Report TV Albania — 24-Hour News Television Channel

About Report TV Albania — 24-Hour News Television Channel

Report TV is an Albanian 24-hour news television channel based in Tirana, broadcasting rolling news, political talk, and entertainment programming in Albanian. Launched in 2016 by Italian journalist and media owner Carlo Bollino, it is part of the Shqiptarja.com media group, which also publishes the daily newspaper and news portal Shqiptarja.com. The channel's newsroom covers Albanian politics, crime and the justice system, the economy, and international affairs, and its site report-tv.al publishes minute-by-minute updates — verified with same-day news on 13 October 2026.

About Report TV

Report TV operates as a dedicated news broadcaster with a generalist complement. Its schedule centers on continuous news coverage — the "Minute pas minute" rolling feed — supplemented by studio talk programs, political debate, and a substantial showbiz and lifestyle offering ("Vip & Spektakel", "Foto Galeri"). The website organizes content into news, politics, chronicle, economy, sport, and entertainment verticals, and its homepage on the verification date carried timed updates from early morning through midday across crime reporting, government affairs, parliamentary politics, and culture.

The channel belongs to a small, journalist-founded media group. Carlo Bollino, an Italian former correspondent for the news agency ANSA who settled in Albania in 1993, is identified by the Media Ownership Monitor as the key figure behind both Report TV — where he holds 100 percent of the shares — and the Shqiptarja.com newspaper and portal, which he founded with his wife Alba Malltezi after leaving the Edisud-owned outlets in 2011. The group's journalists largely came from the Gazeta Shqiptare, BalkanWeb, and News 24 newsrooms. The Monitor notes that Bollino is perceived by the political opposition as close to the Socialist government of Prime Minister Edi Rama — an allegation he has rejected as politically motivated, pointing to his outlets' critical coverage during earlier Democratic Party governments.

History

Report TV's origins lie in the A1 television lineage. Bollino had been a central figure at A1 — originally launched in 2002 as TV Ballkan, rebranded as A1 TV and then A1 Report — which became one of Albania's early rolling-news channels and was later linked with the Shqiptarja.com online outlet. In 2016 Bollino ended his collaboration with A1 and launched Report TV as a separate broadcaster; the old channel was rebranded A1 News and ceased operations later that year after its licence was revoked by the Audiovisual Media Authority.

Report TV thus entered a market already crowded with all-news channels — News 24 (2002), Top News (2007), ABC News (2010), and later A2 CNN, Fax News, and Syri TV — and established itself through continuous news coverage and the cross-promotion of the Shqiptarja.com brand. The group's digital footprint is substantial: research on Albanian media audiences has put the Shqiptarja.com Facebook community at over 670,000 followers and its YouTube presence (under the Report TV name) at more than 430,000 subscribers, figures that reflect the group's strength in online video. The channel has broadcast continuously since 2016, navigating Albania's polarized political environment in which media owners are routinely accused by one political camp or the other of partisanship.

Bollino's broader footprint in Albania extends beyond news. He is linked to the non-profit "Qendra Ura" (The Bridge Center), which obtained government leases to convert two communist-era bunkers into the BunkArt museums, and he served as curator of both museums — a role that has itself drawn political criticism from the opposition. He is registered as a business consultant in international affairs. These non-media activities are part of the public record on the outlet's ownership and are documented by the Media Ownership Monitor.

The Shqiptarja.com group that houses Report TV is itself a product of a 2011 split. When the Italian company Edisud sold its Albanian media assets — Gazeta Shqiptare, News 24, BalkanWeb, and Radio Rash — to the Hysenbelliu/Santo Focus Group, Bollino and his wife Alba Malltezi, who had worked within the Edisud outlets, struck out on their own, founding the Shqiptarja.com newspaper and portal and, five years later, Report TV. The group's newsroom was thus built by journalists with long experience at the country's established outlets, and its editorial culture reflects that lineage: fast, politics-heavy, and combative. Academic research on Albanian media audiences has noted the group's large social-media following — hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and a substantial YouTube subscriber base under the Report TV name — as evidence of how Albanian news consumption has migrated to platforms where video clips and live streams travel faster than print ever did.

Coverage and topics

Report TV's newsroom covers Albanian domestic politics — government, parliament, the opposition Democratic Party, and local government — along with crime and court reporting (including SPAK investigations), the economy, and social issues. Its "Minute pas minute" feed delivers timed updates through the day, and the site's photo galleries and showbiz sections cover entertainment news, celebrity culture, and lifestyle. International coverage focuses on the Balkans, the European Union, the United States, and major global stories with Albanian angles, such as diaspora affairs.

The channel's political coverage sits within Albania's highly polarized media environment, in which outlets are routinely labeled by political actors as pro-government or pro-opposition. Report TV's journalism — like that of its Shqiptarja.com sister outlet — is produced by career journalists, several of whom previously worked at the country's major newsrooms, and its output includes both straight news reporting and opinionated political commentary typical of the Albanian market.

That environment shapes how every Albanian news channel is read. Media-ownership research describes a market in which most outlets are controlled by a handful of powerful families and businessmen active in construction, real estate, banking, and other regulated sectors, and in which politicians routinely accuse critical outlets of serving rival interests. Within this landscape, Report TV represents a distinct model: a channel founded and owned by a working journalist rather than a construction or banking magnate. Bollino's trajectory — from ANSA correspondent to executive at Gazeta Shqiptare, News 24, and BalkanWeb under the Italian Edisud group, to founder of his own outlets after Edisud's 2011 sale — mirrors the broader transfer of Albanian media from foreign to domestic ownership in the 2010s. The Democratic Party's accusations of closeness to the Rama government, and Bollino's counter-claim of politically motivated attacks citing his outlets' criticism of earlier Berisha governments, are part of the documented public record rather than settled fact, and the profile reports both sides as the Media Ownership Monitor does.

Languages and platforms

Report TV broadcasts in Albanian. It is available on digital terrestrial television in the Tirana area and via satellite, cable, and IPTV packages, and its programs stream online through report-tv.al and the Shqiptarja.com platforms. The channel distributes video on YouTube and maintains official social-media accounts, including the X account @Report_tv_AL cited by international press-freedom organizations. Its sister site shqiptarja.com functions as the group's text news portal and daily newspaper site.

Location and operating status

Report TV is headquartered in Tirana, Albania — the Media Ownership Monitor lists the group's address in the capital's Unit 2 municipal area — and operates entirely inside the country. It was verified as active on 13 October 2026: the report-tv.al homepage displayed a same-day "Minute pas minute" news stream with items timed from morning through midday, covering crime, politics, the economy, and showbiz, alongside photo galleries. No interruption to operations has been reported in the verification period.

Official website and contact

The official website is report-tv.al; the sister portal is shqiptarja.com. The Media Ownership Monitor lists the group's Tirana address and telephone +355 682059476. The channel's X account is @Report_tv_AL, and Report TV programs are published on YouTube.

Sources and last verified

Founding, ownership, and group structure are drawn from the Media Ownership Monitor's Albania project (Carlo Bollino owner profile and Shqiptarja.com outlet profile) and the A1 Report entry in the English Wikipedia documenting the 2016 transition. Operating status and current programming were confirmed by direct observation of report-tv.al on 13 October 2026, which showed a same-day rolling news feed. Last verified: 13 October 2026.