About TV JOJ

It was launched on 2 March 2002 as a successor of the TV Global, which was broadcasting since March 2000. TV Joj was built by former head of Czech Republic channel TV Nova, Vladimír Železný, when he was at war with TV Nova’s U.S. investor Central European Media Enterprises (CME). Through Joj, Železný wanted to shake the dominance of CME’s station in Slovakia, TV Markíza, which was enjoying almost 50 percent of the country’s nationwide audience. In its first years on the market, TV Joj woefully failed. Surviving through airing an anemic TV Nova diet, the station was ironically beaten in ratings by TV Nova itself, whose strong signal reached deep into Slovakia.

But in 2004, when CME bought back TV Nova, the Americans had to divest from TV Joj as Slovak legislation forbids a company to own two nationwide TV stations. The Czechs sold TV Joj back to Grafobal. As of 2004, TV Joj somewhat improved its audience and increased its reach from 65 percent of the country to 80 percent in 2005. Behind Grafobal is the Slovak businessman Ivan Kmotrík. His empire encompasses the country’s largest newspaper distributor and retailer Mediaprint & Kapa Pressegrosso, four large printing houses and the advertising agency EURO RSCG Artmedia, among others.

J&T Media Enterprises, a J&T vehicle, bought Mac TV, the holder of the license for TV Joj, from Grafobal Group in January 2007. At the same time, from J&T Finance Group, Grafobal Group received the all-news TV station TA3, becoming the full owner of CEN, the company operating TA3. None of the parties would comment on the transaction’s financial details.

Peter Korbačka, owner of J&T Media Enterprises and partner in J&T, is thrilled with Joj’s “strong position” on the Slovak market, calling it a “very good start-up project.” He also hopes that with Joj, the third largest station in the country in terms of audience share, J&T will start building a strong media business in Slovakia — but it won’t be an easy task.

But still, TV Joj has a long way to go to be a serious competitor to TV Markíza. It now has an audience share of 18 percent. The largest audience in the country belongs to TV Markiza (37.7 percent), followed by the first channel of the public broadcaster STV-Jednotka (18.2 percent). TV Joj's audience remained relatively stable over the past year, but Czech and Hungarian stations reaching into Slovakia, and the first channel of the Slovak public broadcaster STV, are strengthening their positions on the market, leaving little room for TV Joj to boost its ratings.

Foreign shows aired on TV JOJ

Series	Slovak title	Latest season	Season premiere	Series premiere
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...	CSI: Las Vegas	11 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 11) The eleventh season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation premiered on CBS on September 23, 2010 and ended May 12, 2011.-Notable cast members:-Episodes:- U.S. Nielsen Ratings :-External links:...	June 36, 2011
CSI: Miami CSI: Miami CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....	CSI: Miami	9	February 8, 2011
CSI: NY CSI: NY CSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that premiered on September 22, 2004, on CBS. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths as well as other crimes...	CSI: NY	6 CSI: NY (season 6) The sixth season of CSI: NY originally aired on CBS between September 2009 and May 2010. It consisted of 23 episodes. The premiere, "Epilogue", concluded the story from the previous season's cliffhanger finale, "Pay Up"....	September 15, 2010
Shark Shark (TV series) Shark is an American legal drama created by Ian Biederman that originally aired on CBS from September 21, 2006 to May 20, 2008. The series stars James Woods.-Synopsis:...	Shark	2	Reruns	March 2, 2008
Women's Murder Club Women's Murder Club Women's Murder Club is an American police procedural and legal drama, which ran on ABC from October 12, 2007, to May 13, 2008. The series is set in San Francisco, California and is based on the 'Women's Murder Club' series of novels written by James Patterson...	Svieža štvorka	1	Reruns	January 7, 2009
Bones Bones (TV series) Bones is an American crime drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent...	Kosti	6	August 24, 2011
Castle Castle (TV series) Castle is an American comedy-drama television series, which premiered on ABC on March 9, 2009. The series is produced by Beacon Pictures and ABC Studios. On January 10, 2011, Castle was renewed for a fourth season...	Vtierka Castle	2	August 31, 2010	January 13, 2010
Ghost Whisperer Ghost Whisperer Ghost Whisperer is an American television supernatural drama, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005 to May 21, 2010.The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon , who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts...	Stratené duše	5	August 29, 2010	April 19, 2009 (season 2)
The Good Wife	Good Wife	1	August 22, 2010	August 22, 2010
Legend of the Seeker Legend of the Seeker Legend of the Seeker is a television series based on The Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind. Distributed in U.S. by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, ABC Studios produced the series, which was its first foray into broadcast syndication, with Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, Joshua Donen, Ned Nalle and...	Legenda o Pátračovi	1	June 27, 2010	June 27, 2010
Dexter Dexter (TV series) Dexter is an American television drama series, which debuted on Showtime on October 1, 2006. The sixth season premiered on October 2, 2011. The series centers on Dexter Morgan , a bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer...	Dexter	3	March 3, 2010	March 3, 2009
Damages Damages (TV series) Damages is an American television drama series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler . It is broadcast in the United States on the DirecTV channel Audience Network after originally airing on FX and is produced by the creators' own...	V ohrození života	2	2009 (canceled after season 2)	July 5, 2009
Saving Grace Saving Grace (TV series) Saving Grace is an American television crime drama series which premiered on TNT on July 23, 2007 and ran until June 21, 2010. The show stars Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter in her first television series, as well as Leon Rippy, Kenny Johnson, Laura San Giacomo, Bailey Chase, Bokeem Woodbine,...	Božská mrcha	1	July 3, 2010 (canceled during season 1)	July 3, 2010
Life	Najbohatší policajt	2	2010	February 2, 2010
Lost Lost (TV series) Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...	Nezvestní	3	2009 (canceled after season 3)	2006
Dirty Sexy Money Dirty Sexy Money Dirty Sexy Money is an American prime time drama series created by Craig Wright, which ran on the ABC from September 26, 2007 to August 8, 2009. The series was produced by ABC Studios, Bad Hat Harry Productions, Berlanti Television and Gross Entertainment...	Sexi špinavé prachy	2	2009	January 4, 2009
Prison Break Prison Break Prison Break is an American television serial drama created by Paul Scheuring, that was broadcast on the Fox Broadcasting Company for four seasons, from 2005 until 2009. The series revolves around two brothers; one has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and the other devises an...	Útek z väzenia	4 Prison Break (season 4) The fourth and final season of the serial drama television series Prison Break commenced airing in the United States on September 1, 2008. It consists of 24 episodes , 16 of which aired from September to December 2008...	July 21, 2010	2008
Knight Rider Knight Rider (2008 TV series) Knight Rider was a 2008 series that follows the 1982 TV series of the same title and the 2008 television movie. The series stars Justin Bruening as Mike Traceur, the estranged son of Michael Knight. The series also stars Deanna Russo as Sarah Graiman, Traceur's former girlfriend and love interest....	Knight Rider	1	2010	January 5, 2010
Burn Notice Burn notice A burn notice is an official statement issued by one intelligence agency to other agencies. It states that an individual or a group is unreliable for one or more reasons...	Agent	2	2010	February 12, 2010
Boston Legal Boston Legal Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley, which was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for the ABC...	Bostonské zločiny	1	September 7, 2010	September 7, 2010
Journeyman Journeyman A journeyman is someone who completed an apprenticeship and was fully educated in a trade or craft, but not yet a master. To become a master, a journeyman had to submit a master work piece to a guild for evaluation and be admitted to the guild as a master....	Cesta do minulosti	1	September 24, 2010	September 24, 2010
No Ordinary Family No Ordinary Family No Ordinary Family is an American television series on ABC. The 45-minute science fiction comedy-drama was produced by ABC Studios for the 2010–11 television season. The series ran from September 28, 2010 to April 5, 2011, on Tuesdays at 8 pm ET/PT...	Rodinka Úžasných	1	June 27, 2011	June 27, 2011
Hawaii Five-0	Hawaii 5-0	1	August 24, 2011	August 24, 2011
Glee (TV series) Glee (TV series) Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...	Glee	1	January 20, 2011	January 20, 2011'
The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...	Simpsonovci	19	August 25, 2011
FlashForward Flashforward A flashforward is an interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards are often used to represent events expected, projected, or imagined to occur in the future...	FlashForward	1	January 3, 2011	January 3, 2011
How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...	Ako som spoznal vašu mamu	1	October 11, 2008	October 11, 2008
My name is Earl My Name Is Earl My Name Is Earl is an American television comedy series created by Greg Garcia that was originally broadcast on the NBC television network from September 20, 2005, to May 14, 2009, in the United States...	Volajú ma Earl	1	April 4, 2007	April 4, 2007

Slovak shows aired on TV JOJ

Title	Format	Timeslot
Panelák Panelák is a colloquial term in Czech and Slovak for a panel building constructed of pre-fabricated, pre-stressed concrete, such as those extant in Czech Republic and elsewhere in the former Soviet bloc...	Soap opera Soap opera A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...	Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday; 8:15-9:15 pm
Kutyil s.r.o	sitcom	Completed
Profesionáli	sitcom	Pause
Mafstory	sitcom	Pause
Hod svišťom	sitcom	Mondays; 10:30-11:15 pm'
Odsúdené Odsúdené Odsúdené is a TV series broadcst in Czech Republic and Slovakia, co-produced by TV JOJ and TV Barrandov. It was aired from Sept 1 2009 until Dec 16 2010. Three seasons with a total 86 episodes have been aired; the seasons had 30, 28 and 28 episodes...	drama Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...	Completed
Ako som prežil	drama Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...	Completed
Keby bolo keby	comedy, drama	Completed
Aféry	drama Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...	Completed
Dr. Ludsky	drama Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...	Completed
Nevinní	krimi	Tuesdays, Thursdays; 9:15-10:30 pm

TV JOJ's periodical shows

Title	Format	Timeslot
News, Sport and Weather Weather forecasting Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a given location. Human beings have attempted to predict the weather informally for millennia, and formally since the nineteenth century...	news News News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.- Etymology :...	every day; 7:30-8:15 pm
Krimi	news News News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.- Etymology :...	every day; 7:00-7:30 pm
Webmaster Webmaster A webmaster , also called a web architect, web developer, site author, or website administrator is a person responsible for maintaining one or many websites...	show Television program A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...	Completed
Súdna Sieň	show Television program A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...	Mondays-Fridays; 6:00-7:00 pm
Dr. Hermanová	show Television program A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...	Completed

Information about the shows

• Panelák
  Panelák
  is a colloquial term in Czech and Slovak for a panel building constructed of pre-fabricated, pre-stressed concrete, such as those extant in Czech Republic and elsewhere in the former Soviet bloc...
  
  - daily soap
  Soap opera
  A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
  
  , very successful. Aired in prime time when it reaches 30% share. It also runs now on TV Prima
  TV Prima
  TV Prima is a Czech private television station. Its channel is broadcast from Prague. Its current owner is FTV Prima, spol. s r. o., general manager Marek Singer....
  
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  • Starring: Viki Ráková, Diana Mórová, Henrieta Mičkovicová, Alexander Bárta, Božidara Turzonovová
    Božidara Turzonovová
    Božidara Turzonovová is a significant Slovak film and stage actress. The former chairman of the Art Film Fest in Trenčianske Teplice, nowdays the president of the International Film Festival Cinematik held in Piešťany from 2006, is also known as the first dean of the Faculty of Drama at the...
    
    , and others.
• Mafstory - slovak sitcom about mafian clan of Molnár family.
  • Starring: Roman Fratrič, Peter Batthyány, Peter Sklár, Ivan Macho, Martin Vanek, Gabriela Dzuríková, and others.
• Súdna Sieň - TV show about cases in camerae.
• Dr. Hermanová - TV show about psychological cases.
• Kutyil s.r.o. - TV show about Hungarian repairman living in Slovakia. In first season he has a TV show about repairing things. Series has been based on Home Improvement sitcom.
  • Starring: Viki Ráková, Andy Kraus, and others
• Profesionáli - Slovak sitcom about stories on police office.
  • Starring: Peter Batthyány, Helena Krajčiová, Csongor Kassai, Ján Króner

External links

• JOJ official website