Criticism of 1+1
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In 1999, after "1+1" has been broadcasting on UT-2 24h per day for two years with an appropriate license, the channel sent a claim to the Supreme Court of Ukraine requesting the TV company AITI, who used to hire UT-2 9h broadcasting time earlier before, to give up its license as it had stopped its programming for a year. In the year 2000 the claim was decided for the "1+1" preference.
Channel "1+1" has been subject to continuing criticism during the 2004 presidential election, when it was heavily criticized for twisting information in favor of Viktor Yanukovych (Prime Minister of Ukraine at that time). Such behavior was typical for a Ukrainian-wide channel, because all of the media were under heavy pressure from the Administration of the President of President Kuchma, further more critics accused the channel of being part of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)-empire[1][2]. In late November 2004 several journalists had left channel to express a protest against this pressure, and almost all leading presenters had refused to report news. Those actions altogether with similar actions on other channels have marked the beginning of Orange revolution
In October 2006 O.Rodnyanskyy, the General Producer of Studio "1+1", won a hard appeal process in The Supreme Court of Ukraine, after the court gave ownership of 70% of the company's shares to Mr. O.Kolomyyskyy, as the last has claimed, that in June 2005 there has been an agreement signed between him and Mr. Rodnyanskyy, that 70% of the company's shares were sold to Mr. Kolomyyskyy (for ~70 mln USD).
References
- ^ Virtual Politics - Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World, Andrew Wilson, Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-300-09545-7
- ^ [tt_news=30800 UKRAINIAN PARTIES SCRAMBLE FOR MEDIA, FOREIGN ALLIES, AHEAD OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS], The Jamestown Foundation (August 17, 2005)
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