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| Launched | November 2001 |
| Owned by | Elan Schwarzenberg |
| Picture format | 4:3 (576i, SDTV) |
| Audience share | 6.2% (Dec 2008, [1]) |
| Slogan | Deschide lumea (Open the world) |
| Country | Romania |
| Broadcast area | National; also distributed in Moldova Serbia |
| Headquarters | Bucharest |
| Website | www.realitatea.net |
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| UPC Romania | Channel 401 (digital with DVR) Channel 21 (digital) |
Realitatea TV (Romanian pronunciation: [re.aliˈtate̯a teˈve], meaning "The Reality TV") is a Romanian news television network. The channel is distributed by many cable operators in Romania and Moldova. Its main owner is Romanian businessman Elan Schwartzenberg.
Realitatea TV is also available via the DTH platform Digi TV in Serbia, in the Romanian language extra package.
Although it began broadcasting in 2001 as a general-profile television, Realitatea TV soon became the first ever 24-hour Romanian news television (2002).
The station's programming lineup consists of newscasts, talk shows, debates and analysis, science and IT, TV magazines, and any form of informative program chosen by the editorial policy of the station or marketing research. This news channel brought together some of the most important media personalities in Romania: Mihai Tatulici, Stelian Tănase, Cristian Tudor Popescu,[2] Emil Hurezeanu, Mircea Dinescu.
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History
First decade and evolution under Silviu Prigoană and Sorin Ovidiu Vântu
Realitatea TV started broadcasting in 2001, as a general-profile TV station. However, it began broadcasting hourly newscasts and soon changed its format, becoming the first news television in Romania. Prigoană brought Ion Cristoiu to supervise the channel and rise its audience.
Since 2003, Realitatea TV has been the local broadcasting partner of CNN, being able to train its journalists through CNN's International Professional Program. In 2011 CNN signed a new partnership with Antena 3 instead. In 2004 Silviu Prigoană sold the network to an italian company that later sold it to Petrom, which subsequently lost it to Sorin Ovidiu Vântu, sometime in 2006. Vântu was occasionally accused of using his television to manipulate public opinion against President Băsescu and his party.
Elan Schwarzenberg, RTV split and beyond
Publicly accused of manipulating polls and attacking Băsescu by using his channel against him, Vântu signed a managing contract with Sebastian Ghiță, owner and manager of Asesoft. Arrested and tired of being accused of manipulation, Vântu eventually sold Realitatea to Elan Schwarzenberg.
Both Vântu and Schwarzenberg reportedly encountered problems with Ghiță, the conflict ending in dividing Realitatea journalists between Elan Schwarzenberg's new headquarters, at Willbrook Platnum building in Bucharest and Ghiță's headquarters at Casa Presei Libere, where the new RTV channel was born, despite Schwarzenberg's protests and accusations that Asesoft stole his TV equipment.
Some of the international personalities interviewed through the years by Realitatea TV are: Saad Hariri, the son of the Lebanese Prime-Minister Rafik Hariri, killed in a bomb-attack in 2005, Abd al-Bari Atwan, the Palestinian journalist who spent 3 days in a cave with Ossama Bin Laden, Prince Charles and even former US President George W. Bush.
Logos
Since its founding, the channel has changed its appearance seven times, and four times its logo.
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The logo used between 2001 and 2002.
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The logo used between 2002 and 2004.
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The logo used between 2004 and 2006.
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The logo used between 2006 and 2007.
References
- ^ "ARMA 2008_12". ARMA. http://www.arma.org.ro/file.do?file=audientaRo524.pdf.
- ^ C.T. Popescu worked at Realitatea TV until January 2007, when he canceled his contract after Sorin Ovidiu Vântu, the former main owner of the TV station, made some political statements. Hotnews.ro, [http://www.hotnews.ro/articol_64135-C.T.-Popescu-si-a-reziliat-contractul-cu-Realitatea-TV-dupa-declaratiile-politice-ale-lui-Vintu.htm C.T. Popescu şi-a reziliat contractul cu Realitatea TV dupā declaraţiile politice ale lui Vîntu (C.T. Popescu canceled the contract with Realitatea TV after Vîntu's political statements), January 25, 2007
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