Country | Romania |
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Programming | |
Picture format | 576i (4:3, SDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Cozmin Guşă Maricel Păcuraru |
History | |
Launched | 7 November 2001 |
Closed | 30 October 2019 |
Replaced by | Realitatea Plus |
Links | |
Website | www.realitatea.net |
Realitatea TV (Romanian pronunciation: [re.aliˈtate̯a teˈve], meaning "The Reality TV") is the former name of the Romanian news television channel Realitatea Plus. The channel began broadcasting in 2001 as a general-profile television and became the first Romanian news television in 2002. Its owners are Romanian politician Cozmin Guşă and businessman Maricel Păcuraru.
After becoming insolvent in 2011 and bankruptcy in 2019, the channel lost its license on 31 October 2019. The channel began broadcasting on 1 November 2019, including advertising, on Realitatea Plus,[1] a channel that was launched in 2015 on satellite for the public outside Romania. Realitatea Plus has a slightly modified version of the previous logo of Realitatea TV.