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ICTV2
Programming

Country	Ukraine
Headquarters	Kyiv, Ukraine
Picture format	16:9 (576i, SDTV) 16:9 (1080i, HDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Starlight Media Group (Victor Pinchuk & Olena Pinchuk)
Key people	Olexandr Bogutskiy
History
Launched	December 17, 2022 (2022-12-17)
Links
Website	www.ictv.ua/ictv2
Availability

Terrestrial
Zeonbud	MX-2 (20)

"ICTV2" ("International Commercial Television and Radio Company") is a Ukrainian TV channel, part of the Starlight Media group. It launched in December 2022, replacing ICTV Ukraine [uk], which had been an internationally oriented service.

History

On December 15, 2022, the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine [uk] reissued the license for ICTV Ukraine [uk], which had been an international channel with programs from ICTV until February 2022, when it began broadcasting the United News service on a non-stop basis. The new license changed the service's name to ICTV2 and shifted its content to series, shows and full-length films.^[1]^[2] Rebranding took place on December 17.^[3]

On December 22 of the same year, the National Council issued a temporary permission for the broadcasting of "ICTV2" during the period of martial law in Ukraine for broadcasting in the multiplex MX-2 of the digital broadcast network DVB-T2.^[4] The channel started broadcasting on the network the next day, December 23.

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