The representative of BBC TV channel (Great Britain) Richard Veghorn is going to participate in the II International Forum “Digital Broadcasting in Ukraine”, which takes place in Kyiv, in the conference hall of Radisson SAS hotel, on 19 September. More...

JSC Kievskie Telekommunikatsionnye Sistemy [Kyiv Telecommunicational Systems] (KTM) and JSC IVK (both based in Kyiv), included in the control structure of VoliaCable group, are going to increase their capital stock each by UAH 25 million through additional issuance of shares. As Interfaks-Ukraina reports, the question will be considered at the meetings of the companies’ shareholders, which takes place on 6 October. More...

Heorhiy Gogvadze took office of media director at MPG media agency (ADV Group). Oleksandr Homenko, who had returned from MindShare, was appointed as the MPG’s buying and research director. More...

Revenues of Ukrainian cable TV operators for the first 7 months of 2008 year grew 32.5% year-on-year and reached UAH 549.499 million ($113.448 million), according to the State Committee of Statistics of Ukraine.   More...

The press service of Film.UA Group reported about the affiliate company Film.UA Television, which will be engaged into production of TV programs.  More...

Luc Chenier headed the department of marketing and public relations at MTV Ukraina TV channel. Earlier the position of Marketing & PR department director was held by Yevheniy Repet’ko. This information was reported by the TV channel’s press service. More...

From September 2008, English Club TV channel will be broadcasted by cable networks of Ukraine. As of today, more than 20 contracts with Ukrainian cable operators have been signed. It was reported in the company’s press release, available for MediaBusiness. More...

PUMA brand launches a new Sportlifestyle campaign with the use of night projections in more than 22 cities of 14 countries in Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and India. More...

In July, the record growth (16% year-on-year) of Ukrainian box office was registered.   More...

The Ukrainian Association of Publishers of Periodical Press (UAPPP) and Monitoring SMI Ukrainy company signed a Memorandum of establishing the partnership relations and coordination of efforts in the sphere of analytical data about volumes of advertising in printed media. It was reported in the press release available to MediaBusiness.      More...

Siti and Kino TV channels, which are one legal body at the moment (Gravis TV company holds the licenses for both channels), separate from each other. It was reported by Telekritika (which belongs to Glavred Media holding owned by Oleksandr Tretyakov).   More...

The owners of Yalta Film company opened negotiations about the sale of 50% of the film studio to the Russian film producers. More...

The shooting period of a film after the mysterious Nikolay Gogol’s story of the same name is moving towards its end. The film is being shot according to the first (unedited and censor-free) version of the book. The film is to be shown in March 2009 (200 years after Nikolay Gogol’s birthday). More...

On 31 July, Borys Lozhkyn, the president of United Media Holding spoke at the meeting of the European Business Association PR Committee, making a presentation “Objectives & Scopes of Dynamically Growing Ukrainian Media Market”.  More...

Adrian Sarbu, CME's Chief Operating Officer, intends to propel 1+1 TV channel to the top of Ukrainian TV market. It was reported by the 1+1’s largest shareholder, Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CME). More...

Net revenues of Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CME) for the first half of 2008 increased to $528.9 million from $364.2 million in the first half of 2007. It was reported by the 1+1’s largest shareholder, Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CME). More...

Mohammad Zakhur, a Pakistani businessman, will invest in Savik Shuster Studios. Savik Shuster founded this production company in order to produce his original projects. It was reported by Segodnya newspaper, which refers to its own sources of information. More...

Кабельный оператор «Воля» объединяется с региональными кабельными сетями, принадлежащими фондам прямых инвестиций под управлением SigmaBleyzer (Oisiw Limited) – основного акционера «Воли». Об этом говорится в сообщении пресс-службы компании. More...

According to Ukrainian TV-panel, first few showings of the 7th International Festival of Young Pop-singers “Novaya volna 2008” received 9,73% of the viewer audience 18+ More...