THE NOVA GROUP HAS LAUNCHED TN LIVE AND NOVA LADY STATION IN THE HBBTV ENVIRONMENT

25. 3. 2022 Nova Group has come up with the launch of TN Live under the red button (in the HbbTV environment) in connection with the war in Ukraine. Viewers will now also find Nova Lady there. This station is on the Nova Group's offer from autumn 2021.

ABOUT A TENTH OF CZECHS WATCH TV SERIES PREVIEWS ON THE WEB

15. 2. 2022 The option to watch TV series previews on online platforms has been used by 9 % of the Czech internet population over 15 years old, according to research by Nielsen Admosphere.

VOYO HAS ALREADY OVERTAKEN HBO AND IS CATCHING UP WITH NETFLIX. WE ARE INVESTING AND GROWING FASTER THAN EXPECTED, SAYS NOVA’S DIGITAL BRAIN

11. 2. 2022 The fairy tale of Cinderella who turns into a princess may have its reflection in the business world. The grimy beauty could be called Voyo. Nova TV established its video library in 2012 but forgot about it for many years. And now? It is the epicentre of digital transformation of the Czech commercial number one. Last year, it attracted hundreds of paying subscribers and is catching up with Netflix. Its head Daniel Grunt would also like to repeat another famous story - the one about Seznam and Google, just in a streaming setting.

GRUNT: VOYO EXCEEDED THOUSANDS OF 350 SUBSCRIBERS

30. 1. 2022 The number of Voyo video subscribers was to exceed 350,000. Another milestone is reaching 500,000 subscribers.

IN THE SPRING, NOVA WILL INCLUDE THREE NEW PREMIERE SERIES AND THE REALITY SHOW

28. 1. 2022 TV group Nova will include three more premiere series in the spring broadcast, as well as new episodes of the reality show Your Face Has a Known Voice.

TV NOVA TO LAUNCH A NEW STATION SOON

11. 1. 2022 The family of TV channels of the Nova group will expand to include another programme, which will be focused on sports again. CME’s CEO, Didier Stoessel, confirmed that in an interview for Forbes. Nova Sport 5 is going to be launched “soon”, he said. “Sport will play a bigger and bigger role. What it has in common with the news is that it is usually watched live. Sport is going to grow and that is why we are investing so much in it. We have four sports channels and Nova Sport 5 will join them soon. The third issue will be a total increase in video content consumption,” said the manager in the interview.

MEDIA 2021: VIDEO AND AUDIO ON DEMAND, DIGITALISATION AND PAYWALL

30. 12. 2021 Ongoing efforts to impose a charge on online content, boosting the offering of content on demand or new thematic TV and radio stations. Here is the recapitulation of events in the media market in 2021.

SURVIVOR WILL START ON TV NOVA ON 11 JANUARY, ON VOYO THE DAY BEFORE

28. 12. 2021 TV Nova will launch the Czech-and-Slovak version of the Survivor reality show on Tuesday, 11 January 2022 at 8 pm. The day before, on 10 January, the first episode will be shown on Voyo. The competition will feature celebrities.

PRIMA PREPARING PAID VIDEO LIBRARY TO MAKE NEW SPACE FOR ADVERTISING

2. 11. 2021 Prima, the second largest commercial TV in the Czech Republic, prepares its paid on-line video library through which it will seek to address more viewers and offer more ad space to its advertisers.

CZECH TV COMPANIES WANT TO COMPETE WITH NETFLIX, THEY ARE INVESTING IN VIDEO LIBRARIES

2. 11. 2021 Number one and number two of the Czech commercial TV market invest in paid streaming services. Nova’s strategic priority is its video library Voyo. Prima will come with a competitive project within several months.

NOVA STARTS APPLYING GREEN FILMING PRINCIPLES

27. 10. 2021 The Nova TV group starts applying green filming principles and plans to introduce them into all countries where the CME group operates, describes Hana de Goeij.

GOLDEN DAYS FOR TV. RATINGS ARE GROWING AND CHANNELS WILL NOT ACCOMMODATE MORE ADS, SAYS NOVA’S CEO JAN VLČEK

25. 10. 2021 According to the CEO of the largest local commercial TV, with the pandemic remission the Czechs have returned to shopping, and retail chains, electronics producers or e-shops spend billions on ad spots with unparalleled intensity. “We have not seen such good times for TV ad sales for a long time,” says Nova’s CEO Jan Vlček in an interview for HN.

NOVA IS GOING TO INCREASE TV AD PRICES FOR 2022 BY 12.5%

21. 10. 2021 The Nova TV group will increase the cost of TV advertising for 2022 by 12.5 %, says its CEO, Jan Vlček.

THE SHARE OF SMART TVS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC TRIPLED IN FOUR YEARS

17. 10. 2021 The share of smart TVs connected to the internet has tripled over the last four years. At present, they are used by more than a third of Czech households, shows Philips statistics.

GRUNT: VOYO INCREASES THE NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS AS PLANNED

12. 10. 2021 The number of subscribers to the pay video service Voyo is increasing as planned according to Nova’s Head of Digital Daniel Grunt.

GRUNT: ORDINACE IS THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAMME ON VOYO

22. 9. 2021 Ordinace v růžové zahradě is the blockbuster series offered by the paid video platform Voyo. However, it is not known how many viewers it has attracted.

SILVIA MAJESKÁ: NOVA WITHOUT “ORDINACE“? OPENING SPACE FOR NEW FORMATS

11. 8. 2021 Nova sought to structure its autumn programme to be successful every broadcasting day, says Silvia Majeská, Programming Director, about the new schedule.

THE VOYO VIDEO PORTAL TO BE ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THE RED BUTTON WITH THE FIRST 4K CONTENT LIKELY TO BE OFFERED NEXT YEAR

6. 8. 2021 The Nova media group will make its Voyo video portal accessible through the HbbTV platform, i.e. through hybrid broadcasting. The upcoming innovation is in the final phase of testing and it has already been available in its beta version via Nova Gold.