The Donetsk-based cable television company Nadezhda has been stripped of its license for broadcasting Russian TV channels, the Russian ITAR-TASS news agency reported on 15 July, quoting company's director-general Vadym Pohorzhelskyy.

The Ukrainian national UT1 TV channel has been showing a documentary about NATO, the centrist daily Den has reported. The unattributed report notes that it is the first time that a TV channel with a nation-wide coverage is to broadcast the documentary about NATO during prime time.

The National Council for TV and Radio Broadcasting has allocated frequencies for digital television, which is planned to be introduced in 2009, a Ukrainian website which focuses on the local media has reported.

There is increasing competition to buy up Ukrainian TV channels, a weekly business magazine has reported. The rivalry is driven by rapidly increasing revenues from advertising. Even small, specialist channels are now attracting interest, the magazine said.

Excerpt from report by commercial, news-based 5 Kanal TV on 20 November [Presenter] Let me remind you once more that today is a mourning day in Ukraine for the deceased in the Zasyadko mine blast. Unfortunately, the mourning announcement was not heard by everyone.