THE WORLD CUP MATCHES HAVE SET A RECORD FOR NOVA ACTION, ACHIEVING A SHARE OF UP TO 18 PER CENT

16. 7. 2026 The World Cup is delivering record-breaking results for Nova Action. The tournament is also surpassing the viewing figures of the previous World Cup in Qatar.

TV NOVA CONSOLIDATES ITS SPORTS CHANNELS BUSINESS, HEADED BY JAN RADĚJ

16. 7. 2026 Nova is consolidating advertising sales for Nova Sport and Oneplay Sport, with the creation of the Sport Sales team, headed by Jan Raděj.

NOVA IS ATTRACTING AUDITIONERS FOR ‘SUPERSTAR’ THROUGH BORHYOVÁ AND KORANTENG AS WELL

7. 7. 2026 TV Nova has launched a campaign for the new series of the SuperStar talent show under the slogan “Where are you?”. The campaign encourages potential contestants to attend the upcoming auditions, featuring Televizní noviny presenters Lucie Borhyová and Rey Koranteng.

CZECH TELEVISION HAS MAINTAINED ITS LEADING POSITION AT THE HALWAY-THROUGH POINT OF THE YEAR, GROWING THANKS TO SPORTS BROADCASTING

7. 7. 2026 Czech Television’s channels recorded the highest share of the television market in the first half of 2026. Compared with the same period last year, they were helped in particular by sports coverage of the Winter Olympics and the Ice Hockey and Football World Cups.

NOVA INCREASED ITS TURNOVER BY A THIRD LAST YEAR, WITH NET PROFIT APPROACHING TWO BILLION

2. 7. 2026 TV Nova Group’s turnover rose by 2.5 billion crowns last year. Net profit was also higher, approaching the 2 billion CZK mark. Television advertising remains the main source of revenue, although its total volume fell slightly last year.

ONEPLAY IS PLANNING MAJOR CHANGES TO ITS BROADCASTING OF THE FOOTBALL CHANCE LEAGUE. THE NEW STUDIO WILL ACCOMMODATE 80 SPECTATORS

30. 6. 2026 Whilst the World Cup dominates television screens, behind the scenes at the Oneplay streaming service, major changes are afoot regarding the broadcast of the new season of the domestic Chance Liga. According to Marek Kindernay, director of Oneplay Sport’s pay-TV sports channels, this is set to be one of the biggest transformations in the service’s history. The changes will be visible on screen in just a month’s time. Programmes with a live studio audience are to be introduced It has been known for some time that Oneplay Sport is setting up a new television studio in the Stages Praha building. The pay-TV sports channels are due to move to the new premises in the middle of the summer holidays.“We’ve got a really busy month ahead of us. A new studio, new facilities, moving the editorial team and loads of details that need to fall into place,” explained Marek Kindernay on the professional social network LinkedIn.“It’ll be a big step forward. But it’s precisely moments like these that make the world of television so enjoyable for me,” he says. The new studio will also feature a visitor area with capacity for up to 80 spectators. It will therefore be used to film programmes for which Oneplay Sport has an audience, such as the popular sports show TIKI-TAKA.

THE SUMMER SCHEDULES OF CZECH TELEVISION, NOVA AND PRIMA WILL FEATURE REPEATS OF DRAMAS, FILMS AND COMEDIES

23. 6. 2026 Twice a week, Polda on Prima, Případy mimořádné Marty on Nova, or Vyprávěj on the main channel of Czech Television. The country’s leading broadcasters will rely primarily on their archives for their summer programming.

NOVA WILL BROADCAST ITS NEWS PROGRAMME LIVE FROM BRNO’S MAIN SQUARE THIS SATURDAY

19. 6. 2026 TV Nova is moving its Saturday edition of *Televizní noviny* to the centre of Brno. Presenters Lucie Borhyová and Rey Koranteng will broadcast the main news programme from Náměstí Svobody as part of the Czech Republic MotoGP Grand Prix weekend.

CME IS SET TO INTEGRATE AI INTO FILM AND ANIMATION PRODUCTION. IT IS CONSIDERING REVIVING THE ‘BRATŘI V TRIKU’ BRAND

18. 6. 2026 The CME media group plans to use artificial intelligence to create original local video content in smaller markets. It also hopes that this will lead to the development of new genres and projects that would be financially unviable under traditional production methods.

TV NOVA TO KICK OFF ITS SUMMER ROADSHOW, ‘A DAY WITH NOVA’, IN OLOMOUC

17. 6. 2026 Nova TV will kick off the latest edition of its summer roadshow, ‘A Day with Nova’, at the end of June. The first stop will be Olomouc on 27 June, followed by Vysoké Mýto, Havlíčkův Brod, Plzeň and Teplice.

NOVA IS NOW BROADCASTING TN LIVE OUTSIDE OF ONEPLAY AND HAS ADDED IT TO MAGENTA TV

16. 6. 2026 TN Live, the TV Nova Group’s online news and lifestyle channel, is set to reach a wider audience. T-Mobile is adding it to its Magenta TV service.

OVER 840,000 SPECTATORS WATCHED THE CZECH FOOTBALL TEAM’S FIRST MATCH AT THE WORLD CUP

12. 6. 2026 A total of 414,000 viewers aged four and over watched the Czech national football team’s first match on ČT sport and Nova Action. The combined audience reach for the broadcast across both channels was 843,000 viewers.

NOVA ACTION HAS SWITCHED TO FULL HD ON DVB-T2 FOR THE WORLD CUP

11. 6. 2026 After a four-year hiatus, Nova will once again be broadcasting the football championship to viewers in high definitionvia terrestrial television.

CME CEO: TV BROADCASTERS IN CENTRAL EUROPE MUST GO DIGITAL, OR THEY WILL BE OVERRUN BY NETFLIX

10. 6. 2026 According to CME CEO Samuel Barnett, traditional media companies in Central and Eastern Europe have a unique opportunity to harness the power of local content and the distinct characteristics of individual markets. However, if they fail to rapidly develop their digital services, they risk becoming irrelevant in the face of global platforms.

ONEPLAY TO BE SPIN-OFF INTO CME SERVICES

10. 6. 2026 CME is spinning off Oneplay into a new company, CME Services, with the aim of centralising streaming.

SCHEDULE OF LIVE BROADCASTS FROM THE 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP ON ČT SPORT, NOVA ACTION AND TV NOVA

8. 6. 2026 We have put together a guide to the live broadcasts from this year’s World Cup, which will be shown on the sports channel ČT sport, the Nova Action channel, and – for several matches – the main Nova channel. Around half of the more than one hundred competitive matches played will be shown on ČT or Nova, with all of them available on the Oneplay platform.

DIGIMEDIA: ONEPLAY IS PREPARING AN ADVERTISING PACKAGE, IVYSÍLÁNÍ IS LOOKING FOR A MODEL, ÓČKO REMAINS WITH MAFRA

3. 6. 2026 Oneplay is preparing to launch an advertising package and will provide data on user behaviour, Czech Television is exploring options for user registration on iVysílání, and Óčko remains under the ownership of the Mafra media group. These topics were also discussed at Wednesday’s Digimedia conference.

CME, THE COMPANY BEHIND TV NOVA, INCREASED BOTH ITS REVENUE AND PROFIT LAST YEAR

1. 6. 2026 The CME media group, which operates television stations and streaming services in Central and Eastern Europe, including TV Nova in the Czech Republic, reported year-on-year growth in its financial results for 2025.