Televizioni Klan, also known as TV Klan, is an Albanian private television channel with national coverage, based in
Tirana
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Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...
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History and profile
TV Klan launched as a Franco-Albanian joint-venture, with its first broadcast airing on 25 October 1997. It is the first private TV channel in Albania.
In 2002, ISO rated the channel as the most highly rated in Albania with 21.5% of audience share. As of 2006, the channel's analogue signal covered around 60% of Albania's territory.
TV Klan is a media group that includes Klan Plus, Radio Klan, Klan News, Klan Music,
ABC News (Albania), and North Macedonia-based Klan Macedonia. The channel package is available in Europe through Tring (pay tv) and Digitalb (pay tv) platforms. The package is also available, for free, in all around the world trought OTT application KLANI IM (Android and IOS).
TV Klan is widely known for its long-standing political show ''Opinion'', hosted by Blendi Fevziu; entertainment shows such as ''Këngët e Shekullit'', ''Gjeniu i Vogël'', ''Dance with Me'', ''X Factor Albania'', ''Kënga Ime'', ''Zonë e Lirë'', ''E Diela Shqiptare'', ''Xing me Ermalin'', ''Stop'', ''Rudina'', ''Aldo Morning Show''; and a wide range of
co-productions.
Since 4 March 2012, TV Klan has been the first national TV channel in southeastern Europe and Albania to begin broadcasting 24 hours in
HD without charging additional fees to customers. It is the first station in Albania to own a
satellite news gathering
Electronic news-gathering (ENG) or electronic journalism (EJ) is usage of electronic video and audio technologies by reporters to gather and present news instead of using film cameras. The term was coined during the rise of videotape technol ...
mobile broadcasting studio.
On 3 May 2018, TV Klan announced that it had signed an agreement to purchase 100% of the assets of Art Channel, an Albanian broadcaster in North Macedonia. The channel was re-branded with the name Klan Macedonia.
In 2020, Radio Klan became the third privately-owned radio station to receive national frequency status in Albania.
Broadcasting outlets
Television
Programs
TV programs made and broadcast by TV Klan
International TV shows broadcast by TV Klan
See also
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Television in Albania
Television in Albania was first Timeline of the introduction of television in countries, introduced in 1960. RTSH dominated the Albanian broadcasting field up to the mid-1990s, a period when privately owned radio and Television, TV stations start ...
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Vizion Plus
Vizion Plus is a national privately owned channel established in 1999 in Tirana, Albania. The channel started as a local station and a few years later began broadcasting all over Albanian territory, covering about 80% of audience and with a mark ...
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Tring
Tring is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England. It is situated in a gap passing through the Chiltern Hills, classed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, from Central London. Tring is linked to ...
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Klan Kosova
Klan Kosova is a Kosovan private television station based in Pristina, Kosovo, which was launched on 17 February 2009 as the Kosovan version of TV Klan. It is owned by KGO Media Investments Holding.
Principles
The channel's most important gui ...
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ABC News Albania
ABC is an Albanian free-to-air television channel based in Tirana. It was founded in 2010 on the frequency of the defunct Italian-Albanian channel Telenorba Shqiptare and in 2019 was acquired by ABC Management sh.p.k. It is part of the ABC Me ...
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Klan Macedonia KLAN or Klan may refer to:
* Klan TV, an Albanian TV channel
* KLAN (FM), an FM radio station licensed to Glasgow, Montana
* ''Klan'' (TV series), a Polish television series
* ''Klan'' (magazine), an Albanian political and business weekly
* "K ...
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Tring Sport
Tring is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England. It is situated in a gap passing through the Chiltern Hills, classed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, from Central London. Tring is linked ...
References
External links
Official website
{{Radio in Albania
1997 establishments in Albania
Television networks in Albania
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Mass media in Tirana