UTV Romania

Last updated
UTV
UTVRomaniaLogo.png
CountryFlag of Romania.svg  Romania
NetworkRadio And Television UHF Satelite Ltd.[ citation needed ]
HeadquartersBucharest
Programming
Picture format 4:3
Ownership
Owner RCS & RDS
Sister channels Digi 24
Digi Animal World
Digi Life
Digi Sport
Digi World
Digi 4K
Film Now
H!T Music Channel
Hora TV
Music Channel
History
Launched9 April 2005
ReplacedUTV
Replaced byThe Best
Former namesRomania Music
Links
Website www.utv.ro
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television Channel 10

UTV is a Romanian free-to-air music television channel located in Bucharest owned by RCS & RDS S.A.. [1] It was launched in late 2005 under the slogan "All I want for Christmas is U". It belonged to UTI GROUP, but was later sold to RCS RDS. It is mainly broadcast in clubs and restaurants, but also has a target for 18–35 years public, broadcasting new and recent music, Romanian and foreign, mainly dance, club, house.

It was also available as U HD, with Dolby Audio, until 2014. UTV mainly broadcasts new music, while H!T music channel, another RCS RDS channel, broadcasts older music from the 1960s to the present.

Related Research Articles

The mass media in Romania refers to mass media outlets based in Romania. Television, magazines, and newspapers are all operated by both state-owned and for-profit corporations which depend on advertising, subscription, and other sales-related revenues. The Constitution of Romania guarantees freedom of speech. As a country in transition, the Romanian media system is under transformation.

Discovery Channel is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. As of June 2012, Discovery Channel was the third most widely distributed subscription channel in the United States, behind now-sibling channel TBS and The Weather Channel; it is available in 409 

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ITV1</span> British free-to-air television channel

ITV1 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the British media company ITV plc. It provides the Channel 3 public broadcast service across all of the United Kingdom except for the central and northern areas of Scotland where STV provides the service.

RCS may refer to:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">UTV (TV channel)</span> Television channel in Northern Ireland

UTV is the ITV region covering Northern Ireland, ITV subsidiary and the former on-air name of the free-to-air public broadcast television channel serving the area. It is run by ITV plc and is responsible for the regional news service and other programmes made principally for the area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Traffic message channel</span> Technology for delivering traffic and travel information to motor vehicle drivers

Traffic Message Channel (TMC) is a technology for delivering traffic and travel information to motor vehicle drivers. It is digitally coded using the ALERT C or TPEG protocol into Radio Data System (RDS) carried via conventional FM radio broadcasts. It can also be transmitted on Digital Audio Broadcasting or satellite radio. TMC allows silent delivery of dynamic information suitable for reproduction or display in the user's language without interrupting audio broadcast services. Both public and commercial services are operational in many countries. When data is integrated directly into a navigation system, traffic information can be used in the system's route calculation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Star Vijay</span> Indian Tamil-language television channel

Star Vijay is an Indian Tamil language general entertainment pay television channel operated by Disney Star, a subsidiary of Disney India. The channel telecasts programmes such as serials, reality shows & Tamil films.

Television in Serbia was introduced in 1958. It remains the most popular of the media in Serbia—according to 2009 survey, Serbian people watch on average 6 hours of television per day, making it the highest average in Europe.

Digi Communications, also known as RCS & RDS, is a Romanian telecommunications holding company operating in Romania, Spain, Italy and now Portugal. Digi was founded by Zoltán Teszári, who is the majority shareholder, and has been listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange since May 16, 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">AKTA TV</span>

AKTA TV was a Romanian DTH platform. It belonged to Digital Cable Systems, a telecommunication operator which offered satellite, cable television, internet and telephony in over 2,500 locations in Romania.

Television in Romania started in August 1955. State television started to broadcast on 31 December 1956. The second television channel followed in 1968, but between 1985 and 1990, there was only one Romanian channel before the return of the second channel. Private broadcasters arrived in December 1991, with SOTI which was the first private nationwide television station in Central and Eastern Europe. Romania has the highest penetration rates for pay television in the world, with over 98% of all households watching television through cable or satellite.

Sports broadcasting contracts in Canada include:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Digi24</span> Romanian television news channel

Digi24, often known as Digi 24, is a 24-hour Romanian news television channel which was launched on 1 March 2012 by Digi TV.

Pro FM is a radio station in Romania and Moldova, it broadcasts in Romanian. It was sold by Central European Media Enterprises to RCS & RDS in 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dance FM</span> Radio station in Bucharest, Romania

Dance FM is a clubbing radio station from Romania, broadcasting dance music, owned by RCS & RDS. It broadcasts on 89.5 FM in Bucharest and on the internet. It was officially released on 21 February 2011 at an event organised by The Mission.

Music Channel is a Romanian music television channel, opened on May 28, 2008. On January 1, 2010 was launched a version in Hungary. Music Channel came to prominence as the first Romanian TV station to host Live streaming on the internet. The TV station is known for hosting the yearly Romanian Music Awards Unlikely to MTV Romania and Kiss TV, the station is more genre-broadcasting, dividing its airplay into the four most prominent music genres — pop, rock, urban and dance, much in the likes of UTV. Noteworthy, Music Channel is known for also airing Latin pop, adult contemporary, J-pop and K-pop among other genres that don't receive significant airplay from other music stations. Compared by many to VH1, the TV station conceived many Top-Tens and Top-100s and starting late-November they start playing Christmas music.

Digi Sport is a Romanian sports television that was launched on 23 July 2009, available only on the Digi TV platform. It is offered as a set of sports channels, called Digi Sport 1, Digi Sport 2, Digi Sport 3 and Digi Sport 4. On 23 November 2018 Digi 4K was launched just for main events.

Virgin Media Three, also called Virgin Three, is an Irish free-to-air television channel owned by Virgin Media Television.

This is a timeline of the history of Ulster Television. It provides the ITV network service for Northern Ireland.

References

  1. "RCS&RDS a cumparat televiziunea U TV de la fiica proprietarului UTI". DailyBusiness.ro. 2011-05-05.