PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PURPOSELY RUNNING AWAY FROM THE NEWS, BUT THEY’LL BE BACK IN THE FALL

1. 8. 2022 | 15 min read More positive topics or tips on how to cope with the rising cost of living. That, too, is a recipe for responding to people's frustration with the overabundance of negative events, according to TV Nova news director Kamil Houska.

THE NUMBER OF TV GRP SLIGHTLY INCREASED IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR

25. 7. 2022 | 2 min read Czech domestic TV stations delivered just under one percent more TV advertising GRPs in the first half of the year than in the same period last year.

VOYO WILL HAVE ONE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS WITHIN FIVE YEARS, BELIEVES TV NOVA’S CEO VLČEK

25. 7. 2022 | 3 min read PPF-led TV Nova, the most powerful TV station in the Czech Republic, has vigorously switched to paid services, pumping hundreds of millions into Voyo. According to Nova’s CEO, Jan Vlček, income from advertising will be key in future.

NOVA WANTS VIEWERS TO ACTIVELY USE HBBTV. IT WILL OFFER MORE VIDEO AND VOTING

25. 7. 2022 | 7 min read Czech viewers have become quite used to the fact that the red button on the remote control brings up additional functions to the broadcast. In the last year, TV Nova has also paid more attention to this area.

NOVA HAS EXPANDED THE SOCIAL TV APP IN HBBTV TO INCLUDE TIKTOK

13. 7. 2022 | 2 min read Nova Group is expanding the capabilities of the red button and coming up with a new feature in the SocialTV app environment. The latter was introduced to users in May in connection with the integration with the social network Instagram. Now the app is being upgraded with another social network - TikTok.

TOP SHOWS OF THE 1ST HALF OF THE YEAR: DEVADESÁTKY AND OTHER NEW SERIES

7. 7. 2022 | 2 min read TV stations' original series, miniseries as well as TV movie premieres entertained viewers most in front of their screens in the first half of 2022.

HOW TO MAKE AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FILM

6. 7. 2022 | 1 min read The workshop on eco-friendly filming was led by Michaela Rýgrová (Association of Producers in Audiovisual, Greenfilming.cz) and Hana de Goeij, Head of Sustainable Filming & Content, TV Nova.

TELEVISION STATIONS ARE PUTTING AN END TO SPRING PROGRAMME, FROM MONDAY THEY ARE INTRODUCING THEIR SUMMER SCHEME

29. 6. 2022 | 3 min read Mainly reruns of their original series, supplemented by movies, comedies and foreign series, will be offered by the biggest domestic TV stations in the summer.

WHY DO CZECHS WATCH MORE TV? LAST YEAR IT WAS FOUR HOURS A DAY

15. 6. 2022 | 5 min read Even the massive rise of social media and streaming services has not deterred Czech viewers from watching classic linear TV channels. What's more, their viewership is continuously growing to last year's record of four hours a day (four hours and two minutes, to be precise). This, incidentally, is 48 minutes a day more than in 2007, as pointed out by Nielsen Admosphere, which provides electronic measurement of TV viewership for the Association of Television Organizations (ATO).

VOYO NOT PLANNING TO JOIN A PRICE WAR OR INTRODUCE ADS

3. 6. 2022 | 5 min read Paid video service Voyo will not participate in a price war with foreign VOD services, neither does it plan to introduce ads. It was announced at the Digimedia conference.

THE WORLD BEHIND THE RED BUTTON: WE CAN HARDLY IMAGINE TELEVISION WITHOUT HBBTV TODAY

1. 6. 2022 | 15 min read Czechs are not the only ones discovering the TV world behind the red button. HbbTV has come a long way since its launch in 2011 and has rightfully become one of the most dynamically evolving global TV technologies of today. It is popular with TV stations, viewers and advertisers all over the world - demand from all parties is rising and the already wide range of options is expanding accordingly. It is because HbbTV combines the biggest advantages of TV and the internet: a wealth of quality content intended for the big screen and unlimited access in terms of space and time. What are the opportunities hidden behind the red button?

NOVA AND MARKÍZA OPEN CME CONTENT ACADEMY PROGRAMME

17. 5. 2022 | 2 min read TV Nova and TV Markíza are opening a two-year study programme to prepare candidates to work with the CME TV group.

ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCIAL TELEVISION CELEBRATES FIVE YEARS AND BRINGS A LOT OF NEWS

12. 5. 2022 | 3 min read This spring marks the fifth anniversary of the Association of Commercial Television whose founding members are the Nova, Prima and Óčko TV groups. During its existence, AKTV has been actively involved in the TV industry and legislative processes and has become a respected stakeholder. To support its marketing activities, it has launched a B2B brand and industry website ScreenVoice, and on the occasion of its 5th anniversary, its visual identity has been refreshed.

NOVA EXPANDS SOCIAL NETWORKS TO HBBTV, LAUNCHES SOCIAL TV

11. 5. 2022 | 2 min read Nova Group is launching Social TV, a hybrid broadcasting (HbbTV) app that extends its red button services.

NOVA WILL DEPLOY THE SHOW LEGO MASTERS TO PRIME-TIME FROM JUNE

9. 5. 2022 | 2 min read The TV format, which was directly co-created by the Lego brand, will be aired by Nova in primetime on Sundays in June.

GROWTH BROUGHT PRIMA TO THE TOP IN PRIME-TIME

5. 5. 2022 | 2 min read Czech TV's stations remained the strongest domestic TV group in April in the over-15 general audience. Prima improved the most year-on-year, mainly thanks to its thematic channels.

BIOPARTY ZEMANKA CAMPAIGNS ON TV FOR THE FIRST TIME

4. 5. 2022 | 1 min read Founder Jan Zeman became the face of the first television campaign of the Zemanek Brickworks.

TV NOVA RECEIVES OFFICIAL SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION CERTIFICATIONS

2. 5. 2022 | 4 min read Two projects of TV Nova have received official sustainable production certifications from the British Albert platform. The first one is a new series Mimořádné intelektové nadání (m.i.n.) directed by Marek Najbrt and Tomáš Pavlíček. the latter awarded project is the original sketch show První dobrá conducted by Vincent Navrátil. TV Nova has become the first TV company in Central and Eastern Europe certified for sustainable production. “The health of our planet and the climate change is one of the biggest stories of our time. As a broadcaster we can make the greatest impact in this respect through our content and inspiration provided to our viewers. However, we consider it no less important to clean up our act and minimise our carbon footprint,” says Hana de Goeij, head of sustainable production and content of TV Nova. Sustainable film making aims at reducing the carbon footprint and offsetting the remaining emissions, i.e. providing financial support to projects that deliberately reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.