PRO TV Chișinău is a private, generalist
TV channel from
Moldova
Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. ...
. It was founded in 1999. It is operated by Prodigital SRL (initially - Mediapro SRL), part of CME trust. Besides some
PRO TV
PRO TV (, often stylized as PRO•TV since 2017) is a Romanian free-to-air television network, launched on 1 December 1995 as the fourth private TV channel in the country (after TV SOTI, Antena 1, and the now-defunct, but online Tele7ABC). It is ...
Bucharest's programs, PRO TV Chișinău broadcasts local
newscasts and
shows, as well as
local advertising
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.
PRO TV Chișinău is one of the first private stations in Moldova.
The company has been managed since it opened by Cătălin Giosan.
History
The channel started broadcasting on 1 December 1998 as PRO TV Moldova, the station emulated
its Romanian parent's aesthetic of westernizing society. It gained its current name on 3 September 1999, when the Moldovan edition of Știrile Pro TV premiered. A dedicated website was set up by Prodigital in 2007. The station's ownership was transferred from MediaPro SRL to Prodigital SRL in April 2010.
News
PRO TV Chișinău broadcasts four
news bulletins
News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. ...
a day, Monday to Friday, two bulletins on Saturday and one newscast on Sunday.
At urban level, PRO TV Chișinău is the second most viewed channel.
PRO TV Chișinău was the only TV to cover live the
April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests
Protests against the April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election results began on 6 April 2009 in major cities of Moldova (including Bălți and the capital, Chișinău) before the final official results were announced. The demonstrators claimed ...
, for international television stations. APTN took the satellite signal by PRO TV as its broadcast was attacked with stones. PRO TV Chișinău supplied news stories and pictures for TV stations across the world, mainly in Russia, Ukraine, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. PRO TV Chișinău reported live for PRO TV in Bucharest from Russia (as in case of
Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002).
Programs
* ''înPROfunzime''
* ''iSănătate''
* ''O seară perfectă''
* ''Gusturile se discută''
* ''Știrile PRO TV Chișinău''
Logo changes
On 15 January 2016, PRO TV Chișinău changed to its monochrome logo, giving up the red-green-blue stripes.
On 28 August 2017, the MediaPro channels changed its logo, but PRO TV Chișinău kept the 2016 logo only for a day, the logo was changed August 29, 2017 to the current one.
References
External links
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Television channels in Moldova
Television channels and stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Moldova
Mass media in Chișinău
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