16 Facts About Czech Television

Czech Television is a public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic, broadcasting seven channels.

Czech Television was established 1 January 1992 as a successor to Czechoslovak Television.

On 1 January 1993, a new concept of channels broadcast by Czech Television was introduced, which were renamed to CT1, CT2, and CT3 .

On 3 February 1994, Czech Television freed one of the nationwide broadcast channels in accordance with the law; starting 4 February 1994 Czech Television was left with two channels, CT1 and CT2.

Czech Television is well known for its wide contributions to many charities.

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Czech Television is creating and broadcasting various educational and awareness-raising programs intended for various age and interest groups.

Since 1993 Czech television is a member of European Broadcasting Union, which is the largest professional association of national broadcasters in the world and brings together over 70 active members from more than fifty countries in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East and other associate members from around the world.

Czech Television is funded through television concession fees which are paid by all households and legal entities that own a television or any form television signal receiver.

Television fees are the main source of funding for Czech Television and are used primarily for production and broadcasting programs.

Media occasionally raise questions about how much Czech Television is able to withstand pressure both from the governing parties and the opposition and maintain unbiased and critical coverage of politics.

Czech Television deducts the proven costs associated with the sale of advertising.

Current General Manager of Czech Television is Petr Dvorak, who was elected for a six-year term by the Czech Television Council in September 2011 and re-elected in 2017.

Czech Television Council is a supervisory authority of Czech Television.

Powers of the Czech Television Council are defined by law of Czech Television and the important powers are:.

Czech Television Council manages according to its own budget, the costs of the Council's activities and the remuneration of its members, as well as the costs of the Supervisory Board's activities and the remuneration of its members are paid from a special expenditure item in the Czech Television budget.

Czech Television continued to use the corporate logo of Czechoslovak Television after 1992, so the logo was in use for 59 years from 1 May 1953 to 30 September 2012.