Telecommunications in Albania include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Television in Albania was first introduced in 1960. RTSH dominated the Albanian broadcasting field up to the mid-1990s, a period when privately owned radio and TV stations started to occupy the vast empty Albanian frequencies.
Top Channel is a national commercial television network based in Tirana, Albania. The network was founded by Dritan Hoxha in 2001, the network forms part of Top Media Group together with Top Albania Radio, Top Gold Radio, My Music Radio, daily newspaper Shqip, daily magazine Shqip Magazine, coffee producer Lori Caffe, Digitalb, Top News, VGA Studio, musicAL, and Imperial Cinemas.
Radio Televizioni Shqiptar is the national public broadcasting company of Albania. Founded in 1938, it operates several radio and television channels, over a domestic transmitter network as well as satellite. The international television service via satellite RTSH Sat was launched in 1993 and is aimed at Albanian-speaking communities in Kosovo, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and northern Greece, plus the Albanian diaspora in the rest of Europe. RTSH is funded by a combination of commercial advertising, an annual licence fee of US$10.00 and grant-in-aid from the Albanian government.
Televizioni Klan, also shortened to TV Klan, is an Albanian private television channel with national coverage, based in Tirana, Albania.
TVA was a national television station based in Tirana, Albania. It was founded in 1996 and was one of the early private TV stations in Tirana, quickly establishing itself as a prominent channel in the country. Despite having limited coverage with an analogue signal, it was granted national frequency status.
News 24 is the first Albanian 24-hour news television channel founded in 2002 in Tirana, Albania, by Italian journalist and former shareholder of Gazeta Shqiptare newspaper, Radio Rash, and Balkanweb portal, Carlo Bollino. The channel's format resembles its Italian equivalent Rai News24. News is updated every minute.
Vizion Plus is a national privately owned channel established in 1999 in Tirana, Albania. The channel started as a local station and a few years later began broadcasting all over Albanian territory.
Mass media in Albania refers to mass media outlets based in Albania. 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 Albania guarantees freedom of speech. Albanian media are quite diverse, although politicised, and often influenced by business and political interests.
Albania's news industry covers the press, television and radio.
TeleNorba or Telenorba Shqiptare or simply TNSH is a defunct private Albanian TV channel from Tirana, Albania launched in 1996 and owned by the Bari, Italy based TeleNorba Italia broadcaster. Originally, the channel was owned by Italian businessmen, then a Greek businessman, and finally by Albanian media mogul Aleksandër Frangaj. The channel used to be available via analogue in central Albania, and later on satellite in Europe on the Albanian TV package DigitAlb.
Tirana TV was a music television station based in Albania. It mainly broadcast Albanian music as well as satirical episodes from well known Albanian satirists.
Albanian Screen is a defunct television station with satellite frequency from Tirana, Albania. It broadcast in Europe via EUTELSAT Satellite by covering the whole territory of Europe. Albanian Screen Television broadcasts terrestrially in all the territory of Albania, and via digital terrestrial signal in the city of Tirana. The General Director of Albanian Screen Television was oil mogul Rezart Taçi.
Floriana Garo is an Albanian television personality and former Miss Albania.
Alban Ramosaj is an Albanian singer, songwriter and model. Born in Ede and raised in Tirana, he auditioned for The Voice of Albania in 2013 and emerged as the winner of the 22nd edition of Kënga Magjike in 2021.
Eva Murati is an Albanian actress and TV host. Starting her career at the age of 15, she made herself known in Albanian show business through appearances in commercials and modeling work.
Fax News is an Albanian news television station first launched on October 6, 2017. The station is available on the national digital radio-television network. It is also offered as part of a package plan by ISP provider Abcom, part of the Tring terrestrial platform and can be also streamed online.
Anxhela Peristeri is an Albanian singer and songwriter. She emerged as the winner of the 19th edition of Kënga Magjike in 2017. After winning the 59th edition of Festivali i Këngës in 2020, Peristeri was designated as the Albanian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.
