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Country | Romania (1st national network),Moldova (terrestrial - 2nd state network; cable) |
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Broadcast area | National. Also distributed inMoldova,Ukraine,Bulgaria,Hungary,Serbia and via satellite across Europe. |
Headquarters | Bucharest |
Programming | |
Picture format | 1080iHDTV (downscaled to576i for theSDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Televiziunea Română |
Sister channels | TVR 2 TVR 3 TVR Info TVR Cultural TVR Folclor TVRi TVR Sport |
History | |
Launched | 31 December 1956; 68 years ago (1956-12-31) |
Former names | TVR (1956–1972, 1985–1989) Programul 1 (1972–1985) TVRL (1989–1990) România 1 (2001–2004) |
Links | |
Website | tvr1 |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Digital terrestrial television | Channel 1 (SD) |
TVR 1 (Romanian pronunciation:[ˌtevereˈunu]; spelled out asTeleviziunea Română 1, "Romanian Television 1") is the mainchannel of theRomanianpublic broadcasterTVR.
The most important show of the channel isJurnalul TVR, whose motto isJurnalul așa cum ar trebui să fie! ("The news journal as it should be"), but on 28 March 2009 was replaced byTelejurnal, which is its name till today. In 1985, Programul 1 renamed again to TVR becoming the sole television channel in Romania.
In 1989, TVR1 broadcast live the events of therevolt which triggered the fall of theCommunist regime, covering almost all the main events live, starting from the last speech ofNicolae Ceauşescu (on December 21, 1989) until the new power representatives arrived. At the time, fabricated and exaggerated stories were broadcast, nevertheless TVR1 was the first television channel to cover all the events of the regime change.
AfterTVR HD was closed, TVR 1 has launched an HD broadcast on November 3, 2019, with its other sister channel,TVR 2.TVR is also testing HD broadcasting on its other channels, but momentarily, the HD broadcasts are only available on its on-demand service, TVR+.
TVR1 airs series such as:
Romanian TV airs the following channels for minority nationwide: