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Realitatea TV
Realitatea TV (, meaning "The Reality TV") is the former name of the Romanian news television channel Realitatea Plus. The channel began broadcasting in 2001 as a general-profile television and became the first Romanian news television in 2002. Its owners are Romanian politician Cozmin Guşă and businessman Maricel Păcuraru. After becoming insolvent in 2011 and bankruptcy in 2019, the channel lost its license on 31 October 2019. The channel began broadcasting on 1 November 2019, including advertising, on Realitatea Plus, a channel that was launched in 2015 on satellite for the public outside Romania. Realitatea Plus has a slightly modified version of the previous logo of Realitatea TV. History 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. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
576i
576i is a standard-definition television, standard-definition digital video mode, originally used for Digitization, digitizing 625 lines, 625 line Analog television, analogue television in most countries of the world where the utility frequency for electric power distribution is 50 Hz. Because of its close association with the legacy colour encoding systems, it is often referred to as PAL#PAL region, PAL, PAL/SECAM or SECAM when compared to its 60 Hz (typically, see PAL-M) NTSC-colour-encoded counterpart, 480i. The ''576'' identifies a vertical resolution of 576 lines, and the ''i'' identifies it as an Interlaced video, interlaced resolution. The Refresh rate, field rate, which is 50 Hertz, Hz, is sometimes included when identifying the video mode, i.e. 576i50; another notation, endorsed by both the International Telecommunication Union in Rec. 601, BT.601 and SMPTE in SMPTE 259M, includes the frame rate, as in 576i/25. Operation In analogue television, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrom
OMV Petrom S.A. is a Romanian integrated oil company, controlled by Austria's OMV. It is one of the largest corporations in Romania and the largest oil and gas producer in Southeast Europe. Since 2004 it is a subsidiary of OMV. With 2022 revenue of EUR 12.5 billion, as of 2023, OMV Petrom is the largest company in Romania. History In late 2004, Petrom was privatized by the Romanian state and sold to Austrian oil company OMV, which acquired of the previous SNP Petrom SA. , it was the largest privatization deal in Romania's history. Until 2005, Petrom owned six offshore drilling platforms, of which five, GSP Atlas, GSP Jupiter, GSP Orizont, GSP Prometeu and GSP Saturn were sold to Grup Servicii Petroliere for US$100 million. In January 2006, Petrom purchased OMV's operations in Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia and Montenegro. As a result of the transaction, the gas station networks of OMV were transferred to Petrom, but continued to operate under the OMV brand. From 1 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Channels And Stations Established In 2001
Television (TV) is a telecommunications, telecommunication media (communication), medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of signal transmission, transmission. Television is a mass media, mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent to radio receivers. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Television Channels In Romania
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Sebastian Ghiță
Sebastian Aurelian Ghiță (born 10 November 1978) is a Romanian businessman and politician. He is the owner of and of România TV news channel. Early life Ghiță was born on November 10, 1978, in Ploiești, and, in 1997, at 18 years of age, he founded the Asesoft Company. He graduated from the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești in 2002. Political activity A close partner of Victor Ponta, Ghiță joined the Social Democratic Party (Romania), Social Democratic Party (PSD) and was elected in the Chamber of Deputies (Romania), Chamber of Deputies in 2012. He left the Social Democratic Party in 2016 and founded, together with former PSD deputy , the United Romania Party (PRU). He was a candidate for PRU at the 2019 European Parliament election in Romania, but he failed to win a seat. Controversies In 2002, he was sued in the file "Tracia – Asesoft", being accused of complicity in cheating and false statements, in connection with several oil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elan Schwarzenberg
Elan or Élan may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters *Elan (Order of the Stick), in the webcomic ''The Order of the Stick'' * Elan (Dungeons & Dragons), a race in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' * Elan (Star Wars Legends), a ''Star Wars'' character Music *Elán (band), a Slovak pop rock band * "Élan" (song), by Nightwish, 2015 * ''Élan'' (Firefall album), 1978 * ''Elan'' (Mari Hamada album), 2005 Literature * ''Elan'' (magazine), an online lifestyle publication Business and organisations *Elan (company), a Slovenian sports equipment company *Élan, an Irish pharmaceutical company * Elan Financial Services, a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp *Élan Motorsport Technologies, an American race car manufacturing consortium * ELAN Microelectronics Corp., a Taiwanese manufacturer of microcontrollers *Élan School, a school in Poland, Maine People * Elán (musician) (born 1983), Mexican singer *Elan Atias (born 1975), American singer-songwriter *Elan Carr (born 1968), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traian Băsescu
Traian Băsescu (; born 4 November 1951) is a Romanian politician who served as the president of Romania from 2004 to 2014. Prior to his presidency, Băsescu served as Romanian minister of transport on multiple occasions between 1991 and 2000, and as Mayor of Bucharest from 2000 to 2004. Additionally, he was elected as leader of the Democratic Party (PD) in 2001. During his term as leader of the PD, the party formed the Justice and Truth Alliance (DA) with the National Liberal Party (PNL). Following Theodor Stolojan's withdrawal from the presidential elections in 2004, Băsescu entered the presidential race on behalf of the alliance. After being elected president, he suspended his PD membership; Romanian law does not permit the incumbent president to be a member of a political party. He was subsequently re-elected in 2009. During his presidency, Romania became a member state of the European Union, on January 1, 2007, after the admission process formarly ended in 2004, duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorin Ovidiu Vântu
Sorin Ovidiu Vântu (; 23 November 1955, Bucharest) is a Romanian businessman and owner of the Realitatea-Cațavencu media company. In 2007, he was considered the 4th richest man in Romania, with an estimated net worth between 2.1 and 2.3 billion euros. On 16 June 2009, during a TV interview on B1 TV, former president Traian Băsescu accused Vîntu of tax evasion by allegedly not paying 60 million euros worth of Value Added Tax. Vântu later denied the accusation, and sued Băsescu for libel, asking for 1 million euros in damages. Vîntu was sentenced to two years in prison in 2005 for using some false documents to gain majority shares in the Investment and Development Bank (BID), which went bankrupt in 2002. Later the Bucharest Court of Appeals ordered by final decision the discontinuation of the trial finding that the charges passed their statute of limitations. On 21 June 2012, he was sentenced to one year in prison following the blackmail accusation of his ex business par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silviu Prigoană
Vasile-Silviu Prigoană (22 December 1963 – 12 November 2024) was a Romanian businessman and politician. Life and career Prigoană owned 60% of , a waste collection company which services Bucharest's Sector 3, Cluj-Napoca, Suceava, and Baia Mare. In December 2008, he became a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, serving for four years. He was a member of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) until September 2012, shortly before his term expired. Apart from his waste collection company, Prigoană is known for founding the first Romanian news television, Realitatea TV, the first sports channel based in Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ..., TV Sport (later sold to Central European Media Enterprises, becoming Sport.ro), and two other music chann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SDTV
Standard-definition television (SDTV; also standard definition or SD) is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high or enhanced definition. ''Standard'' refers to offering a similar resolution to the analog broadcast systems used when it was introduced. History and characteristics SDTV originated from the need for a standard to digitize analog TV (defined in BT.601) and is now used for digital TV broadcasts and home appliances such as game consoles and DVD disc players. Digital SDTV broadcast eliminates the ghosting and noisy images associated with analog systems. However, if the reception has interference or is poor, where the error correction cannot compensate one will encounter various other artifacts such as image freezing, stuttering, or dropouts from missing intra-frames or blockiness from missing macroblocks. The audio encoding is the last to suffer a loss due to the lower bandwidth requirements. Standards that suppor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Cristoiu
Ion Cristoiu (; born 16 November 1948, Găgești, Vrancea County) is a conservative Romanian journalist, writer, and political analyst. Career He was editor-in-chief of the daily '' Evenimentul Zilei'' during its heyday in the 1990s, when the average daily circulation topped 600,000, making it the most read newspaper in Romania, after '' România liberă'' (circulation 1 million)Patrick H. O'Neil, ''Post-communism and the media in Eastern Europe'', Routledge Routledge ( ) is a British multinational corporation, multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, academic journals, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanit ..., 1997, , p. 109 and one of the most read in Eastern Europe as well. He also founded or played a major role at a number of the weekly publications during that era: '' Expres'', '' Expres Magazin'', and '' Zig-Zag''. All these publications were highly critical of president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
