After Akhmetov left the media business, his channels show a telethon./collage 24 channels
The oligarch and owner of Shakhtar Rinat Akhmetov announced his exit from the media business. After that, the TV channels of “Media Group Ukraine” began to show the telethon. Websites related to Akhmetov's media business also stopped working.
Media Group Ukraine channels show a telethon
Tuesday, 12 July, all channels of “Media Group Ukraine”, including entertainment, began broadcasting a nationwide telethon, Channel 24 informs.
We are talking not only about the channels “Ukraine” and “Ukraine 24”, but also about niche ones – UFO TV, Indigo TV and even Football “1/2/3”. The telethon is also broadcast by the Shakhtar football club's SHAKHTAR TV channel.
Since July 12, the Segodnya and Ukraine 24 websites have ceased to be updated. The site of the channels “Football 1/2/3” does not work either. The websites posted a message that Rinat Akhmetov announced his exit from the media business.
After Akhmetov's exit from the media business, his channels show a telethon.
Media holding “Media Group Ukraine” consists of 10 broadcast and satellite television channels, Internet resources and print media. Among them:
- TV channel “Ukraine 24”,
- TV channel “Ukraine”,
- Youth TV channel NLO TV
- TV channel Indigo TV,
- thematic channels ” Football 1/2/3″,
- international channels Ukraine 1/Ukraine 2,
- NLO TV 1/NLO TV 2,
- “TV channel 34”,
- TV channel “Donbass”,
- TV channel “Sigma”,
- “New Group Ukraine”,
- Multimedia platform TODAY,
- Baying Media Partnership,
- Xtra TV Satellite Voice Operator,
- OTT platform OLL.TV,
- Vogue.UA project.
What is known about Akhmetov's exit from the media business
Oligarch Rinat Akhmetov said on July 11 about leaving the media business. The businessman's media holding will waive all licenses in favor of the state. Akhmetov explained his decision by creating a register of oligarchs in Ukraine. True, the owner of Shakhtar denies that he is an oligarch.
Subsequently, Natalya Yemchenko, a member of the Supervisory Board of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, said that the oligarch does not transfer his media to the state, but only broadcasting licenses.
Akhmetov's decision was commented at the Office of the President. Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President's Office, called this an example that the law is the same for everyone.
Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko said he was surprised by Akhmetov's decision. He explained that the decision of the oligarch cannot but affect the Ukrainian media market, which has already “dipped” significantly due to Russia's full-scale war against our state.
