On Wednesday, September 2, a new city TV channel Odesa.Live began broadcasting in Odessa.
The channel broadcasts in digital ether in Odessa and the region and in cable operators' networks instead of the GTV channel (LLC «TRC" Club-TV »). Live streaming is also available on the channel's YouTube channel and website.
Odesa.Live plans to conduct joint broadcasts with the capital's Kyiv.Live channel, which began broadcasting in August. Even before the launch, the channels showed their studios and introduced the presenters. In particular, the presenters of Odesa.Live became Ruslana Orlenko, Victoria Ortiz, Grigory Blayda, Dmitry Skripka, Alexei Makeenko, Tamara Mishina, Ekaterina Bankova, Oleg Baydalyuk, Elizabeth, Liza Malayeva, Igor Oks, Svetlana Dovzhuk, Max Fedak and Alexei Mayorov.
The general producer of the city TV channels Kyiv.Live and Odesa.Live - Alexei Semenov, launched and relaunched the TV channels «112 Ukraine», NewsOne, Pryamy, and in June 2019 headed the «News» holding of the People's Deputy from «Opposition Platform – For Life» Taras Kozak ( «112 Ukraine», NewsOne and ZIK). The investor of Kyiv.Live and Odesa.Live - the capital's developer and People's Deputy from «Opposition Platform – For Life» Vadim Stolar. Alexei Semenov and Vadim Stolar plan to launch a number of city channels in major cities.
GTV (LLC «TRC" Club-TV ») was a youth TV channel, broadcasting in cable networks of Odessa, and since 2018 also in digital ether in Odessa and the region in the regional multiplex of the RRT Concern. The TV channel was part of the media holding of media manager Alexander Kozyr, who is associated with Odessa businessman Vladimir Galanternik. According to the register, the owner of the channel is LLC «G em g group». By the summer of 2019, the ultimate beneficiary was indicated as a citizen of Great Britain Igor Gusev, now a citizen of Germany Michael Berzun. «Our investors are construction business in Odessa, who want peace in the country», - said Alexander Kozyr during the competition for digital frequencies in December 2017.