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Poverkhnost launched paid satellite TV service |
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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”.
In the Ukrainian market of paid
satellite TV, Poverkhnost will
compete with NTV Plus and Viasat. The cheapest package of NTV Plus in Ukraine
costs UAH 96.5 per month. Viasat
entered the Ukrainian market, offering three packages of TV channels (Semeyny [Family], Populyarny [Popular] and Prestizhny
[Prestigious]) which cost UAH 48, UAH 85 and UAH 135 respectively. However,
according to Oleksandra Zholdakova, the
Head of Marketing Department of Viasat,
for the time being her company does not regard Poverkhnost as a competitor.
Viktor
Samiylenko, the President of Poverkhnost,
told that the company enters the market with only one package of channels, and
its subscription fee amounts to about $20. When forming the package, special
attention was given to sports. Also the package includes film, entertainment,
educational, news, music, child channels, and
most main Ukrainian channels in excellent quality.
The company expects that in five years a number of subscribers will
amount to 500,000 (by pessimistic estimates) or even 2,000,000 (by optimistic
estimates).