Prime

Country	Moldova
Broadcast area	Moldova
Headquarters	Chișinău, Moldova
Programming
Language(s)	Romanian
Picture format	576i (16:9 SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	I.C.S. "General Media Group" S.R.L.
Sister channels	Canal 2, Canal 3, Publika TV
History
Launched	September 1999; 25 years ago (1999-09)
Closed	30 October 2023; 15 months ago (2023-10-30) (broadcast suspended)[1]
Former names	ORT Moldova Pervîi Kanal Moldova
Links
Website	www.prime.md
Availability
Terrestrial
Radiocom (DVB-T2)	-

Prime is a Moldovan generalist television channel. The channel is distributed via DVB-T2, by the cable and IPTV operators in Moldova and broadcasts through analogue terrestrial television at a national level. Until 2019, it also retransmitted programs from Channel One Russia.

The owner of the channel is Moldovan oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} Since its inception, it was one of Moldova's most popular channels.

The channel was criticized and on 4 July 2014, the Coordinating Council of the Audiovisual of Moldova sanctioned Prime and other channels for broadcasting Russian "informative-analytical" programs, which contained aggressive propaganda and promotes and increases fake news and information regarding the Ukrainian government.^[7]

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