Television in the Czech Republic

Television was introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1953. Experimental projects with DVB-T started in 2000. Finally on 21 October 2005, multiplex A (DVB-T) was launched with three channels of Czech Television and one of TV Nova and radio channels of Czech Radio.

TV market share views in 2023:^[1]

Nova (17.97%)
Nova Cinema (3.21%)
Nova Gold (1.91%)
ČT1 (16.36%)
ČT24 (4.44%)
ČT2 (4.31%)
ČT Sport (3.32%)
Prima (12%)
Prima Krimi (4.06%)
Prima Max (2.53%)
Prima Love (2.15%)
Prima Cool (1.95%)
CNN Prima News (1.91%)
Other channels (23.88%)

On 12 April 2006, six digital terrestrial television licenses were awarded to commercial broadcasters. The receivers of the licenses were: Z1, TV Pohoda, Regionální televizni agentura (RTA), Febio TV, TV Barrandov and Óčko. However, because of delays some projects lost investors and will not start (e.g. Fabio, Pohoda) or were cancelled. Z1 provided a news service in from 2008 to January 2011, when it ceased broadcasting. Óčko delivers a music service. TV Barrandov provides general programming services.

Czech Republic become the first country in Central Europe to start to end all analogue broadcasts in November 2011.^[2] The process completed when the last analogue transmitters in south-east Moravia and northern Moravia-Silesia were shut down on 30 June 2012.

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Channel	Whole-day share, 15+ (April 2010)	Whole-day share, 15+ (March 2011)	Whole-day share, 15+ (May 2014)
TV Nova	31.08%	31.24%	23.36%
Prima televize	16.92%	17.16%	14.26%
ČT1	17.53%	15.91%	14.27%
TV Barrandov	5.38%	4.83%	4.88%
ČT24	3.87%	4.60%	4.09%
Nova Cinema	3.90%	4.19%	3.8%
ČT Sport	2.00%	4.11%	7.6%
Prima Cool	2.95%	3.74%	3.1%
ČT2	3.63%	2.78%	3.95%
Prima Love	-	-	2.19%
Nova Action	-	-	1.44%
Nova Fun	-	-	1.2%
Nova Gold	-	-	1.18%
Prima Zoom	-	-	1.92%

TV Group	Whole-day share, 15+ (January-December 2024)	Prime-time, 15+ (January-December 2024)	Whole-day share, 15-54 (January-December 2024)	Prime-time, 15-54 (January-December 2024)	Whole-day share, 18-69 (January-December 2024)	Prime-time, 18-69 (January-December 2024)
Czech Television	30.43%	30.17%	27.33%	27.38%	28.64%	28.56%
Nova Group	26.88%	30.43%	32.41%	34.95%	29.64%	32.56%
FTV Prima	26.83%	26.22%	23.31%	23.39%	25.32%	25.12%
Atmedia	6.18%	5.05%	6.00%	5.07%	6.45%	5.33%
Barrandov TV	2.28%	1.85%	0.87%	0.69%	1.51%	1.20%
Televize Seznam	1.66%	1.62%	1.54%	1.58%	1.78%	1.73%
Stanice O	0.24%	0.23%	0.37%	0.29%	0.29%	0.25%
Others	5.50%	4.43%	7.17%	6.65%	6.37%	5.25%
Source:^[4]

Year	Nova Group	Czech Television	FTV Prima	Barrandov TS	Atmedia	Stanice O	TV Seznam	Others
1997^[5]	52.04%	35.55%	8.90%	—	—	—	—	3.51%
1998^[5]	51.61%	33.74%	11.08%	—	—	—	—	3.57%
1999^[5]	50.35%	32.23%	12.47%	—	—	—	—	4.95%
2000^[5]	46.37%	31.32%	16.55%	—	—	—	—	5.76%
2001^[5]	47.73%	29.11%	17.58%	—	—	—	—	5.58%
2002^[5]	44.23%	29.93%	20.33%	—	—	—	—	5.51%
2003^[5]	43.36%	29.62%	20.58%	—	—	—	—	6.44%
2004^[5]	42.23%	30.38%	21.58%	—	—	—	—	5.81%
2005^[5]	40.95%	29.77%	23.13%	—	—	—	—	6.15%
2006^[5]	41.76%	31.26%	20.28%	—	—	—	—	6.70%
2007^[5]	39.59%	31.89%	19.36%	—	—	—	—	9.16%
2008^[5]	38.30%	31.03%	17.93%	—	—	—	—	12.74%
2009^[5]	39.89%	28.57%	17.34%	1.50%	0.69%	—	—	12.01%
2010^[5]	36.12%	28.85%	17.37%	4.22%	2.32%	—	—	9.31%
2011^[6]	33.97%	27.64%	22.22%	5.07%	2.05%	—	—	9.02%
2012^[7]	29.85%	30.16%	24.19%	5.20%	2.01%	—	—	8.60%
2013^[8]	31.17%	29.84%	22.44%	4.39%	3.31%	—	—	8.84%
2014^[9]	31.98%	29.86%	21.54%	4.58%	3.88%	—	—	8.16%
2015^[10]	30.70%	30.42%	20.81%	5.53%	3.22%	0.76%	—	8.37%
2016^[11]	28.71%	30.96%	21.03%	7.35%	3.09%	0.73%	—	7.48%
2017^[12]	30.47%	29.20%	21.00%	8.66%	3.79%	0.71%	—	5.25%
2018^[13]	29.05%	30.13%	22.66%	7.01%	3.43%	0.61%	—	7.11%
2019^[14]	28.66%	29.99%	23.85%	6.27%	4.31%	0.52%	—	6.40%
2020^[15]	27.09%	30.86%	24.78%	5.53%	4.74%	0.44%	—	6.66%
2021^[16]	26.34%	32.34%	25.17%	3.99%	4.79%	0.39%	0.73%	6.25%
2022^[17]	26.42%	31.47%	26.90%	3.21%	4.77%	0.38%	1.01%	5.84%
2023^[18]	27.04%	29.88%	27.56%	2.63%	5.61%	0.32%	1.49%	5.47%
2024^[4]	26.88%	30.43%	26.83%	2.28%	6.18%	0.24%	1.66%	5.50%

Television in the Czech Republic

Czech TV crisis

Most-viewed channels

Broadcaster groups market share

List of channels

Terrestrial free-to-air channels (DVB-T2 & Satellite)

Regional terrestrial free-to-air channels (DVB-T2)

Premium channels

Film

Entertainment

Documentary

Sport

Kids and teens

Music

Erotica

News

See also

References

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