Telegraaf Media Group publishing house invited the former editor-in-chief of Ekonomicheskie Izvestiya [Economic News] newspaper to take the chief editor’s office at Obzor [Review] free daily newspaper. The first newspaper issue signed by m-r Svirko was published on 25 June. More...

“The National Council shall not change its opinion on the language matter”, told Vitaly Shevchenko, a Head of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine, in his interview to MediaBusiness. So, the National Council is going to insist further on increasing a part of the Ukrainian-language broadcasts from 75% to 85%. A few months rebellion of the TV industry, which doesn’t want to loose Russian-language viewers and advertisers, have had no result for the time being. Maybe, they have been bringing forward wrong arguments?      More...

Valery Mashtakov, a Ukrainian media manager, is establishing a Russian business (Video International) in Kazakhstan. In an interview given to MediaBusiness, Valery Mashtakov told how he fares in the competitive Eastern country compared to Video International’s actual monopoly in Moldova.  More...

Leonid Tsodikov, the president of the Ukrainian Association of Periodical Press Publishers (UAIPP) and the former director general of the Segodnia Multimedia publishing group, founded the Multimedia Management Solutions company, which is engaged into promotion and adoption of systems optimizing the printed publications’ work.   More...

Administrating partner of Kwendi Media Audit Svetlana Kalinina told in an interview to MediaBusiness about current year for the company, specifics of the Ukrainian media audit and mistakes of the Ukrainian media agencies. More...

 CEO of "Studio 1+1" Yuriy Morozov comes out into the open as for his disappointment over the ratinings of the channel this current year and promises a range of expensive projects in the coming season and continuation of "Tantsi z Zirkamy". This and also why the channel is delaying the launch of "Tantsi na Lyodu" ("Ice-Dancing"),  he told in an interview to MediaBusiness. More...

This year, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency plans to increase its revenues and the number of subscribers by 30%. According to company's CEO Oleksandr Martynenko, the agency is launching in Ukraine a system of professional analysis of markets and companies, developed by Russian colleagues, and plans to provide new services and industrial products next fall. Moreover, Martynenko told Mediabusiness about his own ways of quality press evaluation and the prospects of Ukraine's media market development. More...

"They invited our team to use our professionalism and passion for company reorganization in short terms: to fire workers, to sanitate the organization, and then to sell us to an unknown investor, - said ex-CEO of the TRC Kiev Dmytro Haritonov at the press-conference 19 June. - In September the holing will be private. May be, it happens later if kievans file lawsuit against illegal privatization". More...

Former CEO of TRK Kiev Dmytro Kharytonov explains his decision to leave the office by "the criminal atmosphere established at the TV station Kiev" and inability to operate the enterprise". 15 other top-managers will follow his lead and leave the station, including those from the finantial, programming, technicall and analytical departments. More...

Dmytro Kharytonov has left the position of the head of TRK Kyiv on his own initiative.  The newly appointed acting director  Dmytro Dzhangirov, who previously occupied the position of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper 'Khreshchatyk',  assumed office today. More...

There are very few effective media holdings in Ukraine. Last fall, Volodymyr Kosterin, the leader of the Green Party and owner of Tonis TV channel, decided to show by his own example the way a media holding is to be developed. Since then, Kosterin's holding Media Dim (The Media House) has launched two new projects – 'Newspaper 24' and the Internet portal 24.ua. Only time will show their efficiency. Meanwhile, MediaBusiness decided to  ask Vitaliy Portnikov, the deputy CEO and editor-in chief of The Media House when the new projects will start brining gains, what Tonis prepares for the new TV season and what difficalties The Media House faced in issuing 'Newspaper 24'. More...

Today at 3:00 a.m. several anonymous have thrown the paint to the main outdoor sign of the Kiev International Advertising Festival. They used eggs stuffed with paint of different colors. More...