| First National Channel Перший національний канал |
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| Launched | 20 January, 1965 |
| Owned by | Government of Ukraine, National Television Company of Ukraine |
| Picture format | 4:3 (576i, SDTV) |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Broadcast area | Ukraine |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Website | http://www.1tv.com.ua |
Pershyi Natsionalnyi (Ukrainian: Перший національний) is the state-run television channel in Ukraine, operated by the National Television Company of Ukraine. It is the only Ukrainian TV channel covering over 97% of Ukraine's territory. Its programs are oriented on all social layers of the Ukrainian society and national minorities. Among priority directions of the network are informative publicism, popular scientific, culturologic, entertaining and sport-oriented On 1 September 2008, the State Television went through a major rebranding that includes logo, idents change and new program openers. The new logo consists of the word "Pershyi" ("First")[1]. UT-1 (short for Ukrayinske Telebachennia - 1) is a traditional professional abbreviation of this channel.
UT plans to acquire public broadcaster status by 2009. The government will lose its direct control over the national network. The Public Television Network will consist of several channels, such as, "First Channel", "Second Channel", "Euronews Ukraine" and "Ukraine and the World".
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Clocks on UT introduced in 1991.
There is only clock is the history. The current clock. (Green background with white clock with logo inside the clock) Used since 1993 until now.
The testcard UT1 is UEIT introduced in 1996.
Until 2000, The testcard is only broadcast for 2 minutes before startup. With YMCA song
"Closing time" is 100%. It will choose the time randomly like 4:40. But it announced in the schedule.
During the Soviet era, Every channel had to close before 4am.
The first attempt of broadcasting was accomplished on February 1, 1939 which lasted for 40 minutes. The second attempt was only after some time upon conclusion of World War II, on November 6 and 7, 1951. When the Kievan studio broadcast two shows. The next attempt was conducted on May 1, 1952 when the studio broadcast a concert anchored by Novela Separionova. In 1953 was accomplished the building construction of Kievan telecenter at 26 Khreschatyk. It was the third official telecenter established in the Soviet Union. Although the regular broadcasting was established only since November 1956. Until then the studio was only presenting couple of shows per day.
On 20 January 1965, spectators in some Ukrainian oblasts (regions) could see a screen with two big capital letters "УТ" ("UT") that symbolized the beginning of the united all-republican teleprogram. Its time on air was over 200 hours in 1965. On 6 March 1972, the UT started to go on air on two channels at a time - УТ-1 (UT-1) and УТ-2 (UT-2). In the end of the 1970s the building of the UT on Khreshchatyk was reconstructed and the employees got three new studios, but the question of building a new modern TV-center was raised soon. The construction of the new UT headquarters started in 1983 and was finished in 1993. The new center was built at 42 Melnykov Street and was officially inspected by the President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk.
In 2002 the National Television Company of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Space Agency started to broadcast First National (UT-1) through a satellite abroad. In 2004 the UT-2 channel stopped its broadcasting. UTR started its broadcasting on UT-2's frequency. UT-1 was renamed First Channel. In 2005 Taras Stets'kiv became the president of the National Television Company of Ukraine. First Channel prepared to and held the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 successfully in Kiev. In 2006 Vitaliy Dokalenko was appointed as the president of the National Television Company of Ukraine by former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko. In 2010 Yehor Benkendorf, former chief producer of Inter TV channel, was appointed as the president of the National Television Company of Ukraine by Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich.[2]
TV channel replace 4 logotypes. Present — 5th on account.
With 1972 by 1997 stand in left upper corner. With 1997 by present time stand in right upper corner.
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