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TVR Cultural

Television channel in Romania

Summary

Television channel in Romania

Field	Value
name	TVR Cultural
logo	TVR Cultural Logo 2022.svg
logo_size	225px
launch_date	April 19, 2002 (original)
December 1, 2022 (relaunch)
closed_date	15 September 2012 (original)
picture_format	1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed, only on terrestrial)
owner	Televiziunea Română
country	Romania
former_names	Cultural
sister_channels	TVR 1
TVR 2
TVR 3
TVR Folclor
TVR Info
TVRi
TVR Moldova
TVR Sport
website	http://cultural.tvr.ro/
terr_serv_1	Digital terrestrial television
terr_chan_1	Channel 5
terr_serv_2	Digi cable
terr_chan_2	198
terr_serv_3	Orange România Communications
terr_chan_3	145

December 1, 2022 (relaunch) (downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed, only on terrestrial) TVR 2 TVR 3 TVR Folclor TVR Info TVRi TVR Moldova TVR Sport TVR Cultural () is the cultural channel of Romania's government-funded television network Televiziunea Română (TVR). It provides cultural news, documentaries about the arts, as well as various shows, musicals and theatrical pieces. It was closed in September 2012 and restarted in December 2022.

History

TVR Cultural began transmission in April 19, 2002. It was modelled on the Franco-German TV channel Arte and other European channels focused on cultural and artistic programming.

Due to a financial crisis, TVR president Claudiu Săftoiu decided to end TVR Cultural broadcasts in the summer of 2012. There was widespread criticism of this decision, which came at a time when other public broadcasters in the Central and Eastern Europe, including Polish Telewizja Polska and Czech Television, were expanding their cultural output.

TVR Cultural started rebroadcasting again in 2022, ten years after its closure, following an internal vote within TVR. On 7 September 2022, Romania's National Audiovisual Council granted a license to restart broadcasting.

On 1 December 2022, to coincide with Romania's National Day, TVR Cultural relaunched its broadcasts with the stated aim of "[creating] bridges between tradition and modernity, between conservatism and progressivism, between rural and urban, between peripheral and central." The first day of broadcasts included debates on cultural topics, interviews with Romanian cultural figures – including director Daniel Jiga of the Romanian National Opera – as well as rebroadcast of a 1978 staging of Victor Ion Popa's play "Take, Ianke and Cadîr".

Under new TVR president Dan-Cristian Turturică, the relaunched TVR Cultural aims to bring focus to young artists from Romania and Moldova to showcase minority cultures in Romania, to document the state of culture during Romania's communist period and rebroadcast archival programming alongside new concerts, plays, as well as other cultural events. Its regular segment, "Jurnal Cultural", is hosted by Bogdan Stănescu and covers current affairs in the field of arts and culture in Romania as well as abroad.

References

(15 April 2002). "Vineri se naşte un nou post de televiziune: TVR Cultural". [[Libertatea]].
"Romanian state owned TVR to close down two channels, layoff staff in attempt to save money". Romania Insider.
(November 2024). "Claudiu Saftoiu: huge losses of TVR require reorganization".
(14 August 2012). "Romanians protest against ditched TVR channel".
"Decision to stop the emission of TVR Cultural illustrates the crisis of values".
(14 August 2012). "Remote control protest organized in Bucharest against closing state-owned culture TV channel". Romania Insider.
(14 August 2012). "TVR to Close Two Channels".
Bunea, Iulia. (9 February 2022). "Ştirea Serii. TVR vrea să reînvie TVR Cultural şi TVR Info".
"TVR Cultural s-a relansat pe 1 Decembrie".

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