Euronews is a European pay television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France. The network began broadcasting on 1 January 1993 and aimed to cover world news from a pan-European perspective.
Edvin "Edi" Rama is an Albanian politician, painter, writer, publicist, former pedagogue, and former basketball player, who is currently serving as the 33rd Prime Minister of Albania and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Rama has also been the chairman of the Socialist Party of Albania since 2005.
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.
Mediaset S.p.A., also known as Gruppo Mediaset in Italian, is an Italian-based mass media company which is the largest commercial broadcaster in the country. Founded in 1987 by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and still controlled today with a 38.6% stake by his family's holding company Fininvest, the group competes primarily against the public broadcaster RAI, the privately owned La7 and Comcast's Sky Italia.
Radiotelevizija Slovenija – usually abbreviated to RTV Slovenija – is Slovenia's national public broadcasting organization.
Bloomberg Television is an American-based pay television network centred towards business and capital market programming, owned by Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide. It is headquartered in New York City, with European headquarters in London and Asian headquarters in Hong Kong.
Top Channel is a national commercial television station based in Tirana, Albania, founded by businessman Dritan Hoxha in 2001. A part of Top Media Group, in January 2008 Top Channel was awarded national frequency coverage by making it the third such channel in Albania. In 2009, it was the first Albanian channel to become available in 16:9 widescreen high-definition television for selected programs. Since September 2003, Top Channel has been present on satellite by broadcasting all over Europe through DigitAlb, and North America through TV ALB and Shqip TV. The channel is available through IPTV in Europe and North America, and through local cable in Switzerland.
Radio Televizioni Shqiptar is the public broadcaster of Albania, founded in 1938 in Tirana.
TV Klan is a private television channel with national coverage based in Tirana, Albania.
The 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.
Television in Italy was introduced in 1939, when the first experimental broadcasts began. However, this lasted for a very short time: when fascist Italy entered World War II in 1940 all transmissions were interrupted, and were resumed in earnest only nine years after the end of the conflict, on January 3, 1954.
Albania's news industry covers the press, television and radio.
Boing is an Italian free-to-air television channel marketed at children and teenagers, produced by Boing S.p.A, a joint venture of Fininvest's Mediaset and AT&T's WarnerMedia. It is available on digital terrestrial television and free-to-air satellite provider Tivùsat.
Qemal Butka was an Albanian architect, painter, politician, and postage stamps engraver. He was mayor of Tirana from 1935-1936 but departed from Albania in 1939 to live in Turkey and later the United States. He is also known for projecting several monuments and buildings in Albania.
ABC News is an Albanian pay television channel that is owned by Media 6. It was founded in 2010 by Albanian media businessman Aleksandër Frangaj on the frequency of the defunct Italian-Albanian channel Telenorba Shqiptare. It is part of the Klan media group, together with TV Klan and Klan Kosova. ABC News Radio, a radio relay channel is available on 105.0 FM in Tirana.
Albania competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's seventh appearance at the Olympics since its debut in 1972. The National Olympic Committee of Albania sent a total of 11 athletes to the Games, seven men and four women, to compete in four sports. Weightlifter Hysen Pulaku was officially removed from the team on the first day, after failing a drug test for the banned anabolic steroid substance, as announced by the International Olympic Committee. Albania, however, has yet to win its first ever Olympic medal.
Rezart Taçi is an Albanian businessman who is most known for being the creator and CEO of Taçi Oil.
The Air Albania Stadium, also referred to as Arena Kombëtare, is an all-seater, multi-purpose football stadium located in the capital city of Tirana which was built on the ground of the former Qemal Stafa Stadium. The stadium has a seating capacity of 22,500 constituting the largest stadium in Albania.
IN TV is an Albanian television network dedicated to the young audience. It was launched on June 16, 2014 as MAD Albania, a music channel. MAD Albania won the prize of "The Best Albanian Music Channel" at the IMA Awards 2015. Since December 29, 2015 the channel is known as IN TV, and it changed its programming into a general channel.
