The Czech Broadcasting Council (RRTV) has awarded a licence to what will be the country’s first HDTV channel. Known as Nonstop Kino HD, it will be operated by a company named Help Film and a HD version of the film channel Nonstop Kino, which made its debut on Karneval, the cable operator now owned by Liberty Global, late last year. Although HDTV is still in its infancy in the Czech Republic, the incumbent telco Telefónica O2 is known to have begun a trial over DTT in the city of Brno in October 2006. Its leading broadcasters Czech Television (CT), TV Nova and Prima TV are also believed to have started making some programmes in the format. Separately, the deputy leader of the Czech opposition party CSSD has called for the merger of CT and its radio counterpart CR. (CD)
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Vaclav Moravec is a journalist with public broadcaster Ceska televize (CT); he has never been a government official, let alone Culture Minister (who is, for the record, Vaclav Jehlicka (Christian Democrats, KDU-CSL).