EFFIE STAGE WILL FOCUS ON WHAT LIES BEHIND COMMUNICATION THAT WORKS

26. 8. 2026 | 4 min read This year’s Effie Stage programme will feature more than twenty guests from the Czech Republic and abroad. The conference will focus on marketing effectiveness, creativity, the impact of artificial intelligence on brands, and the relationship between clients and agencies.

PRIMA INCREASED ITS NET PROFIT TO MORE THAN HALF A BILLION LAST YEAR, BUT REVENUE REMAINED LARGELY UNCHANGED

25. 8. 2026 | 3 min read In 2025, the Prima Group maintained stable operating performance despite a decline in television advertising revenue. The growth in net profit was driven primarily by a significant improvement in financial performance and growing digital activities, led by prima+.

TELEVISION AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT IS PASSING INTO CZECH HANDS, WITH ATO AND ADMOSPHERE COLLECTIVE TAKING OVER

25. 8. 2026 | 6 min read Nielsen Admosphere is changing hands and, following the Nielsen Group’s withdrawal from the Czech market, is passing into Czech ownership. The Association of Television Organisations initially acquired a 100 per cent stake in the company; the Admosphere Collective group will subsequently acquire a majority stake. The project to measure television viewing figures and digital video is set to continue unchanged.

PRIMA HAS LAUNCHED NEW BRAND IDENTITIES, LINKING THE CHANNEL’S PRESENTERS WITH THE BRAND

24. 8. 2026 | 2 min read The Prima Group is launching new on-air identities ahead of the autumn season. The brand spots link the channel’s familiar faces with the five letters of the Prima brand and make use of physically constructed sets rather than digital effects.

TELEVISION AUTUMN SEASON GETS UNDERWAY, NEW SHOWS ARRIVING FROM THIS WEEK

24. 8. 2026 | 4 min read The autumn television season is getting underway. This week, Prima will unveil its main new offerings. Nova and Czech Television will join in from next week. Some days of the week will have a new look in the autumn schedules.

CNN PRIMA NEWS WILL BEGIN ITS PRE-ELECTION BROADCASTING IN SEPTEMBER

21. 8. 2026 | 3 min read CNN Prima News’ election coverage will feature at least two major debates a week, in-depth interviews and special programmes. The election coverage will culminate in broadcasts over the election weekend and will continue ahead of the second round of the Senate elections.

NOVA SPORT AND ONEPLAY WILL BROADCAST MATCHES BETWEEN FC VIKTORIA PLZEŇ AND FK CRVENA ZVEZDA BELGRADE

20. 8. 2026 | 1 min read Both of Viktoria Plzeň’s matches against Crvena Zvezda Belgrade in the fourth qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League will be broadcast on Nova Sport 5 and Oneplay. The first match will take place on 20 August in Belgrade.

VODAFONE HAS REINTRODUCED THE NOVY, PRIMA AND SEZNAM CHANNELS TO CABLE TV IN STANDARD DEFINITION

20. 8. 2026 | 2 min read Vodafone has added a new DVB-C multiplex featuring twelve unencrypted standard-definition channels to its cable network.

MAJORITY STAKE IN TV PRIMA’S OPERATOR HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED WITHIN THE GES GROUP

20. 8. 2026 | 2 min read A majority stake of 88.09 per cent in the operator of the Prima Group’s channels has been transferred from GES Media Europe to GES Group Holding.

ONEPLAY HAS PLACED PRIMA SPORT IN A MORE ATTRACTIVE SLOT, WHILE KANAL1 SPORT HAS FALLEN

19. 8. 2026 | 2 min read The new Prima sport channel has significantly improved its position in the Oneplay programme guide, moving up to higher programme slots. By contrast, the Kanal1 Sport channels have dropped noticeably.

PRIMA SPORT HAS LAUNCHED ITS BROADCASTING; ON ITS FIRST DAY, IT WILL FEATURE FOOTBALL, BEACH VOLLEYBALL AND NEWS

17. 8. 2026 | 2 min read The new sports channel, Prima sport, is launching. Its first day of programming will feature sports news, the Chance National League football, live coverage of the Hamburg Beach Pro Tour, and matches from the Polish Ekstraklasa.

PRIMA SPORT WILL NOT BE INCLUDED IN TV AUDIENCE MEASUREMENTS FOR THE TIME BEING; IT WILL SELL ADVERTISING ON A BLOCK BASIS

17. 8. 2026 | 3 min read The new sports channel, Prima sport, will not be included in the electronic TV audience measurement system upon its launch. For the time being, the Prima Group plans to sell advertising on the channel separately via a time-slot-based price list, with advertising rates determined by the appeal of individual sports broadcasts.

A THIRD OF CZECH VIEWERS RELY ON TERRESTRIAL TV BROADCASTING, BUT THEIR NUMBERS ARE DECLINING

13. 8. 2026 | 3 min read A third of television viewers (32 per cent) aged 15–69 watch television exclusively via digital terrestrial broadcasting. For more than a third of them, the main reason is a reluctance to pay for television reception. This is shown by data published by Atmedia.

‘I DON’T WANT TO WAIT THREE EPISODES BEFORE SOMETHING GRIPPS ME,’ SAYS ONEPLAY’S HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT

12. 8. 2026 | 1 min read These days, it only takes viewers a few minutes to decide whether to give a series a go. Michal Reitler, Head of Development at TV Nova and Oneplay, talks in an interview about how the TV audience has changed, why people say they mainly want comedies but actually watch a lot of crime dramas, and the new programmes Nova has in the pipeline. He also revealed why some series need to hook the viewer right from the start and what determines whether they are renewed.

PRIMA IS PLANNING CHANGES TO ITS TERRESTRIAL TV SERVICE; A SHUFFLE IS ON THE WAY

11. 8. 2026 | 4 min read The Prima Group is set to expand its collaboration with Digital Broadcasting and plans to move most of its channels to its DVB-T2 multiplex 24 next year. In an interview, the director of the Prima Group explains the reasons behind the change in distribution strategy and also clarifies why the new Prima Sport channel will only be available in SD resolution via terrestrial broadcasting.

NOVA THIS AUTUMN: GOD’S PLAN, MEN IN FLIGHT, SUPERSTAR, THE WELL, CRIME UNIT ANDĚL AND THE SURGERY

10. 8. 2026 | 5 min read At its programming press conference, the Nova Group unveiled its line-up for this autumn’s season. Its television line-up will feature new series for Tuesday and Thursday evenings, tried-and-tested reality shows and entertainment programmes, as well as original productions from Oneplay Originals.

PRIMA SPORT TO LAUNCH ON 17 AUGUST AT 6:00 A.M., UNVEILS GRAPHICS AND STUDIOS

10. 8. 2026 | 2 min read At today’s press conference presenting its autumn programming schedule, the Prima Group introduced its new thematic channel, Prima sport.

BBC PLAYER IS SET TO LAUNCH ON PRIMA+, OFFERING OVER A THOUSAND HOURS OF BRITISH CONTENT

10. 8. 2026 | 2 min read The BBC Player streaming service will be part of the prima+ platform from this autumn. It will gradually offer subscribers more than a thousand hours of British series, documentaries, entertainment programmes and children’s content produced by BBC Studios.