Main Ukrainian TV Channels to Become Paid for Satellite Dish Owners
Encryption of the largest TV channels on television.
Four Ukrainian media holdings will encrypt their signals and make them paid from January 20, 2020. Channels such as 1+1, TET, Novyi Kanal and others will be available only with a subscription fee.
This is reported by Novoe Vremya.
The changes will affect TV signals transmitted via satellite dish; from January 20, free access will be closed. To watch a channel, it is necessary to connect to an official satellite TV operator and install a tuner-decoder instead of the old receiver. Ukraine has two official satellite operators, Extra and Viasat, and the connection will cost 60 UAH per month.
StarLight Media, Inter Media Group, 1+1 Media and Media Group Ukraine will encrypt the signal of 23 channels:
StarLightMedia: STB, ICTV, Novyi Kanal, M1, M2, Otse;
1 + 1 media: 1+1, 2+2, TET, Plus Plus, UNIAN TV, Bigudi;
Inter Media Group: Inter, NTN, K1, K2, Mega, Pixel, Zoom, Enter-film;
Media Group Ukraine: Ukraina, NLO TV, Indigo TV.
Forty regional, niche and some other channels will remain in open access.
Earlier, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of Ukraine announcedthe launch of a TV channel for certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The channel will begin broadcasting on February 15.
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