TV Koper Capodistria is a
Slovene free-to-air
Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscripti ...
television channel based in
Koper
Koper (; it, Capodistria, hr, Kopar) is the fifth largest city in Slovenia. Located in the Istrian region in the southwestern part of the country, approximately five kilometres () south of the border with Italy and 20 kilometres () from Triest ...
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Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and ...
. Mainly funded by state aid, the channel serves the
Italian-speaking minority in Slovenia and
Croatia
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. It can also be received in the Italian region of
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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Popular shows
The channel covers international, regional, and local news from both sides of the border. The editorial section for culture programmes shows Artevisione, Istria e... dintorni, L’Universo e`... and Itinerari. The shows, with documentaries, reports, and magazine formats, focus on the regional and local cultural life in Slovenia, Italy, and Croatia.
The channel is notable by the first
music video
A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing devic ...
TV show, not only in the former
Titoist Yugoslavia, but also in the neighboring Italy, featuring popular Western music videos during the 1980s with its host Dario Diviacchi enjoining a star status among his young TV audience. The show, first under the name "Alta Pressione" ("High Pressure") and later "Video Mix", was on air every Thursday evening. A
phone-in format with the TV viewers choosing among the music videos to be aired on the show, was introduced later with host Alex Bini.
[Does anyone remember Dario Diviacchi?](_blank)
(In Slovene: Kdo se spomni Diviacchija), MMC RTV Slovenija
Radiotelevizija Slovenija ( en, Radio-Television of Slovenia) – usually abbreviated to RTV Slovenija (or simply RTV within Slovenia) – is Slovenia's national public broadcasting organization.
Based in Ljubljana, it has regional broadcastin ...
, 28 December 2004
The music program made the channel popular in Italy, where the show was the third most viewed TV show in 1985.
Logo history
Logo tv kc 4.jpg, Between late 70's and 1986 ( On-screen logo)
Logo tv kc.jpg, 1986-2007
Logo tv kc 2.jpg, 2007-2013
Tv kc nuovo.png, Since 2013
See also
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Istrian Italians
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RTV Slovenija
Radiotelevizija Slovenija ( en, Radio-Television of Slovenia) – usually abbreviated to RTV Slovenija (or simply RTV within Slovenia) – is Slovenia's national public broadcasting organization.
Based in Ljubljana, it has regional broadcastin ...
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Italian language in Slovenia
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Italian language in Croatia
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Slovenian Littoral
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Istria
Istria ( ; Croatian and Slovene: ; ist, Eîstria; Istro-Romanian, Italian and Venetian: ; formerly in Latin and in Ancient Greek) is the largest peninsula within the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic betwe ...
References
External links
Official Website
Historical article in English
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Television channels in Slovenia
Television channels and stations established in 1971
Italian-language television stations
Mass media in Koper