NOVA IN AUTUMN: POLICIE MODRAVA, PAN PROFESOR, MASTERCHEF AND NEW SERIES

11. 8. 2022 Nova will bet on new series of Policie Modrava, Pan Profesor, Specialisté or a new series of the cooking reality show Masterchef in autumn. Completely new shows are also in the pipeline.

THE SHARE OF CZECH PEOPLE WATCHING SVOD WILL RISE TO 42% NEXT YEAR

10. 8. 2022 The market for paid VOD services in the Czech Republic is expected to grow next year, declares research of Atmedia company.

„YOU CAN EITHER MAKE PEOPLE CRY AND LAUGH, OR YOU CAN’T SUCCEED IN THE TV BUSINESS,“ SAYS CME CHIEF DIDIER STOESSEL

10. 8. 2022 CME Media Group CEO Didier Stoessel is one of the most influential figures in the domestic media business. The former investment banker with experience at HSBC and Merril Lynch is the top executive chosen by the PPF Group two years ago to bring the newly acquired CME Media Group back to the limelight. And Stoessel hasn’t held back at all - he has pulled creative producers and developers on his side („Having good content and a way to deliver it - that’s the name of the game these days“), hired triple the number of studios and is spending hundreds of millions on content production. On top of that, he has “revived” the then-stagnant Voyo, an online video library project, which he has made into one of the distinctive pillars of its strategy and which is now generating hundreds of millions in revenue a year. However, Stoessel still faces a number of challenges: competition in the market („Even though our biggest competition is sleep - that’s six to seven hours a day when you’re not consuming our content“), the economic slowdown or the steady decline in viewership of linear broadcasting. How does one of the most important Television executives in the Czech republic plan to deal with them?

PRIMA IS PREPARING AN ANSWER TO NETFLIX AND VOYO. THE NEW STREAMING SERVICE WILL BE BOTH SUBSCRIPTION AND AD-FREE

4. 8. 2022 Prima is preparing an answer to Netflix and Voyo. New streaming service will be subscription and ad-free.

VOYO HAS ADDED THE CHILDREN’S SERIES COCOMELON TO ITS LINE-UP

27. 7. 2022 Voyo presents the children's series CoComelon in both Czech and English versions.

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

25. 7. 2022 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 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 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.

ESTIMATE: 60% OF CUSTOMERS PAY FOR STREAMING, TREND HITS CINEMAS

24. 6. 2022 According to Axocom data, 60 percent of the 1.3 million total viewers are paying for streaming video content.

VOYO IS DOING FUNDAMENTALLY BETTER THAN WE PLANNED. ORDINACE IS STILL THE DRIVING FORCE, SAYS DANIEL GRUNT OF CME

23. 6. 2022 Daniel Grunt returned to CME a year ago as head of digital activities. His task was to secure one million subscribers for Voyo within five years. How's it going?

VOYO NOT PLANNING TO JOIN A PRICE WAR OR INTRODUCE ADS

3. 6. 2022 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.

CZECHS WANT BOTH TV AND STREAMING SERVICES

2. 6. 2022 Linear broadcasting is still the most desired platform, agreed experts at the seventeenth annual Digimedia conference. The growing popularity of time-shifted viewing and streaming services, which still have great potential in the local market, was also confirmed.

NEW SVOD DATA: NETFLIX, HBO MAX AND VOYO ARE USED THE MOST

1. 6. 2022 The number of SVOD users in the Czech Republic is growing. The top three services on the local market are Netflix, HBO Max and Voyo.

NOVA EXPANDS SOCIAL NETWORKS TO HBBTV, LAUNCHES SOCIAL TV

11. 5. 2022 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 The TV format, which was directly co-created by the Lego brand, will be aired by Nova in primetime on Sundays in June.

VOYO WANTS TO BE PART OF THE BIG THREE. WE ARE ALREADY NUMBER TWO IN THE MARKET, SAYS DANIEL GRUNT

27. 4. 2022 Nova TV has already succeeded in beating HBO Max in the number of subscribers to its video service Voyo. It is the second strongest streaming service in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

NOVA PREPARING A DAILY SOAP ABOUT YOUNG PEOPLE FOR VOYO

26. 4. 2022 Nova TV is filming a daily soap opera for its Voyo video portal about a group of young people living in a large apartment in Prague. It is based on the German format Berlin – Tag & Nacht that has been produced by RTL since 2011. "The daily series will provide a realistic view of a group of young people living in a large apartment in the centre of Prague. The occupants deal with their everyday joys, worries, loves and disappointments just like most other people. All sorts of relationships develop between them - friendship, love, but also intrigues or even hatred. The project is exceptional in terms of production because all roles in the series are cast exclusively with non-actors who have zero experience in front of the camera," TV Nova announced.

VOYO DOES NOT TARGET YOUNG PEOPLE. WE ARE ALL ABOUT FAMILIES, SAYS DANIEL GRUNT

20. 4. 2022 Nova TV’s Voyo video service experienced an exceptionally successful year. At the beginning of 2021, it announced an ambitious plan to attract a million customers within five years. At that time, Nova only had about 60 thousand customers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It surpassed its annual goal in the autumn and now the number of users exceeds 350 thousand. By the way, it is more than the global player HBO Max has in the Czech Republic.