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Television in Albania was first introduced in 1960. RTSH dominated the Albanian broadcasting field up to the mid-1990s, a period when privately owned radio and TV stations started to occupy the vast empty Albanian frequencies. Transition to DTV broadcasting is stalling.^[1]

Albania at the moment has 2 national commercial television stations, 71 local stations, 83 local cable stations and two commercial multiplexes. Of all the existing national analog television stations, the public broadcaster Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) has the greatest reach: its signal covers 80.5% of the territory, followed by Top Channel with 79% and TV Klan with 78%. However, there are also digital multiplexes but they are unaccounted for in the territorial reach figures. It could be said that the other main TV stations, based in Tirana, whose signal covers a significant part of the territory include: Ora News, News 24, Vizion Plus, A1 Report, and Albanian Screen TV. Apart from Vizion Plus TV and Albanian Screen TV, the other stations are all-news ones.

Below is a list of television stations and TV providers broadcasting in the Republic of Albania:^[2]

Public channels

• RTSH (HD)
• RTSH 2
• RTSH 3
• RTSH Sport
• RTSH Muzikë
• RTSH Art
• RTSH Sat

Private channels

• Top Channel (HD)
• TV Klan (HD)
• Klan Plus
• Vizion Plus (HD)
• IN TV (HD)

Defunct channels

• TVA
• Albanian Screen
• Agon Channel

Online channels

• Zjarr TV (HD)
• Wedding TV (HD)

Affiliated channels available abroad

• Klan Kosova - Kosovo
• Alsat-M - Republic of Macedonia
• Agon Channel Italia - Italy

Regional channels

Movies & series

Documentaries

Kids

Sport

Music

News

Others

DVB-T/S Multi-channel providers

• Digitalb
• RTSH Digital
• Tring Digital
• SuperSport Albania
• Alfa Cable

Foreign relay frequency

• TV5Monde Europe
• Rai Italia
• ANT1 Greece

See also

• Media of Albania

References

Further reading

• Londo, Ilda. Television across Europe: follow-up reports 2008 - Albania. Budapest: Open Society Institute, 2008
• Londo, Ilda. Media Ownership, Independence, and Pluralism. Tirana: Albanian Media Institute, 2007
• Londo, Ilda. Digital television in Albania: Policies, development and public debate. Tirana: Albanian Media Institute, 2006

External links

• AMA - Authority of Audiovisual Media
• IMA - InfoMedia Albania - TV Blog and Rating
• Albanian Media Institute
• LIVE TV from Albania
• LIVESTREAM TV from Shkoder, Albania

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