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Telecommunications in Moldova are maintained at a relatively high performance level. Because Moldova is a small country, telecommunications companies managed to achieve good coverage in both wired and wireless communications infrastructure. Landline is available in most settlements, however mobile phone popularity has vastly increased in recent years. Mobile communications infrastructures are fairly well developed but suffer from high prices, nonetheless the amount of mobile subscriptions is growing very fast compared to the landline. As far as the Internet is concerned, Moldova has one of the best wired Internet connections in the world as well as one of the cheapest in $ per Mbit.
Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CME) is a media and entertainment company that operates television channels in seven geographic areas: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania and Moldova, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Until its acquisition by PPF Group N.V. in October 2020, the company was listed on NASDAQ and Prague Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CETV. It has since been delisted.
The mass media of Transnistria, the breakaway territory within the borders of Moldova, features both state-owned or supported outlets and opposition media. Publications are in Russian, with a single newspaper in each of the other two official languages, Moldovan (Romanian), and Ukrainian.
TeleRadio-Moldova (TRM) is the Moldovan state-owned national radio and television broadcaster. It owns two TV channels and three radio stations. TRM was admitted as a full active member of the European Broadcasting Union on 1 January 1993, under its former name Radioteleviziunea Nationala din Moldova (RTNM).
Dorin Chirtoacă is a Moldovan politician who served as Mayor of Chișinău from 2007 to 2018. He has been leader of Liberal Party (PL) since 2018.
The mass media in Moldova refers to mass media outlets based in the Republic of Moldova. 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 Moldova guarantees freedom of speech. As a country in transition, Moldova's media system is under transformation.
Television in Moldova was introduced in 1958.
Jurnal TV is a general TV channel from the Republic of Moldova, launched in 2009 on Internet and in 2010 on air, which transmits in Romanian and partially in Russian. Initially it was created to be the first news television channel of Republic of Moldova, but its focus changed to more general programming on March 5, 2011. Presently, the channel shows news journals, political/social/entertaining shows and talk-shows, movies, TV series, and cartoons dubbed in Romanian or Russian.
Publika TV was a Moldovan broadcast news television station. It was launched on April 7, 2010, their founders being the Romanian businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vîntu and the Moldovan businessman Vladimir Plahotniuc.
Petru Bogatu was a journalist, essayist, political analyst and writer from the Republic of Moldova, unionist and pro-occidental orientation, editorialist at the National Newspaper, professor at the State University of Moldova, Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences.
Jurnal de Chișinău was a Moldovan newspaper, founded in 1999. It went defunct at the end of 2019.
Val Butnaru is a journalist and writer from the Republic of Moldova. He is the founder of Jurnal TV and Jurnal Trust Media.
Valentina Butnaru is a journalist and activist from the Republic of Moldova. She is the president of the Association "Limba noastră cea română" in Chișinău.
Vitalie Călugăreanu is a journalist from the Republic of Moldova. He is a Chişinău-based journalist and talk-show host of Shadow Government, a program on Jurnal TV. Also, Călugăreanu is a correspondent for Deutsche Welle.
Mariana Raţă is an investigative and TV journalist from Moldova. She is the founder of the Media Alternativa association, which holds the license of the independent television station TV8. Rață is Senior Editor at TV8, responsible for the editorial policy of TV8 media products. Since 2017, Rață is the host of the political talk show Cutia Neagră, and since 2020, she is also the director of the investigation show Cutia Neagră PLUS. Both are broadcast by TV8. Since 2017, Rață is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Center for Independent Journalism in Moldova.
Centro 73 was a social and cultural centre in Chișinău and the first squat created in Moldova. The early twentieth century villa at 73 Alexei Mateevici street was a monumental building which the owner intended to demolish. It was occupied in August 2010 and evicted in December the same year.
Jurnal FM is a Moldovan radio station owned by NGO Sănătatea. Jurnal FM started its broadcasting in 2009 as an internet radio station. Starting 25 December 2010, Jurnal FM broadcasts via FM in Chisinau and in other important cities of Moldova. Jurnal FM replaced the old radio station called Radio Sănătatea. Currently Jurnal FM broadcasts news, entertainment and talk show programmes. The format is CHR including 50% Moldovan and 50% Romanian music. Jurnal FM is a highly rated radio station in Chisinau, the capital of the Republic of Moldova.
Vladimir Plahotniuc, commonly referred to as Vlad Plahotniuc, is a Moldovan politician and oligarch and the vice president of the parliament of Moldova in 2010-2013. He was the chairman of the Democratic Party of Moldova and previously was a member of the Parliament of Moldova for three terms, and served as First Vice President of the Parliament of Moldova. Until leaving the territory of the Republic of Moldova in 2019, he was considered to be the powerhouse of Moldovan politics in matters of influence, controlling Moldova's government and parliamentary majority. Since fleeing Moldova in June 2019, Plahotniuc has resided in Turkey.
PRO TV Chișinău is a private, generalist TV channel from Moldova. It was founded in 1999. It is operated by Prodigital SRL, part of CME trust. Besides some PRO TV Bucharest's programs, PRO TV Chișinău broadcasts local newscasts and shows, as well as local advertising.
CS Femina-Sport Chișinău is a Moldovan sports society in Chișinău, Moldova. The club was founded in 2011, and is the only exclusively female sports club in this region. At the moment in club activates 7 sections: football, basketball, handball, volleyball, rugby league, tennis and bowling. In November 2012 the club was close to being dissolved due to financial problems.
