TV NOVA INCREASED ITS REVENUES AND PROFIT LAST YEAR, WHICH REACHED CZK 1.15 BILLION. CZK

24. 7. 2024 | 2 min read TV Nova continues its growth trend and managed to improve its revenue and profit in 2023.

DANIEL GRUNT: WE HAVE ALREADY INVESTED DEFINITELY OVER A BILLION CROWNS IN VOYO.CZ PREMIUM CONTENT

19. 7. 2024 | 2 min read After about two decades of a career in Czech media, Daniel Grunt took one of the most powerful positions on the market last January - at the head of TV Nova. His long-term focus on the online segment, which has become one of the strategic areas of the commercial station's development, played into his hands. "My goal is to maximize the reach of our content and respect for the TV Nova brand," Daniel Grunt said in the next episode of the První liga (First League) podcast.

VOYO IS GROWING FASTER THAN EXPECTED, REPORTING AN OPERATING PROFIT, SAYS NOVA CEO DANIEL GRUNT

19. 4. 2024 | 22 min read Daniel Grunt, who has been CEO of the Nova Group since January last year, has been given a difficult management assignment by the parent PPF Group. He is to transform the most-watched domestic broadcaster so that it can capitalise on the growing interest in online video while not cannibalising traditional broadcasting. Grunt’s task is to develop the Voyo paid streaming service while not competing with the traditional business that brings Nova billions of crowns from TV advertising.

ONLY 180K SUBSCRIBERS LEFT TO TAKE VOYO TO A MILLION. NOVA IS PREPARING 512 HOURS OF ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS.

5. 4. 2024 | 5 min read Nova TV's Voyo streaming service is close to reaching the million subscribers on the Czech and Slovak markets. According to the station's CEO Daniel Grunt at Thursday's press conference, Voyo had 820,000 subscribers in these markets as of yesterday.

CME’S VOYO PASSES 1 MILLION PAYING SUBSCRIBERS

26. 2. 2024 | 1 min read Voyo has surpassed 1 million paying subscribers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Slovenia, making it the leading local SVOD provider in most of CME Group’s markets.

NOVY SERIES WILL GO INTO INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION. EXTRACTORS WILL BE PRESENTED AT BERLINALE

18. 2. 2024 | 3 min read The six-part spy thriller Extractors, produced by Nova TV for its Voyo streaming service, will go into international distribution. It will be shown at the Berlinale, as well as in London and other countries.

ŠÁRKA ŠVECOVÁ IS THE NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TV NOVA

14. 2. 2024 | 1 min read Financial director Šárka Švecová is the new managing director of the TV Nova television group, replacing Klára Brachtlova.

DANIEL GRUNT: THE DEMAND FOR ADVERTISING ON NOVA DID NOT DECREASE AFTER THE PRICE INCREASE, QUITE THE OPPOSITE

6. 2. 2024 | 2 min read Advertising in linear broadcasting will continue to account for more than half of the Nova Group's revenue in 2030, says TV Nova CEO Daniel Grunt in an interview published in the current issue of MAM 06/2024.

NOVA GETS NEW LOGO AND VISUAL IDENTITY, SAYS DANIEL GRUNT

29. 1. 2024 | 1 min read In an interview for the Kuba s Novou podcast, Daniel Grunt, CEO of the Nova Group, talks about his experience, challenges as CEO and visions for the future.

NOVY TEAM BEAT PRIMA IN THE FIRST EVER KNOWLEDGE SHOW WELOVETV, DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE FROM THE INDUSTRY

22. 11. 2023 | 1 min read In the first-ever match between TV Nova and TV Prima teams, consisting of management, celebrities and media agency representatives (see photo), the team of the largest commercial TV station, led by the director of TV Nova, Daniel Grunt (far left, centre, Prima boss Marek Singer), won.

BREAKFAST WITH NOVA AND PRIMA. TV CEOS ON CZECHFLIX AND LICENCE FEES

2. 11. 2023 | 22 min read Two CEOs of billion-dollar media houses at the same table: the head of Nova, Daniel Grunt (right), and his counterpart from Prima, Marek Singer, care about your entertainment and agree that we are living in the golden age of TV. Only this acronym no longer stands for television but for total video.

FILM PRODUCTIONS ARE LIVING A GOLDEN AGE, THEY DON’T NEED BILLIONS MORE, SAY BOSSES OF TV NOVA AND TV PRIMA

14. 6. 2023 | 1 min read General Director of TV Nova Daniel Grunt and General Director of FTV Prima Marek Singer in an interview for Hospodářské noviny about levies to the cinema support fund, but also about SVOD services.

TV NOVA TO UPGRADE AVOD SERVICE

14. 6. 2023 | 1 min read The Czech national commercial broadcaster TV Nova is working on a new version of its AVOD service nova.cz that will be delivered via HbbTV.

AMENDMENT TO CZECH TELEVISION FINANCING WILL CAUSE IMBALANCES IN THE MARKET, ACCORDING TO NOVA AND PRIMA

13. 6. 2023 | 4 min read The main commercial players state that the increased TV fee together with the extension of its payment to include all users of ČT services instead of only those having a TV set would bring imbalance in the market.

THE CRISIS DOESN’T HURT US. PEOPLE WATCH VOYO MORE OFTEN THAN NETFLIX, SAYS THE CEO OF NOVA

5. 4. 2023 | 6 min read In a crisis, people typically cut back on non-essentials like entertainment. But Nova TV, which resurrected the fading streaming video platform Voyo last year, is not complaining about declining interest. Voyo has already half a million users, and despite the crisis, their numbers continue to grow. "Now in the spring season, Voyo consumption is approaching fourteen hours per week on one account, which is two hours per day. It shows that when people cut back on leisure activities, they have more time to fill," says Daniel Grunt, who has been running the country's largest commercial broadcaster since the beginning of this year.

DANIEL GRUNT, HEAD OF TV NOVA: “IT IS NOT REALISTIC TO CREATE CZECHFLIX. IT’S NOT REALISTIC TO CREATE A CZECH TV”

19. 3. 2023 | 1 min read Listen to the interview (in czech) with Daniel Grunt not only about Voyo.

HALF A MILLION PEOPLE PAY FOR VOYO. AND THEY DON’T WATCH ONLY ORDINACE ANYMORE, SAYS NOVA’S BOSS

2. 3. 2023 | 10 min read In the last month alone, two more video libraries have been launched in the Czech Republic. Eight services are already competing over paying customers that will watch movies and TV series on their platform each month. Voyo, operated by Nova TV, has just reached 500,000 subscribers for the Czech Republic and Slovakia combined, and is estimated to be catching up with Netflix.

VOYO HAS HALF A MILLION CUSTOMERS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND SLOVAKIA

22. 2. 2023 | 3 min read The pay-TV service Voyo has half a million subscribers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the Nova group has announced.