The broadcast of the Netherlands vs Russia quarterfinal match of the European Football Championship at Pershy Natsionalny [First National] TV channel (Saturday, 21 June) enjoyed the highest figures as for Euro 2008: audience share of 18.77% and rating of 5.12% (among people aged 18 years and over, the all-Ukrainian TV panel).   

Broadcasting the matches of the European Football Championship 2008 group stage secured Pershy Natsionalny [First National] TV channel a solid growth of its figures. The average audience share for these broadcasts (aired from 7 to 18 June) reached 10.15%, the rating was 2.90% (among people aged 18 years and over, the all-Ukrainian TV panel).

The Ukrainian Independent Information Agency (UNIAN) plans to create its own TV station and radio station. Oleksandr Harchenko, the Chief Editor of UNIAN, told this at the press conference on occasion of the agency’s 15 years.    

Sir Paul McCartney’s concert live broadcast, which took place on 14 June at Novyi Kanal, got the audience share of 9.69% and the rating of 2.74% (among people aged 18 years and over). The broadcast lasted three hours and a half (from 20.30 to 24.00). 

Yesterday (9 June) the Pershy Natsionalny [First National] TV channel had high rates due to broadcasting the matches of the European Football Championship.

The Industrial Television Committee forbade the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting from using the Teletriumph trademark without proper permission.  This is stated in the letter the organization sent to the state body yesterday.

MediaExpert advertising agency (Havas Media’s partner) won the tender for Telesystemy Ukrainy telecommunications company (PEOPLEnet trademark) full media services. Tatyana Popova, the Director General at MediaExpert, told this to MediaBusiness. The financial terms of the tender were not disclosed.

Broadcasting the matches of the European Football Championship on Saturday and Sunday (7-8 June) secured high rates to the Pershy Natsionalny [First National] TV channel. The match Portugal v. Turkey had the best results – its rating was 3.99%, and the audience share reached 21.96% (among people aged 18 years and over).  

ICTV channel acquired from National Television Company of Ukraine (NTCU) the right to air four group stage final games European Football Championship, which takes place in Austria and Switzerland from 7 to 29 June, and to use video clips from all Euro-2008 games. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. 

The official opening ceremony of the 9th Kyiv International Advertising Festival, the main advertising festival of Ukraine, took place today, Wednesday 28 May. 

From January to March 2008, a number of Ukrainian cable TV operators’ subscribers grew by 4.3%, or 138,000 (as compared to the 4th quarter 2007), and reached 3.375 m people. This was told in the official statement of the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine, as Ukrainski Novyny [Ukrainian News] reports.

Eurovision Song Contest 2008 Final was broadcasted by Pershy Natsionalny [First National] TV channel on Saturday, 25 May. Its rating was 6.56%, and the audience share reached 25.64% (among people aged 18 years and over, according to the data of all-Ukrainian TV panel).

In autumn 2008, MTV Ukraina music TV channel is going to launch a reality show, similar to American show Making a Video, dedicated to a pop-group creation. Yevhen Stupka, the Director General of  MTV Ukraina TV channel, told this to MediaBusiness at XIV International Kyiv Teleradiofair.

Euro RSCG New Europe won the tender for media services for two brands of First Realty Group corporation, Blagovest and Park Lane real estate agencies. The service period will last from May 2008 till April 2009. The information about the contract price and the planned media strategy was not disclosed.

The official opening ceremony of XIV Kyiv International TeleRadioFair was held today in AKKO International exhibition center.

Poverkhnost company launches Poverkhnost+, a paid satellite TV service. The subscription fee for the package, which includes 60 channels at the moment, is about UAH 100 ($19.80). The sum of investment in the project constitutes “several tens of thousands of US dollars”.

Starcom advertising agency is ready to conduct international audit to prove the fulfillment of its contractual commitments to ZAO Telesystemy Ukrainy (PEOPLEnet trade mark). It was reported by Interfaks Ukraina news agency.

On 5 May, Pershy Avtomobilny (First Automobile) TV channel launched test broadcasting on the Eutelsat W4 36oE satellite in Volia Cable’s digital package. Pershy Avtomobilny’s press service reported this to MediaBusiness. Iryna Tverdovska was appointed as a general producer of the channel, and Dmytro Kotelenets took office as its executive director.    

As Ekonomicheskie Izvestiya newspaper writes, in accordance with the Edict of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, the country refuses from MPEG-2 digital TV standard. MPEG-4 is going to be used instead as a more economical one.   

Last year, ZAO Teleodin (M1 and M2 music TV channels) got UAH 2.1 m (about $416,000) of net profit. This was reported by the official website of State Commission of Securities and Stock Market.