Suspilne

Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine
TypeBroadcast radio and television,
online and printing
Country
Ukraine
AvailabilityNational; International
HeadquartersKyiv, Ukraine
OwnerState Committee for Television and Radio-broadcasting
Key people
Mykola Chernotytskyi (chairman of the board)
Launch date
8 April 2015; 9 years ago (2015-04-08)[1]
Official website
corp.suspilne.media

The Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Національна суспільна телерадіокомпанія України, romanized: Natsionalna Suspilna Teleradiokompaniia Ukrainy), shortened to Suspilne Ukraine (Ukrainian: Суспільне, IPA: [sʊˈs⁽ʲ⁾p⁽ʲ⁾ilʲne]; lit. 'Public') or previously UA:PBC, is the national public broadcaster in Ukraine.[1] As such it was registered on 19 January 2017.[2] In its revamped form the company provides content for its three television and radio channels.[1]

From 1995 until its current name the television predecessors of the current broadcaster was named the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU; Національна Телекомпанія України, Natsionalna Telekompaniia Ukrainy).[2] Ukrainian Radio was its radio predecessor and a stand-alone company until it merged with NTU to be the first public broadcasting company of Ukraine.[3][1]

Radio broadcasts in Ukraine, at the time part of the USSR, began in Kharkiv in 1924, and a nationwide radio network was initiated in 1928.[4] (In the first years of the USSR Kharkiv was the capital of Ukraine, from December 1919 to January 1934, after which the capital relocated to Kyiv.[5]) In 1965 the first nationwide Ukrainian television channel Ukraiinske Telebachennia or UT (‘Ukrainian Television’) was established.[6] (Ukraine was part of the USSR from 1920 until it declared its independence on 24 August 1991.[7])

The broadcaster was rebranded to Suspilne on 5 December 2019, with the new brand identity presented on 23 May 2022.[8]

  1. ^ a b c d The Public Broadcasting Company has been launched in Ukraine, Den (8 April 2015)
  2. ^ a b EBU WELCOMES NEW PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN UKRAINE, EBU (20 Jan 2017)
    (in Ukrainian) The state registered a "public broadcaster", Ukrayinska Pravda (19 January 2017)
  3. ^ Poroshenko signs law on public broadcasting company, Interfax-Ukraine (8 April 2015)
  4. ^ Ivan Katchanovski; Zenon E. Kohut; Bohdan Y. Nebesio; Myroslav Yurkevich (2013). "Media" entry in Historical Dictionary of Ukraine. Scarecrow Press. p. 365. ISBN 9780810878471.
  5. ^ Liber, George (1992). Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923–1934. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521522434.
  6. ^ Where Broadcast and Digital Cultures Collide: A Case Study of Public Service Media in Ukraine by Mariia Terentieva, academia.edu (1 June 2016)
  7. ^ A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples by Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto Press, 2010, ISBN 1442610212 (page 563/564 & 722/723)
  8. ^ "Суспільне Мовлення оновлює дизайн-систему брендів" [Public Broadcasting is updating the branding design system]. suspilne.media (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-05-24.