National Broadcasting Company
of Ukraine (NTCU)
blames cable providers that broadcast “RTR-Planet” for illegality of
“Eurovision 2008” broadcasting.
«Torsat», that has
exclusive rights to transmit Russian channel on Ukrainian territory, deflects
all accusations and states, that “RTR-Planeta” indeed had rights for “Eurovision
2008” broadcasting. According to “Torsat”, NTCU had not such rights.
NTCU is going to start lawsuit on current issue as it convinced, that
membership in European Broadcasting Union (EBU) gives it exclusive rights to
broadcast EBU’s events in Ukraine.
“Torsat” representatives states that they are ready to face off with
NTCU and will bring counteraccusations.
“Thorsat” Ltd was
founded in 1998. It represents in Ukraine a number of thematic Ukrainian and
international TV channels and works with over 500 television organizations. On
the territory of Ukraine Thorsat operates in four main directions: distribution
of Ukrainian television channels; distribution of international TV channels in
cable and cellular television networks; protection of copyrights and
neighboring rights of represented television channels on the territory of
Ukraine; implementation of Ukrainian satellite television platform (DTH).
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