Ukraina (; officially TRC Ukraina, ) was a national Ukrainian-language TV channel, owned by Media Group Ukraine. It began broadcasting as a regional, Donetsk TV channel on March 13, 1993, with getting a national status in 2004. It ceased broadcasting in July 2022. The channel consisted of TV shows, films and TV series, both domestic and foreign.
History
Channel Ukraine was established in Donetsk in March 1993 as the state utility company Doka-TV. The operator was in stake under Donetsk City Council. The channel started broadcasting in Donetsk on Channel 7, where, as a result it, shared time with other TV companies – "ASKET 7x7" and Sket. The channel was known for its Ukrainophobic policies and promoting the Russian move of integration and also recognise Dombass policies in Ukrainian until 2009.
By the end of the 1990s, ASKET TV was bought out by tycoon Rinat Akhmetov's structures, and in connection with the re-licensing of channels and frequencies, the new owners of ASKET TV offered TRK Ukraina to unite on mutually beneficial terms in order not to share the channel, and develop it all together. In March 2001, CJSC "TRK Ukraina" was established, which received a license for the sixth meter channel in Donetsk, and later for a number of channels in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Akhmetov's SCM group, which at the time owned 75% of the channel's shares (later, in 2007, SCM became the owner of 99%, and in 2010 - 100% of the channel's shares).
In 2002-2003, the company continued its active development, receiving more than a hundred television frequencies throughout Ukraine, including 11 TV channels in Kyiv, where the channel began broadcasting in June 2003. In the same year, the channel also started broadcasting via satellite. In April 2003, TRK Ukraina became one of the most accessible packages of the Kyiv cable operator Volia. In 2004 during the Orange Revolution, TRK Ukraina was associated as the media resource of Yanukovych's pro-Russian camp and to be a constant repeater of the ideology of the Party of Regions (and later the Opposition Bloc) and to sponsor Rinat Akhmetov as the president. Moreover, in the same year, the channel received national status.
In 2008, Media Group Ukraine was founded and its launch of sports channel Football TV. In the autumn of 2009, TRK Ukraina moved their broadcasting facilities to Kyiv where currently resides its studios and operations today, however their former studios were converted into Donbass regional counterpart in the meter range in Donetsk Oblast, continuing its own broadcasting on decimeter waves. At the end of 2008, the TV channel officially redesigned their website ever since it was launched in early 2004.
In 2010, the channel rebranding took in stake when TRK branding was dropped and retained the "Ukraine" branding.
In 2013, the channel officially signed the agreement to broadcast the UEFA Euro 2016 and FIFA World Cup 2018 for the first time to broadcast live.
More recently in 2020, the channel officially broadcast in High Definition.
Rinat Akhmetov, the beneficial owner of Media Group Ukraine, returned the licenses of all media assets of the media group to the state in July 2022, hence, the station stopped broadcasting on 22 July 2022 at 10:00 AM Kyiv Time. The ID of the channel remained until 10:08 AM when the feed turned black. According to an official statement, the group returned the licenses due to a new oligarch law in Ukraine. On 21 July 2022 the National Council of Ukraine for Television and Radio had canceled the licenses of the eight TV channels of Media Group Ukraine.
But in 18 October 2022, previous team launched new channel My-Ukraina, later in 7 November 2022, launched on digital TV.