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Markíza
Markíza (also known as Televízia Markíza) is a Slovak television channel launched on August 31, 1996. The channel was founded by a later politician Pavol Rusko, and is now part of the Central European Media Enterprises (CME). It also operates television channels Doma (since 2009), Dajto (since 2012), Markíza International (since 2016) and Markíza KRIMI (since 2022). TV Markíza has built its programming strategy around family entertainment to reflect Slovakia's culture. Reaching more than 92% of Slovak households, TV Markíza is the clear leader on the national TV landscape. Broadcasting 24 hours a day, TV Markíza is the flagship television channel encompassing all TV genres. Its program structure is composed of premium products such as Markíza's locally produced shows that are incredibly popular. In addition to its high-quality news and local programs, TV Markíza has secured exclusive broadcast rights to a variety of popular American and European films and series pr ...
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Pavol Rusko
Pavol Rusko is retired Slovak politician, television magnate and convinced fraudster. He served as the Minister of Economy of Slovakia between 2003 and 2005 and Managing Director of TV Markíza, at the time Slovakia's most viewed private TV station, between 1996 and 2000. He currently serves a 19-year prison sentence for forging promissory notes in a conspiracy to defraud TV Markíza. Early life Pavol Rusko studied Journalism at the Comenius University, graduating in 1987. Already as a student, he worked as Sports anchor at the Slovak public TV broadcaster and was active in the Czechoslovak Socialist Youth Union. In 1994 he left journalism to become a businessman, co-founding and since 1995 acting as the CEO of TV Markíza. CEO of Markíza In mid 1990s, Rusko planned to start the first private television broadcaster in Slovak. The starting capital was provided by a Slovak entrepreneur living in Germany Silvia Volzová a American-owned media conglomerate entral European Medi ...
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Television In Slovakia
Television stations in Slovakia broadcast in both DVB-T format (MUX-2 and MUX-3) and DVB-T2 format (MUX-1 and MUX-4). Broadcasting is mostly in the Slovak, state-owned channels have some dedicated broadcasting for ethnic minorities (always subtitled). Foreign language (with the exception of Czech) movies and shows are dubbed (rarely subtitled). Czech production is often broadcast in original, with the exception of juvenile programs. Sometimes, foreign language movies are broadcast with Czech dubbing. Czech television channels are also popular in Slovakia, received in paid DVB-T2 service (only ČT1, ČT2, Nova International, Prima Plus and Prima Cool), directly in border regions (all channels) or carried by cable companies and satellite operators (almost all channels). Most of premium channels like Filmbox, HBO, Viasat Channels, etc. broadcast only in Czech. Discovery, Sport 1, Sport 2 and few others are exception, they broadcast in both Czech and Slovak. Primarily terrestrial broadc ...
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SuperStar (Czech And Slovak TV Series)
''SuperStar'' (previously known as ''Česko Slovenská SuperStar'') is a joint Czech- Slovak version of the Idol series' ''Pop Idol''. It was merged from '' Česko hledá SuperStar'' and ''SuperStar Search Slovakia'', which previously had three individual seasons each. The first season premiered in September 2009 with castings held in Prague, Brno, Bratislava and Košice. It is broadcast on two channels: « TV Nova» (Czech Republic) and «Markíza» (Slovakia) which have also been the broadcast stations for the individual seasons. Also both hosts have been their hosts countries before as have been three out of the four judges. To legitimate a fair chance for each country's contestants to reach the final, twelve of the contestants will compete split into genders and nationalities in the semifinals, guaranteeing a 50% share for each country in the top 12. Cast Hosts ;Key : Host of ''SuperStar'' Judges ;Key :: Judges of ''SuperStar'' Series overview Color key ...
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Central European Media Enterprises
Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CME) is a media and entertainment company that operates television channels in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Until its acquisition by PPF Group N.V. in October 2020, the company was listed on NASDAQ and Prague Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CETV. It has since been delisted. History Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. was co-founded in 1991 by Americans Ronald Lauder and Mark Palmer in Germany as CEDC GmbH (Central European Development Corporation) and later changed its name and reincorporated in the Netherlands as Central European Media Enterprises (CME). It started broadcasting its first channel in the Czech Republic in 1994. On 23 March 2009, Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery) announced it would invest $241.5 million in CME for a 31% stake. By 2Q 2013, Time Warner had acquired a controlling interest in CME in a series of transactions. In October 2019, AT&T signed agreement to ...
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MasterChef Slovensko
''MasterChef'' is a competitive cooking show television format created by Franc Roddam, which originated with the UK version in July 1990. The format was revived and updated for the BBC in February 2005 by executive producers Roddam and John Silver with series producer Karen Ross. The revived format is sold internationally by Banijay. Its first international adaptation was ''MasterChef Australia'', which began in 2009. The show has since been adapted in several other countries. Format The show's format has been exported around the world under the same ''MasterChef'' logo, and is now produced in more than 40 countries and airs in over 200 territories. The format has appeared most often in four major versions: the main ''MasterChef'' series, '' MasterChef: The Professionals'' for professional working chefs, ''Celebrity MasterChef'' featuring well known celebrities as the contestants, and ''Junior MasterChef'', a version created and adapted for children, which was first develop ...
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MasterChef Česko Slovensko
''MasterChef'' is a competitive cooking show television format created by Franc Roddam, which originated with the UK version in July 1990. The format was revived and updated for the BBC in February 2005 by executive producers Roddam and John Silver with series producer Karen Ross. The revived format is sold internationally by Banijay. Its first international adaptation was ''MasterChef Australia'', which began in 2009. The show has since been adapted in several other countries. Format The show's format has been exported around the world under the same ''MasterChef'' logo, and is now produced in more than 40 countries and airs in over 200 territories. The format has appeared most often in four major versions: the main ''MasterChef'' series, '' MasterChef: The Professionals'' for professional working chefs, ''Celebrity MasterChef'' featuring well known celebrities as the contestants, and ''Junior MasterChef'', a version created and adapted for children, which was first develop ...
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Let's Dance (Slovak TV Series)
Let's Dance (in English) is the Slovak version of ''Dancing with the Stars''. Eight seasons were broadcast by TV Markiza (1st in the autumn of 2006), hosted by Adela Vinczeová and Martin "Pyco" Rausch (both of them also hosted the program ''Slovensko hľadá SuperStar'' (Slovak version of ''Pop Idol'') on STV in 2005 and 2006). The winners of 1st season were Zuzana Fialová (a noted Slovak actress) and Peter Modrovský (a professional dancer). The winners of 2nd season were Michaela Čobejová (Slovak actress) and Tomáš Surovec (a professional dancer). The winners of 3rd season were Juraj Mokrý (Slovak actor and humorist) and Katarína Štumpfová (a professional dancer). The winners of 4th season were Nela Pocisková (Slovak actress and singer) and Peter Modrovský (a professional dancer). The winners of 5th season were Janka Hospodárová (Slovak TV presenter) and Matej Chren (a professional dancer). The winners of 6th season were Vladimír Kobielsky (Slovak actor) and Do ...
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Lego Masters
''Lego Masters'' is an international reality television show in which teams compete to build the best Lego project, based on the original British show of that name, which premiered in 2017. Many other countries adapted the format and began airing their own versions starting in 2018. As of 2020, the format is jointly owned by Tuesday's Child, The Lego Group and Banijay. International versions Overview As of June 2022, 42 winners have been crowned within different versions of ''Lego Masters''. : Franchise with a currently airing season (3) : Franchise with an upcoming season (6) : Franchise with an unknown status (3) : Franchise awaiting confirmation (0) : Franchise that has ceased to air (3) United Kingdom Germany Lego Masters Germany was broadcast by RTL. The first season premiered Sunday 18 November 2018 and ended sunday 9 December 2018. In each of the four stand-alone episodes, four duos competed. Each episode included two challenges. After the first (unpl ...
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The Voice Česko Slovensko
The Voice Česko Slovensko (Czech language, Czech and Slovak language, Slovak for ''The Czech / Slovak Voice'', literally ''The Voice of Czecho Slovakia'', previously ''Hlas Česko Slovenska'') is a reality singing competition and version of ''The Voice of Holland'' for Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is broadcast on TV Nova (Czech Republic), TV Nova in Czech Republic and TV Markíza in Slovakia, both stations are owned by Central European Media Enterprises, CME. It is derived from the original The Voice of Holland. The concept of the competition consists of searching for singer talents (from the second row and duets) over 16 years of age in public casting. The winner is later determined on the basis of a voting vote by SMS, which receives financial rewards and the ability to upload his own album. As Czech and Slovak are very similar, it is a bilingual show. People from Czech Republic are speaking the Czech language when people from Slovakia are speaking the Slovak language. Czechs ...
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Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
''Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares'' is a television programme featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay first broadcast on Channel 4 in 2004. In each episode, Ramsay visits a failing restaurant and acts as a troubleshooter to help improve the establishment in just one week. Ramsay revisits the restaurant a few months later to see how business has fared in his absence. Episodes from series one and two have been re-edited with additional new material as ''Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares Revisited''; they featured Ramsay checking up on restaurants a year or more after he attended to them. An American adaptation of this show, titled ''Kitchen Nightmares'', debuted 19 September 2007 on Fox. It is broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 as ''Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA'' to avoid confusion with the original title. Its run ended on 12 September 2014. In October 2009, Ramsay announced that after his four-year contract expired in 2011 he would not continue with ''Kitchen Nightmares ...
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Farma (Slovakia)
''Farma'' ("The Farm") is a Slovak reality TV series broadcast on Markíza Markíza (also known as Televízia Markíza) is a Slovak television channel launched on August 31, 1996. The channel was founded by a later politician Pavol Rusko, and is now part of the Central European Media Enterprises (CME). It also operat ... that debuted in 2011. The show is set in the natural surroundings of a farm. Contestants are cut off from the outside world. Every week one contestant is selected as the "Farmer of the Week" by the contestant that was previously eliminated. In the first week contestants vote to pick the Farmer of the Week. The Farmer of the Week nominates two people (man and woman) as servants. They are nominated for eviction and other contestants must vote on which of the two servants will become the first duelist. This person then picks their opponent for the duel from among the other contestants (The Farmer of the Week has immunity and cannot be selected). The person they ...
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Slovensko Hľadá SuperStar 3
''SuperStar Search Slovakia'' ( sk, Slovensko hľadá SuperStar) is a casting television show based on the popular British show ''Pop Idol''. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in Slovakia and is shown by the private TV network Markíza. The third season premiered in September 2007 with castings held in Banská Bystrica, Žilina, Bratislava and Košice. Regional auditions Auditions were held in Bratislava, Košice, Banská Bystrica, Žilina in the summer of 2007. Divadlo In Divadlo where 100 contestants. The contestants first emerged on stage in groups of 9 or 10 but performed solo unaccompanied, and those who did not impress the judges were cut after the group finished their individual performances. 22 contestants made it to the Semi-final. Semi-final 22 semifinalists were revealed in September when the show premiered on screen. Eleven boys and eleven girls competed for a spot in the top 10. In three Semifinals the guys performed on Saturday and the gi ...
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