3.1 MILLION CZECHS USE PAID STREAMING SERVICES

29. 4. 2025 | 3 min read The most popular paid video services in the Czech Republic include Netflix, Voyo, Max, Disney+ and prima+.

JAN MAXA TO LEAD PRIMA+, PRIMA GROUP CHANGES MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE

14. 4. 2025 | 5 min read From 1 May, Jan Maxa, who has a 12-year career at Czech Television, will take over the management of the prima+ platform. Petr Král moves to head the new Distribution and OTT product segment.

PRIMA’S SOCIAL NETWORKS HAVE INCREASED THEIR REACH, STARHOUSE HAS LAUNCHED ON PRIMA+

7. 4. 2025 | 2 min read Across social networks, the Prima Group achieved 800 million impressions in the first quarter of this year.

PRIMA TODAY INCLUDES NEW EPISODES OF HOŘKÝ SVĚT AND JAKUB AND SARA

30. 3. 2025 | 2 min read Prima is changing its primetime schedule from Sunday 30 March. It will feature two new programmes.

PRIMA WILL INCLUDE THE SERIES HORKY SVET, JAKUB A SARA, CHALUPARI AND PARTAK NA BATERKY

17. 3. 2025 | 2 min read Television Prima will offer several new shows in April prime time.

PRIMA+ VIDEO LIBRARY UNDERGOES A FACELIFT, RESPONDS TO ONEPLAY

12. 3. 2025 | 1 min read The streaming service prima+ has announced enhancements to its platform, including a simplified user interface and expanded availability to other brands of smart TVs.

PRIMA’S HEAD OF CONTENT ON THE NEWS: PRIMA STEPS INTO THE REALITY SHOW, NEW ZOO ON TV MEETS THE GOAL

27. 2. 2025 | 1 min read We want more content exclusively for streaming, announces Lenka Hornová. And about the Zoo New Beginnings series two months after its launch, she says: we are not in the red, but we have higher ambitions.

PRIMA’S CEO SINGER: CHANGE IN LICENCE FEES WILL SHARPLY INCREASE CZECH TV’S REVENUES. IT COULD ROCK THE MARKET

10. 7. 2024 | 20 min read The proposal to increase licence fee collection is facing opposition from private broadcasters. Marek Singer, CEO of the Prima media group, states that the current proposal would provide more revenue to public television and radio than the lawmakers claim.

TIPS FROM THE EASTER TV PROGRAMME

28. 3. 2024 | 4 min read The approaching spring holidays will bring four days off, which directly encourages spending time with loved ones and friends. Watching a series or movie together on TV is one of the most popular activities families spend their days off doing, according to recent research. Here are some tips from the Easter programming on czech commercial TVs that can add to the festive cheer. TV Nova's Easter programme will offer family films, comedies and fairy tales The Easter programme of TV Nova will offer a lot of family films and comedies for the whole family, as well as fairy tales especially for children. The main airtime on Good Friday will be taken over by the comedy Přání k narozeninám (Wish for a Birthday) starring Eva Holubová and Jaroslav Dušek. On White Saturday, viewers will exercise their knowledge with the entertainment and knowledge Superlov, where five hunters will face competitors playing for up to a million crowns.

TV NOVA AND TV PRIMA DEPLOY STREAMING SERIES IN TERRESTRIAL BROADCASTING

11. 3. 2024 | 2 min read As expected - TV Nova and rival Prima's series, which were primarily produced "exclusively" for SVOD platforms, will eventually appear in terrestrial broadcasting. The big stations are thus spreading the costs of production and inflating viewership numbers.

PRIMA PLANS BIGGER EXPANSION IN SLOVAKIA, PLANS SEVERAL CHANNELS

23. 2. 2024 | 3 min read Television group Prima wants to make more financial profit from its programmes broadcast in Slovakia. It plans to launch several of its thematic stations there.

MAREK SINGER: AFTER A YEAR WITH PRIMA+ WE FINALLY KNOW HOW TO BUILD AND DIRECT VOD

19. 2. 2024 | 5 min read Despite unfavourable developments in the czech economy and czech macroeconomic data, major tv players report favourable development of their business, both in 2023 and according to the first forecasts for this year. “generally speaking, last year was a good year for the whole tv market. The interest in tv advertising continued, which is a key source of revenue for us. We have seen moderate growth,” said long-time prima group ceo marek singer in a new episode of the podcast called první liga (first league). WHAT YOU WILL HEAR IN THIS FIRST LEAGUE’S EPISODE

USERS OF STREAMING SERVICES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC INCREASED, NETFLIX LEADS

13. 2. 2024 | 2 min read According to Axocom, the number of users of streaming services in the Czech Republic increased by about 100,000 last year.

ALEX RUZEK: PRIMA WILL NOT GIVE UP ON LONG-RUNNING SERIES

29. 1. 2024 | 14 min read The programme pillars of the Prima group’s TV channels are well set, and we are not going to change them, says new Programming Director, Alex Ruzek, about the direction of Prima’s programme.

PRIMA LAUNCHES NEW PRIMA LIFESTYLE HBBTV APPLICATION

25. 1. 2024 | 2 min read Czech broadcaster Prima has expanded its HbbTV offer with a new Prima Lifestyle application.

VOYO HAS ADDED USER PROFILES

15. 12. 2023 | 1 min read Voyo - the TV Novas online video library finally offers the possibility to create user profiles since Thursday 14th December. A notification to create one pops up when the app is launched.

ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCIAL TELEVISION HAS ACHIEVED SIGNIFICANT SUCCESS IN THE ANTI-PIRACY FIGHT

1. 12. 2023 | 5 min read The High Court in Olomouc has upheld the preliminary ruling issued by the Regional Court in Brno on a petition by the Association of Commercial Television (AKTV), requiring the operators of the eDisk.cz and Sledujteto.cz repositories not to allow the uploading and downloading of copyright-protected works of Nova and Prima TV Groups. The court thus upheld AKTV’s argument that the repository operator had committed an unfair competition act referred to as “stowaway” or “free riding” (also known as “impermissible parasitism”). Similar decisions have been issued against other repositories in recent months.

ONE-FIFTH OF CZECH SVOD LOGINS INVOLVE SHARED ACCESS

29. 11. 2023 | 3 min read At least one SVOD service is accessed multiple times a month by 43% of Czechs aged 15-69. This, according to the latest Atmedia Index results, covering Q2 and 3 this year, amounts to 2.8 million people. Meanwhile, a regular survey conducted by Atmedia, which represents TV channels, consistently shows that Czech viewers commonly use multiple SVOD services at the same time, averaging two services per user. However, it is important to note that not everyone actually subscribes to all streaming services used.