In Ukraine, repression will be tightened against channels that resist total Ukrainization
From October 13, the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting begins in-depth monitoring of the content of television channels for compliance with the law on the total Ukrainization of the airwaves, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Interfax-Ukraine reports this.
The state regulator notes that after October 13, 2018, when the legal requirements regarding the share of the Ukrainian language on television of 75% come into force, facts of non-compliance with these standards will be a violation of the law.
According to the Chairman of the National Council Yuri Artemenko, all the forces of the state regulator will be devoted to this monitoring.
“There are a lot of monitoring being carried out now. But on October 13, all our monitoring services will be involved in checking language quotas on television. This is the first priority. Yes, it won’t be very fast, since the European monitoring standard provides for weekly rather than daily monitoring, but in two to three months we will complete this monitoring and announce its results,” Artemenko promised during a press conference on the results of monitoring broadcasts of regional and local TV channels in the transition period, held on Tuesday in Kyiv.
He recalled that from October 13, the law on language quotas on television comes into full force, and called on Ukrainian broadcasters to strictly adhere to its norms.
According to Artemenko, the low average (59%) of actual Ukrainian-language content on television from October 2017 to September 2018 was recorded in the Odessa region.
He also noted that according to the monitoring results, 7 out of 176 TV channels do not reach the quota established by law. In particular, these are the following TV channels: “Third Digital”, “Dumskaya.TV” and “Southern Wave” in the Odessa region, “Horizon-TV” in the Kharkov region, Kiev “TV Channel 100+”, “STS TV Channel” in the Sumy region and Donetsk TV channel "TV Sigma".
“After October 13, 2018, when the legal requirements regarding the share of the Ukrainian language on television come into force, such facts will have signs of violation of the law, which means the imposition of a fine in the amount of 5% of the license fee,” the head of the National Council emphasized.
He also stated that in September 2018, the STS Television Company, which carries out local broadcasting in the Sumy region, received a fine for insufficient amounts of Ukrainian language on air.
Earlier, “PolitNavigator” reported that the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting ordered unscheduled inspections of 6 TV channels that did not mourn on their broadcasts about the so-called so-called fiction invented by Kyiv propagandists. “Remembrance Day of the “Red Terror” on September 5th.
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