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Television In The Czech Republic
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. On 12 April 2006, six digital terrestrial television licenses were awarded to commercial broadcasters. The receivers of the licenses were: Z1, TV Pohoda, Regionální televizni agentura (RTA), Febio TV, TV Barrandov and Óčko. However, because of delays some projects lost investors and will not start (e.g. Fabio, Pohoda) or were cancelled. Z1 provided a news service in from 2008 to January 2011, when it ceased broadcasting. Óčko delivers a music service. TV Barrandov provides general programming services. Czech Republic become the first country in central and eastern Europe to start to end all analogue broadcasts in November 2011. The process completed when the last analogue transmitters in south-east Moravia and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ústí Nad Labem
Ústí nad Labem (, , ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 92,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of its eponymous region and district. It is a major industrial centre and, besides being an active river port, is an important railway junction. Administrative division Ústí nad Labem is divided into four boroughs, which are further divided into 22 administrative parts: *Ústí nad Labem-město (parts Ústí nad Labem-centrum, Božtěšice, Bukov, Habrovice, Hostovice, Klíše, Předlice, Skorotice, Strážky, Vaňov and Všebořice); *Ústí nad Labem-Neštěmice (parts Krásné Březno, Mojžíř and Neštěmice); *Ústí nad Labem-Severní terasa (part Severní Terasa); *Ústí nad Labem-Střekov (parts Brná, Církvice, Kojetice, Olešnice, Sebuzín, Střekov and Svádov). Etymology The name of Ústí nad Labem is formed from the Old Czech ' ("river mouth") and ' (the Elbe River). It thus literally means "Mouth-upon-the-Elbe", in reference to its location at the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Nova (Czech Republic)
TV Nova is a commercial television station in the Czech Republic. It began broadcasting in February 1994 as the first privately held nationwide Czech TV station. Its first CEO was Vladimír Železný. It quickly achieved the largest market share in the country, and remains in that position . History During the 1990s, Nova produced a number of comedy shows, featuring actors like Jiří Lábus and Oldřich Kaiser. The channel also created its own quiz show. The channel attracted some notoriety for its late-night nude weather reports ("Počasíčko"), in which a female (and later male) presenter would appear naked to present the weather. The presenter would then put on clothes appropriate to the weather being forecast. Disputes between broadcasting license holder CET 21 and financial supplier CME resulted in an international arbitration ('' CME/Lauder v. Czech Republic'') which ended with the Czech Republic forced to pay CME compensation of 353 million USD (approx. 10 bil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Parliament
The Parliament of the Czech Republic ( cs, Parlament České republiky) or just Parliament ( cs, Parlament) is the legislative body of the Czech Republic, seated in Malá Strana, Prague. It consists of two chambers, both elected in direct elections: * the Lower House: Chamber of Deputies * the Upper House: Senate Art. 15 of the Constitution stipulates its name as the "Parliament". The Parliament exercises competences usual in parliamentary systems: it holds and passes bills, has the right to modify the Constitution, ratifies international agreements; if necessary, it declares war, approves presence of foreign military forces in the Czech Republic or a dispatch of Czech military forces abroad. History The tradition of modern parliamentarianism in the Bohemian lands dates back to times of the Austrian Empire (and then Cisleithanian part of Austria-Hungary), where the Imperial Council (''Reichsrat'', ''Říšská rada'') was created in 1861. After proclamation of Czechoslo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Hodač
Jiří Hodač is a Czech media manager, best known for his short tenure as Director General of Česká televize between December 2000 and January 2001, which spanned the start of the Czech TV crisis. Hodač took up his position as Director General on 20 December 2000 and resigned on 12 January 2001, citing poor health. Hodač studied journalism at Charles University in Prague. He started working for BBC Radio BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927). The service provides national radio stations covering ... in 1989. He worked as News Director at Česká televize, but his term lasted for less than four months; he resigned on 14 August 2000. Hodač became the fourth Director General of Česká televize on 20 December 2000, taking over from outgoing director Dušan Chmelíček. After being taken ill in early January 2001, Hodač an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Václav Havel
Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003 and was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs. His educational opportunities having been limited by his bourgeois background, when freedoms were limited by the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Havel first rose to prominence as a playwright. In works such as '' The Garden Party'' and ''The Memorandum'', Havel used an absurdist style to criticize the Communist system. After participating in the Prague Spring and being blacklisted after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, he became more politically active and helped found several dissident ini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Bobošíková
Jana Bobošíková (born 29 August 1964) is a Czech politician. In the 2004 European Parliament election she was elected a Member of the European Parliament for the Independent Democrats and remained unaffiliated in the European Parliament. In the 2008 and 2013 presidential elections she unsuccessfully ran for the office as President of the Czech Republic. She founded Politika 21 in 2006 and the Suverenita party in 2009. Early life She was a member of the Socialist Union of Youth. In 2012, Czech media noticed that in a TV news report from June 1986, she passed a bouquet of roses to President Gustáv Husák, the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. She later told Czech Television that it had been "an honor". In 1987 she graduated with a master's degree in economics. Career From 1989, Bobošíková presented TV programmes on politics and economics, spending most of her television career at Ceska Televize (CT). She was appointed Head of News in late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Cinema (Czech Republic)
Nova Cinema is a Czech free digital television channel in the Czech Republic, owned and operated by CME, and a sister channel of TV Nova. The channel broadcasts various films (thematically categorized from genres: crime, action, drama, comedy, horror, thriller to romantic, sci-fi, family or Czech films, fantasy), or showbiz shows like ''Red Carpet Reporter'' ("Hvězdy červeného koberce") and ''Hollywood Reporter'' ("Hollywoodský zpravodaj"). The channel is available through satellite, cable, IPTV and since 15 December 2008 in DVB-T multiplex 2. Filmy Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller * Detective Pikachu * Elektra * Godzilla * Guardians of the Galaxy * Hancock * Inferno * Iron Man * Jumper * Jurassic World * Killing season * The Great Wall * Troy * A History of Violence * Inherent Vice * Joker * Annabelle: Creation * Annabelle * Final Destination 3 * Halloween * It * It Chapter Two * Rest Stop * Rest Stop: Don't Look Back * Texas Chainsaw 3D * The Exorc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV R1
R1 is a Czech private television station. R1 is the third channel of TV Prima. This channel is compound from content of members of the group R1 (R1 Vřídlo, R1 Zak, ...). Members of group R1 are small regional TV stations, which share their program with TV Prima most of the time. R1 was broadcast in Czech DVB-T multiplex 2 on the same position as Prima Cool. R1 broadcast between 6:00am and 11:00am. Prima Cool broadcast usually from 11:30am to 1:00am. Since 8 March 2011 TV R1 transformed into a channel named Prima Love. Prima Love left Prima Cool and started broadcasts in Czech DVB-T multiplex 3. R1 programme is broadcasting between 6:00am and 8:00am. History TV Prima had licence for TV station named Prima Club. It should have been woman-oriented station (in contrast with Prima Cool). But in the time of financial crisis, the Prima Club project was canceled and replaced by project R1 with no expenditures. On 8 March 2011 TV Prima relaunched the Prima Club project, renamed it to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prima Cool
Prima Cool is a private Czech television station. Prima Cool is TV Prima's second channel. It is targeted primarily at young male audiences. Prima Cool launched on 1 April 2009 as TV Prima's new digital channel. It is available on Czech DVB-T multiplex 2, where it is freely broadcast (covering up to 72% of the population of the Czech republic, mainly in Bohemia). The channel is also broadcast through DVB-S on satellite Astra 1G, and available on cable TV (in all packages, due to the must-carry law). It is also known as "Ninja Warrior" Ratings * Ratings in December 2009 were about a 1.3% share (eighth/ninth place). * Ratings in April 2010 were a more than 2.0% share (eighth/ninth place). * Ratings in June 2011 were a more than 3.9% share (sixth/seventh place). * Ratings in March 2012 were a more than 6.5% share (fourth place) Programming *30 Rock *American Chopper *Angel * Back To You * Blade: The Series *Bob's Burgers *Boston Public * Brainiac: History Abuse * Brainiac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Prima
Prima televize (previously Prima family, originally Premiéra) is a Czech Republic, 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. History FTV Prima's history began when FTV Premiéra obtained the first ever privately owned TV license in the Czech Republic on November 26, 1992, and its official broadcast began on June 20, 1993. Through its first year, the channel only broadcast to the Prague metropolitan area, with a mix of regional programming and imported American TV series dubbed into Czech, such as The A-Team. Some months later, FTV Premiéra was allowed to expand its coverage to a national audience using the facilities of other privately owned regional TV services w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
