TVR Cultural

TVR Cultural (Romanian pronunciation: [ˌtevere ˌkultuˈral]) was the cultural channel of Romania's government-funded television network Televiziunea Română.It provided cultural news, documentaries about the arts, as well as various shows, musicals and theatrical pieces. It was closed in September 2012.

TVR Cultural
LaunchedMarch 2002
Closed15 September 2012
Owned byTeleviziunea Română
Picture format4:3 (576i, SDTV)
Audience share0.2% (Dec 2008, [1])
CountryRomania
Formerly calledCultural
Sister channel(s)TVR1, TVR2, TVR3, TVR Info, TVRi, TVR HD
Websitehttp://www.tvr.ro/tvr_cultural.php (defunct)
Availability
Terrestrial
Televiziunea RomânăChannel 003
Digital TelevisionChannel 11
Satellite
EUTELSAT W2/16° EST. Transponder D1; Reception Frequency: 11.471 MHz, polarity: verticală; SR: 29,950 Msymbol/sec; FEC: 3/4
Cable
UPC RomaniaChannel 21 (digital with DVR)
Channel 12 (digital)

History

TVR Cultural began transmission in 2002. It was built after the model of the Franco-German TV channel Arte, and other European channels, that promote programming in the areas of culture and the arts.

Stop broadcasting

Due to the financial crisis in which Romanian Television is immersed,[2] Claudiu Saftoiu, president of TVR,[3] decided to stop broadcasting in the summer of 2012. There is growing criticism [4][5][6] of this decision, which comes at a time when other public broadcasters in the Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland’s Telewizja Polska and the Czech Republic’s Česká televize, "are planning to add to their channel portfolios" .[7]

See also

References
  1. "ARMA 2008_12" (PDF). ARMA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-06-02.
  2. state owned TVR to close down two channels, layoff staff in attempt to save money Romania-Insider
  3. Claudiu Saftoiu: huge losses of TVR require reorganization Financial Magazine
  4. Romanians protest against ditched TVR channel Advanced Television
  5. Decision to stop the emission of TVR Cultural illustrates the crisis of values Nine O’Clock
  6. Remote control protest organized in Bucharest against closing state-owned culture TV channelRomania Insider
  7. TVR to close two channels Broadband TV News
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