After the channel was shutdown, the entire channel was replaced by another channel named Folklorit which was also part of DigitAlb before MusicAL's shutdown and also existed during MusicAL's existence. After the channel took over MusicAL, the channel decided to be completely independent of the Top Media Group and because of this, Folklorit had ceased broadcasts on DigitAlb. Folklorit now broadcasts free of charge in Albania on digital terrestrial television and also on OTT app "Klani Im" in Europe, North America and across the world.
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.
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.
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, Shqip Magazine, coffee producer Lori Caffe, Digitalb, Top News, VGA Studio, musicAL, and Imperial Cinemas.
Freeview is New Zealand's free-to-air television platform. It is operated by a joint venture between the country's major free-to-air broadcasters – government-owned Television New Zealand and Radio New Zealand, government-subsidised Whakaata Māori, and the American-owned Warner Bros. Discovery.
AzTV or Azerbaijan Television is a state-controlled national television channel in Azerbaijan. It is the oldest television channel in the country, having first broadcast from Baku on 14 February 1956 in what was then the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.
Television in Iceland is currently composed of the public broadcasting service of RÚV, five free-to-view channels and a number of subscription channels provided by private broadcasters. Broadcasts began in 1955 when the American Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) started an English-language television service broadcasting from Naval Air Station Keflavik, which operated until 2006. The first Icelandic-language television broadcasts started in September 1966 with the launch of RÚV, originally called Sjónvarpið. In 1986 the first privately owned TV station, Stöð 2, began broadcasts. In recent years the emergence of foreign internet streaming services such as Netflix and Disney+ has seen shift from domestic providers provide similar on demand streaming services such as Síminn Premium and Stöð 2+.
Eurosport 2 is a sports television network. It is a sister channel to Eurosport 1, which is a division of the Eurosport Network and a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. Several different versions of the channel exist across Europe, where television rights for sport differ. The Eurosport 2 channel had an audience of 87 million viewers in 2019, an increase in size of one million.
RTV21 is a broadcaster and media company based in Pristina, Kosovo, which includes a radio, a television station, and six sister stations. Its launch in online radio made it the first Albanian station to air over the internet.
Events from the year 2007 in Albania.
DigitAlb Sh.A is an Albanian media, digital satellite and terrestrial TV platform based in Tirana, Albania. The TV platform began terrestrial broadcasts on 15 July 2004, and satellite broadcasts by the end of that year. At the same time, DigitAlb began broadcasting some channels of defunct AlbaniaSat's satellite platform SAT + which eventually went bankrupt. DigitAlb closely collaborates with absorbing sports package SuperSport while having introduced wireless DVB-H technology for wireless TV for the first time in Albania since 2006. On 15 July 2022, to celebrate 18 years, Digitalb launched its OTT service.
Dritan Hoxha was an Albanian businessman. He was the founder of Top Media, Albania's largest media company.
Top News is a 24-hour Albanian television news channel that first aired on February 12th, 2007.
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.
SuperSport is an Albanian group of television sports channels operated by terrestrial television platform DigitAlb. The channels broadcast a range of different sports such as the English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, German Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2, Dutch Eredivisie, French Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Euro, UEFA Europa Conference League, Copa América, ATP 500, ATP 1000, IAAF, etc.
Gazeta Shqip is a newspaper published in Albania that is a part of Top Media Group together with Top Albania Radio, Top Gold Radio, part of pay TV platform DigitAlb, Top Channel, Top News, VGA Studio, My Music Radio, and MusicAL.
My Music is an Albanian music television channel, part of DigitAlb. It transmits free to air on satellite in Europe via Eutelsat, and in terrestrial and cable in Albania.
Çufo is an Albanian TV channel for children from 1–14 years old. The rating system is divided into 3 groups: babies from 1–5 years old, kids from 6–9 years old, and preteens and teenagers from 11–14 years old. It was launched on December 18, 2006 by the TV platform DigitAlb.
Bang Bang is an Albanian TV channel for children aged 1–14. It was launched on 17 December 2004 by the TV platform DigitAlb. All of Bang Bang's programming is in Albanian, which can be switchable to the original language on the second audio track. The channel also has a rating system, which is divided into three groups; babies 1–5 years old, kids 6–9 years old, and teenagers 11–14 years old.
TVALB is an Albanian-American IPTV/OTT platform designed for streaming TV channels from all over the world. Particularly, it was created for the Albanian community living in the US and Canada to provide them with their native video content.
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