“POWER FM” ( formerly “Favorite Radio” and “Bar organ” ) is a Ukrainian commercial musical information radio station . The format of the radio station: TOP40 - modern hit radio with a predominance of hits in the style of pop. ". [2]
| POWER FM | |
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| Radio Sharmanka LLC | |
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| A country |  Ukraine |
| Format | Modern hit radio with a predominance of hits in the style of pop |
| Frequency | Kiev - 104.0 MHz |
| Broadcast area | Ukraine |
| Broadcast start date | April 22, 2002 |
| Replaced | POWER FM (April 22, 2002 - July 24, 2004) |
| Owner | Business Radio Group [1] |
| Site | www.powerfm.ua |
| Online streaming | http://media2.brg.ua:8000/power_h |
Content
History
The radio station first went on the air on April 22, 2002 under the name “POWER FM”. So “Sharmanka” is broadcasting from July 24, 2004. Initially, the broadcasting was distributed in the territory of Eastern and Central Ukraine, in Western Ukraine “Sharmanka” broadcast in only one city, Ivano-Frankivsk [3] . On the Internet, you can listen to the radio station since June 2005 . [four]
On July 21, 2006, the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine and the radio station Sharmanka signed a Memorandum of Cooperation and Principles of Interaction, the purpose of which was to bring the “quota of Ukrainian music on the air up to 50%” [5] .
In 2007, the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine made claims to the radio station Sharmanka in connection with the failure to comply with the law on the 50% quota of the Ukrainian music product on the air [6] .
In 2008, the UNIAN news agency appealed to the Commission on Journalistic Ethics of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine regarding the unauthorized use of their news information by the Radio Station “Sharmanka” detected by the Monitoring Service of UNIAN [7] .
In 2009, Business Radio Group acquired Radio 4U from the Polish group RMF and, after re-issuing a license, began broadcasting Radio Sharmanka on their frequencies in Western Ukraine [8] [9] . After the change of ownership, former employees of Radio 4U had a conflict with the new management of the radio station due to the liquidation of the broadcasting studio in Western Ukraine and the suggestion that employees move to the head office in Kiev , the result of the conflict was the mass dismissal of the radio station employees [10] .
In 2011, Radio “Sharmanka” acted as the general radio partner of the Ukrainian national program “Person of the Year” [11] .
From July 10, 2017, Favorite Radio radio station changed its name to the original POWER FM, but not in rock format anymore.
Broadcast Cities
- Kiev - 104.0 FM
- Berdichev - 103.0 FM
- Berdyansk - 102.1 FM
- Vinnitsa - 91.3 FM
- Genichesk - 104.4 FM
- Dnipro - 104.0 FM
- Zaporozhye - 105.1 FM
- Ivano-Frankivsk - 103.0 FM
- Kremenchuk - 107.0 FM
- Krivoy Rog - 103.6 FM
- Melitopol - 91.0 FM
- Odessa - 90.6 FM
- Poltava - 102.7 FM
- Sumy - 87.7 FM
- Kharkiv - 105.7 FM
- Cherkasy - 107.1 FM
- Chernihiv - 101.8 FM
Broadcast minimized
- Lugansk - 100.4 FM replaced by Radio ROKS , now the frequency is closed
- Ternopil - 106.1 FM replaced by Melody FM
- Lviv - 91.1 FM replaced by Russian Radio Ukraine , then by Kiss FM
- Kherson - 103.1 FM replaced by DJ FM
Notes
- ↑ Business Radio Group
- ↑ Structure of radio in Ukraine (inaccessible link) . The appeal date is February 25, 2012. Archived May 4, 2012.
- ↑ Mironova Irina. Anatoly Evtukhov caught Polish radio: Business Radio Group buys Radio 4U // Kommersant-Ukraine: daily newspaper. - Kommersant-Ukraine publishing house, 2009. No. 167 (988) .
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- ↑ Borschevskaya Love. The National Council has started the sweeps: Ukrainian radio stations will check for patriotism // Kommersant-Ukraine: daily newspaper. - Kommersant-Ukraine publishing house, 2007. No. 24 (375) .
- ↑ Borschevskaya Love. The radio stations were shown a yellow card: the National Council threatened to take away licenses for non-Ukrainian music on the air // Kommersant-Ukraine: daily newspaper. - PH “Kommersant-Ukraine”, 2007. - № 61 (412) .
- ↑ Nalyvayko O. UNIAN asks to assess the illegal actions of colleagues , UNIAN (December 26, 2008). The appeal date is July 31, 2012.
- ↑ Mironova Irina. Sharmanka received permission to broadcast // Kommersant-Ukraine: daily newspaper. - Publishing House Kommersant-Ukraine, 2009. No. 217 (1038) .
- ↑ Mironova Irina. Radio 4U will be a “Sharmanka” // Kommersant-Ukraine: daily newspaper. - Kommersant-Ukraine publishing house, 2009. No. 172 (993) .
- ↑ Radio 4U journalists refused to work for Sharmanka . Western Information Corporation (October 2, 2009). The appeal date was July 31, 2012. Archived September 13, 2012.
- ↑ “PERSON OF THE YEAR” Program: It is the age of majority! RBC- Ukraine (November 17, 2011). The appeal date was July 30, 2012. Archived September 13, 2012.