Three new niche TV stations controlled by the Voiculescu family

October 29, 2007 on 7:57 pm | by Iulian Comanescu | In Television |

Intact/Antena/Jurnalul, one of the major players on the Romanian media market has plans for three or four new niche stations, according to Broadband TV News. An unofficial source confirmed for Comanescu.ro the plans are real, but, instead of the four stations mentioned by Broadband TV News (children, cooking, men, music), said there will be three niche TV’s: children, music, sports.

Intact/Antena/Jurnalul is a group founded by Dan Voiculescu, one of the richest Romanians and an ex-secret police (Securitate) informer. It includes four TV stations (Antena 1 - general, 2nd position on the market, Antena 2 - talk-shows, Antena 3 - News, Euforia Lifestyle TV - women glossy), and other important media assets, such as the 2nd more important general interest newspaper, Jurnalul, and the best sports newspaper, Gazeta sporturilor. The group is today owned mainly by Voiculescu’s daughters, Camelia and Corina. There are no foreign associates, although reports about some discussions with RTL, Permira (an investment fund) and the greeks from Antenna have surfaced.

Some other news about future projects at Voiculescu have also spread in the past, with no results so far.

Lucian Mândruţă, one of the primetime news anchors at Antena 1

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