NEWS VIEWERSHIP IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC IS DECLINING IN ALL MEDIA

18. 6. 2024 Czechs most often get their news from the internet and TV news. But even from these main channels, news viewership is declining. This is also true for social media, according to a new Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute.

WE WANT TO DO DISCUSSIONS DIFFERENTLY THAN IN ČT, SAYS NOVY MODERATOR MARTIN ČERMÁK

5. 6. 2024 During his 12 years at Nova TV, he has worked his way up to the highest level of presenter: he hosts the main news programme Televizní noviny and, since last year, also the new political debate For Five Minutes Twelve. But Martin Čermák is also part of the team preparing the pre-election and election broadcasts for the European Parliament elections in June.

“THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR ME IS THE COMFORT IN THE STUDIO,” REFLECTS TV PRESENTER MARTIN ČERMÁK

29. 5. 2024 He started in television as a sportscaster, now he is a news presenter. How does he perceive the difference? "With the news it's different every day. The spectrum of knowledge, events and interviews is endless," he says. How did he experience our victory at the World Cup? Was it an experience for him to film an interview with Fittipaldi? Where did he learn Portuguese so well? What was his first reaction to the offer to host Za pět minut dvanáct (In Five Minutes Twelve)? And does he manage to keep the studio guests and the audience from knowing what he's thinking? "When you so called study hockey or football, it's easier to adapt to the fact that tournaments are going to turn out a certain way. But even when I was doing sports, I enjoyed politics," Martin recalls.

CNN PRIMA NEWS SHARE IS AROUND 2%, ADDS VIDEO PODCASTS

3. 5. 2024 CNN Prima News' share has been steadily increasing, hovering around 2% over the past year.

TN LIVE CELEBRATES ITS THIRD BIRTHDAY

29. 4. 2024 On May 3rd, the news platform TN Live will celebrate its third birthday. "When we started this project, we set the goal that we wanted to be present for our viewers at everything important and interesting that is happening not only in our country. I am very happy that after three years we are still succeeding. We are also gradually adding regular programmes and features to ensure that our viewers not only get the hottest news, but that we also give them a wider context or the views of a range of experts," says Kamil Houska, director of news at TV Nova. In addition to news events, TN Live also focuses on social issues, economics, health, education, sports and the world of celebrities. TN Live celebrates its third birthday From this May, new things await viewers. They can look forward to watching their favourite discussion show "Directly" from 2 May at 17:30 every weekday. Bára Divišová, Veronika Petruchová and Michaela Indráková will take turns behind the moderator's desk. The lifestyle magazine Talk!, which will be presented from 14 May at 16:00 every weekday, will also have an increased frequency. The main presenter will be Rebecca Diatilová, however, the editorial team of Life in the Stars will also work closely with her. Viewers have a lot to look forward to More information awaits viewers on the World Beyond, which will be boosted from June. "It's understandable, there is a lot going on at the moment, with the European Parliament elections at the beginning of June and the US presidential elections in the autumn, the war in Ukraine and the conflict in Israel continuing. But we also want to bring positive topics and stories, we want to motivate and inspire," explains Martin Synek, editor-in-chief of TN Live. The viewership of individual programmes ranges in the tens of thousands, with a record weekly viewership of 518,468 video views recorded by the platform in March this year. TN Live broadcasts are available on TN.cz, Voyo and under the blue HbbTV button, and selected programmes are also available on podcast apps or social networks. The next major project on TN Live will be the debates on the occasion of the European Parliament elections.

CNN PRIMA NEWS PRESENTS HOCKEY SERIES AND AIRS LEADERS’ DEBATE TO EP

10. 4. 2024 CNN Prima News is launching a series on its website about hockey players in trouble. It is also launching coverage of the European Parliament elections on Wednesday 10 April, kicking off with a leaders' debate for the EP elections.

CNN PRIMA NEWS: NEW GRAPHIC DESIGN REFLECTS CHANGES IN NEWS COVERAGE

25. 3. 2024 The graphic concept of news coverage and the continuous broadcasting of CNN Prima News is one of the essential factors that motivate viewers to watch the station, say Tomáš Vojáček and Petr Závorka.

STUDENTS GET THEIR NEWS MOST OFTEN FROM THE NET, BUT THEY TRUST READING THE MOST

21. 2. 2024 The level of information among high school students is declining, with social networks remaining the main source for receiving information. However, fewer students use them as a source of information than four years ago. They have the highest trust in information from public service television, but a full 37% of students place their trust in news on commercial television, such as Nova and Prima.

CNN PRIMA NEWS ADJUSTS NEWS STUDIO GRAPHICS

16. 2. 2024 CNN Prima News will unveil new graphics and jingles for its continuous newscasts, Main News, Sport and Weather from Sunday.

TV STILL THE MAIN NEWS SOURCE FOR EUROPEAN NEWS, BUT SOCIAL MEDIA GROWING

7. 12. 2023 Television continues to dominate as the primary news source for European citizens, according to a Eurobarometer survey on behalf of the European Parliament.

IPSOS STUDY: TRUST IN TRADITIONAL MEDIA CONTINUES – TELEVISION IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF INFORMATION IN AUSTRIA

7. 10. 2023 UNESCO, in cooperation with Ipsos, recently published a groundbreaking study looking at the sources of misinformation in countries where elections will be held next year. The results of the study offer a fascinating insight into the media landscape, particularly in Austria.

THE TIME OF SEEING A COMPLETELY NEW NEWS STORY ON THE EVENING NEWS IS COMING TO AN END, SAYS THE HEAD OF NEWS AT NOVA

18. 7. 2023 Nova’s newsroom recently came up with the We Live With You (Žijeme s vámi) campaign. Is this campaign the culmination of several years of changes in journalism? Or is the commercial TV channel planning further changes? This is what Kamil Houska, director of News at Nova television, revealed in an interview.

CME TO ESTABLISH BRUSSELS NEWS BUREAU

28. 6. 2023 Central European Media Enterprises (CME) will open a new bureau based in Brussels on July 1.

TV NOVA NEWS LAUNCHED A CAMPAIGN WITH THE CLAIM “WE LIVE WITH YOU”

14. 6. 2023 For the ad spot, Televizní noviny uses real footage that editorial crews have shot in their work in the recent past, The faces of the newscast are also involved.

PRIMA NEWS DIRECTOR ŠVEHLÁK, ŠTRUNC LEAVES

8. 6. 2023 Pavel Štrunc is leaving the management of Prima Group and CNN Prima News after less than three years. Martin Švehlák is the new director.

CNN PRIMA NEWS SHARE REACHES 2% THREE YEARS AFTER LAUNCH

3. 5. 2023 Three years after its launch, the CNN Prima News news channel has averaged a share of two per cent.

THE PRESIDENTIAL BROADCAST REACHED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ON CZECH TELEVISION

15. 1. 2023 Television coverage of the results of the first round of the presidential election was sought by millions of people on Saturday. ČT24 was the most watched domestic television station on Saturday.

THE REVOLUTION NAMED TELEVISION: THE HISTORY OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL MEDIUM OF THE 20TH CENTURY

5. 8. 2022 Let’s go back to the first half of the 20th century and explore an adventure called a television. A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT PICTURE The first ideas of a television combined two phenomena of their time - radio, that is, the transmission and reception of signals over longer distances, and cinematography, that is, moving pictures. However, it was not a mere combination of these two phenomena. What was needed was a revolution in the perception, or rather the nature, of the image. Cinemas used projectors that screened running strips of material on which images were captured chemically as a whole. With television, the image had to be broken down into individual points with specific coordinates and properties. In a television, this image is again composed and the points are assigned their features.