Romanian Television

Selecting Romania's 2021 Eurovision song is starting today, with singer Roxen expected to record several songs in the days ahead. Demo versions of the acts will be sent to a jury that chooses the winning song, according to a press statement released by the TVR national public television corporation.

The Save Romania Union - Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party (USR PLUS) alliance backs the need for the reform of the statutes of the National Public Television Broadcaster - TVR as soon as the regular Parliament session begins, chairman of the Lower House Culture Committee Iulian Bulai told a debate today on the situation of TVR with journalists and civil society representatives.

Members of the branch of the MediaSind Romanian Union of Journalists (SRJ) in the Romanian Television (TVR) have decided on Friday to continue the strike through excessive zeal started for the purpose of provoking the dismissal, in urgent regime, of the President-General Director of the Romanian Television Society, as well as the directors of the Human Resources and Legal departments, a documen

The management of the Romanian Television Broadcasting Corporation (SRTV) officially recognizes, through the reply sent to MediaSind Romanian Journalists' Trade Union (SRJ), that it violated the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement by the fact that it organized several employment competitions in the absence of the delegate on behalf of the representative Union, a press release of S

MPs from Romania's ruling Social Democratic Party on Tuesday prevented questions being asked at a parliamentary hearing that was intended to quiz the public broadcaster's director-general over accusations of political censorship and insulting the station's reporters.

Romanian military prosecutors investigating for the fourth time the bloodshed that occurred during the 1989 uprising that ousted communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu on Wednesday indicted a former television news anchor for crimes against humanity.

Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos said on Monday that he was looking for ways to prevent his country's exclusion from Eurovision 2016 after the public broadcaster, TVR, announced that it owed the European Broadcasting Union , EBU, which runs the annual contest, over 10 million euros.

"We will have a discussion and we'll find a solution," Ciolos said.

Romania's parliament on Tuesday approved a new board for the state-owned television company, TVR, which comprises representatives of all political parties, the government, the President and the TVR labour union.  

The 13-member board was approved by 312 votes in favour and 21 against.

George Orbean, a journalist and media consultant, is to become the new boss.

Nearly 100 people left condolence messages on the Facebook page of Valentin Nicolau, a respected playwright and former director of TVR (the Romanian public television) who died on Tuesday, at the age of 54, following a cardiac and respiratory arrest.

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The Romanian Television (TVR, public station) has proposed at least one campaign debate between the presidential candidates Victor Ponta and Klaus Iohannis before the second round of the election. TVR invited both candidates to its offices for a first meeting on this proposal on Monday at 2pm.