55, 588-377. • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://rakurs.pl.ua/ 207
“Agentstvo Regionalnykh Novyn”
Title of the media outlet: “Agentstvo Regionalnyh Novyn” (Regional news agency)
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: News, Analysis, Politics, Finance, Society
Contact Information: • Post address:
• Tel: • e-mail: • URL: http://arena.net.ua/ 208
Lviv region 209
TV channels
Lviv Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the media outlet: Lviv Regional State TV and Radio Company (12th channel)
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by the governor of the region Mykola Kmyt’, leader of the regional organization of Nasha Ukraina party Petro Oliynyk, and Lviv mayor – Andriy Sadovyi
Management: Director – Yaroslav Klymovuch
Profitability: TV and Radio Company benefits from UAH 8 mln of subsidies annually from the local and regional budget.
Rating and coverage: Regional media outlet
Audience: All social and age groups of people living in the region.
Products: The media outlet produces own news and thematic programs.
Contact Information: • Post address: 4, Vusokyy Zamok, 79008, Lviv • Tel: (032) 272-46-13, (032) 298-69-50, (032) 294-91-03 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], • URL: http://www.lodtrk.com.ua/?pg=41 210
NTA
Title of the media outlet: “NTA” (Independent TV agency)
Owners: The media outlet was established in 1998 by Eduard Zan’uk and Georgiy Kyrpa. Today owned by S. Semenuk.
Management: Director – V. Bilen’
Products: The channel broadcasts in Ukrainian language. Own production accounts for up to 33,34% of the total programming. The media outlet also produces news for Ukrainian national TV channels Tonis and TET.
Contact Information: • Post address: 6, vul. Vynnychenka, 79008, Lviv • Tel: (032) 2999233, (0322) 763921 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.nta.ua 211
Newspapers
Vysokyi Zamok
Title of the media outlet: “Vysokyi Zamok” (the title can be translated into English as: High Castle)
Owners/affiliation: Editor in chief: Stepan Kurpil, MP, member of Yulia Tymoshenko bloc, protégé of Oleksandr Turchynov, Ukraine’s first vice-prime-minister
Management: Editor in chief: Stepan Kurpil
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet. One of the only self-sustainable media outlets in the region.
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published five times a week, with a total circulation of 100,000 copies (self-estimation), throughout 10 Ukrainian regions.
Contact Information: • Post address: 2, vul. Volodymyra Velykogo, 79026 Lviv • Tel: (032) 237-47-02, 237-47-16, 237-47-31 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.wz.lviv.ua/ 212
Lvivs’ka Hazeta
Title of the media outlet: “Lvivs’ka Hazeta”
Owners: The newspaper is controlled by Roman Shlapak – member of Lviv city council from Narodnyi Ruh Ukrainy (Ukraine’s People’s Movement), owner of a trade mark Intermarket (supermarket network).
Management: Editor in Chief – Igor Kulyk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The web-page of the media outlet hosts 5-7 000 visitors daily. The printed version of the newspaper is distributed in 45- 65 000 copies.
Contact Information: • Post address: 53, vul. Zamarstynivska, 79058, Lviv • Tel: 294 95 41, 294 95 45 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.gazeta.lviv.ua/ 213
Argument Gazeta
Title of the media outlet: “Argument Gazeta”
Management: Editor in Chief – Taras Smakula
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 8 regions of Ukraine.
Products: The media outlet is focusing on investigative journalism, special reports, criminal news, etc.
Contact Information: • Post address: 105, vul. Zelena, 79058 Lviv • Tel: 41-82-26, 41-82-27 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://argumentgazeta. com/ 214
Ratusha
Title of the media outlet: “Ratusha”
Owners: The newspaper was founded by Lviv city council. It is de-facto opposed to city mayor Andriy Sadovyi, and influenced by some members of city council from Nasha Ukraina (Our Ukraine) and Ukrainian People’s Party (Volodymyr Lytvyn bloc).
Management: Editor in chief: Mykola Saveliev
Profitability: The media outlet is financed from the local budget, with total annual subsidies reaching UAH 412,000. Additional income comes from advertisement, subscription, etc.
Positioning: Social-and-political and business media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 38,000 copies, in the city of Lviv.
Contact Information: • Post address: 8, vul. Vynnychenka, 79008, Lviv • Tel: (0322) 76-76-95 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://ratusha.lviv.ua 215
Subotn’a Poshta
Title of the media outlet: “Subotn’a Poshta”
Owners: The newspaper was founded by “Profesiyna Liga” ltd. Later the outlet was taken over by the company “Royal”, owner of a slot machines chain.
Management: Director – Anatoliy Zabarylo
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in total in 55,000 copies, throughout the country
Products: The newspaper covers the news of Lviv city and oblast, and also Ukrainian news.
Contact Information: • Post address: 23, Shevchenka av., 79601 Lviv • Tel: (0322) 97-10-27, 97-15-24, 97-09-04 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.lvivpost.net/ 216
Online resources
News Agency “LvivNews”
Title of the media outlet: News Agency “LvivNews”
Rating and coverage: The media outlet covers the city of Lviv.
Contact Information: • Post address:
• Tel: • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.lvivnews.info/ 217
ZIK
Title of the media outlet: News Agency “ZIK” (“Zahidna infomaciyna korporaciya” – Western information corporation)
Owners: The media outlet is owned by Petro Dyminskiy, former MP, one of the biggest regional businessmen, who also owns several media outlets, oil refinery companies and a football club. Mr. Dyminskiy is known for instability of his political affiliation, as he started his political career in president-close Nasha Ukraina, than moved to the Party of the regions led by Victor Yanukovych, than to Yulia Tymoshenko bloc and finally ended up at ECO+25%. Ukrainian news magazine Focus put Dyminskyi 46th in the rating of Ukrainian welthiest busissmen, estimating his fortune at USD 580 million.
Positioning: The news agency positions itself as an independent, non-partisan media outlet that follows standards of openness, transparency and balanced information.
Rating and coverage: The agency covers the city of Lviv and other western regions of Ukraine. Some estimates put the site to top-10 of Ukrainian online information projects.
Products: The media outlet provides information on Lviv, Ternopil’, Chernivtsy, Ivano- Frankivsk, Rivne and Lutsk.
Contact Information: • Post address: 2, vul. Voronogo, 79006, Lviv • Tel: (032) 235-02-12, (032) 235-02-11 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://zik.com.ua/ 218
Zaxid.net
Title of the media outlet: “Zaxid.net”
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by Andriy Sadovyi, Lviv mayor.
Positioning: Independent social-and-political Internet media outlet
Rating and coverage: Some estimates put the site to top-10 of Ukrainian online information projects.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: News (in Ukrainian, Polish and Russian), Top Topic, Blogs, Interview, Lviv 2012, Chat, etc.
Contact Information: • Post address: 67-g, vul. Chornovola, 79000, • Tel: Lviv (032) 242-20-77 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.zaxid.net/ 219
Mykolaiv region 220
TV channels
Mykolaiv Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the media outlet: Mykolaiv Regional State TV and Radio Company
Owners/affiliation: TV channel is loyal to the governor of the region Oleksiy Garkusha
Management: Director General – Oleksandr Mytrofanov
Rating and coverage: Regional media outlet
Products: The media outlet produces own news, youth-focused, sports and other programs. It also rebroadcasts UT-1, Ukrainian national state-owned TV channel. Additional services include advertisement production.
Contact Information: • Post address: 24b, Lenina av., 54029, Mukolaiv • Tel: (0512) 47-65-45 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.ogtrk.mk.ua 221
TV and radio company “Mart”
Title of the media outlet: TV and radio company “Mart”
Owners/affiliation: The TV and radio company was established by Mykolaiv city council. It is influenced by Mykolaiv mayor Volodymyr Chayka
Management: Director – Oleksandr Sokolov
Profitability: The media outlet is financed primarily from the local budget.
Rating and coverage: Potential audience reaches up to about 1 mln people living in the region.
Products: The media outlet produces own information and op-ed programs.
Contact Information: • Post address: 31, vul. Admiralska, Mykolaiv • Tel: 35-94-51, 35-05-71 • e-mail: с[email protected], trk- • URL: [email protected] 222
TV channel “35 kanal”
Title of the media outlet: TV channel “35 kanal” (TV company “NIS TV” ltd)
Owners: The TV channel is controlled by Ukrainian MP Gennadiy Zadyrko, a member of the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc.
Management: Director – Vitaliy Meheda
Positioning: Mykolaiv local non-governmental infotainment TV channel
Rating and coverage: Regional media outlet
Products: TV channel produces own news and entertainment projects.
Contact Information: • Post address: 30a, vul. Chkalova, 54017, Mykolaiv • Tel: (0512) 47-46-66, 36-11-44 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 223
Newspapers
“Vecherniy Nikolaev”
Title of the media outlet: “Vecherniy Nikolaev”
(The title can be translated into English as: Evening Mykolaiv)
Owners: The newspaper was established by Mykolaiv city council. It is controlled by city mayor - Volodymyr Chayka.
Management: Editor in Chief – V. Puchkov
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The highest ranked media outlet in the city. The newspaper is published three times a week.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: official news and announcements of the city council, texts of local journalists, important social materials, history, news and comments, etc
Contact Information: • Post address: 20, vul. Admiral’ska, Mykolaiv • Tel: (0512) 35-20-73 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.vn.mk.ua/ 224
“Vestnik Pribuzhya”
Title of the media outlet: “Vestnik Pribuzhya” (annex to the newspaper “Yuzhnaya Pravda” – see below)
Owners: The newspaper is influenced by Volodymyr Chayka, Mykolaiv mayor.
Management: Editor in Chief – Mykola Stetsenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 15,000 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The newspaper covers local and regional news.
Contact Information: • Post address: 20, vul. Admiral’ska, Mykolaiv • Tel: (0512) 35-14-43, 35-43-57, 35-20-47 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 225
“Shchotyzhn’a”
Title of the media outlet: “Shchotyzhn’a” (annex to the newspaper “Yuzhnaya Pravda” – see below. The title Shchotyzhn’a can be translated into English as: Every Week)
Owners: The newspaper is influenced by Volodymyr Chayka, Mykolaiv mayor.
Management: Editor in Chief – Mykola Stetsenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper distributed in 6,000 copies, throughout the region.
Contact Information: • Post address: 20, vul. Admiral’ska, Mykolaiv • Tel: (0512) 35-50-28, 35-20-47, 35-14-43 • e-mail: [email protected] , [email protected] • URL: 226
“Yuzhnaya obshchestvenno-politicheskaya gazeta”
Title of the media outlet: “Yuzhnaya obshchestvenno-politicheskaya gazeta” (Annex to “Yuzhnaya Pravda”)
Owners: The newspaper is loyal to Volodymyr Chaika, Mykolaiv mayor.
Management: Editor in Chief – Mykola Stetsenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 4,500 copies, in Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhiya, Kirovograd, Odesa, Kherson regions and Crimean autonomous republic.
Contact Information: • Post address: 20, vul. Admiral’ska, Mykolaiv • Tel: (0512) 35-13-66, 35-20-47, 35-14-43 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: 227
“Yuzhnaya Pravda”
Title of the media outlet: “Yuzhnaya Pravda”
(the title can be translated into English as: Truth of the South, or Southern Pravda)
Owners: The newspaper is loyal by Volodymyr Chayka, the Mykolaiv mayor.
Management: Editor in chief: Mykola Stetsenko
Financing: The media outlet is financed by the local budget, but also receives a partial support from foreign donors.
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The most circulated newspaper in the region. 95% of copies are distributed through subscription.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: • Ads and informational newspaper “Vestnik Pribuzhya”, • Ukrainian-language weekly “Shchotyzhnya”, • Youth newspaper “Novoe pokolenie”, • multiregional edition “Yuzhnaya obshchestvennaya gazeta”.
Contact Information: • Post address: 20, vul. Admiral’ska, Mykolaiv • Tel: (0512) 37-00-47, 37-37-64 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://www.up.mk.ua/ 228
Online resources
Internet media “Mukola.net”
Title of the media outlet: Internet media “Mukola.net”
Management: Editor in Chief – Oksana Tyhonchuk
Positioning: Analytical newspaper of the city of Mykolaiv
Rating and coverage: The biggest Mykolaiv on-line media. It monthly hosts – 135,000 visitors from Ukraine, US, Russia, Israel, EU etc.
Audience: The media outlet is designed mostly for businessmen and politicians.
Products: On-line media outlet provides news from Mykolaiv and Ukraine, as well as worldwide news.
Contact Information: • Post address: • Tel: +380 512 76-76-56; +380 512 76-76- 06;+380 512 36-09-44 • e-mail: • URL: http://www.mukola.net/ 229
Internet media “novosti-n.mk.ua”
Title of the media outlet: Internet media “novosti-n.mk.ua”
Positioning: Mykolaiv regional internet newspaper
Rating and coverage: The media outlet hosts 6,000 – 8,000 visitors daily.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: News, Articles, Pictures, Travel, News of the car market, etc
Contact Information: • Post address:
• Tel: 8 (093) 128-77-17 • e-mail: • URL: http://novosti-n.mk.ua/ 230
Internet media outlet “mk.mk.ua”
Title of the media outlet: Internet media outlet “mk.mk.ua”
Management: Editor – Vyacheslav Chychenin
Positioning: Mykolaiv news-and-analysis newspaper
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Analytics, Politics, Finance, Events, Security, Culture, Sports, etc
Contact Information: • Post address: • Tel: 380(98)716-40-90 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://www.mk.mk.ua/ 231
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TV channels
Odessa Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the media outlet: Odessa Regional State TV and Radio Company
Owners/Affiliation: The company is part of the network of Ukraine’s State Committee of TV and Radio Broadcasting. But in reality the channel is close to Leonid Klimov, Ukrainian MP, member of the Party of the Regions, owner of AKB Imeksbank
Management: Director General – Oksana Matyukh
Rating and coverage: Regional TV and Radio Company
Products: The company has own TV and radio production. News programs “Chornomorskiy Mayak”, “Odes’kiy Kaleydoskop”, thematic program “People of my land” etc. are among the most popular radio programs.
Contact Information: • Post address: 3, Fontans’ka doroga, 65063, Odessa • Tel: (048) 748-10-67, (048) 63-45-62 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 233
Media group “Glas”
Title of the media outlet: Media group “Glas”
(the title can be translated into English as: Voice)
Owners/affiliation: Controlling stock of the media group belongs to Gennadiy Trukhanov (a member of the Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc, one of the top-5 Ukrainian political factions).
Rating and coverage: The media outlet covers the city of Odessa and its region. The group integrates highly popular TV channels in the Odessa region.
Audience: All social groups and all age categories (people aged between 5 and 70).
Products: 24-hour-a-day broadcasting includes own cultural and education products for the whole family.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: The media group includes 3 TV channels and a radio station: TV channels “Glas”, “Plus”, and “Strana Sovetov” (satellite and cable TV channel), radio Glas 106.6
Contact Information: • Post address: 83, vul. Kanatna, 65107 Odessa (048) • Tel: 714-85-62 [email protected], • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://glasweb.com/index.php/default 234
TV and radio company “Illichivske Telebachennya-3”
Title of the media outlet: TV and radio company “Illichivske Telebachennya-3”
Management: Director – Mykhailo Fomenko
Rating and coverage: TV and radio company broadcasts in the city of Illichivs’k.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Illichivs’k news, Politics, Culture, Sports, Conclusions, City news, Port news, Health, Video, Ads
Contact Information: • Post address: 6, Pratsi square, Illichivs’k, Odessa region • Tel: (04868) 3-11-12, 69-12-70 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://it3.com.ua/ 235
Newspapers
“Odesskiy Vestnik”
Title of the media outlet: “Odesskiy Vestnik”
(the title can be translated into English as: Odessa Messanger)
Owners: The newspaper was established by Odessa city council. It is loyal to Eduard Gurvitz, Odessa mayor.
Management: Editor in Chief – Oleksandr Kamennyi
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The media outlet is a leader of Odessa printed media.
Audience: The newspaper’s audience reaches 78-82 thousand readers.
Male audience accounts for 59%, female audience - 41%.
Age structure is the following: -people aged between 26 and 40 – 60%, -41-65 – 30%, 66+ – 10%.
According to newspaper’s self-estimation, people with lower middle income constitute 50% of audience; those with mid-level income – 20%.
Products: The newspaper provides business information, local news, local government performance, etc.
Contact Information: • Post address: 4, vul. Evreis’ka, 65014, Odessa • Tel: 722-28-30, 731-42-27, 722-44-93 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://odvestnik.com.ua/ 171 237
“Gazeta po-odesski”
Title of the media outlet: “Gazeta po-odesski”
Owners: The newspaper is integrated into a network of city newspapers published by a Publishing House Press Center (Glavred- Media, largely controlled by economic and financial group Privat)
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 10810 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet produces regional and city news in Russian.
Contact Information: • Post address: 21/19, vul. Bunina, 65026, Odessa • Tel: (048) 725-20-20, 725-22-33, 725-22-44 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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“Vechern’aya Odessa”
Title of the media outlet: “Vechern’aya Odessa”
(the title can be translated into English as: Evening Odessa)
Owners/Affiliation: The media outlet positions itself as an independent newspaper, not depending on governmental subsidies.
Rumors say that the paper can be purchased by a member of the Odessa regional council from NSNU political faction Volodymyr Galanternik
Management: Editor in Chief – Larysa Burcho
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 50,000 copies (self-estimation).
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Ukrainian news, global news, politics, this week, finance, maritime industry, legal news, etc.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: “Reklama Vechirn’oi Odessy” (Ads newspaper)
Contact Information: • Post address: 1, Nezalezhnosti square, 65076, Odessa • Tel: (482) 649756. • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://vo.od.ua/
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“Delovaya Odessa”
Title of the media outlet: “Delovaya Odessa”
Owners: The newspaper is controlled by Leonid Klymov (MP, Party of Regions, owner of Imeksbank, Football club Chernomorec Odessa).
Management: Editor – Sergiy Marin
Positioning: Pan-Ukrainian business media outlet specializing on business and financial information
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published in 18,000 copies, distributed throughout the country.
Audience: Business audience
Contact Information: • Post address: 12a, Gagarina av., 65039, Odessa • Tel: 048 719 86 50 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.delod.odessa.net
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“Chornomors’ki novyny”
Title of the media outlet: “Chornomors’ki novyny”
(the title can be translated into English as: Black Sea News)
Owners: The newspaper was established by Odessa Regional State Administration
Management: Editor – Ivan Melnyk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper distributed in 7,000 copies, throughout the region. 95% of copies are distributed through subscription.
Contact Information: • Post address: 1, Nezalezhnosti square, 65076, Odessa • Tel: (0482) 67-75-67 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://chornomorka.com
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Online resources
News Agency “Reporter”
Title of the media outlet: News Agency “Reporter”
Rating and coverage: The media outlet hosts more than 2 000 visitors daily.
Audience: Most visitors of the web-site are living in Odessa and its region, but the newspaper also hosts visitors from other regions, including Kyiv and Moscow.
Products: Media outlet produces news and analysis materials, articles and interviews.
Contact Information: • Post address: • Tel: (0482) 35–91–11, 35–91–10, (048) 735-41- • e-mail: 64 • URL: [email protected] http://www.reporter.com.ua/
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Portal of the newspaper “Akkermenski Visti”
Title of the media outlet: Portal of the newspaper “Akkermenski Visti”
Management: Editor in Chief – Mr. Sokolov
Products: Media outlet provides information in the following categories: Governance, City news, Society, Criminal news, Citations, Humor, Survey
Contact Information: • Post address: 2, vul. Chkalova, 67700, Belgorod- Dnistrovs’kyi, Odessa region • Tel: (04849) 6 02 64, 3 32 64 • e-mail: • URL: http://www.visti.net.ua/
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“Misto” (Odessa News web-page)
Title of the media outlet: “Misto” (Odessa News web-page )
Owners: The project belongs to Oleksiy Yeremitsa (the Party of the Regions), an advisor to the Head of Odessa Regional Council.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Odessa news, City news, Governance, Politics, Education, Leisure, Employment, Lawyer’s consultation, On-line links & catalogue etc.
Contact Information: • Post address: • Tel: (048) 714-49-76, (048) 711-75-82 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://www.misto.odessa.ua/
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Poltava Region
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TV channels
Poltava Regional State TV and Radio Company (“Ltava”)
Title of the media outlet: Poltava Regional State TV and Radio Company (“Ltava”)
Owners: The company is a part of pan-Ukrainian network of state-owned TV companies, controlled by State committee on TV and radio broadcasting. The channel is loyal to the governor of the oblast Valeriy Asadchev
Management: Director General - Mykola L’apanenko (since 1992).
Rating and coverage: The radio station covers 90% of region’s territory. The TV channel covers up to 70% of the region’s territory.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: 18-hour-per-day broadcasting includes own news, social-and-political programs, education projects, entertainment programs.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: • Vasha Hvyl’a radio • Youth TV studio “Razom”
Contact Information: • Post address: 1, vul. Kyrychenko, Poltava • Tel: 05322-296-19, 298-78 • e-mail: [email protected], • URL: [email protected] http://www.ltava.poltava.ua/
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TV channel Misto
Title of the media outlet: TV channel “Misto”
(the title can be translated into English as: TV channel City)
Owners: The TV channel, similar to TV and radio station Anna, Shanson radio, is controlled by Poltava ex-mayor Anatoliy Kukuba
Management: Director General - Ihor Kuzhik
Positioning: Poltava local non-governmental infotainment TV channel
Products: The media outlet produces own news and projects, and rebroadcasts pan-Ukrainian TV channel “Tonis”.
Contact Information: • Post address: 1a, vul. Kozaka, 36000 Poltava • Tel: (0532) 56-93-35, 50-86-53 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.misto-tv.poltava.ua/
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TV channel “Astra”
Title of the media outlet: TV channel “Astra”
Owners: Media outlet was established by Chervonozavods’ke city council and local enterprises.
Management: Director – Anatoliy Rekovets
Positioning: Infotainment TV channel
Rating and coverage: TV channel covers the city of Chervonozavods’ke (Poltava region).
Products: Media outlet produces 12 hours of broadcasting per day.
Contact Information: • Post address: 1a, vul. Son’achna, Chervonozavods’ke, Poltava region • Tel: (256) 9-82-31, 8-066- 246-27-87 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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Newspapers
“Zor’a Poltavshchyny”
Title of the media outlet: “Zor’a Poltavshchyny”
(the title can be translated into English as: Daybreak of the Poltava region)
Owners: The newspaper is controlled by Valeriy Asadchev, the governor of the Poltava region.
Regional Council and Regional State administration were among the co- founders of the newspaper.
Management: Editor in Chief – Grygoriy Gryn’
Positioning: Pan-Ukrainian social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three times a week, and distributed in 43,000 copies, throughout country.
Contact Information: • Post address: 115, vul. Pushkina, 36000, Poltava • Tel: 56-97-24; 56-23-02 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.zorya.poltava.ua/
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“Vechirnia Poltava”
Title of the media outlet: “Vechirnia Poltava”
(The title can be translated into English as: Evening Poltava)
Owners/Affiliation: The newspaper is loyal to political leadership of the city, and close to Poltava mayor Andriy Matkovskyi (Yulia Tymoshenko bloc)
Management: Director General – Volodymyr Marchenko
Positioning: Regional social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 23,000 copies, throughout the city of Poltava and Poltava region. It is the top third popular media outlet, according to the rating of Poltava oblast Regional Council.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Key topic, The city, Region, Ukraine, Foreign news, Politics, Society, Finance, Health, Emergency, Criminal news, etc. However, according to a rating by Telekritika, a Ukrainian media-focused magazine, in Vechirnia Poltava was among the leaders in violation of journalist standards in Ukraine.
Contact Information: • Post address: 36, vul. Rozy Luxemburg, 36039 Poltava • Tel: (05322) 2-28-73, • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://vechirka.pl.ua
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“Pyr’atyns’ki Visti”
Title of the media outlet: “Pyr’atyns’ki Visti”
Owners: The newspaper was established jointly by Pyr’atyn rayon state administration, rayon council and local council.
Management: Editor – Ganna Syn’ak
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper distributed in 4,350 copies, throughout the rayon.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Rayon, Ukraine and world news, Q&A, Ads, Advices, Interesting stories, etc.
Contact Information: • Post address: 5, vul. Petrovs’kogo, 37000 Pyr’atyn, Poltava region • Tel: 2-06-73, 2-04-70 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://piryatin-visti.at.ua/publ/
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“Poltavs’kyi Visnyk”
Title of the media outlet: “Poltavs’kyi Visnyk”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Poltava city council. The paper is loyal to Poltava mayor Andriy Matkovskyi (Yulia Tymoshenko bloc)
Management: Editor – Vitaliy Skobel’skyi (former regional correspondent of Holos Ukrainy, the official newspaper of the Ukrainian parliament)
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 26,000 copies, throughout the region. 80% of copies are distributed through subscription.
Contact Information: • Post address: 43, vul. Zovtneva, 36000, Poltava • Tel: (0532) 7-92-11, 7-05-81 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.pv.poltava.ua/
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“Visnyk Kremenchuga”
Title of the media outlet: “Visnyk Kremenchuga”
(The title can be translated into English as: Kremenchug messanger)
Owners: The newspaper was established by Kremenchug city council.
Management: Editor – Yulia Bylyna
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 6,000 copies, throughout the Kremenchug rayon
Contact Information: • Post address: 12, vul. Zhadova, 39614, Kremenchug, Poltava region • Tel: (05366) 36304, 36362 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: [email protected]
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Online resources
Portal “Novyny Poltavshchyny”
Title of the media outlet: Portal “Novyny Poltavshchyny”
Owners: The media outlet was established by Poltava regional council
Positioning: Communal news agency
Rating and coverage: The most popular on-line news resource of Poltava region.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Official news from public authorities, Society (social importance issues, cultural events, interviews, on-line conferences) Finance, Sports, etc.
Contact Information: • Post address: • Tel: (0532) 60-31-40, 8-050-419-77-58 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://poltavanews.com.ua/
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Portal “Kremenchug On-Line”
Title of the media outlet: Portal “Kremenchug On-Line”
Owners: Editor in chief: Sergiy Kanarskyi
Positioning: Infotainment web-portal
Rating and coverage: The portal itself claims to the most popular on-line news resource in the city. The media outlet hosts up to 1,000 visitors daily.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Kremenchug news, Announcements, Ads, Databases, On-line conferences with celebrities and decision-makers etc.
Contact Information: • Post address: Kremenchug, Poltava region • Tel: (05366) 555-55-55 • e-mail: [email protected] URL: http://kremenchu.ua/
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Rivne region
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TV channels
Rivne Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the media outlet: Rivne Regional State TV and Radio Company
Owners: The TV company is part of the pan- Ukrainian network controlled by State Committee on TV and Radio Broadcasting.
The channel’s Director General Andriy Velesyk is a son-in-law of MP Mykola Shershun, Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc.
The channel is loyal to the oblast governor Viktor Matchuk.
Management: Director General: Andriy Velesyk
Rating and coverage: The company covers 95% of population and 70% of the territory of Rivne region.
Products: 24-hour-a-day broadcasting includes own programs on local and national issues.
Contact Information: • Post address: 20a, Kotlyarevskogo, 33028 Rivne • Tel: 26-58-23, 23-34-91 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.rtb.rv.ua
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LLC “TV and radio company Rivne-1”
Title of the media outlet: “TV and radio company Rivne-1” ltd
Owners: TV and Radio Company is owned by Viktor Danylov, member of Regional council, NSNU bloc, Edynyi tsentr party.
Management: Director - Viktor Danylov, Executive director – L’udmyla Homa. Mr Danylov is the owner of OGO media group, publishing a newspaper OGO (see below) and a vice-president Ukrainian association of publishers of the periodic press.
Positioning: Local family TV channel
Rating and coverage: TV and Radio Company covers 80% of the population and 60% of the territory of Rivne region.
Audience: All social and age groups
Contact Information: • Post address: 19, vul. Danyla Halytskogo, 33027, Rivne • Tel: (0362) 62 35 01, (067) 2780542 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: www.rivne1.tv
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TV and radio company “Rivne-atom”
Title of the media outlet: TV and radio company “Rivne-atom”
Owners: TV and Radio Company is officially owned by Rivne Nuclear Power Plant.
Management: Director – Petro Kratik
Rating and coverage: The media outlet covers the city of Kuznetsovsk and 10-km-wide surrounding area.
Products: The TV and Radio Company broadcasts for 1 hour during the workdays and 1.5 hours on weekends. It also rebroadcasts TV channel ICTV.
Contact Information: • Post address: 1/9, Budivelnykiv, Kuznetsovsk, Rivne • Tel: region • e-mail: • URL:
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Newspapers
“7 dniv”
Title of the media outlet: “7 dniv”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Rivne city council.
Management: Editor in Chief – Oleg Tyshchenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 13,600 copies, throughout the Rivne region. 80% of copies are distributed by subscription, 20% - through retail trade. 7 dniv is one of the top popular newspapers in the region: 19,1 % of the citizens living in the region say they read it regularly (according to the data of the Center of the information of National Academy of Science, 2006).
Audience: According to newspaper’s self-estimation, newspaper’s audience has the following structure: intelligentsia (21,5 %), civil servants (14,9 %), retired (28,1 %), workers (13,9 %). Age: people aged 30- (14,1 %), 30-40 (24,2 %), 41-55 (12,1 %), 55+ (26,2 %).
Products: The newspaper provides official information from Rivne city council.
Contact Information: • Post address:
• Tel: • e-mail: • URL: http://www.7dniv.rv.ua/
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“Vil’ne Slovo”
Title of the media outlet: “Vil’ne Slovo”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Rivne Regional State Administration. The paper is loyal to oblast governor Victor Matchuk
Management: Editor in Chief – Andriy Babinets
Positioning: Social-and-political newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 17,000 copies, throughout the region.
Contact Information: • Post address: 82a, vul. Kn’az’a Volodymyra, 33013, Rivne • Tel: (0362) 63-43-96 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.vslovo.com.u a/
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“Visti Rivnenshchyny”
Title of the media outlet: “Visti Rivnenshchyny”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Rivne regional council. It is oriented on the head of regional council Oleksandr Danylchuak, member of the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc.
Management: Editor – Svitlana Stelmashchuk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 20,000 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet is focusing on regional government performance; it regularly publishes regulatory acts and official documents influencing local economic development.
Contact Information: • Post address: 1, Maidan Prosvity, 33038, Rivne • Tel: (0362) 22-23-24 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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“Volyn’”
Title of the media outlet: “Volyn’”
Owners: The newspaper was established by a sub- unit of Ukrainian Cossacks organization “Volyn Sich”. It is controlled by the leader of the Volyn Sich, ex-governor of the region Vasyl Chervoniy.
Management: Sergiy Stepanyshyn
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 14,000 copies, throughout the Rivne region.
Products: The newspaper produces news, analysis, events and advertisement. Information is renewed weekly.
Contact Information: • Post address: 1, Symona Petl’ury, 33028, Rivne • Tel: (0362) 22-34-47, 26-47-65 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.volyn.rivne.com/
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“Rivne Vechirn’e”
Title of the media outlet: “Rivne Vechirn’e”
Owners: The newspaper is owned by Mykola Nesen’uk, one of the leaders of regional department of the Narodnyi Rukh (Peole’s Movement), a Ukrainian patriotic party.
Management: Director: Mykola Nesen’uk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published twice a week and distributed in 25,000 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Rivne and regional news, Ukrainian news, Crime, Sports, Education, Legal news, Legal consultations etc. According to Telekritika, a Ukrainian media-focused outlet, the newspaper is one of the top media outlets suggesting “Dzhynsa” (pre- paid corrupted information) in the region.
Contact Information: • Post address: 1-b, vul. Stepana Bandery, Rivne • Tel: (0362)62 56 55 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.rivnepost.rv.ua/
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On-line resources
Regional portal “Rivne”
Title of the media outlet: Regional portal “Rivne”
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: News, Comments, Help-desk, Forum
Contact Information: • Post address:
• Tel: • e-mail: • URL: http://rivne.com.ua/
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Portal of newspaper “Rakurs Rivne”
Title of the media outlet: Portal of a Rivne regional newspaper “Rakurs Rivne”
Management: Director – Volodymyr Konev
Positioning: Independent weekly newspaper
Rating and coverage: The printed version of the newspaper is published once a week, and distributed in 7,000 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Events, Politics, Finance, Health, Culture and Education, Sports, Crime, Life, Personal, Travel, Entertainment.
Contact Information: • Post address: 6, vul. Gagarina, Rivne • Tel: (0362) 62-31-63, 62-31-64, 24-90-22, 63- 44-42 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.rakurs.rovno.ua/
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Portal of the publishing house “OGO”
Title of the media outlet: Portal of the publishing house “OGO”
Management: Director General – Vitaliy Golubev
Positioning: Information-and-advertisement media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper “OGO” is distributed in 15,000 copies, throughout the region. “Rivenska Gazeta”, another newspaper integrated into media group OGO, is distributed in 20,000 copies, throughout Rivne region.
Contact Information: • Post address: 19, vul. Danyla Galyckogo, 33027, Rivne • Tel: (0362) 62-35-01, 050) 339-39-85, (050) 375-13-88 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: www.ogo.ua
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Sumy region
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TV channels
Sumy Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: Sumy Regional State TV and Radio Company
Owners: The TV company is part of the pan- Ukrainian network controlled by State Committee on TV and Radio Broadcasting.
The company is oriented on regional state administration.
Management: Director General – Larysa Yakubenko
Finances: The media outlet is financed from the regional budget.
Audience: The media outlet is designed for all social and age groups.
Products: The TV and Radio Company produces own projects in Ukrainian. It also develops the network for TV and radio broadcasting.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Sloboda-FM radio Contact information: 125, vul. Pertopavlivs’ka, 40021, Sumy • Post address: (0542) 60-05-67, 60-05-67 • Tel: [email protected] [email protected] • e-mail: http://www.strc.sumy.ua URL:
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TV and radio company “Vikidion”
Title of the Media outlet: LLC “TV and radio company “Vikidion”
Owners: TV and Radio Company was established by Donets’k-based media. It was initially created as the major commercial media outlet in Sumy. However, later it received financing from the region’s governor, and during 2004 election campaign it lost much of the audience trust due to biased and non-objective information. Today the company is influenced by the Party of the Regions.
Positioning: Commercial TV and radio company
Raiting and coverage: The signal of TV and Radio Company covers 75 % of the region’s territory.
Audience: The media outlet is designed for all social and age groups. Products: The TV and Radio Company produces news, entertainment and educational programs.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Diva radio (107,0 FM)
Contact information: • Post address: 5, vul. Kharkivs’ka, 40024, Sumy • Tel: (0542) 605105, 326604, 605106, 605107 • e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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“Telecom Service”
Title of the Media outlet: “Telecom Service”
Management: Director – S. Ladunskyy
Positioning: infotainment
Raiting and coverage: The signal of TV and Radio Company covers the city of Shostka and Shostka rayon.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The TV and Radio Company broadcasts for 24 hours, with at least 75% of the broadcasting programming is held in Ukrainian language. Own products take up to 9,7% of the total broadcasting. The channel also rebroadcasts “Novyi Kanal”, a Ukrainian central TV channel.
Conctact information: • Post address: 33a, vul. Korolenka, 41100, Shostka, Sumy region • Tel: • e-mail: • URL:
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Newspapers
“Slobids’kyy Visnyk”
Title of the Media outlet: “Slobids’kyy Visnyk”
Owners: Newspaper was established by of Sumy regional organization of Narodna Partiya (Ukrainian People’s Party, Volodymyr Lytvyn bloc).
Positioning: The newspaper is oriented on the leadership of Narodna Partiya
Conctact information: • Post address:
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“Domashnya Gazeta”
Title of the Media outlet: “Domashnya Gazeta” (the title can be translated into English as: Home Newspaper)
Owners: The newspaper is owned by LLC "Marketing Center LTD".
Management: Editor – Stanislav Bakhtin
Positioning: General audience newspaper
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 5,000 copies, throughout the Sumy region.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Contact information: • Post address: 30, av. Metalurgiv, 40009, Sumy • Tel: (0542)92-71-61 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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“Sumschina”
Title of the Media outlet: “Sumschina”
Owners: The newspaper was established by Sumy regional council, jointly with regional state administration.
Management: Editor – Svitlana Bubynets
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published three times a week, and distributed in 30,000 copies, throughout the region.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The newspaper covers city and regional news, local government performance, history, social issues, sports, etc.
Contact information: • Post address: 27, vul. Kirova, 40030, Sumy • Tel: (0542) 60-15-07 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://sumschina.com.ua
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“Slobozhanshchyna i Slobozhany”
Title of the Media outlet: “Slobozhanshchyna i Slobozhany”
Owners: The newspaper is owned by "Krayany Media Service", which also owns advertisement agency advertisement agency “Vinnytsya ta Vinnychany”.
Management: Director – Ludmila L’aposhchenko
Positioning: News-and-information media outlet
Raiting and coverage: The newspaper is one of the top information newspapers of the city.
Free-of-charge weekly newspaper distributed in 60,000 copies (self- estimation), throughout the region.
Audience: All social groups, with major focus on businessmen and economically active citizens.
Products: Information and advertisement.
Conctact information: • Post address: 5/4, vul. Kuznechna, 40030, Sumy • Tel: (0542) 21-90-20 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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“Narodna Trybuna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Narodna Trybuna” (The title can be translated into English as: People’s Tribune)
Owners: The newspaper was established by Gluhiv city council.
Management: Editor – Vitaliy Matvienko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is published twice a week, and distributed in 4,000 copies, throughout the city of Gluhiv and its rayon.
Contact information: • Post address: 1, vul. Rudchenka, 41400, Gluhiv, Sumy region • Tel: (05444) 2-20-46, 2-31-14 • e-mail: • URL:
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On-line resources
Informational web-site sumy.net.ua
Title of the Media outlet: Information web-site sumy.net.ua
Positioning: Informational media outlet
Products: The media outlet contains city and regional news, regional media review, database of major enterprises in the region, etc.
Contact information: • Post address:
• Tel: • e-mail: • URL: http://www.sumy.net.ua
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Sumy news portal dancor.sumy.ua
Title of the Media outlet: Sumy news portal dancor.sumy.ua
Owners: The portal is owned by the company “Dankor Media”, which also owns 7 other media outlets.
Management: Director General – Igor Danylenko.
Finances: Self-sustainable project, also raising funds from international donors.
Positioning: News resource “Dankor online” is a private self-sustainable media outlet. It positions itself as an independent media outlet, however the web-site is not totally free from pre-ordered and pre- paid political materials.
Rating and coverage: Media outlet hosts 2,000 visitors daily.
Audience: The portal is designed for representatives of different occupations and social positioning, students, businessmen, managers etc.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Politics, Finance, Society, Environment, Business, Law, People, Culture, Style, Sports, Leisure, etc.
Contact information: • Post address: 70, vul. Petropavlivs’ka, 40030, Sumy • Tel: (0542) 655-445, (0542) 611-551 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://dancor.sumy.ua/
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“Panorama”
Title of the Media outlet: Newspaper Portal “Panorama”
Owners: The media outlet is owned by Evgen Polozhiy, its editor in chief.
Management: Editor in Chief — Evgen Polozhiy. Mr Polozhiy is a representative of the Parliamentary committee on freedom of speech and information in Sumy region.
Positioning: Independent social-and-political self- sustainable media outlet.
Rating and coverage: The printed version is distributed in 26,000 copies, throughout the region. The media outlet has its own delivery service.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Editor’s Page, Politics, Opinion, Government, Local News, Leisure, Culture, Unknown Ukrainians, Sports, Forum, etc.
Contact information: • Post address: 6, Chervona Ploshcha, Sumy • Tel: (0542) 21-04-79, 21-10-02 • e-mail: • URL: http://rama.com.ua/
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Ternopyl region 281
TV channels
Ternopil Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: Ternopil Regional State TV and Radio Company
Owners: The media outlet is a part of a broad network of regional state-owned TV and radio companies integrated by Ukraine’s state committee for TV and radio broadcasting.
The channel is loyal to the governor of Ternopil oblast Yuriy Chyzhmar, a member of the executive committee of “Pora” party.
Management: Director General – Roman Zayac’
Profitability: The media outlet is financed from the regional budget.
Rating and coverage: The outlet’s radio broadcasting covers 98% of the region’s territory; TV broadcasting covers 75% of the territory.
Audience: All social and age groups. However, similar to all Ukrainian regional state- owned TV and radio companies, the channel is most watched and listened to elderly audience.
Products: The company produces own news, social- and-political, cultural, youth, and sports products in Ukrainian language.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: TV channel “TTB”
Contact information: • Post address: 17, Shevchenka av., 46001, Ternopil • Tel: (0352) 52-47-62 • e-mail: [email protected], • URL: http://todtrk.com.ua 285
“TV-4”
Title of the Media outlet: Non-governmental regional TV company “TV-4”
Owners: The media outlet is one of the few outlets in the Ternopil oblast oriented on the Party of the Regions.
Management: Director – Yulia Vynokur
Positioning: Family TV channel
Rating and coverage: TV Company covers Ternopil, partially Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Khmelnytsk regions.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The TV Company produces its own programs: Greetings, Tutti-Frutti, The Globe, Car market, By the way, Know More, Point of view, etc.
Contact information: • Post address: 2/7 vul. Sagaidachnogo, Ternopil • Tel: (0352 ) 52-08-31, 52-31-40, 43-10-44 • e-mail: tv4@tv.te.ua • URL: www.tv4.te.ua/
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TV channel “TTS”
Title of the Media outlet: TV channel “TTS” (Ternopilski Tele-Systemy - Ternopil TV Systems)
Management: Director – I. Kucherenko
Positioning: TV channel of a cable provider
Rating and coverage: The channel covers Ternopil oblast.
Products: Cable broadcasting provider, which also provides advertisement and regular Internet-review.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: "Quest-TV" – experimental studio
Contact information: • Post address: 1, vul. Krushelnytskoi, Ternopil • Tel: 43-10-17 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.tts.te.ua/?tab=tts
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Newspapers
“RIA plus”
Title of the Media outlet: “RIA plus”
Owners: The media outlet is owned by Oleksandr Chovgan, who is also an editor in chief of “RIA”, “RIA-Inter”, “VSIM”, “RIA- Koz’atyn”, “Kievskiy capitalist”.
Management: Editor – Olga Yurkova
Positioning: Information-and-advertisement weekly newspaper
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 19,600 copies, throughout the region. The paper is distributed through subscription and retail trade, but also through target delivery to directors of Ternopil enterprises.
Audience: The media outlet itself says it has 74,000 of readers, mainly population of Ternopil.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: “News”, “Business for a week”, “Way of Life”, etc.
Contact information: • Post address: 1b, vul. Dubovetska, Ternopil • Tel: (0352)430050, 8(097)4401505, • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL:
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“Visnyk Ternopolyan”
Title of the Media outlet: Internet newspaper “Visnyk Ternopolyan”
(The title can be translated into English as: Herald of Ternopil dwellers)
Owners: The paper is owned Ruslan Slyvka, its editor in chief
Management: Editor in chief – Ruslan Slyvka
Positioning: Independent on-line media outlet
Rating and coverage: The media outlet positions itself as a top Internet media outlet in the region (rating by Ternopil web-resources catalogue).
Products: The web-site publishes news about city council decisions, city and regional news, announcements, practical information, surveys etc.
Contact information: • Post address: • Tel: (067) 3512488 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.visnyk.te.ua/
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“Nova Ternopils’ka Gazeta”
Title of the Media outlet: “Nova Ternopils’ka Gazeta”
Owners: The newspaper is owned by the agency “Ternopil Media”, and is influenced by Svoboda, a nationalist party getting more and more popular in the region.
Management: Editor in Chief - Mykola Martynchuk
Raising and coverage: Biweekly newspaper distributed in 26,600 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet produces mainly regional news.
Contact information: • Post address: 1a, vul. Krushelnytskoi, 46003, Ternopil • Tel: (0352) 433538 • e-mail: [email protected], • URL: [email protected]
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“Podil’ske Slovo”
Title of the Media outlet: “Podil’ske Slovo”
Owners: The media outlet was established by Ternopil rayon council, jointly with rayon state administration.
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper distributed in 2,000 copies, throughout the rayon.
Contact information: • Post address: 17, vul. Brodivska, 46020, Ternopil • Tel: (0352) 52-88-30, (0352) 52-88-78 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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“Ternopil Vechirniy”
Title of the Media outlet: “Ternopil Vechirniy” online
Owners: The media outlet was established by Ternopil city council.
Management: Editor in Chief – Inna Syrnyk
Positioning: Ternopil city council newspaper.
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 8,000 copies, throughout the city of Ternopil.
Products: The newspaper covers mainly city and regional news of Ternopil.
Contact information: • Post address: 4, vul. Rodyny Barvins’kyh, 46000, • Tel: Ternopil • e-mail: (0352) 52-72-13, 52-67-02 • URL: [email protected] http://t-v.te.ua
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On-line resources
“Novyny Ternopilshchyny”
Title of the Media outlet: “Novyny Ternopilshchyny”
(The title can be translated into English as: News of the Ternopil region)
Owners: The media outlet is owned by Andriy Kornilov, its editor in chief.
Management: Editor in chief: Andriy Kornilov
Rating and coverage: One of the most popular web-resources of the region.
Products: The media outlet provides regular monitoring of the regional news.
Contact information: • Post address:
• Tel: • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.news.te.ua/
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“I-plus”
Title of the Media outlet: “I-plus”
Owners: The media outlet is owned by Oleksandra Ivantsiv, its editor in chief.
Management: Editor in Chief – Oleksandra Ivantsiv
Positioning: Independent media of the city of Chortkiv, Ternopil region
Rating and coverage: Media outlet covers the city of Chortkiv.
Products: Rayon news, regional and national news, information on local events, chat, forum, gallery, etc.
Contact information: • Post address: 77, vul. S.Bandery, Chortkiv, Ternopil • Tel: region • e-mail: (03552) 3-24-11 • URL: [email protected], [email protected] http://iplus.net.ua/
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Vinnytsia Region 295
TV channels
TV and Radio Company “Lada”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and Radio Company “Lada” (radio “Ladyzhyn”)
Owners: The media outlet is owned by communal Entreprise “Lada”, Agency "RMA CAPITAL"
Management: Director – Halyna Danylivska (member of Ladyzhyn city council, a representative of People’s Democratic Party (Volodymyr Lytvyn bloc)
Rating and coverage: The signal of TV and Radio Company covers 25 % of the territory of the region.
Products: The media outlet produces infotainment radio and TV projects. The company also rebroadcasts programs of a company “FDR - radio center” and information programs of Ukrainian departments of radio stations "BBC", "The Voice of America", Radio Liberty, "Deutsche Welle".
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Lada radio, Local wired-radio outlets, TV production studio, Internet portal www.lada-fm.com and network of representation across the region.
Contact information: • Post address: Viinytsia Region, the city of Ladyzhyn
• Tel: (243)6 25 03 (04343)-6-95-23 (0432)-69-92-83 (0432)-69-92-87 • e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] • URL: http://ladafm.at.ua/ 295
TV and Radio Company “Pilot”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and Radio Company “Pilot”
Owners: The TV and Radio Company is owned by its director – Ihor Dovbnya, a vice- president of “RIA” corporation
Management: Director: Ihor Dovbnya
Positioning: Private music-and-information radio station.
Audience: People aged between 27 and 40
Products: The media outlet mainly rebroadcasts Kiev-based radio stations Europa Plus FM, OK FM, Hit FM, Retro FM, and produces local news for 5 kanal.
Conctact information: • Post address: Office 701, 82, Khmelnutsk av, 21000, Vinnytsia • Tel: (0432)57-03-90, (0432)-32-91-00, (0432)- • e-mail: 53-16-18(РА), (0432)-55-49-88, (0432)-66- 09-56 [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], • URL: [email protected] http://www.ria.ua/
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TV and Radio Company “TODOR”
Title of the Media outlet: Private Entrepreneurship TV and Radio Company “TODOR”
Management: Director: O. Rak
Positioning: Infotainment media outlet
Rating and coverage: Cable TV service provider.
Products: The media outlet provides mainly cable broadcasting, and covers the city of Ladyzhyn, Vinnytsia region. The company also has an own TV channel which broadcasts for 2 hours a day.
Contact information: • Post address: 1, vul. Budivelnykiv, 24321, Ladyzhyn, • Tel: Vinnytsia region • e-mail: (04343) 62847 • URL:
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Newspapers
“Vinnytska Hazeta”
Title of the Media outlet: “Vinnytska Hazeta”
Owners: The media outlet is oriented on Vinnytsia Mayor Volodymyr Groysman (Nasha Ukraina Party). Some influence of Yulia Tymoshenko bloc is also visible.
Management: Editor - Natalya Kosmina
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet, positioned as the cheapest and the most accessible informational partner of the city council, and for the whole city community.
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 10,000 copies, throughout the region. The paper is published three times a week.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The media outlet provides information focused on acute political and social issues, legal issues, taxation etc
Contact information: • Post address: 15, vul. Kozutskogo, 21050, Vinnytsia • Tel: (0432) 35-33-20, 35-50-37, 35-22-68 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.vin-gazeta.net
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“Vinnychyna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Vinnychyna”
Owners: The newspaper was established by the regional council. Now it is controlled by the Head of the regional council Grygoriy Zabolotny (Socialist Party) and the Head of Regional State Administration Oleksandr Dombrovsky (Nasha Ukraina party).
Management: Editor - Vasyl Palamarchuk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 30,000 copies, throughout the region.
Contact information: • Post address: 7, vul. Khmelnytske shose, 21100, • Tel: Vinnytsia (0432) 32-05-83, 32-07-83, • e-mail: 32-46-29 [email protected] • URL: http://www.vinnichina.inf.ua/
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“Pivdennyi Bug”
Title of the Media outlet: “Pivdennyi Bug”
Owners: The media outlet was jointly established by regional NGOs.
Management: Editor in chief: Volodymyr Lysenko. Mr Lysenko is the head of the Vinnytsia regional organization of the National Union of Ukrainian Journalists
Positioning: Informational and op-ed media outlet
Rating and coverage: Biweekly newspaper published in 1,000 copies, distributed free of charge in the whole region.
Contact information: • Post address: 19, vul. Gogolya, 21100, Vinnytsia • Tel: (0432) 35-01-72 • e-mail: • URL:
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“Trybuna Praci”
Title of the Media outlet: “Trybuna Praci”
Owners: The media outlet was established by Gaysyn rayon council jointly with Rayon State Administration
Management: Editor – Yuriy Kovch
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 5000 copies, throughout the Gaysyn rayon. It is published twice a week.
Contact information: • Post address: 6, vul. Pershogo Travnya, 23700, Gaysyn, Vinnytsia Region • Tel: (04334) 4-35-02, fax: 4-31-59, 4-34-81, 2- 42-14 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL:
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“Shargorodshyna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Shargorodshyna”
Owners: The media outlet was established by Shargorod rayon council jointly with Rayon State Administration.
Management: Editor – Vitaliy Buryak
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper distributed in 4,000 copies, throughout the Shargorod rayon. 100 % is distributed through subscription.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Contact information: • Post address: 186, vul. Lenina, 23500, Shargorod, Vinnytsja region • Tel: (04344) 2-14-84 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://shargorodshina.inf.ua
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“Misto”
Title of the Media outlet: Newspaper “Misto”
Owners: The media outlet is close to the mayor of Vinnytsia Volodymyr Groysman (Nasha Ukraina party).
Management: Director General – Oleksandr Baryl, Editor in Chief – Iryna Zhuk
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 15,600 copies, throughout the Vinnytsia region.
Audience: Population of Vinnytsia city and region
Products: The newspaper provides information in the following categories: Day after day, That’s life, Style, Health, Useful reading, Sports, The Editor’s column, For discussion, etc.
Contact information: • Post address: 3а, vul. Shurshova, 21009, Vinnytsia • Tel: 55-11-00, 55-11-01, 55-11-02 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.misto.vn.ua/
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“33 kanal”
Title of the Media outlet: Newspaper “33 kanal”
Owners: The media outlet is oriented on Yulia Tymoshenko bloc, although the owner of the outlet Anatoliy Zhuchynskyy represents Nasha Ukraina party in the regional council.
The paper has recently criticized Vinnytsia mayor Volodymyr Groysman and governor of the region Oleksandr Dumbrovskyy (both represent Nasha Ukraina party).
Management: Editor - Anatoliy Zhuchynskyy
Positioning: Social-and-political, analytical edition
Rating and coverage: The most circulated newspaper of the region. The printed version is distributed in 55,000 copies, in the city of Vinnytsia and its region, partially Zhytomyr and Khmelnytskiy regions.
Products: Media outlet provides information in the following categories: Political and Economical news, Cultural life, Youth page, Crime, Scandals etc.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Newspaper «Podilska Radnycya»
Contact information: • Post address: 23, vul. Kosmonavtiv, 21021, Vinnytsia • Tel: (432) 515-226, 43-57-88 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://33kanal.com
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Volyn Region
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TV channels
Volyn Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: Volyn Regional State TV and Radio Company
Management: Director General: Olga Kulish
Rating and coverage: TV and Radio Company covers up to 90% of the population of the region.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The media outlet produces own media projects, news, international projects (example: a joint Ukrainian-Polish-Belarus media project).
The company cooperates with BBC, Deutsche Welle, The Voice of America, Ukrainian Radio of Chicago (USA) and pan-Ukrainian TV channels.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Volyn Radio (air and wired-radio), radio station "Lutsk" (20 hours per day), Volyn TV (TV channel "Nova Volyn" – 15 hours per day). The company also has correspondent offices and special correspondents across the region
Contact information: • Post address: 9, vul. Slovackogo, 43025, Lutsk • Tel: (0332) 77-05-70 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://voltv.com.ua
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TV and radio Company “Avers”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and Radio Company “Avers”
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by the president of corporation «Avers» Oleg Velychko.
Management: Director – V. Synkevych. The Head of the editor’s board – N. Chepynoga
Contact information: • Post address: 19а, vul. Konjakina, 43026, Lutsk • Tel: (0332) 778503, (0322) 778505 • e-mail: • URL: http://www.mediaavers.com 308
Newspapers
“Visnyk i Ko”
Title of the Media outlet: “Visnyk i Ko”
Owners: The media outlet was established by Lutsk city organization of Afghan War Veterans. The outlet is owned by Commercial Bank “Zakhidincombank” (the bank’s Head of the Board: Vasyl Havrylyshyn, member of the city council, Yulia Tymoshenko bloc).
Management: Editor – Evgen Hotymchyk
Positioning: Analytical media outlet
Rating and coverage: Monthly newspaper distributed in 80,000 copies, throughout the country.
Contact information: • Post address: 15, av. Peremogy, 43005, Lutsk, Volyn • Tel: region • e-mail: (0332) 78-02-27 • URL: [email protected], [email protected] http://visnyk.lutsk.ua 309
“Viche”
Title of the Media outlet: “Viche”
Owners: Media outlet was established by the regional journalists.
Management: Editor - Vasyl Prostopchyk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 17,000 copies, throughout the region.
Contact information: • Post address: 8, av. Voli, 43025, Lutsk • Tel: (0332) 22-80-86, 72-60-98. • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.viche.lutsk.ua 310
“Volynski i gubernski vidomosti”
Title of the Media outlet: “Volynski i gubernski vidomosti”
Owners: The media outlet was established by LLC “Slovo”. According to non-official information, the newspaper is owned by a group of companies “Continuum”, owned by Ihor Eremeev.
Management: Editor - Galyna Fedorenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 15,000 copies, throughout the region.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The media outlet is designed for an intellectual reader (self-estimation). The newspaper informs about the events in Ukraine and abroad, interesting life stories and personalities. Close attention is paid to issues of political and economical development of the country, agricultural sector. Separate sections are focused on history.
Contact information: • Post address: 49, vul. Glushets, 43010, Lutsk • Tel: (0332) 78-78-44, 78-63-31. • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 311
“Volyn”
Title of the Media outlet: “Volyn”
Owners: The media outlet was established by Volyn regional council.
Management: Editor - Oleksandr Goranets
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet. Newspaper positions itself as a centrist media outlet, which articulates positions of different political forces, including opposition.
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 71,000 copies, throughout the region. It is published three times a week.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Contact information: • Post address: 13, av. Voli, 43025, Lutsk (0332) 72-38-96, 72-71-07,77-07-70. • Tel: [email protected] http://www.volyn.com.ua/ • e-mail: • URL: 312
“Dzvony Volyni”
Title of the Media outlet: “Dzvony Volyni”
Owners: Volyn diocesan administration of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Positioning: Religious newspaper
Rating and coverage: Monthly newspaper distributed in 10,600 copies, throughout the country.
Contact information: • Post address: 11, vul. Karaimska, 43016, Lutsk (0332) 72-51-77 • Tel: [email protected] • e-mail: http://www.orthvoldiocese.lutsk.ua/ • URL: 313
Online resources
“Volynska Pravda”
Title of the Media outlet: “Volynska Pravda”
Owners: The on-line resource was established by the similarly named LLC. The leader of the project Oleksandr Pyrozhyk in March 2008 won the contest “The Volyn Person of the Year” in the category “The best information project”, and in June 2008 chaired the newly created Department of informational policy of Lutsk City Council. Mayor of Lutsk Bogdan Shyba has some influence on the media outlet.
Management: Leader of the project – Oleksandr Pyrozhyk
Positioning: The first independent internet media in Volyn
Contact information: • Post address: http://pravda.lutsk.ua/
• Tel: • e-mail: • URL: 314
Web portal of the newspaper “Volodymyr Vechirnyy”
Title of the Media outlet: Web-portal of the newspaper “Volodymyr Vechirnyy”
Management: Editor – I. Zalyskyy
Positioning: Social-and-political newspaper for all social groups
Contact information: • Post address:
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Zakarpattia Region 316
TV channels
“Tisa-1”
Title of the Media outlet: Zakarpattia Regional State TV and Radio Company (“Tisa-1”)
Owners: The outlet is loyal to Viktor Baloha and his brother – first deputy governor of the region Ivan Baloha.
Management: Director General – Evgen Shyshkov
Products: Media outlet produces 12 hours of own broadcasting in Ukrainian, German, Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak languages.
Contact information: • Post address: 18, Kyivska Naberezhna, Uzhgorod, Zakarpattia region • Tel: (+380-312) 61-62-72 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 317
“M-studio”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “M-Studio” (TV and radio company “Mukachevske”)
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by Baloha brothers.
Management: Director General – Volodymyr Shybets
Rating and coverage: TV and Radio Company covers up to 70% of the population of the region.
Contact information: • Post address: 17, vul. Yaroslava Mudrogo, 89600, Mukacheve, Zakarpattia region • Tel: (03131) 5-50-99, (03131)4-13-95, 3-79-00 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://m-studio.net.ua 318
Newspapers
“Zakarpatska Pravda”
Title of the Media outlet: “Zakarpatska Pravda”
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by the Head of the regional office of the Party of the Regions, MP Oleksandr Ledida.
Management: Editor – Volodymyr Ushenko
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 10,000- 15,000 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Economic news, Politics, Society, Sports, etc
Contact information: • Post address: 41/1, vul. Gagarina, 88000, Uzhgorod • Tel: (0312) 66-00-31, 66-02-02 22-55-66 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 319
“Novyny Zakarpattia”
Title of the Media outlet: “Novyny Zakarpattia”
Owners: The media outlet was established by the Regional council and Regional State Administration. It is controlled by Baloha brothers.
Management: Editor – Vitaliy Yashyshak
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 40,000 copies, throughout the region.
Products: The media outlet provides info in the following categories: “Local time”, “News”, “Comments”, “Market development”, “Culture”, “Sports, advertisement.
Contact information: • Post address: 4, Narodna sq., 88008, Uzhgorod • Tel: (0312) 23-53-00, 23-62-84 • e-mail: [email protected]
• URL: http://transkarpatia.net/ 320
“Visti Uzhgorodshyny”
Title of the Media outlet: “Visti Uzhgorodshyny”
Owners: The media outlet was established by Uzhgorod Rayon State Administration, jointly with the Uzhgorod Rayon council.
Management: Director General – Ivan Zhyrosh
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Contact information: • Post address: 84, vul. Sobranetska, 88000, Uzhgorod • Tel: (0312) 61-44-26 • e-mail: • URL: 321
Online resources
Zakarpattia on-line
Title of the Media outlet: Zakarpattia on-line
Products: The media outlet provides recent news Zakarpattia and the whole Ukraine. The outlet is focused on politics and economy of the region, culture and sports, criminal news, etc.
Contact information: • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://Zakarpattia.net.ua/ 322
Zaporizhia region 323
TV channels
TV company “TV-5”
Title of the Media outlet: TV company “TV-5”
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by OJSC “Zaporizhstal”, one of the biggest steel producing enterprises in the region, and “IndustrialBank”.
Management: Director General – Mykola Efimov, Executive Director – Sergiy Tyhonov
Products: The TV Company produces news, political economic programs, projects for children, etc.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Channel TV-5 Sport
Contact information: • Post address: 4-a, vul. Suvorova, 69035, Zaporizhia • Tel: (061) 213-46-10 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.tv5.zp.ua/ 324
“Aleks TV”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “Aleks TV” (22 channel)
Owners: The media outlet is owned by OJSC Motor Sich, one of the biggest engine-producing company in the world. The head of Motor Sich, Viacheslav Boguslaev, is a Ukrainian MP, a member of the Party of the Regions.
Management: Director general – Viacheslav Vlasov
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: The City, Criminal news, Culture, Politics, etc
Contact information: • Post address: 48, av. Motobudivnykiv, Zaporizhia, • Tel: (0612)213-91-53 • e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • URL: http://alextv.zp.ua 325
TV and radio company “Azovs’ka Hvyl’a”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “Azovs’ka Hvyl’a” (the title can be translated into English as: Azov Wave)
Management: Director – I. Onyshenko
Positioning: Berdyansk private infotainment station
Rating and coverage: Media outlet covers the city of Berdyansk and its rayon.
Products: TV and Radio Company produces own programs, and rebroadcasts Kyiv syndication company “FDR Radio center”
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: Radio Azovs’ka Hvyl’a - 106 FM
Contact information: • Post address: 20, Melitopolske sh., 71100, Berdyansk • Tel: (06153)-2-51-40, (06153)-2-55-41 (06153)-2-51-40 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 326
Newspapers
“Zaporizka Pravda”
Title of the Media outlet: “Zaporizka Pravda”
Owners: The media outlet is oriented on the Head of the regional council, a member of the Party of the Regions, Oleksandr Nefedov.
Management: Editor – Ivan Cyganyuk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 34,000 copies, throughout the region. The paper is published three times a week. 95% of copies are distributed through subscription. 15% of copies are distributed in the city of Zaporizhia, 85% - in the region.
Contact information: • Post address: 152, Lenina av., 69600, Zaporizhia • Tel: (0612) 24-54-21 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://www.online.zp.ua/zp/ 327
“Gorozhanin”
Title of the Media outlet: “Gorozhanin”
Owners: The media outlet is loyal to Zaprorizzhia city mayor Evgen Kartashov and the economic and financial group integrated by “Zaporizhstal” and “IndustrialBank”.
Management: Editor - Andriy Bartysh
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 15,000 copies, throughout the city of Zaporizhia. It is published once a week.
Audience: All social and political groups.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Politics, Society, The city, Culture, Health, Sports, etc
Contact information: • Post address: 7, vul. Pravdy, 69037, Zaporizhia • Tel: (0612) 24-02-43, 49-03-87 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://gorozhanin.com.ua/index.php?id=1228 328
“Nashe Vremya Plus”
Title of the Media outlet: “Nashe Vremya Plus”
(The title can be translated into English as Our Time Plus)
Owners: The media outlet is led by the company “Alexander” of Volodymyr Kaltsev, former candidate for Zaporizzhia city mayor
Management: Director – Olena Gnyda
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Raiting and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 17,000 copies, throughout the city of Zaporizhia and the region. It is published once a week.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: “News”, “The Problem”, “Regional news”, “Our life”, “Culture” , “Consumer”, “Health” , “Leisure”, “Sports”, etc
Contact information: • Post address: 152, Lenina av., 69600, Zaporizhia (0612) 62-60-81, 60-97-50, 63-82-64 • Tel: [email protected] • e-mail: http://www.nv.zp.ua/ • URL: 329
“Region”
Title of the Media outlet: “Region”
Owners: The media outlet is owned by LLC "Publishing House "Magnat"
Management: Editor - Oleksandr Kurashenko
Positioning: Advertising media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 55,000 copies, throughout the region.
Contact information: • Post address: 159b, vul. Gorkogo, 69095, Zaporizhia • Tel: (0612) 60-31-24, 62-51-63 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 330
“Industialnoe Zaporozhie” – “IZ-Panorama”
Title of the Media outlet: “Industialnoe Zaporozhie” – “IZ- Panorama”
Owners: The media outlet is controlled by the financial and economic group “Zaporizhstal” - “IndustrialBank”.
Management: Editor – Volodymyr Dubak
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 24,000 copies, throughout the city of Zaporizhia and its region. It is published once a week.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Economy, Law, Government, Events, Crime, Society, Health, Education, History, Foreign countries, Sport, etc
Contact information: • Post address: 152/225, Lenina av., 69600, Zaporizhia • Tel: (061) 228-30-15, 228-30- • e-mail: 17, 228-30-18 • URL: [email protected] http://iz.com.ua/ 331
Online resources
“Prospect”
Title of the Media outlet: “Prospect”
Positioning: News and Analytical Portal
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The media outlet provides information in the following categories: Politics, Society, Science and Research, Travel, Government, Personality, History, Culture, Sports, Information
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: PR agency Media Plus
Contact information: • Post address: 66, av. Lenina, 69002, Zaporizhia (061)213-86-20 ,8(067)386-35-80 • Tel: [email protected] , • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://prospect.zp.ua/ 332
Zhytomyr region 333
TV channels
Zhytomyr Regional State TV and Radio Company
Title of the Media outlet: Zhytomyr Regional State TV and Radio Company
Owners/Affiliation: The company is part of a network of Ukrainian regional TV and radio companies integrated under Ukraine’s State Committee for TV and Radio Broadcasting. In its content the company is oriented on the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament Volodymyr Lytvyn
Management: Director - Viktor Boyko. Mr Boyko is a member of Zhytomyr regional council, member of People’s Party (Volodymyr Lytvyn bloc)
Rating and coverage: The TV and Radio Company broadcasts own products on two TV channels and two radio channels. Total volume of TV broadcasting - 19 hours per day; total volume of radio broadcasting - 21 hours per day. Potential audience reaches 900 thousand people, 70% of the population of the region.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: The media outlet produces socially- oriented, economic, political, cultural and other programs about Zhytomyr region, mostly in Ukrainian language.
Contact information: • Post address: 7, vul. Teatralna, 10014, Zhytomyr • Tel: (0412) 47-30-89, 22-85-32 • e-mail: [email protected] 334
TV and radio company “VIK”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “VIK”
Management: Director – Viktor Bessalitskyh
Positioning: Air and cable broadcaster
Rating and coverage: TV channel „VIK” is broadcasted in the city of Berdichiv and Berdichiv rayon through a cable network.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Products: Own programs: 24 hours a day News programs: 8 hours a day Cultural programs: 2 hours a day Entertainment programs: 2 hours a day Programs for children: 2 hours a day
Contact information: • Post address: 55, vul. Lenina, 13300, Berdichiv, Zhytomyr region • Tel: (04143) 4-09-99 [email protected] • e-mail: http://www.trkvik.tv/index.php • URL: 335
TV and radio company “ORTA-Forum”
Title of the Media outlet: TV and radio company “ORTA-Forum”
Owners: The company is oriented on Yulia Tymoshenko bloc. Serhiy Hrynchuk, one of the owners of the company, is a member of the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc in the regional council
Management: Director – Dmytro Kondratuk. Executive director – Serhiy Hrynchuk.
Rating and coverage: 4 radio stations in Zhytomyr and region
Audience: General audience is aged between 20 and 55, among them - students, civil servants, housewives etc.
Products: 70% of broadcasting of the TV and Radio Company is in Ukrainian; 30% - in Russian.
Subsidiaries and affiliated institutions: LLC “Orta-Forum” owns the local radio station “Radio-Club” and purchased rights to rebroadcast “Lux-FM” and “Hit-FM”. The company is also linked to an advertising agency “R-Club”
Contact information: • Post address: 1, vul. Kyivska, 10014, Zhytomyr • Tel: (412)413104, 413104 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: 336
Newspapers
“RIA-Tyzhden”
Title of the Media outlet: “RIA-Tyzhden”
Owners: The media outlet is owned by the Media- corporation RIA.
Management: Editor in Chief – Kostyantyn Gudzovskyy
Positioning: Advertisement-focused media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 9,750 copies, throughout the region. It is published once a week.
Contact information: • Post address: 301, 9, vul. Rylskogo, 10014, Zhytomyr • Tel: (0412) 41-81-89, 41-31-64 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: http://zhitomir.ria.ua/ 337
“Ekho”
Title of the Media outlet: “Ekho”
Owners/Affiliation: The newspaper is oriented on the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament Volodymyr Lytvyn
Management: Editor in chief - Volodymyr Yatskevych. Mr Yatskevych is a member of the regional council, representing People’s Party (Volodymyr Lytvyn).
Positioning: Social, political and business media outlet
Rating and coverage: Weekly newspaper, distributed in 60,000 copies, throughout the region.
Audience: Economically active citizens, businessmen.
Contact information: • Post address: 106c, vul. Chernyahivskogo, 10014, • Tel: Zhytomyr • e-mail: (0412) 24-55-00, 24-39-02 • URL: [email protected], [email protected] http://www.exo.net.ua/ 338
“Zhytomyrshchyna”
Title of the Media outlet: “Zhytomyshchyna”
Owners: The media outlet was established by Regional council, jointly with Regional State Administration
Management: Editor – Dmytro Panchuk
Profitability: Newspaper is financed by regional government, and is mostly loyal to governor Yuriy Zabela (“Single Centre” party, headed by Viktor Baloha).
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 19,600 copies, throughout the region. It is published three times a week. 97% of copies are distributed through subscription, 3% through retail trade.
Contact information: • Post address: 12, Maidan Rad square, 10014, Zhytomyr • Tel: (0412) 37-15-48, 22-54-55, 37-42-21 • e-mail: [email protected] 339
“Slovo Polissya”
Title of the Media outlet: “Slovo Polissya”
Owners: The media outlet was established by Baranivka Rayon State Administration, jointly with Rayon and city councils
Management: Editor in Chief – A. Strilchuk
Positioning: Social-and-political media outlet
Rating and coverage: The newspaper is distributed in 4,500 copies, throughout the Baranivskyi rayon. It is published three times per week.
Contact information: • Post address: 7а, vul. Kirova, 12700, Baranivka, Zhytomyr region • Tel: • e-mail: (04144) 4-23-76 • URL: [email protected] 340
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Portal of Zhytomyr newspaper “Svoboda”
Title of the Media outlet: Portal of Zhytomyr newspaper “Svoboda”
Management: Editor – Viktor Kotenko
Positioning: Information online regional media outlet
Rating and coverage: The printed version of the newspaper is distributed in 5,000 copies, throughout the region.
Audience: All social and age groups.
Contact information: • Post address: 5, vul. Seletska, 10009, Zhytomyr. post office box 53 • Tel: 8 (0412) 48-01-45, 8-063-406-17-06 • e-mail: [email protected] • URL: www.svoboda.zhitomir.ua