Country | Moldova |
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Broadcast area | Moldova |
Headquarters | Chișinău, Moldova |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Romanian |
Picture format | 576i (16:9 SDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | I.C.S. "General Media Group" S.R.L. |
Sister channels | Canal 2, Canal 3, Publika TV |
History | |
Launched | September 1999 |
Closed | 30 October 2023[1] | (broadcast suspended)
Former names | ORT Moldova Pervîi Kanal Moldova |
Links | |
Website | www.prime.md |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Radiocom (DVB-T2) | - |
Prime is a Moldovan generalist television channel. The channel is distributed via DVB-T2, by the cable and IPTV operators in Moldova and broadcasts through analogue terrestrial television at a national level.
The owner of the channel is Moldovan oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc.[2][3][4][5][6] Since its inception, it was one of Moldova's most popular channels.
The channel was criticized and on 4 July 2014, the Coordinating Council of the Audiovisual of Moldova sanctioned Prime and other channels for broadcasting Russian "informative-analytical" programs, which contained aggressive propaganda and promotes and increases fake news and information regarding the Ukrainian government.[7]