TV Nova is a commercial

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in the

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. It began broadcasting in February 1994 as the first privately held nationwide Czech TV station. Its first CEO was

Vladimír Železný Vladimír Železný (born 3 March 1945) is a Czech businessman and politician. He was the first CEO of TV NOVA, a popular Czech television station and was a member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2009. As a media mogul with political ...

. 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 Jiří Lábus (born 26 January 1950, in Prague) is a Czech actor. His brother is the Czech architect Ladislav Lábus. In 1973, he graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and joined the theatre Studio Ypsilon, where he remains ...

and

Oldřich Kaiser Oldřich Kaiser (born 16 May 1955) is a Czech television, film, and stage actor known mostly for his comedic roles. Education and career Kaiser graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1978. He began his acting career with th ...

. 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

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(approx. 10 billion

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). Vladimír Železný sold CET 21 to the financial group PPF of

Petr Kellner Petr Kellner (20 May 1964 – 27 March 2021) was a Czech billionaire entrepreneur, the founder and majority shareholder (98.93%) of the PPF Group. At the time of his death, he had an estimated net worth of $17.5 billion, making him the wealthi ...

, and today TV Nova is owned by CME. The current CEOs are Klára Brachtlová and Jan Vlček.

Nova HD

Since October 2008, TV Nova is broadcast in high definition quality via satellite, cable, and also a test airing via DVB-T is in progress. Currently the signal is broadcast in 1920×1080i with a

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of 18Mbit/s.

Sister channels

Programming

Czech series

* ''

Ulice ''Ulice'' is a Czech soap opera produced by Nova. It is aired five times a week. In Czech ''ulice'' means 'street'. The show describes the lives of the Farský, Jordán, Boháč, Nykl, Liška and Maléř families and many other people that live ...

'' * ''Kriminálka Anděl'' Mondays 20:00–21:00 * ''Soukromé pasti'' ("Private Traps") * ''

Ordinace v růžové zahradě 2 Ordinace v růžové zahradě 2 (until 2008 Ordinace v růžové zahradě, meaning: ''Doctor's office in the rose garden 2'') is a Czech medical drama and soap opera broadcast from 2005 to 2021 on TV Nova channel and from 2021 on Voyo.cz. The ...

'' ("Doctor's office in rose garden 2") * ''Pojišťovna štěstí'' ("Insurance company of luck") * '' Comeback'' * ''

Nováci ''Nováci'' is a Czech sitcom that ran for two seasons beginning in 1995. The sitcom's main storyline revolves around a Czech family called Nováci. The family hosts an American student of sociology, Jeremy Washington, who eventually purchase ...

'' Every day from September 1995 to April 1996; sometimes reprised * '' Draculův švagr'' Horror series, which ran short time in 1996 * ''

Robinsonův ostrov ''Robinsonův ostrov'' was a Czech reality television program debuting in 2017. In 2016, TV Nova bought the broadcast rights to air their own version of ''Expedition Robinson''. The name alludes to both ''Robinson Crusoe'' and ''The Swiss Famil ...

'' Reality series, Czech version of Survivor

Past

DO-RE-MI "Do-Re-Mi" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''The Sound of Music''. Each syllable of the musical solfège system appears in the song's lyrics, sung on the pitch it names. Rodgers was helped in its creation by long-time ...

(1998–2004)

Periodical shows

Title ''Tipy ptáka Loskutáka'' (Tips of the bird Gracula) is the teleshopping part of ''Rady ptáka Loskutáka''. Law regulation compel different names.

Logos

File:Nova logo 1994.png, First logo TV Nova from 1994 to 1996 File:Nova 1996.png, Second logo TV Nova from 1996 to 2004 File:TV Nova 2004 2.png, Third logo TV Nova from 2004 to 2017

CME Content Academy

In 2022, TV Nova and

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 ...

launched the CME Content Academy, in cooperation with the Brno Television Institute. The scholarship program is funded by

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, ...

, to which both TV Nova and Markíza belong. The academy's two-year course is a professional training course designed to provide participants with a grounding across various film-making disciplines. The training is based around the production schedules of TV Nova and Markíza and takes place in

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

and

Bratislava Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approxim ...

References

External links

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Official Site
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TN.cz
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