Television in Moldova

Television in Moldova was introduced in 1958.

From 2022 it became illegal to retransmit television and radio programmes with informative, analytical, military, or political content, produced in states that have not ratified the European Convention regulation on cross-border television.

The following is a list of television channels broadcast in Moldova.

 National 
 Moldova 1 (state owned) – 1st national network
 Moldova 2 (state owned) – 2nd national network
 Gagauz Radyo Televiziyonu retransmits programmes of TRT Avaz (Turkey).

Only available in Transnistria:
 Transnistria 1 is the only channel in Transnistria transmitting programmes in Russian, Ukrainian and Moldovan (in Cyrillic).

Suspended stations:
 Canal 2 † retransmits programmes of, formerly: Antena Internațional and Antena 1 (Romania), now: TVR 1 (Romania) (managed by Telestar media SRL - controlled by Vladimir Plahotniuc¹)
 Prime † retransmits programmes of Channel One (ORT) (Russia) (owned by Vladimir Plahotniuc¹) (managed by General Media Group SRL - controlled by Vladimir Plahotniuc¹)
† licence suspended October 2023  for broadcasting propaganda from Russian stations subject to sanctions 
¹ Vladimir Plahotniuc is under sanctions from the US and the EU and fled from Moldova in 2019.

 Regional 
 Naţional 4 (semi-national)
 ProTV Chișinău (national), retransmits programmes of Pro TV (Romania)
 Polsat Primula (semi-national), retransmits programmes of :pl:Polsat (Poland)
 STS Mega (semi-national), retransmits programmes of STS (Russia)
 Super TV (semi-national), retransmits programmes of SET (Russia)
 TV Gagauzia (Gagauzia), retransmits programmes of TRT Avaz (Turkey)
 TVR Moldova (national), retransmits programmes of the Romanian Television channels
 TV8 (Moldova) (Chișinău and Bălți)
 Realitatea TV (semi-national)
 Canal 4 (semi-national), retransmits programmes of Malyatko TV (Russia)

Only available in Transnistria:
 TV PMR formerly  Primul Transnistrean / Primul Transnistrean /  (Transnistria)
 TSV (TV channel) (Transnistria)
Suspended stations:
 Canal 3 † (semi-national) (managed by Telestar media SRL - controlled by Vladimir Plahotniuc¹)
 Publika TV † (semi-national) (managed by General Media Group SRL - controlled by Vladimir Plahotniuc¹)
† licence suspended October 2023  for broadcasting propaganda from Russian stations subject to sanctions

¹ Vladimir Plahotniuc is under sanctions from the US and the EU and fled from Moldova in 2019.

 Local 
 Albasat TV (Nisporeni), retransmits programmes of Jurnal TV
 Art TV (Zubresti), retransmits programmes of 1 Music Channel (Romania)
 Euronova TV (Ungheni), retransmits programmes of Jurnal TV

 Cable and digital terrestrial channels 
 Alt TV
 Busuioc TV
 Gold TV
 Gurinel TV
 Jurnal TV (owned by Victor Topa)
 Noroc TV
 Zona M

Suspended stations:
 Accent TV ¶
 ITV Moldova †
 Orhei TV ¶
 Orizont TV †
 First in Moldova ¶
 RTR Moldova ¶ , used to retransmit programmes of Russia-1 (Russia) (part owned by Sberbank)
 NTV Moldova ¶ , used to retransmit programmes of NTV (Russia) (managed by Exclusiv Media Company, owned by Corneliu Furculiță)
 RU TV Moldova ¶ , used to retransmit programmes of RU.TV (Russia)
 TV6 ¶
¶ licence revoked December 2022  
† licence suspended October 2023  for broadcasting propaganda from Russian stations subject to sanctions

 Defunct 
 Muz-TV Moldova (semi-national), retransmitted programmes of Muz-TV (Russia)
 TV Moldova Internațional (state owned)

 References 


Moldova