TVR (TV network)

TVR
TypeBroadcast television network
Country
Romania, Moldova through TVR Moldova
MottoImaginea timpului tău
("the image of your times")
OwnerGovernment of Romania
Key people
Dan Cristian Turturică, President and General Chairman
Launch date
31 December 1956; 67 years ago (1956-12-31)
Former names
Radioteleviziunea Română
(1956–1990; when it was the only radio-television company in the country)
Official website
www.tvr.ro

Televiziunea Română (Romanian pronunciation: [televiziˈune̯a roˈmɨnə]),[1] more commonly referred to as TVR [teveˈre], is the short name for Societatea Română de Televiziune ("Romanian Television Society"; SRTV), the Romanian public television. It operates nine channels: TVR 1, TVR 2, TVR 3, TVR Cultural, TVR Folclor, TVR Info, TVRi, TVR Moldova and TVR Sport along with six regional studios in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iași, Timișoara, Craiova, and Târgu Mureș.

TVR 1 has a total national coverage of 99.8%, virtually the entire Romanian population, and TVR 2 has 91% national coverage. All of the other channels and networks solely broadcast in major population centers. Even though it does not have the largest audience, due to the dominance of the five private TV networks (which consistently get higher ratings in the urban market segment), it offers a wider variety of services, including webcasts and international viewing via TVRi.

As of November 2019, TVR 1 and TVR 2 broadcast in full high-definition.