The new station RTU
One of the founders of the TV channel 1 +1 Boris Fooksman announced his intention to create a new national TV channel ethereal. Its development will team which created the 1 +1.
Channel called RTU - Radio Television of Ukraine. It will be of general interest television channel, with broadcast of their own production, documentary and feature films, children's and sports programs. The first phase investment will total $ 50 million Fooksman claims that his company - Ukrainian Media Group - that kind of money there. However, according to a businessman in the future is not ruled out the involvement of other investors, including Alexander Rodnyansky, which Fooksman in the mid-90 created 1 +1.
Our broadcasting scheduled to start later this year, but during the last competition of essential television frequencies RTU has not received any. In general the frequency received TVi TV and Channel 5 - remember, this is a decision the National Council on Television and Radio entailed frustration of Inter and trials. Submit to the National Council in the court intends to Ukrainian Media Group, the paper says.
However, experts say, radio frequencies are becoming less valuable. "Barrier-free broadcasting on analog channel frequencies will be only a few years. Then they will have a parallel broadcast in two modes - analog and digital, or completely switch to" figure "- the coordinator of the Association of Industrial Television Committee Denis Gursky.
Recall recently the sole owner of television channels 1 +1 and Kino is Igor Kolomoysky: for $ 300 million company Central Media Enterprises, which stood at the origins of the channel, has sold its share. Shortly after the announcement of the transaction Fuksman said Kolomoysky greatly overpaid for the channel. In recent years, declining television ratings.
