The Bulgarian National Television (Bulgarian: Българска национална телевизия, Bŭlgarska natsionalna televiziya) or BNT (БНТ) is the public broadcaster of Bulgaria. The company was founded in 1959 and began broadcasting on December 26 of the same year. It began broadcasting in color in 1970. BNT's headquarters are located in Sofia, Bulgaria, in a building located at the well-known address of 29 San Stefano Str.
BNT's first live broadcast was the parade on the occasion of the October Revolution anniversary. BNT is funded from government funds (around 60%) with the rest coming from television commercials . It broadcasts two television channels: the over-the-air BNT 1 and the international BNT World, a channel aiming to broadcast Bulgarian production only. Another channel, Efir 2, existed between 1974 and 2000, and was later substituted by the private bTV. The channel was relaunched on October 2011 as BNT 2
BNT operates four regional broadcasting centres, based in Blagoevgrad (Pirin programme), Varna (More programme), Plovdiv (Plovdiv programme) and Rousse (Sever programme). They were merged to create the BNT 2 channel in October 2011.
In 2012 BNT launched an HDTV sports channel BNT HD to broadcast the Euro 2012 and London 2012 olympiade.
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Television in Bulgaria
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| Bulgarian National Television |
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| bTV Media Group |
- bTV
- bTV Comedy
- bTV Cinema
- bTV Action
- bTV Lady
- RING.BG
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| Nova Broadcasting Group |
- Nova Television
- Nova+
- Kino Nova
- Diema
- Diema Family
- Nova Sport
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| Other television channels |
- TV7
- SKAT
- City TV
- The Voice
- Disney Channel
- Cartoon Network
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| Defunct Televisions |
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National media in the former Eastern Bloc
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| Overview |
- Eastern Bloc information dissemination
- Broadcasting in the Soviet Union
- Mass media in Communist Czechoslovakia
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| Newspapers |
- Central newspapers of the Soviet Union
- Pravda (Russian SFSR)
- Zvyazda (Byelorussian SSR)
- Rabotnichesko Delo (Bulgaria)
- Rudé právo (Czechoslovakia)
- Pravda (Slovakia)
- Laiko Vima (Albania)
- Mladá fronta DNES (Czechoslovakia)
- Neues Deutschland (East Germany)
- Rahva Hääl (Estonian SSR)
- Neuvosto-Karjala (Karelo-Finnish SSR)
- Sovetskaya Latviya (Latvian SSR)
- Czerwony Sztandar (Lithuanian SSR)
- Kauno Tiesa (Lithuanian SSR)
- Zëri i Popullit (Albania)
- Népszabadság (Hungary)
- Esti Budapest (Hungary)
- Trybuna Ludu (Poland)
- Scînteia (Romania)
- Komsomolskaya Pravda (Russian SFSR)
- Pionerskaya Pravda (Russian SFSR)
- Trud (Russian SFSR)
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| TV |
- ČT1 (Czechoslovakia)
- ČT2 (Czechoslovakia)
- DFF (East Germany)
- DFF2 (East Germany)
- ETV (Estonian SSR)
- LTV1 (Latvian SSR)
- Lietuvos Televizija (Lithuanian SSR)
- Televizioni Shqiptar (Albania)
- Bulgarian National Television
- Efir 2 (Bulgaria)
- m1 (Hungary)
- m2 (Hungary)
- TVP1 (Poland)
- TVP2 (Poland)
- TVR1 (Romania)
- TVR2 (Romania)
- Soviet Central Television (Russian SFSR)
- Soviet TV Channel 1 (Russian SFSR)
- UT1 (Ukrainian SSR)
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| Radio |
- Rundfunk der DDR
- Berliner Rundfunk (East Germany)
- Deutschlandsender (East Germany)
- Radio DDR 1 (East Germany)
- Radio DDR 2 (East Germany)
- DT64 (East Germany))
- Radio Berlin International
- Eesti Raadio (Estonian SSR)
- Latvijas Radio 1 (Latvian SSR)
- Lietuvos radijas (Lithuanian SSR)
- Radio Tirana (Albania)
- Radio Bulgaria
- Horizont (Bulgaria)
- Magyar Rádió (Hungary)
- Kossuth Rádió (Hungary)
- Radio Polonia
- Program 1 Polskiego Radia (Poland)
- Radio România Actualităţi (Romania)
- Radio România Cultural (Romania)
- Radio3Net (Romania)
- Radio Moscow (Russian SFSR)
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| Misc |
- TASS (Russian SFSR wire service)
- RIA Novosti (Russian SFSR press agency)
- Gosteleradio (Russian SFSR TV/Radio)
- Belarusian Telegraph Agency (Byelorussian SSR wire service)
- ELTA (Lithuanian SSR wire service)
- Soviet Information Bureau
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Coordinates: 42°41′31″N 23°20′19″E / 42.69194°N 23.33861°E / 42.69194; 23.33861