Alfa TV (Macedonian TV channel)

Alfa TV
Алфа ТВ
Logo of Alfa TV
CountryNorth Macedonia
Broadcast areaNorth Macedonia
HeadquartersSkopje
Programming
Language(s)Macedonian
Picture format16:9 (576i, SDTV)
16:9 (1080i, HDTV)
Ownership
OwnerVeselin Jevrosimovikj
Key peopleJani Bojadzi

Nikola Krstić-Editor-in-Chief
History
Launched2008
Former namesTV Skopje
Links
Websitewww.alfa.mk
Availability
Terrestrial
AnalogChannel 18
DigitalChannel 28
Boom TVChannel 007
Streaming media
WebMax TVWatch Live (MKD) Only
OnNetWatch Live (MKD) Only

Alfa TV (Macedonian: Алфа ТВ) is a privately owned TV station in North Macedonia. Its headquarters is in Skopje, and the program director until 2018 was Ljubomir Nikolovski.[1] Since 2018, the director is Vasko Eftov.[2] Then he was relieved and the new director was Jani Bojadzi

The station is considered to be supportive of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of the VMRO-DPMNE party and to be majority-owned by Peter Schatz, a Hungarian media tycoon closely allied with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The station and the Schatz-owned web portal Ripostmk.com are currently under investigation by Macedonian authorities due to running expensive ads worth €3.2 million for small Hungarian companies linked to Schatz and to have used the money to push support for Gruevski in 2017, while disproportionally undermining the government of Zoran Zaev.[3]

Alfa TV has also received criticism from the civic fact-checking organization F2N2 for promoting misinformation concerning foreign investment and Russian influence in the country.[4][3]

  1. ^ "Alfa Tv". Archived from the original on 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  2. ^ Васко Ефтов е новиот директор на телевизија Алфа Archived 2018-04-29 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 28.04.2018 (Macedonian)
  3. ^ a b Delić (Oštro.si), Saška Cvetkovska (Investigative Reporting Lab Macedonia), Blanka Zöldi (Direkt36), Anuška (2020-02-28). "Oiling Orbán's Propaganda Machine". OCCRP. Retrieved 2020-10-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "The German investors gave the Government more than a grade". F2N2. 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2020-10-19.