Vladimír Železný is a Czech businessman and politician. He was the first CEO of TV NOVA, a popular Czech television station and was a member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2009. As a media mogul with political influence, he has been compared to Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi. He was convicted of tax evasion in 2007.
Slovenská televízia was a state-owned public television organisation in Slovakia. It was created in 1991 as the Slovak part of the former Czechoslovak Television and was headquartered in Bratislava. It was funded from a combination of television licence fees, advertising, and government funding. It ceased to existed on 1 January 2011, when it was merged with the state-owned public radio organisation Slovenský rozhlas to create Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska.
Television stations in Slovakia broadcast in both DVB-T format and DVB-T2 format. Broadcasting is mostly in the Slovak, state-owned channels have some dedicated broadcasting for ethnic minorities. Foreign language movies and shows are dubbed. Czech production is often broadcast in original, with the exception of juvenile programs. Sometimes, foreign language movies are broadcast with Czech dubbing. Czech television channels are also popular in Slovakia, received in paid DVB-T2 service, directly in border regions or carried by cable companies and satellite operators. Most of premium channels like Filmbox, HBO, Viasat Channels, etc. broadcast only in Czech. Discovery, Sport 1, Sport 2 and few others are exception, they broadcast in both Czech and Slovak.
Prima televize is a Czech private television station. Its channel is broadcast from Prague. Its current owner is FTV Prima, spol. s. r. o., which is majority-owned by Czech investment firm GES, in turn owned by Czech oligarch Ivan Zach. The group's current general manager is Marek Singer. It is the first private TV channel in the Czech Republic and the former Czechoslovakia.
Canal+ Group is a French media and telecommunications conglomerate. It is owned and controlled by Vivendi and has a film library in excess of 5,000 films. It is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the suburbs of Paris. It has operations in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Poland, Romania, Hungary, in the Czech Republic, Myanmar, Vietnam, and in 23 African countries.
Television was introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1953. Experimental projects with DVB-T started in 2000. Finally on 21 October 2005, multiplex A (DVB-T) was launched with three channels of Česká televize and one of TV Nova and radio channels of Český rozhlas.
Radio and Television of Slovakia or RTVS is a nationwide public broadcasting, state-funded organisation in Slovakia. It is headquartered in Bratislava and led by Ľuboš Machaj.
TV Barrandov is a Czech television channel, launched in 2009. It was founded and started to broadcast in 2009. It currently broadcasts in Czech.
ČT Déčko is a Czech free-to-air television channel operated by Czech Television, specialising in children's content designed for young viewers 2 to 12 years of age. The channel began broadcasting on 31 August 2013, with Petr Koliha as its first executive director.
A week with the President was a Czech Journalist television program broadcast by TV Barrandov. The first episode was broadcast on 16 March 2017. It was presented by Petr Kolář and Alex Mynářová, as they interviewed Czech president Miloš Zeman, who commented on current events. It quickly became one of the most viewed journalistic programs in the Czech Republic. The program was considered part of Zeman's re-election campaign for the 2018 presidential election. It was discontinued in January 2020.
ČT3 was a Czech public television channel, operated by Czech Television. ČT3 broadcast originally in 1993 when it replaced the previous station OK3. Unlike the other two channels of the Czech Television at the time, ČT1 and ČT2, ČT3 broadcast its program largely in foreign languages and 24 hours a day.
iVysílání is a streaming platform of Czech Television. It offers television programmes produced by Czech Television along with films and programmes that Television has its license. Programmes and films can be viewed for free. Viewers can also watch broadcast of Czech Television channels.
Nova Gold is a Czech free-to-air commercial TV station belonging to the Nova Group, whose program includes series and programs from the Nova station archive and foreign crime series. The station began broadcasting on February 22, 2013, to mark Nova's nineteenth birthday.[1] Like other Nova Group channels, they belong to the CET 21 company, which falls under the CME. Nova Gold bears its current name since 4 February 2017, 2017 when the Telka channel was renamed Nova Gold in order to unify the channel names of the Nova group.
Prima Krimi is a FTV Prima channel that launched on 2 April 2018. It is focused on various foreign series and films, such as idsomer Murders, Bones, Castle, NCIS: Los Angeles or American Crime Story. The CEO of FTV Prima, Marek Singr, said that he hopes for a greater thematic diversity of the group's channels from the new channel. The Prima Krimi channel mainly influenced Prima Love, another channel of the group, which began to focus more on women's series and soap operas, with detective stories represented on Prima Krimi.
Prima Plus is a channel of the FTV Prima group, whose broadcasts are directed to the territory of Slovakia. Prima Plus began broadcasting in Slovakia on 23 January 2017. The program is mainly composed of Prima Television's own creations. The commercial representative of Prima PLUS is JOJ Group. According to the broadcast schedule, the Prima PLUS program consists mainly of programs created by Prima Television, whether they are serials, news programs, entertainment shows, culinary or hobby programs.
Prima Show is a Czech television channel, it is the eleventh channel of FTV Prima. The station is mainly focused on non-European reality shows and entertainment programs such as Like House, Královny butiků, Temptation Island, Beauty and the Geek or Wife Swap.
Prima Star is a Czech television channel of the FTV Prima group. The channel is primarily focused on its own archival entertainment programs and dramatic productions.
Barrandov Krimi is the third TV channel of the TV Barrandov group. It started airing on 16 May 2015. It is the next launched channel of the TV Barrandov group after the Kino Barrandov channel, which started broadcasting a month earlier.
Óčko Expres is a Czech music television station that started broadcasting on 15 August 2013. It broadcasts on the Internet, cable TV, IPTV and satellite. It focuses on modern music.
Óčko Black is a Czech music television channel.
