TVR 2 | |
Launch Date: | [1] |
Picture Format: | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Owner: | Televiziunea Română |
Country: | Romania |
Area: | Romania Moldova |
Headquarters: | Bucharest, Romania |
Former Names: | Programul 2 (until 1985) |
Sister Channels: | TVR 1 TVR 3 TVR Cultural TVR Folclor TVR Info TVRi |
Website: | tvr2.tvr.ro |
Terr Serv 1: | Digital terrestrial television |
Terr Chan 1: | Channel 2 |
TVR 2 (pronounced as /ro/, spelled out as Televiziunea Română 2, "Romanian Television 2") is the second channel of the public broadcaster TVR.
The channel was launched on 2 May 1968, but it was suspended from 20 January 1985, until 19 February 1990. From 2003, it has been a market leader in Romania with some very well thought television shows, such as Tonomatul DP2 and the British television series Doctor Who, but since 2015, it has been a general arts and culture channel. TVR 2 launched an HD simulcast on 3 November 2019, alongside the Romanian Television's flagship channel, TVR 1.
The main news television program of the channel is Ora de ştiri ("News Hour"), which is aired daily at 6:00 pm Romanian time. Also, another news program broadcast on this channel, Telejurnal, is aired daily at 12:00 am Romanian time on TVR 2, which used to be the main news program, until 3 October 2021.
The channel mainly airs cultural content since the shut down of TVR Cultural, movies, documentaries, and very rarely sport events. The most popular shows are , which was moved to TVR 1 in 2022, Drag de România mea, a folk music show, hosted by, Pescar Hoinar, a show about 2 guys fishing, and Ferma, where it shows everything about farm animals.