Television in Moldova was introduced in 1958.
From 2022 it became illegal to retransmit television and radio programmes with informative, analytical, military, or political content, produced in states that have not ratified the European Convention regulation on cross-border television.[1]
The following is a list of television channels broadcast in Moldova.
National
[edit]- Moldova 1 (state owned) – 1st national network
- Moldova 2 (state owned) – 2nd national network
- Gagauz Radyo Televiziyonu retransmits programmes of TRT Avaz (Turkey).
Only available in Transnistria:
- Transnistria 1 is the only channel in Transnistria transmitting programmes in Russian, Ukrainian and Moldovan (in Cyrillic).
Regional
[edit]- Naţional 4 (semi-national)
- ProTV Chișinău (national), retransmits programmes of Pro TV (Romania)
- STS Mega (semi-national), retransmits programmes of STS (Russia)
- Super TV (semi-national), retransmits programmes of SET (Russia)
- TV Gagauzia (Gagauzia), retransmits programmes of TRT Avaz (Turkey)
- TVR Moldova (national), retransmits programmes of the Romanian Television channels
- TV8 (Moldova) (Chișinău and Bălți)
- Realitatea TV (semi-national)
Only available in Transnistria:
- TV PMR formerly Primul Transnistrean / Primul Transnistrean / (Transnistria)
- TSV (TV channel) (Transnistria)
Local
[edit]- Albasat TV (Nisporeni), retransmits programmes of Jurnal TV
- Art TV (Zubresti), retransmits programmes of 1 Music Channel (Romania)
- Euronova TV (Ungheni), retransmits programmes of Jurnal TV
Cable and digital terrestrial channels
[edit]Defunct
[edit]- Muz-TV Moldova (semi-national), retransmitted programmes of Muz-TV (Russia)
- TV Moldova Internațional (state owned)
- Canal 2 retransmitted programmes of, formerly: Antena Internațional and Antena 1 (Romania), later: TVR 1 (Romania) (used to be managed by Telestar media SRL - controlled by Vladimir Plahotniuc¹)[2]
- Prime retransmitted programmes of Channel One (ORT) (Russia) (owned by Vladimir Plahotniuc¹) (managed by General Media Group SRL - controlled by Vladimir Plahotniuc¹)[2]
- Canal 3 (semi-national) (managed by Telestar media SRL - controlled by Vladimir Plahotniuc¹)[2]
- Publika TV (semi-national) (managed by General Media Group SRL - controlled by Vladimir Plahotniuc¹)[2]
- Accent TV
- ITV Moldova
- Orhei TV
- Orizont TV
- First in Moldova
- RTR Moldova , used to retransmit programmes of Russia-1 (Russia) (part owned by Sberbank)
- NTV Moldova , used to retransmit programmes of NTV (Russia) (managed by Exclusiv Media Company, owned by Corneliu Furculiță)
- RU TV Moldova , used to retransmit programmes of RU.TV (Russia)
- TV6
See also
[edit]- Media of Moldova
- TeleRadio-Moldova
- List of Romanian-language television channels
- Television in Transnistria
- Euronova Media Group