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Television in Albania was first introduced in 1960. RTSH dominated the Albanian broadcasting field up to the mid-1990s, a period when privately owned radio and TV stations started to occupy the vast empty Albanian frequencies.
RTSH owns and operates a vast number of transmitter sites throughout the country such as the Fushe Dajt and Dajt 1613m stations at Mount Dajt in the periphery of Tirana. As such, a number of Western radio and TV broadcasters leased the sites to broadcast their own feeds free-to-air during the 1990s until early 2000s, when a law was passed to protect the Albanian television industry and put these stations in pay TV platforms.
After several years of being stalled,[1] deadlines for transition to DTV broadcasting are being continuously announced until all subscribers are equipped with digital antennas.
Albania has 3 national commercial television stations, 56[2] local stations, 83 local cable stations and two commercial multiplexes.
Of all the existing national television stations, the public broadcaster Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) has the greatest reach: its signal covers 80.5% of the territory, followed by Top Channel with 79%, and TV Klan with 78%. However, there are also digital multiplexes but they are unaccounted for in the territorial reach figures.
It could be said that the other main TV stations, based in Tirana, whose signal covers a significant part of the territory include: Ora News, Ora TV, News 24, Top News, Panorama TV, Report TV, RTV Scan, BBF TV, Vizion Plus. Apart from the latter stations, most others are round-the-clock news channels. Euronews and CNN International have opened their own franchises in Albania.
Digital broadcasting is available mainly in Tirana and Durrës, though it is gradually being introduced to the western lowland and further inland.
^Albania's Digital TV ‘Beauty Contest’ Turns Ugly, Balkan Insight, 7 January 2015
^"TV | AMA". Archived from the original on 2015-06-27.
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