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OTO Awards
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Osobnosť televíznej obrazovky, more commonly abbreviated as OTO, is a Slovak awards show recognizing the public figures and the work of popular culture in the country. Established by Art Production Agency in 2000, the television poll-based awards are voted on by the viewing audiences. The annual ceremonies of the accolades are screened live by the television network RTVS. The categories awarded regularly since, include Program, Actor, Actress, Male and Female Singer, Absolute OTO┼ • The overall winner with the highest number of votes per ceremony. Hall of Fame┼ • Honors individuals with outstanding contributions to the medium, plus 7 dní Award • A journalistic award formerly given by TV listings-devoted weekly EuroTelevízia, later by Život magazine. Note ┼ denotes a category awarded regularly since, the listed years are of television release, annual ceremonies are held the following year. Herman also holds the record for the highest number of wins per category. Including special achievements, Banášová lead with thirteen wins in total, besides, he is the only winner having scored at least in two categories per year, both the special and regular. The third participant with the highest number of OTO awards in general, is Actress Zdena Studenková with eight wins. Within multiple nominees, Žbirka himself remains the most successful to date, having earned sixteen nominations in a row to his credit and his runners-up are Sportscaster Lenka Čviriková with fourteen nominations, and journalists such as Zlatica Švajdová and Herman, the latter with thirteen nominating bids. During the first decade, the show attracted in average over 700,000 viewers per ceremony, subsequently held ceremonies marked the second highest numbers for the title as whole. The 9th and 10th season were watched by 731,000 and 778,000 people respectively, with the latter being televised on two STV sisters channels at the same time, Jednotka and Trojka. Since the 2010s, the format gains considerably less — roughly half a million audiences each year —. The 12th season of the TV poll, or rather the only aired on a Friday instead, produced also the lowest ratings ever for the program, peoples Choice Awards OTO Awards - Winners and nominees OTO Awards - Winners and nominees
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Slovak National Theater
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The Slovak National Theater is the second oldest Slovak professional theater. It was founded in 1920 after the creation of Czechoslovakia as a cooperative, between 1920 and 1945, there was also a musical ensemble. The Slovak National Theater has represented Slovak culture on its numerous tours abroad and it was created and, in the 1920s, also run by Czech artists. The first performance was the Czech opera Hubička by Bedřich Smetana on March 1,1920, the ensembles were Slovakized only gradually. In 1932, the drama ensemble split into the SNT Slovak Drama Company led by Janko Borodáč, the Czech Drama Company ceased to operate when it was forced to leave Slovakia in 1938. Since then, the ensemble has performed in Slovak only. In recent years, operas have been presented in their original languages, initially, all 3 ensembles were active at the old Slovak National Theater building. From 1955 to early 2007, the company performed at the P. O. Hviezdoslav Theater. Since 2007, the ensembles perform only at the old Slovak National Theater building, the drama company was shaped by the directors Janko Borodáč, F. Hoffman, J. Jamnický, J. Budský, T. Rakovský, K. I. Zachary, P. Haspra, M. Pietor and the current one – Dušan Jamrich, the opera ensemble was led by conductors such as Oskar Nedbal, K. Nedbal, J. Vincourek and T. Frešo, and directors including V. Šulc and M. Wasserbauer. A great boom occurred after World War II, the SNT witnessed the rise of modern Slovak opera by Eugen Suchoň, Ján Cikker, Alexander Moyzes, Tibor Andrašovan, T. Frešo, and many others. Many singers from the SNT are famous abroad, e. g. Edita Grúberová, Lucia Popp, Peter Dvorský, R. Petrák, S. Kopčák, M. Hajóssyová, E. Jenisová, J. Galla, Jozef Kundlák, and many others. The ballet ensemble has grown from a group in 1920 to a huge ensemble today. It was opened as the City Theater on September 22,1886 with the opera Bánk bán of Ferenc Erkel, as a sign of this events importance Kálmán Tisza Hungarian Prime Minister and his all government, Mór Jókai took part on this ceremony. Gala performance was conducted by Ferenc Erkel himself, the original building was designed for 1000 spectators and was illuminated using 800 gas lamps, while the auditorium had a lustre with 64 lights. The interior was decorated, with frescos of by Pressburg/Pozsony native painter Kornél Spányik and by paintings by Munich artist Leo Lüttgendorf-Leinburg, the City Theater was hired by German and Hungarian professional theater companies, but beginning in 1919, it was used by Czech and later also Slovak ensembles. In 1920 it became the Slovak National Theater, the new building was constructed on the site of a previous Classic style theater built in 1776, the first permanent theater building in today Slovakia, which was demolished in 1884. Bratislava native sculptor Viktor Oskar Tilgner crafted the famous Ganymedes Fountain in 1888, the building has housed Slovak National Theater ensembles since 1920, but today only the opera and ballet ensembles are resident
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Bratislava
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Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia, and with a population of about 450,000, the countrys largest city. The greater metropolitan area is home to more than 650,000 people, Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia, occupying both banks of the River Danube and the left bank of the River Morava. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the national capital that borders two sovereign states. The history of the city has strongly influenced by people of different nations and religions, namely by Austrians, Croats, Czechs, Germans, Hungarians, Jews, Serbs. The city served as the site and legislative center of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1536 to 1783. Bratislava is the political, cultural and economic centre of Slovakia and it is the seat of the Slovak president, the parliament and the Slovak Executive. It is home to several universities, museums, theatres, galleries, many of Slovakias large businesses and financial institutions also have headquarters there. The capital of Slovakia is the eighth best city for freelancers to live in, mostly because of fast internet, in 2017, Bratislava was ranked as the third richest region of the European Union by GDP per capita. GDP at purchasing power parity is about three times higher than in other Slovak regions, the city received its contemporary name in 1919. Beforehand it was known in English by its German name, Pressburg, as it was long dominated by Austrians. This is the term which the German, the pre-1919 Slovak, the citys Hungarian name, Pozsony, was given after the castles first castellan, Poson. The origin of the name is unclear, it come from the Czech Pos or the German Poscho. Hungarian speakers still use the Hungarian name, Pozsony, the medieval settlement Brezalauspurc is sometimes attributed to Bratislava, however the actual location of Brezalauspurc is under scholarly debate. The citys modern name is credited to Pavel Jozef Šafáriks misinterpretation of Braslav as Bratislav when analyzing medieval sources, thus coming up with the term Břetislaw, during the revolution of 1918–1919, the name Wilsonov or Wilsonstadt was proposed by American Slovaks, as he supported national self-determination. The name Bratislava, which was used only by some Slovak patriots. The name Pressburg was also used in English-language publications until 1919, in older documents, confusion can be caused by the Latin forms Bratislavia, Wratislavia etc. which refer to Wrocław, Poland – not to Bratislava. The first known permanent settlement of the area began with the Linear Pottery Culture, about 200 BC, the Celtic Boii tribe founded the first significant settlement, a fortified town known as an oppidum. They also established a mint, producing silver coins known as biatecs, the area fell under Roman influence from the 1st to the 4th century AD and was made part of the Danubian Limes, a border defence system
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Slovakia
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Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Slovakias territory spans about 49,000 square kilometres and is mostly mountainous. The population is over 5 million and comprises mostly ethnic Slovaks, the capital and largest city is Bratislava. The Slavs arrived in the territory of present-day Slovakia in the 5th and 6th centuries, in the 7th century, they played a significant role in the creation of Samos Empire and in the 9th century established the Principality of Nitra. In the 10th century, the territory was integrated into the Kingdom of Hungary, which became part of the Habsburg Empire. After World War I and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a separate Slovak Republic existed in World War II as a client state of Nazi Germany. In 1945, Czechoslovakia was reëstablished under Communist rule as a Soviet satellite, in 1989 the Velvet Revolution ended authoritarian Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Slovakia became an independent state on 1 January 1993 after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. The country maintains a combination of economy with universal health care. The country joined the European Union in 2004 and the Eurozone on 1 January 2009, Slovakia is also a member of the Schengen Area, NATO, the United Nations, the OECD, the WTO, CERN, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the Visegrád Group. The Slovak economy is one of the fastest growing economies in Europe and its legal tender, the Euro, is the worlds 2nd most traded currency. Although regional income inequality is high, 90% of citizens own their homes, in 2016, Slovak citizens had visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 165 countries and territories, ranking the Slovak passport 11th in the world. Slovakia is the world’s biggest per-capita car producer with a total of 1,040,000 cars manufactured in the country in 2016 alone, the car industry represents 43 percent of Slovakia’s industrial output, and a quarter of its exports. Radiocarbon datingputs the oldest surviving archaeological artefacts from Slovakia – found near Nové Mesto nad Váhom – at 270,000 BC and these ancient tools, made by the Clactonian technique, bear witness to the ancient habitation of Slovakia. Other stone tools from the Middle Paleolithic era come from the Prévôt cave near Bojnice, the most important discovery from that era is a Neanderthal cranium, discovered near Gánovce, a village in northern Slovakia. The most well-known finds include the oldest female statue made of mammoth-bone, the statue was found in the 1940s in Moravany nad Váhom near Piešťany. Numerous necklaces made of shells from Cypraca thermophile gastropods of the Tertiary period have come from the sites of Zákovská, Podkovice, Hubina and these findings provide the most ancient evidence of commercial exchanges carried out between the Mediterranean and Central Europe. The Bronze Age in the territory of modern-day Slovakia went through three stages of development, stretching from 2000 to 800 BC
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Juraj Kukura
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Juraj Kukura is a Slovak actor. Kukura studied acting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, since 1985, when he emigrated to Germany, his films were banned by the regime until the end of Communist rule in the 1989. Thanks to his personality he usually portrayed strong, leading characters. In 2004, he received DOSKY Award for performing Martin in The Goat, or, in 2003 he became managing director of Arena Theatre. Juraj Kukura at the Internet Movie Database
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13th OTO Awards
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The 13th OTO Awards, honoring the best in Slovak popular culture for the year 2012, took time and place on March 16,2013 on the New Opera stage of the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava. The ceremony broadcast live RTVS on Jednotka, the hosts of the show were Adela Banášová, television Music In the main categories, Ján Mečiar and Marcel Merčiak received two simultaneous nominations, respectively. Merčiak scored one win, having achieved two special awards as the first such recipient in the so far history of the poll. 2 nominations Ján Mečiar Marcel Merčiak The show has received an audience of more than 587,000 viewers. OTO2012, Absolútnu sošku má Merčiak, prekvapil triumf Bičana, majú Štefan Hríb a Róbert Bezák šance v ankete OTO. Absolútny OTO patrí M. Merčiakovi, v Sieni slávy je Magda Paveleková, Marcel Merčiak získal ocenenia OTO, Bičan porazil Rozborila. Ceny v ankete OTO2012 sú rozdané, OTO2012, Hilmerová prezradila, že bude mať syna Leonarda. Spoločnosť7 Plus, a. s. pluska. sk, anketa OTO bola dôstojná, kazil ju len nepatričný exhibicionizmus. Archive > OTO2012 – 13th edition Winners Winners and nominees Winners and nominees
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15th OTO Awards
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The 15th OTO Awards honoring the best in Slovak popular culture for the year 2014, took time and place on March 14,2015 at the former Opera building of the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava. The ceremony broadcast live the channel Jednotka of RTVS, while the hosts of the show were Adela Banášová and Matej Sajfa Cifra, both for the third time in a row. Television Music The show has received an audience of more than 601,000 viewers. Marika sa po rokoch objavila v nomináciách diváckej ankety OTO, ringier Axel Springer Slovakia, a. s. zivot. azet. sk. OTO2014 – 15th edition Winners
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Radio and Television of Slovakia
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Radio and Television of Slovakia or RTVS is a state-owned nationwide public broadcasting organization in Slovakia. It is headquartered in Bratislava and led by Václav Mika, the organization was created in 2011 following a merger of Slovenská televízia with Slovenský rozhlas. Like its two predecessor organizations, RTVS is a member of the European Broadcasting Union. There are 2 national television channels, European Broadcasting Union Czechoslovak Television Radio and television website Organizational website
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Given name
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A given name is a part of a persons personal name. It identifies a person, and differentiates that person from other members of a group, such as a family or clan. The term given name refers to the fact that the name usually is bestowed upon a person and this contrasts with a surname, which is normally inherited, and shared with other members of the childs immediate family. Given names are used in a familiar and friendly manner in informal situations. In more formal situations the surname is commonly used, unless it is necessary to distinguish between people with the same surname. The idioms on a basis and being on first-name terms allude to the familiarity of addressing another by a given name. The order given name – family name, commonly known as the Western order, is used throughout most European countries and in countries that have cultures predominantly influenced by Western Europe. The order family name – given name, commonly known as the Eastern order, is used in East Asia, as well as in Southern and North-Eastern parts of India. The order given name - fathers family name - mothers family name is used in Spanish-speaking countries to acknowledge the families of both parents. Today the order can also be changed legally in Spain using given name - mothers family name - fathers family name, under the common Western naming convention, people may have one or more forenames. If more than one, there is usually a main forename for everyday use, sometimes however two or more forenames may carry equal weight. There is no particular ordering rule for forenames – often the main forename is at the beginning, a childs given name or names are usually chosen by the parents soon after birth. If a name is not assigned at birth, one may be given at a ceremony, with family. In most jurisdictions, a name at birth is a matter of public record, inscribed on a birth certificate. In western cultures, people normally retain the same name throughout their lives. However, in some cases names may be changed by petitioning a court of law. People may also change their names when immigrating from one country to another with different naming conventions, in France, the agency can refer the case to a local judge. Some jurisdictions, like in Sweden, restrict the spelling of names, parents may choose a name because of its meaning
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TV JOJ
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TV JOJ is a private TV channel in Slovakia. It was launched on 2 March 2002 as a successor of the TV Global, the station first slogan was Nuda na Slovensku skončila - Boredom in Slovakia has finished. TV Joj was built by head of Czech Republic channel TV Nova, Vladimír Železný. Through Joj, Železný wanted to shake the dominance of CME’s station in Slovakia, TV Markíza, in its first years on the market, TV Joj failed. Surviving through airing an anemic TV Nova diet, the station was beaten in ratings by TV Nova itself, still, many are reported to have decided to stay anyway. In 2004, when CME bought back TV Nova, the Americans had to divest from TV Joj as Slovak legislation forbids a company to own two nationwide TV stations, the Czechs sold TV Joj back to Grafobal. As of 2004, TV Joj somewhat improved its audience and increased its reach from 65 percent of the country to 80 percent in 2005, behind Grafobal is the Slovak businessman Ivan Kmotrík. His empire encompasses the country’s largest newspaper distributor and retailer Mediaprint & Kapa Pressegrosso, four large printing houses, J&T Media Enterprises, a J&T vehicle, bought Mac TV, the holder of the license for TV Joj, from Grafobal Group in January 2007. At the same time, from J&T Finance Group, Grafobal Group received the all-news TV station TA3, becoming the owner of CEN. Peter Korbačka, owner of J&T Media Enterprises and partner in J&T, is thrilled with Joj’s strong position on the Slovak market, calling it a very good start-up project. He also hopes that with Joj, the third largest station in the country in terms of share, J&T will start building a strong media business in Slovakia —. Markíza can no longer compete with TV JOJ, TV JOJ has toughen up their primetime and their average weekly audience share has increased to 21,8 % as of July 2,2012. Markízas weekly audience share is 26,7 % nowadays, TV Markíza has recorded a massive decrease of audience share. Back to 2007 they had average weekly audience share up to 39, aired in prime time when it reaches 30% share. It was airing on TV Prima, starring, Diana Mórová, Mirka Partlová, Roman Luknár, Marián Miezga, Vladimir Kobielsky, Božidara Turzonovová, and others. Mafstory - slovak sitcom about mafian clan of Molnár family, starring, Roman Fratrič, Peter Batthyány, Peter Sklár, Ivan Macho, Martin Vanek, Gabriela Dzuríková, and others. Súdna Sieň - TV show about cases in camerae, dr. Hermanová - TV show about psychological cases. - TV show about Hungarian repairman living in Slovakia, in first season he has a TV show about repairing things
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Celeste Buckingham
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Celeste Rizvana Buckingham is a Slovak singer and songwriter of Swiss-American origins. Even though eliminated from the talent contest, having placed tenth, nevertheless, her mainstream record followed the eventual release of her full-length debut entitled Dont Look Back. Issued to favorable reviews on EMI Czech Republic, the set experienced a moderate success commercially, some of those however acknowledged her general achievements in the music industry, such as the category New Artist of the Year, her winning at the ceremony. Her subsequent outputs garnered attention within their format, among them were a track recorded for AMO group, Swing, and a solo single called Never Be You. Her most recent release, I Was Wrong, serves as her duet with Spirit. On stage, one of the singers most characteristic features is her barefoot performances, Celeste Rizvana Buckingham was born on May 3,1995 in Zurich, Switzerland to the parents from different multicultural backgrounds. Her father, Thomas, is a Chicago-native American with British-Irish origins, Celeste is a naturalized citizen of Switzerland, thus holding multiple citizenship herself. According to Celestes own words printed in MF DNES, her mother had left her native Iran in exchange for the Swiss Confederation, while she was abroad, she met her soon-to-be husband, at that time University student, with whom she later moved to Alaska. Buckingham would spend her childhood in Anchorage, where her father worked as a cardiologist. In 1999, the Buckinghams relocated to the European continent and her father accepted a job offer, settling the family in Slovakia. For an interview published on August 29,2012 in Slovak national daily newspaper SME, before our parents lived in Switzerland for a while, constantly thinking about them returning to Europe. However they wouldnt be attracted to Switzerland, and so they were considering where else, well. The choice felt upon Slovakia as my father-doctor had gotten a job over there, originally we supposed to stay only for a year, so then we will see. And here we are for nearly thirteen years already, since the age of three, Buckingham was raised with her younger sister, Carmel, in their foster country. Growing up in Borinka, a village of the capital Bratislava, she was encouraged to take lessons in classical ballet. Later she began playing instruments, such as guitar and piano. Buckingham made her debut in the field of juvenile literature. In 2007, at the age of twelve, she crafted with her sister a short story, chronicling the adventures of the princess Lilly and her lost little sister
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Television program
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It may be a single production, or more commonly, a series of related productions. A limited number of episodes of a show may be called a miniseries or a serial or limited series. Television series are without a fixed length and are divided into seasons or series. While there is no defined length, U. S. industry practice has traditionally favored longer television seasons than those of other countries, a one-time broadcast may be called a special, or particularly in the UK a special episode. A television film is a film that is initially broadcast on television rather than released in theaters or direct-to-video, a program can be either recorded, as on video tape, other various electronic media forms, played with an on-demand player or viewed on live television. Television programs may be fictional, or non-fictional and it may be topical, or historical. They could be primarily instructional or educational, or entertaining as is the case in situation comedy, a drama program usually features a set of actors playing characters in a historical or contemporary setting. The program follows their lives and adventures, except for soap opera-type serials, many shows especially before the 1980s, remained static without story arcs, and the main characters and premise changed little. If some change happened to the characters lives during the episode, because of this, the episodes could be broadcast in any order. Since the 1980s, there are series that feature progressive change to the plot. For instance, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere were two of the first American prime time television series to have this kind of dramatic structure. While the later series, Babylon 5 is an example of such production that had a predetermined story running over its intended five-season run. In 2012, it was reported that television was growing into a component of major media companies revenues than film. Some also noted the increase in quality of television programs. When a person or company decides to create a new series, they develop the elements, consisting of the concept, the characters, the crew. Then they offer it to the networks in an attempt to find one interested enough to order a prototype first episode of the series. They want very much to get the word out on what types of shows they’re looking for, to create the pilot, the structure and team of the whole series must be put together. If the network likes the pilot, they pick up the show to air it the next season, sometimes they save it for mid-season, or request rewrites and further review
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Prime time
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Prime time or peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television programming. The term prime time is defined in terms of a fixed time period – for example. In Chinese television, the 19, 00-to-22,00 time slot is known as Golden Time, the term also influenced a nickname of a strip of holidays in known as Golden Week. Prime time here usually takes place from 19,00 until 22,00, after that, programs classified as “PG” are allowed to be broadcast. Frontline dramas appear during this time slot in Cantonese, as well as movies in English, in India, prime time occurs between 20,00 and 22,30. Prime time usually takes place from 18,00 to 23,00 WIB, after prime time, programs classified as Adult, as well as cigarette commercials, are allowed to be broadcast. Like another Muslim-majority country, there is also a prime time during sahur time in a month of Ramadan. It takes place from 02,00 and ends at the Fajr prayer call, the time slot is usually filled with comedy and religious programming. In Iraq, prime time runs from 20,00 to 23,00, the main news programs are broadcast at 20,00 and the highest-rated television program airs at 21,00. In Japanese television, the 19, 00-to-22,00 time slot is known as Golden Time. The term also influenced a nickname of a strip of holidays in known as Golden Week, malaysian prime time starts with the main news from 20,00 to 20,30 and ends either at 23,00 or 0,30, or possibly late. Usually, programmes during prime time are domestic dramas, foreign series, movies. Programmes that classify as 18 are not allowed to be broadcast before 10,00 p. m. but on RTM, however, programmes broadcast after 23,00 are still considered prime time. As of December 2010, NTV7s prime time continues until 12,00 a. m, programmes during prime time may have longer commercial breaks due to number of viewers. Some domestic prime time productions may be affected because of major sporting events such as FIFA World Cup. However, only FIFA World Cup in the Americas did not affect the domestic prime time programmes, in the Philippines, prime time blocks begin at 18,00 and run until about 23,00 on weekdays, and 19,00 to 23,00 on weekends. The weekday prime time blocks usually consists of local teleseryes and foreign television series, the networks highest-rated programs are usually aired right after the evening newscast at 20,00, while a foreign series usually precedes the late night newscast. On weekends, non-scripted programming such as talent shows, reality shows, for the minor networks, prime time consists of American television series on weekdays, with encores of those shows on weekends
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Mafra (company)
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Mafra is a Czech media group that publishes printed and internet media, headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. It is a subsidiary of Agrofert holding conglomerate that is owned by businessman Andrej Babiš, Mafra was founded in 1992 in Prague. It was acquired in 1994 by the German group Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei- und Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH, in 2013, Mafra was acquired by Czech holding group Agrofert, which is owned by Andrej Babiš. MAFRA publishes daily newspaper MF Dnes, which, with 224 thousand newspaper circulation as of March 2011 is the second largest newspaper in the Czech Republic, after tabloid Blesk. The internet division is, as of February 2011, the third most visited Czech website on the internet and it includes web portals iDnes. cz and lidovky. cz, most of its websites being under iDnes. cz. Other assets include two printing works and the TV music channel Óčko
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