TA3 () is a
Slovak private news channel. It started officially broadcasting on 23 September 2001, although its first (special) broadcast was on 11 September 2001 due to the
September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into ...
, which coincided with scheduled testing of the service. The headquarters are located in
Bratislava
Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. ...
, in the
Ružinov
Ružinov (, , ) is a borough of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, located in the Bratislava II district. It is the city's second most populated borough, housing over 80,000 inhabitants and its Nivy neighbourhood is the place of the emerging ne ...
borough.
The channel was originally 55-percent owned by Millennium Electronics, a British firm with little media experience. J&T Finance Group acquired this stake in 2002 and became majority owner in 2003.
TV presenters
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Katrin Lengyelová
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Lucia Nicholsonová
Broadcasting
TA3 broadcasts from 6:00 a.m. until 1:00 a.m. on weekdays, and on weekends from 7:00 a.m. In the nighttime, Ring TV is broadcasting on this channel.
HD
High-definition (HD) broadcasting via satellite was started in December 2016 using
Astra 3B
Astra 3B is one of the Astra communications satellites owned and operated by SES, launched in 2010 to the Astra 23.5°E orbital position providing digital television and radio for direct-to-home (DTH), and the AstraConnect two-way satellit ...
-capacities.The
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Mass media in Bratislava
Mass media in Slovakia
Television channels in Slovakia
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Television networks in Slovakia
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