DDTV

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DDTV
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Type entertainment channel, mostly aimed at children
Broadcast area Romania and Europe
Headquarters Bucharest
Programming
Language(s) Romanian
Picture format 4:3 (576i, SDTV)
Ownership
Owner Dan Diaconescu
Key people Dan Diaconescu
Sister channels OTV
History
LaunchedApril 1, 2005 (as a talk show channel)
August 23, 2009(relaunched as a entertainment channel)
Founder Dan Diaconescu
ClosedFebruary 24, 2014
Links
Website www.ddtv.home.ro (closed)

DDTV (Direct Digital TV, frequently mistaken for Dan Diaconescu TV) was a Romanian free-to-air entertainment television channel, founded by Dan Diaconescu in 2005. Unlike its sister channel, OTV, DDTV was mostly a children's television channel, since its daytime programming consisted of classic animated series.

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Overview

Launched in 2005, the channel did broadcast talk shows, such as "Deșteptarea României" and "Dan Diaconescu Direct", which also aired on OTV. In the summer of 2009, it was announced that DDTV will be rebranded with a completely new programming schedule, getting rid of the talk shows it did broadcast. The rebrand took place on 23 August 2009. In mornings and afternoons, the channel was broadcasting animated shorts, mostly public domain cartoons from Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios, Van Beuren, ComiColor Cartoons, Flip the Frog, The Gumby Show (most of them being 60s cartoons with the 80s track, plus some episodes from the "revival") and some from Soyuzmultfilm (such as Nu, pogodi!). There were also some exceptions of illegally copyrighted material being aired, like Hanna-Barbera's Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound, Joe Oriolo's Felix the Cat TV series (plus even some episodes of The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat) and Casper the Friendly Ghost theatrical shorts (apparently taken from the Casper and Wendy's Ghostly Adventures VHS release). In the evenings and nights, it did broadcast movies and documentaries targeted at teenagers.

The channel was closed on 24 February 2014, because its audiovisual license wasn't extended. [1]

In the future, the channel will be revived alongside OTV (Romanian TV channel). [2]

Criticism

In September 2009, DDTV was fined by CNA with 50,000 RON for broadcasting content (from Warner Bros.) without having the necessary rights to broadcast them, after Warner Bros. notified CNA about this problem. [1]

After OTV was closed by the CNA, Diaconescu used DDTV to broadcast the programs usually shown on OTV and CNA fined DDTV 100,000 lei (25,000 euros) in October 2013. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "DDTV, postul lansat de DAN DIACONESCU, a ramas fara licenta". livero.ro (in romanian). 10 March 2015.
  2. "OTV revine în forță pe micile ecrane: Andreea Marin și Mihaela Rădulescu s-ar afla pe lista lui Dan Diaconescu". Stiri pe surse (in Romanian). 2024-04-09. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  3. "CNA sesizeaza Parchetul in legatura cu retransmisia OTV de catre DDTV. Postul de desene animate si muzica populara - suspendat temporar". Hotnews. Archived from the original on 2021-09-05. Retrieved 22 October 2013.