Romania’s President is seen less often on TV

December 20, 2006 on 1:35 pm | by Iulian Comanescu | In News, Television |

Romania’s President, Traian Băsescu, appeared only 84 times on the main national Romanian TV stations during November 2006, according to the last monitoring provided by the broadcast regulating authority, the CNA. Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, Romania’s Prime Minister, has a much stronger TV presence, according to the same monitoring, with 124 appearances.

After the change of power in December 2004, the number of appearances on TV of the two politicians was roughly the same.

The TV stations taken into consideration by the CNA were: TVR 1 and TVR 2 (public), Pro TV and Antena 1 (main commercial) and Antena 3 and Realitatea TV (rolling news). The CNA also released a monitoring of the main radio stations, where the President is placed the third, after the leader of the main opposition party, Mircea Geoană (PSD).

The top of the appearances (length and number):

Politicians on TV

No. Name Political party Length [s] No. of appearances
1 Călin Popescu Tăriceanu PNL - prime minister 124 3412
2 Traian Băsescu President 84 2852
3 Mircea Geoană PSD 74 2156
4 Codruţ Şereş PC 49 1837
5 Gheorghe Flutur PNL 58 1719
6 Adrian Năstase PSD 35 1308
7 Marian Vanghelie PSD 41 1225
8 George Copos PC 63 1179
9 Sorin Oprescu PSD 41 1149
10 Dan Voiculescu PC 35 1114
11 Eugen Nicolăescu PNL 26 981
12 Dumitru Dragomir PRM 56 747
13 Cristian Diaconescu PSD 15 693
14 Gheorghe Ştefan PNL 22 626
15 Mona Muscă Independent 25 568
16 Radu Berceanu PD 26 548
17 Ion Iliescu PSD 38 535
18 Mihail Hârdău PD 15 527
19 Oana Marinescu Government 21 476
20 Adriean Videanu PD 28 450
21 Andrei Chiliman PNL 20 439
22 Varujan Vosganian PNL 21 409
23 Ludovic Orban PNL 17 385
24 Crin Antonescu PNL 16 358
25 Corneliu Vadim Tudor PRM 20 352

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  1. [...] Top politicieni/aparitii la Comanescu.ro. Veti vedea ca de pe lista lipseste Jiji. Fiindca nu e parlamentar? Mitica Dragomir face, oricum, furori la Pro TV… [...]

    Pingback by HotNews » Basescu, tot mai rar la TV. Da bine — December 20, 2006 #

  2. Waw! one little surprise: Vadim!

    Comment by cristian — December 20, 2006 #

  3. A pleasant surprise is the ex-prime minister, Adrian Nastase. He is still in top10 after all this time.

    More important is the fact that I can place at least 20 people (out of 25) in certain key positions before 1989, during the Ceausescu regime while 6 of them are very well known nowadays as “red symbols” still in politics (like Iliescu, or Vadim).

    Only 1 of them is a media mogul (Voiculescu) and I wonder why is he aiming for the spotlight? Some are used to play the discretion card…

    Comment by Bogdan Gavrila — December 21, 2006 #

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