Viasat Ukraine

Viasat Ukraine is a Ukrainian direct broadcast satellite television distributor.

It competes with NTV Plus Ukraine and Poverkhnost which broadcast on the Eutelsat system.

The service was launched April 21, 2008 [1] using DVB-S & DVB-S2 transponders on the Astra 4A, Hot Bird and AMOS satellites to broadcast channels compressed with MPEG-2 & MPEG-4 AVC codecs.

In 2016, it was announced that Viasat Ukraine, the Ukrainian division of Viasat, would be sold to 1+1 media conglomerate.

[2][3][4] The deal was approved by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine and on September 21, 2017, Oleksandr Tkachenko, owner and CEO of 1+1 media, became the ultimate owner of the company.