Romanian Media Explained

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Iulian Comanescu — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:46:33 +0000

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Local Forbes edition to be launched by Adevărul Holding

Iulian Comanescu — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:46:58 +0000

Adevărul Holding, one of the major groups on the Romanian media market, has closed a deal with Forbes to launch a local edition of the magazine. The first issue is to appear in March 2009, with a print run of 50,000 copies. The content is to be 60% per cent local.

Adevărul to launch a free evening sheet

Iulian Comanescu — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:20:28 +0000

Adevărul Holding, one of the major Romanian publishers, is to launch today Adevărul de seară, an evening free sheet with a 250,000 print run. The new free sheet is a brand extension of the Adevărul newspaper, one of the oldest qualities in Romania, taken over in 2005 by Dinu Patriciu and selling 26,000 copies in [...]

Voiculescu/Intact internalizes internet ad sales

Iulian Comanescu — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:54:51 +0000

Some, if not all the Voiculescu group internet sites will be sold via Intact Interactive, a new division of the group, run by the former executive director of Boom, the greatest on-line advertising broker in Romania - Financiarul newspaper reported. Until the executive director (Magda Zander)’s move to Intact last week, 18 Voiculescu sites - [...]

Voiculescu to launch Business TV next spring

Iulian Comanescu — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:09:55 +0000

The Voiculescu group, a major player on the Romanian media market, is preparing to launch Business TV next spring, unofficial sources told Comanescu.ro. The niche channel launch was initially scheduled for December 2, but was postponed due to some logistics problems. Gabriela Vrânceanu Firea, a TV presenter at Voiculescu’s main TV station, Antena 1, and [...]

TV ratings for August

Iulian Comanescu — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:10:21 +0000

The August top 10 of TV ratings, according to Business Standard: 1. Pro TV (commercial, CME): 2,1 2. Antena 1 (commercial, Voiculescu): 1,4 3. TVR 1 (public): 1 4. Acasa TV (commercial, women, CME): 1 5. Realitatea TV (rolling news, Vîntu): 0,8 6. OTV (tabloid): 0,7 7. Prima TV (commercial, SBS): 0,6 8. Kanal D (commercial, Dogan/Ringier): 0,5 9. Antena 3 (rolling news, Voiculescu): [...]

Media/oil mogul Dinu Patriciu takes over Ukraine tabloid

Iulian Comanescu — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:42:19 +0000

Dinu Patriciu, a Romanian oil mogul, took over Blik, the tabloid launched in Ukraine in 2006 by Ringier AG, according to Kommersant. Patriciu became the richest Romanian after the sale of 75% of Rompetrol to KazMunaiGaz (Kazahstan) for 2,7 billion US dollars. Various rumors about Ringier’s lack of success in Ukraine have spread after Blik’s launching [...]

June round-up: BBC and Free Europe go off-air, political virals, legal restrictions

Iulian Comanescu — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:03:22 +0000

BBC Romania and Radio Free Europe Romania are to go off-air on August 1st, due to buget restrictions. BBC Romania offered employees several month’s wage as a compensation Two senators proposed and got a modification of the Audiovisual Law that asks television stations broadcasting positive and negative topics news in equal proportions. If promulgated by [...]

High ratings on the public channel, due to Euro 2008

Iulian Comanescu — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:12:17 +0000

The first channel of the public television achieved high ratings and more than 50% market share due to the Romania-France broadcast on June 9th (final result: 0-0). The first half of the match had 2,664,000 viewers in average (market share: 58,9%), and the second achieved 2,971,000 viewers (share: 57,8%) - target all urban, GfK peoplemeter [...]

The public television started to broadcast in HD

Iulian Comanescu — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:02:05 +0000

The Romanian public television started its HD broadcast on June 1st 2008, according to a press release. The broadcast is experimental and viewable on channel 59/DVB-t, or satellite with a Viaccess 2.6 card. TVR HD is the 2nd Romanian channel broadcasting in high definition, after Pro TV, the leading commercial station.