What is Česká televize?
Česká televize pro každého z nás
A2 Czech listening practice · Standard Czech · Picked for people who know a little
This promo is for Česká televize (Czech Television), the country’s public broadcaster, known by its initials ČT. The tagline says it plainly: «Česká televize zbližuje generace» (“Czech Television brings generations closer”). Funded by a household licence fee, it runs channels for news (ČT24), sport (ČT sport), kids (ČT :D), and culture (ČT art).
For learners it’s a goldmine: clear studio Czech, subtitles, and an archive (iVysílání) of news, fairy tales, and the beloved bedtime cartoon Večerníček. Mentioning ČT to a Czech is like mentioning the BBC to a Brit, a shared institution everyone has an opinion about.
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Source: OpenSubtitles 2024 + FineWeb-2 (MorphoDiTa lemmas) (general) · OpenSubtitles 2018 (HermitDave) (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.
- ▸Live and on demand at Česká televize and its iVysílání archive.
- ▸ČT24 for slow, clear news Czech.
- ▸The nightly Czech bedtime cartoon Večerníček, a ritual for generations.
- ▸Compared to public broadcasters like the BBC and Germany’s ARD.