1+1 immediately became a major force in the Ukrainian TV industry, despite early programming consisting solely of movie broadcasts.

[citation needed] Since the start of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, 1+1 is participating in the United News telethon, and is not broadcasting any other programs.

Oles Tereshenko leads the concluding TSN series of a day at midnight and a week as well every Sunday at 7:30 pm with the overview of political, social, and cultural life of Ukraine and the world.

Initially airing exclusively on weekdays, the show underwent expansion to encompass weekend editions starting in 2006.

Over time, supplementary segments like "Fitness", "Fashion Insights", "Relaxation", and "Adventurous Journeys" were incorporated into the program's schedule.

The show pairs a celebrity with a professional dancer, and the couples perform pre-determined dances, competing for judges' scores and audience votes.

Each week, the couple with the lowest combined judges' scores and audience votes gets eliminated, until the final champion dance pair remains.

They requested that AITI, a TV company that had previously rented broadcasting time on UT-2, surrender its license due to a year-long programming halt.

[6][7] In late November 2004 several journalists left the channel in protest against this pressure and almost all leading presenters had refused to report news.

In October 2006 Alexander Rodnyansky, the General Producer of Studio 1+1, won a hard appeal process in the Supreme Court of Ukraine, after the court gave ownership of 70% of the company's shares to Ihor Kolomoyskyi, and as he had claimed, in June 2005 there was an agreement signed between himself and Rodnyansky, that 70% of the company's shares were sold to Kolomyyskyy (for ~US$70 million).