Realitatea TV

Realitatea TV
Launched November 2001
Owned by Elan Schwarzenberg
Picture format 576i (4:3, SDTV)
Audience share 6.2% (Dec 2008, [1])
Slogan Deschide lumea (Open the world)
Country Romania
Broadcast area National; also distributed in
Moldova
Serbia
Headquarters Bucharest
Website www.realitatea.net
Availability
Cable
UPC Romania Channel 401 (digital with DVR)
Channel 21 (digital)

Realitatea TV (Romanian pronunciation: [re.aliˈtate̯a teˈve], meaning "The Reality TV") is a Romanian news television network. The channel is distributed by many cable operators in Romania and Moldova. Its main owner is Romanian businessman Elan Schwartzenberg.

Realitatea TV is also available via the DTH platform Digi TV in Serbia, in the Romanian language extra package.

Although it began broadcasting in 2001 as a general-profile television, Realitatea TV soon became the first ever 24-hour Romanian news television (2002).

History

First decade and evolution under Silviu Prigoană and Sorin Ovidiu Vântu

Realitatea TV started broadcasting in 2001, as a general-profile TV station. However, it began broadcasting hourly newscasts and soon changed its format, becoming the first news television in Romania. Prigoană brought Ion Cristoiu to supervise the channel and rise its audience.

In 2004 Silviu Prigoană sold the network to an Italian company that later sold it to Petrom, which subsequently lost it to Sorin Ovidiu Vântu, sometime in 2006. Vântu was occasionally accused of using his television to manipulate public opinion against President Băsescu and his party. Vântu eventually sold Realitatea to Elan Schwarzenberg.


References

  1. ↑ "ARMA 2008_12" (PDF). ARMA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-06-02.
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