Ownership
The channel was founded by the Ukrainian Independent TV-Corporation in 1996. The Ukrainian independent TV-corporation's shareholders were Dilovyi Svit 51%, Russian Channel One 29%, Pegas Television 20%. About 82.5% of Pegas Television was the personal property of Ihor Pluzhnikov. The other shares of the company were split between Pegas and Overseas sales Ltd. 17.3% and Bersted Ukraina 0.2%. Those two companies were his property as well. Besides Pegas, he had some shares in Dilovyi Svit which consisted of Bersted Ukraina, RIF-Service, Play Enterprise, insurance company Sindek, and legal services of Konnov and Sozanovskyi. In 2005, Ihor Pluzhnikov unexpectedly died. His death caused a lot of discussions on the political level. In August all of the shares Dilovyi Svit and half of Pegas Television (total of 61%)[16] became a property of what later became known as Ukrainian Mediaproject headed by Valeriy Khoroshkovsky. Pegas was taken over by Pluzhnikov's wife, Svitlana, who has 10% ownership of the Ukrainian independent TV-corporation.[2] There is speculation that she does not have any influence on the business of the telechannel, Inter. As of December 2012, 61% of the shares are owned by Ukrainian Mediaproject, 29% by Channel One and 10% by Pluzhnikov's widow.[2] According to Yaroslav Porokhniak, head of the management board of Inter, the Russian shareholders have no say in the channel's editorial or programming policies.[2]
In September Valeriy became the head of the Observing Council and in 2006 made some changes in the management. In 2007, on the base of Ukrainian Mediaproject was established U.A. Inter Media Group financial holdings.
The channel is part of GDF Media Limited; since Dmytro Firtash bought 100 percent of Inter Media Group Limited (back) from Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi on February 1, 2013.[17] In June 2007 Khoroshkovskyi had expanded his U.A. Inter Media Group Ltd with various other channels bought from Firtash.[18]
GDF Media Limited also owns NTN, K1, Mega, Enter-Film, K2, Pixel and Zoom.[17]
- General producers
- Oleksandr Zinchenko (October 20, 1996 – May 27, 2002)
- Vladyslav Riashyn (October 20, 1996 – January 15, 2006)
- Leonid Mazor (March 24-December 31, 2006)
- Hanna Bezliudna (January 1, 2007 – September 6, 2009)
- Information service managers
- Hanna Bezliudna (1997–2001)
- Oleksiy Mustafin (2001–2005)
- Maksym Karyzhskyi (2006)
- Anton Nikitin (2006–2009)
- Oleksandr Pylypets (2009)
