CZECH TV GREW SIGNIFICANTLY IN MAY, DRAWING VIEWERS AWAY FROM COMMERCIAL TV

5. 6. 2024 The Czech hockey team's ride to the finals helped CT Sport to significantly increase its share of viewership, which also earned the Czech TV stations' overall share in May. This was felt especially by the strongest commercial TV stations.

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.

PODCAST: HOW THE AGENCY MARKET IS MOVING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND HOW TV NOVA WORKS WITH REALITY SHOWS ON NETWORKS

2. 6. 2024 Vojtěch Foukal from Visibility agency and Tomáš Hodboď from TV Nova shared their news and know-how. Listen to the new episode of the podcast about marketing Brands, briefs, budgets.

NOVA SPORT HAS THE RIGHTS TO THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FOR FURTHER YEARS

30. 5. 2024 The UEFA Champions League will remain on Nova Sport for years to come. Live broadcasts will now also be available on Nova Sport 5 and 6.

WHAT DOES THE COMBINATION OF VODAFON TV AND PRIMA+ BRING?

30. 5. 2024 The Vodafone operator is the first player on the pay-TV market to offer a connection with the prima+ video library. The news started on the same day as the launch of the global video library Max, Tuesday 21 May.

“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.

TV NOVA COUNTS WITH DVB-T2 IN THE FOLLOWING YEARS

28. 5. 2024 The media group Nova plans to continue to disseminate its signal via DVB-T2 terrestrial broadcasting in the coming years. RRTV has applied for a new licence for its flagship channel.

CME INCREASED PRODUCTION HOURS FOR TV AND VOYO BY A FIFTH LAST YEAR

24. 5. 2024 The production of new content for the linear channels of the CME television group, which includes TV Nova, as well as for the Voyo service, was reflected in a 20 percent increase in production hours last year.

NOVA WILL LAUNCH A ROADSHOW DAY WITH TV NOVA ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN JUNE

21. 5. 2024 As part of its 30th anniversary celebrations, TV Nova will launch a roadshow in early June, visiting twelve locations in the Czech Republic.

NOVA AND PRIMA LAUNCH PRE-ELECTION BROADCASTS, OFFER DEBATES AND INTERVIEWS WITH LEADERS

17. 5. 2024 Nova TV and Prima TV have gone into election mode. Nova starts on Friday afternoon on TN Live with the first debate with candidates for the European Parliament. Prima has already launched a series of profile interviews with leaders of political parties, movements and coalitions in the 360° programme.

EU ELECTION COVERAGE KICKS OFF CHANGES AT TN LIVE

15. 5. 2024 The news portal TN Live will become TV Nova's main channel for broadcasting ahead of the European Parliament elections. At the same time, the portal itself will shift in content and come up with new programming.

AKTV, PRIMA AND NOVA REACH AGREEMENT WITH FASTSHARE.CLOUD

15. 5. 2024 The commercial TV broadcasters associated with the Association of Commercial Television (AKTV) have managed to reach another agreement aimed at greater protection of their content in the online environment.

THE STRONGEST GROUP IN APRIL WAS NOVA, IT ALSO HAD THE HIGHEST GROWTH

7. 5. 2024 The Nova TV group posted the highest year-on-year growth in the TV market in April and also achieved the highest share.

WE HAD TO CONVINCE THE CREATORS THAT WE WERE SERIOUS. WHAT’S NEXT FOR VOYO

6. 5. 2024 Nova TV wants to boost subscriber interest in the Voyo app. Over 500 hours of content is in production. Online series are also winning professional awards.

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH ADVERTISERS OR STAR WARS IN TV ADVERTISING

4. 5. 2024 International Star Wars Day, which is celebrated on 4 May, is irrefutable evidence of the worldwide enthusiasm, or craze, for the iconic Star Wars series. It is therefore quite understandable that the Star Wars theme was seized upon by marketers soon after its first cinema release. They unerringly sniffed out a great business opportunity. And as you can see, the popularity of the Star Wars theme in TV commercials has not waned even after more than four decades.

THE UEFA EUROPEAN AND CONFERENCE LEAGUE HEADS TO NOVA SPORT

30. 4. 2024 The sports stations of the Nova Group are acquiring the first-choice matches of the UEFA Europa and Conference Leagues.

MICHAL REITLER: I REALLY ENJOY COMING SOMEWHERE WHERE THEY ARE PREPARED TO SPEND MONEY ON CZECH CONTENT

29. 4. 2024 Michal Reitler has joined Nova as Director of Content Development and has been put in charge of both the terrestrial Nova and the content rollout of the Voyo streaming platform. Now, after two and a half years on the job, he boasts a solidly launched production factory and a number of notable series or miniseries such as Extractors, Sex O'Clock or Method Markovic: Hojer. As well as valuable knowledge of what works on Voyo and the consumption habits of subscribers to the new streaming platform. "We already know that real cases and real stories definitely work well for us. That it works very well for us when a project has not three episodes but six. We're still learning what works for us in the spring, in the summer, in the fall, in the winter. Just as television copies some viewer needs and habits, SVOD is very much based on our needs when we pick up a laptop and pick up a series there. One interesting trend is that viewers of The Ordinary like to watch The Ordinary on SVOD at 8pm on Thursdays. That's really nice how people have linear or streaming connected to a lifestyle, a routine," Reitler commented.

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.