Type | Terrestrial radio and television |
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Country | |
Founded | 2011 |
Headquarters | Bratislava |
Owner | Government of Slovakia |
Key people | Ľuboš Machaj |
Established | 1 January 2011[1] |
Official website |
www.rtvs.sk |
Replaced |
Slovenská televízia (STV) Slovenský rozhlas (SRo) |
Radio and Television of Slovakia ( Slovak: Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska [ˈrɔzɦlas a ˈteleʋiːzɪɐ ˈslɔʋenska]) or RTVS is a nationwide public broadcasting, state-funded organisation in Slovakia. It is headquartered in Bratislava and led by Ľuboš Machaj. [2] [3]
The organization in its current form was created in 2011 following a merger of Slovenská televízia (Slovak Television) with Slovenský rozhlas (Slovak Radio). [1] Funding for the combined organisation is obtained through advertising, government payments, and a monthly fee levied on most individuals registered with electricity retailers and most businesses containing three or more employees. [4] [5]
Like its two predecessor organizations, RTVS is a full member of the European Broadcasting Union.
All stations can be tuned into using satellite ( Astra 3B), DAB, FM, DVB-T, and online streaming.
Logo | Station | Programming |
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Rádio Slovensko | National generalist station; news, entertainment and live broadcasts with pop music | |
Rádio FM | Targeted at young people, broadcasting mostly alternative and non-mainstream music, entertainment and news bulletins | |
Rádio Devín | Classical music and culture | |
Rádio Regina | Three regional radios based in Bratislava, Banská Bystrica, and Košice | |
Rádio Patria | Dedicated to Hungarian ethnic minority in Slovakia, broadcasting in Hungarian language between 6–18 hours. There are some programmes in Ukrainian, Ruthenian, German, Polish and Czech, but they are transmitted on Radio Regina. | |
Radio Slovakia International | Broadcasts in six languages: German, Spanish, Slovak, French, English and Russian. | |
Rádio Pyramída | Classical music (replaced Rádio Klasika in 2016) | |
Rádio Junior | For children up to the age of 10 | |
Rádio Litera | Radio, stage drama and literary profiles |
There are 4 national television channels.
During the term of the General Director Václav Mika (2012–2017), the content and graphics of the news have changed significantly, with minor modifications it is still used today. The title also included the RTVS brand - Správy RTVS. The news broadcasting programmes were initially struggling with very low audience - on 18 December 2012 only with 7.8% share. [8]
Over time, the audience began to grow, and RTVS news has started to appear as the most objective news in TV in public opinion surveys, with exceptions lasting by now. [9] However, after the election of Jaroslav Reznik as General Director in 2017, who was nominated by SNS party, which was in government, the situation in the newsroom has changed. A new head of the news section has been appointed, under whose leadership, according to most of the journalists, the content of the news was being manipulated. The tense atmosphere led to the departure of a dozen journalists in 2018. [10] More and more space in the news was reserved to the SNS party officials, including journeys of Andrej Danko, the party leader, serving till 2020 as Speaker of the parliament, to Russia. The topic of his plagiarism in rigorous work was also not addressed in the main part of the news. [11]
After the parliamentary elections in 2020 and the new government appointed, news too favorable towards the governmental or oppositional parties seem to not appearing anymore, nonetheless some of the content is still being manipulated. For example in the programme Reportéri, reports about plagiarism of several publicly known persons were not aired. [12]