Artem Shevchenko has been entered into the single state register of legal entities and private entrepreneurs as the director general of the Kyiv-based TeleRadioSvit television and radio broadcasting company LLC, which broadcasts satellite television programs under the TVi logo.

This information was posted on the Web site of the state enterprise Information and Resource Center.

Shevchenko's name replaced that of Natalia Katerynchuk.

Earlier on Tuesday, the press service of TVi reported that Shevchenko was appointed new director general of the channel instead of Katerynchuk. A famous U.S. businessman Oleksandr Altman became a new investor of the channel

Altman said that his top priority task is to retain the channel as one of the unbiased sources of information in Ukraine.

However, the owner of TVi channel Konstantin Kagalovsky said that he had not signed any papers about the sales of the channel, that the documents were forged and that the channel had been illegally seized with the help of law-enforcement agencies.

"I haven't sold the channel and I was not going to," Kagalovsky said at a press conference on Tuesday.

The suspended director general of TVi, Katerynchuk, turned to the police with a statement about the unlawful seizure of the channel.

The employees of the TVi television channel went on strike until a conflict between the owners of the channel is settled.

The Channel was replaying the August 22 programs on Tuesday.

As reported, the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting on April 11, 2013 made amendments to the license of TVi, according to which Kyiv-based Media Info LLC has increased its stake in Kyiv-based TeleRadioSvit television and radio broadcasting company LLC, which broadcasts satellite television programs under the TVi logo, from 43.6% to 100%.

According to the document, talk-show host Oleksiy Lichman was appointed a member of the editorial team, replacing Mykola Kniazhytsky (became an MP in 2012) and Volodymyr Pavliuk (moved to STB in 2011) and Vaclav Havel, who died at the end of 2011.

As of September 2012, the co-owners of TVi along with Media Info were Seradgill Holdings Ltd. (49%) and International Media Company LLC (Kyiv, 7.4%). The national council said that the share of Seradgill Holdings was earlier 92.6%.

The key owner of Media Info as of September 2013 was Wilcox Ventures Ltd.

There has been a long-running conflict over TVi. There have been court actions on the matter in Ukrainian and foreign courts involving businessmen Kagalovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky. The latter tried to regain control over the channel or funds invested.

However, in 2009, Kniazhytsky told Interfax-Ukraine that the channel does not belong either to Kagalovsky or Gusinsky.

"There are relations, but it cannot be said that they are owners of the channel," he said then, not disclosing the names of the end owners.

In 2012, when Media Info LLC appeared among shareholders of the TVi channel, the then director of the channel Kniazhytsky told the Telekritika publication that the introduction of Ukrainian co-owners to the structure of the shareholders is linked to the observation of the requirements of the law on the political advertisements, although the end owner of the channel is still Kagalovsky.