Nova Television

Nova Television
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Nova Television

Launched	December, 1994
Owned by	Modern Times Group
Audience share	22.9 % (October, 2008, )
Country	Bulgaria
Sister channel(s)	Nova+, Diema, Diema2, Diema Family
Website	http://www.novatv.bg/

Nova Television (also known as Nova televiziya (Нова телевизия, literally New Television), Nova TV or simply Nova) is a Bulgarian commercial television network launched in 1994. Since 2000, it was entirely owned by the Greek company ANT1 Group. On 31 July 2008 Swedish media conglomerate Modern Times Group bought Nova TV from Greece’s Antenna Group for €620 million. The deal was completed on October 16, 2008. The television network received a national television license on 18 July 2003, thus becoming the third national television in Bulgaria, after Kanal 1 and bTV, and the second private national media.

Nova Television airs Endemol productions: Big Brother (see Big Brother Bulgaria), Star Academy (see Star Academy Bulgaria), Deal or No Deal, 1 vs. 50 as well as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (under the name Стани богат (Become Rich). Popular American TV series such as House, Lost, CSI and CSI: Miami, Cold Case, Without a Trace, Close to Home, Sex and the City, Nip/Tuck, The Dead Zone, Star Trek: Enterprise, Prison Break, Ugly Betty, Heroes and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles are also part of Nova Television's programme.

Nova Television also has a children's block on Saturdays and Sundays from 8:00 to 10:00 EET. On December 10, 2006 the Sunday block started to show two Warner Bros. cartoon series from 9:00 to 10:00 in The Warner Block (the name is not translated to Bulgarian at the start of the block, but in ads it is known as "Часът на Уорнър", or The Warner Hour). The first two shows to air in it are Tom and Jerry Kids and Superman: The Animated Series (the latter is broadcast for the first time in Bulgaria). In the late 1990s the channel showed the first season of Spider-Man (later to be taken over by bTV) and cartoon series like My Little Pony. Other cartoons include Pokémon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Histeria!, Teen Titans, X-Men: Evolution, and Voltron: The Third Dimension (although the original series aired on Channel 1) and Beast Wars: Transformers (which aired years earlier on Channel 1 with different dub). Currently the animated series that are being run are The Flintstones, Extreme Ghostbusters, What's New, Scooby-Doo?, Justice League and Ed, Edd n Eddy. Expected to start on November 24, 2008 at 6:00 EET is also the Disney show House of Mouse.

Programmes

New series

External links

Official site

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