Top Media Group Sh.A
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| Genre | Albanian media |
| Founded 📆 | 1998 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , Albania |
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| Owner | Vjollca Hoxha (20%) Sara Hoxha (20%) Redia Hoxha (20%) Lorela Hoxha (20%) Itan Hoxha (20%) |
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| Subsidiaries | Top Channel Gazeta Shqip Top Albania Radio Top Gold Radio Top News My Music (TV channel) VGA Studio My Music Radio Folklorit SuperSport Dritan Hoxha Foundation |
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Top Media Group Sh.A is an Albanian media corporation based in Tirana, Albania created by an Albanian entrepreneur named Dritan Hoxha in 1998, which would later become one of Albania's most popular media organisations.
Top Media Group was primarily responsible for the creation of Top Albania Radio, Top Gold Radio, Top Channel, Top News, DigitAlb, Gazeta Shqip, VGA Studio, My Music, musicAL and Lori Caffe.
History
Top Media Group was first founded on February 14th, 1998, shortly after creating Top Albania Radio. Top Gold Radio was probably created months later in 1998, but at an unknown date.
On July 30, 2001, Top Channel was founded and experimental broadcasting started at the International Centre for Culture (Qëndra Ndërkombëtar e Kulturës), also known as the "Pyramid of Tirana". On December 20, 2001, the channel became available as a private channel to broadcast news and information for Albanians, which also includes shows, movies, etc. Shortly after, the channel grew in popularity due to the qualitative level of the programs. [1]
On July 15, 2004, DigitAlb was created with the sole purpose of broadcasting Albanian channels nationwide. It became popular, especially with its own decoder "flyBOX". Despite competition from TiBO and other TV piracy, the company is still incredibly popular to this day due to high demand.
On March 13, 2006, Gazeta Shqip was founded as a newspaper and a website to allow Albanians to receive information via physical media and on the internet. In 2016, the print version of Gazeta Shqip was discontinued and replaced with a PDF version.
In February 2007, Top News was created to broadcast 24/7 news, mostly about Albania's status and also world news. [2] This was the last televised channel that Dritan Hoxha created before passing away after crashing his Ferrari 599 into a pine tree on May 23, 2008. [3]
In December 2010, the "Dritan Hoxha" Media Foundation (Fondacioni Mediatik "Dritan Hoxha") was created in honour of Dritan Hoxha. [4]
Creations
Lori Caffe
Although Lori Caffe was created in 1995 [5] which was three years before Dritan Hoxha created the Top Media group, after the foundation of the Top Media group, Lori Caffe became part of Top Media shortly after, since Dritan Hoxha is the creator of Lori Caffe and Top Media.
Top Albania Radio
Shortly after Top Media's foundation, Dritan Hoxha created Top Albania Radio on February 14, 1998, with its frequency being 100.0 FM. It later became a successful radio station for Albanians wanting to hear music. News information was also available hourly on the station. [6]
Top Gold Radio
Top Gold Radio was also created in 1998 at an unknown date with the purpose of broadcasting popular music on this radio station, with a radio frequency of 100.8 FM (in Tirana). [7]
Top Channel
Three years after the foundation of Top Albania Radio, Dritan Hoxha and his staff experimented with televised broadcast on July 30th, 2001, at the International Centre for Culture (Qendra Ndërkombëtare e Kulturës). Since then, it had very fast growth and success due to a very high quality of broadcasting and programs.
On December 20, 2001, Top Channel started broadcasting news programs daily. [8] Just five days before their first news broadcast on TV, Top Channel opened its website named "top-channel.tv". [9]
On January 21, 2008, Top Channel was awarded national frequency coverage, meaning that Top Channel is now considered a national television channel.
On October 16, 2020, to honor Dritan Hoxha's 52nd birthday, Top Channel's OTT service named "Top Channel TV" was released on Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store. [10]
DigitAlb
On July 15, 2004, DigitAlb was founded with the purpose of broadcasting channels and radio stations, whilst also broadcasting some channels from AlbaniaSat's defunct platform SAT+, which went bankrupt, possibly due to financial failure or lack of demand. DigitAlb began to transmit satellite broadcasts in 2005.
DigitAlb would later cooperate with absorbing sports package SuperSport in 2006, which would later include seven sports channels.
In March 2007, DigitAlb announced that they would release a new wireless technology DVB-H cellphone named "DigitAlb Mobile" which cost 360 euros and was available in two models. One of the two models is a Samsung [11] and one of them is an LG. [12]
In 2013, DigitAlb launched a new decoder named "flyBOX" [13] and later introduced a new video-on-demand (VOD) service named "Popcorn". A year later, they launched a new decoder named "flyBOX mini" which was a limited-time offer. The mini version was discontinued by the end of August 2014, after the offer for the flyBOX mini had expired. At the same time, they announced that DigitAlb would transmit all channels on an audio codec named MPEG-4 on September 1 of that same year. [14]
On July 15, 2022, DigitAlb introduced their OTT streaming service to celebrate their 18th year anniversary. [15]
Gazeta Shqip
Gazeta Shqip (Shqip gazette) is an Albanian newspaper launched on March 13, 2006, in print format. The print format cost only 30 lek [16] and was very popular.
The format was discontinued on July 16, 2016, and all 3000+ publications were successfully archived in a PDF format. Gazeta Shqip Online was founded in April 2019, which was meant to relaunch the Shqip gazette in an online format. The online version reaches 20 million views per month, according to statistics from Google Analytics, making it one of the top 5 most visited sites in Albania.
Top News
Top News was a 24/7 news service launched on February 12th, 2007. The channel's purpose is to inform the latest information and livestream events from Albania and later around the world, especially during the 2018-2019 protests against prime minister Edi Rama [17] and after the 2019 Albania earthquake, in which Top Channel would livestream. [18]
In 2018, Top News began to include programs which were also broadcast on Top Channel.
On February 10th, 2020, the idents were changed for the first time since its foundation.
On January 1, 2021, at 00:00:19, Top News changed its interface to a simplified version [19] and later its idents followed suit. Another program also appeared on Top News named "Breaking", which started airing on April 5, 2021, stopped airing in August 2023, and aired again on September 4, 2023. [20]
MusicAL (now Melody TV)
MusicAL was a channel that broadcast 24/7 Albanian music which was popular for some time until its shutdown in November 2017. After MusicAL was shut down, the entire channel was replaced with a channel named "Melody TV". [21]
My Music
My Music is a music channel that broadcasts 24/7 Albanian and English music that was founded in 2004. [citation needed]
There is even a radio station named My Music Radio to broadcast My Music but on radios. There was even an advertisement in September 2015 made to recommend people to listen to this radio station. [22] The radio frequency of My Music Radio is 97.3 FM.
SuperSport
In 2006, DigitAlb created SuperSport channels after the addition of the SuperSport package. This includes seven SuperSport channels.
On November 14, 2010, Sport News was introduced in SuperSport 1. [23]
Dritan Hoxha Media Foundation
In December 2010, the "Dritan Hoxha" Media Foundation (Fondacioni Mediatik "Dritan Hoxha") was created in honour of Dritan Hoxha and to also host projects like "Summer Fest" and even a media competition for young journalists. In 2022, the organization had also made an advertisement saying they are contributing to a cultural, artistic, mediatic, qualitative, and comprehensive reality for every Albanian, to work with innovative ideas. [24]
See also
- Dritan Hoxha
- Top Channel
- Top News
- Gazeta Shqip
- DigitAlb
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- ↑ "19 vjet që bënë historinë/ Ne 20 dhjetor 2001 Top Channel nisi për herë të parë transmetimet" [19 years since history was created / In December 20th 2001 Top Channel starts transmitting for the first time]. YouTube. 20 December 2020. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
- ↑ "Top News". KingOfSat. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
- ↑ "Vdes Dritan Hoxha, pronar i Top Channel, DigitAlb, dhe Lori Caffe" [Death of Dritan Hoxha, creator of Top Channel, DigitAlb, and Lori Caffe]. molla e kuqe (in shqip). 23 May 2008. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
- ↑ "Fondacioni Dritan Hoxha" [Dritan Hoxha Foundation]. Fondacioni Mediatik Dritan Hoxha [Dritan Hoxha Media Foundation]. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
- ↑ "Lori Caffe Publicitet - 23 Janar 2010" [Lori Caffe Publicity - 23 January 2010]. YouTube. 10 December 2022. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
- ↑ "Top Albania Radio - 100.0 FM Tirana Albania - Raddio.net". Raddio. Archived from the original on 2023-09-30. Retrieved 2023-09-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Live 100.8 FM | TOP GOLD RADIO | 27.1K Favorites | TuneIn". TuneIn. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ↑ "19 vjet që bënë historinë/ Në 20 dhjetor 2001 Top Channel nisi për herë të parë transmetimet" [Creating history 19 years ago/December 20, 2001 - Top Channel started broadcasting for the first time]. YouTube. 20 December 2020. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- ↑ "top-channel.tv". Top Channel. 18 January 2002. Archived from the original on 2001-12-15. Retrieved 2023-09-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Surpriza teknologjike e Top Channel/ Shumë shpejt transmetim me applikacionin OTT" [The technological surprise of Top Channel/ Very fast transmission with OTT application]. YouTube. 2020-10-16. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
- ↑ "Digitalb Reklama Nostalgji 2007 - Xha Temja" [Digitalb Nostalgia Advertisement 2007 - Uncle Temja]. YouTube. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- ↑ "Digitalb Mobile Rainbow Channels". YouTube. 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- ↑ "flyBOX, dekoderi ultra-modern nga Digitalb" [flyBOX, an ultra-modern decoder by DigitAlb]. YouTube. 25 March 2013. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- ↑ "DIGITALB - flyBOX mini". YouTube. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- ↑ "Top Channel/ Digitalb hyn në epoken e re/ Applikacioni më i ri OTT dhe surpriza të sezonit të ri" [Top Channel/ Digitalb enters the new era/ The new OTT application and surprises of the new season]. YouTube. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
- ↑ "Top Channel Publicitet - 7 Dhjetor 2015" [Top Channel Publicity - 7 December 2015]. YouTube. 2021-09-03. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
- ↑ "Live/ Protesta e studentëve" [Live / Student protest]. YouTube (in shqip). Tirana. 11 December 2018. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
- ↑ "Tërmeti 'shkund' Shqipërinë- Live 26 Nëntor 2019" [Earthquake 'shakes' Albania - Live November 26, 2019]. YouTube (in shqip). Tirana. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
- ↑ "top_news_transition.mp4". 1 January 2021. Archived from the original on 2023-10-30. Retrieved 2023-10-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Breaking | Maratonë e zgjedhjeve elektorale 2021 | Top News". YouTube. 26 April 2021. Archived from the original on 2023-09-30. Retrieved 2023-09-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "KingOfSat - Zap!". KingOfSat. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
- ↑ "My music radio spoti Shtator 2015" [My Music Radio spot September 2015]. YouTube. 13 November 2010. Archived from the original on 2021-10-14. Retrieved 2023-10-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "DigitAlb - Sport News". YouTube. 2010-11-14. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
- ↑ "Fonadcjoni "Dritan Hoxha" Reklama - 2022" ["Dritan Hoxha" Foundation Advertisement - 2022]. YouTube. 12 January 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
