National Co-ordinator:

Marta Gajdosikova
Slovak Television
Regional Studio Banska Bystrica
Rudlovska cesta 1
974 35 Banska Bystrica
Slovakia
Tel +421 48 427 5126
Fax: +421 48 437 5247
Email: gajdosikova@stvbb.sk

Television service in the Slovak Republic (independent since the 1 January, 1993 after the split of Czechoslovakia) is operated by the national broadcaster Slovak Television (Slovenska Televizia)

Television broadcasting covering the territory of Slovakia was launched in 1956 and was, carried out by the corporation called Czechoslovak Television in Slovakia. In 1962 the regional studio Kosice in Eastern Slovakia started broadcasting, and in 1966 the regional studio Banska Bystrica in central Slovakia was set up.

In 1991 the Act on Slovak Television as a public institution was adopted by the Slovak Parliament (National Council of Slovakia). For its activities the Slovak Television is responsible to the Council of Slovak Television whose members are nominated by the Parliament. The General Director is elected and called off by the Parliament upon a proposal by the Council.

In 1992 the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting was set up by the parliament as the supreme body having the authority to issue a broadcasting licence. Licences for covering the entire territory of the Slovak Republic must be approved, upon a proposal from the council, by the Parliament.

In 1993 the Act on Radio and Television Broadcasting was adopted defining the rights and responsibilities of operators, advertisement time allotment, rules of licence proceedings and cable distribution system.

In February 1995 the Council has issued a licence to a commercial broadcaster (Markiza Slovankia) for broadcasting on the third channel. New commercial cable operators started broadcasting in 1995.

STV has three studios - Bratislava, Banska Bystrica and Kosice. The headquarters of the STV are in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

STV is broadcasting on two channels - STV 1 and STV 2. The total amount of programme broadcast in 1994 was 7,814 hours on both channels.

Region - Eastern Slovakia

Station TV Studio Kosice
Address Rastislavova 13
Town/City 043 07 Kosice
Tel: +421 55 723 32 42
Fax: +421 55 723 32 54

The studio covers the region of Eastern Slovakia, the town Kosice with 230,000 inhabitants and jointly the town Presov (40 km from Kosice). The total number of inhabitants covered by the regional studio is more than 1.6 million. The local area is mixed - industrial and agricultural.

The station transmits 460 hours of programmes per year. Every day the news and sports items are included in the main news programme of STV, while the reports on cultural activities are quite famous. Regional programmes for the area are broadcast on regular basis. The studio has technology and equipment for making entertainment programmes as well as dubbing of foreign programmes. It also broadcasts programme for minorities (Ukrainian and German).

Region - Central Slovakia

Station TV Studio Banska Bystrica
Address Rudlovska cesta 1
Town/City 974 35 Banska Bystrica
Circom contact: Peter Puchy
mob: +421 905 200 826
tel: +421 48 43 75 137
fax: +421 48 41 53 724
e-mail: puchy@stvbb.sk

Produces 150 hours of programmes yearly with 60 employees. Apart from the news and sports material provided daily for the STV main news programmes, the studio broadcasts twice a week (Tuesday and Friday on STV 2 at 6 p.m.) its own regional magazine "Region Central Slovakia" covering the latest events in the region. Current affairs and documentaries - the most popular is the magazine on tourism "Teleweekend". The programme, which originated in this regional studio as part of the regional broadcasting, later aroused interest of other studios and became a series broadcast regularly in the national network on a regular basis with a fixed place in the schedule.

"Year In The Country" - a new current affairs series about living in the country.
"Dialogues On Addiction" - a new series, with open discussions about the increasing number of drug addicts.
"Encyclopaedia Of The History Of Slovak Villages" - a series of documentaries on the history of famous small towns.
The studio produces documentaries on folk art, folk customs still preserved in the region of Central Slovakia.
Foreign programmes - there are dubbing studios in Banska Bystrica producing about 50 hours of dubbed feature films and documentaries.

Region - Western Slovakia

STV Bratislava
Mlynska Dolina
845 45 Bratislava
Slovakia
Tel: +421 2 6061 4191 / 96
Fax: +421 2 6061 4192