Romanian TV Was INSANE

[@LivingIronicallyinEurope]

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[@scorobete.]

which fortified church is that one in the background?

[@NoUFufel]

Українські субтитри 💪

[@yololik3846]

you should make a video about the night talk show Nightmare Stage by Željko Malnar, very interesting and very very crazy

[@stg213]

That's Russian disinformation.

[@denisimari]

No we didn’t cause it’s mostly lies.

[@comraderomania7988]

OTV was the OG brainrot in Romania

[@Dorbeanu]

ayo branza del si elodia

[@AGuyNamedAl]

Still The Best Brainrot Ever.

[@AndreiYoLo]

🤣

[@char1721]

Otv inseamna on top vteleviziune

[@cioringavalentin6974]

​@@Dorbeanu Baba care poate vorbi cu morții and Gay-ul care a făcut sex cu 150 de bărbați în 12 zile.

[@arcrimeaball]

Romania was brainrotmaxxing before it became mainsteam 💪🇷🇴

[@alexiaivan7708]

We are trend setters.

[@danielciocilteu3545]

Yeh, we like to think so, but Dan Diaconescu simply stole the format from american news channels and 80s and 90s brain rot stupid talk shows like Jerry Springer. He adapted the material to Romania and targeted old senile and stupid folks. But yeah, at least for Romanian TV he was a pioneer of retarded talk shows.

[@VeltRox07]

**unde eşti tu brânză Del**

[@tudor1441]

Iife in romania is an entire facebook meme page

[@bonifacio8003]

You forgot about the most iconic SMS pool displayed by OTV: "Who would have won in a battle, the Dacians or the Samurai?"

[@optic_wt]

Or "The great artist Shakira, r#ped by 81 men".

[@losdirectosdetroopa973]

Obviously the dacians, in fact, they created the samurai when they were bored

[@vampireseal4857]

​@@losdirectosdetroopa973after they created de intergalactic tunnels under Ploiești

[@gigizismangusta]

Or if Cioacă stop between Brașov and Bran to pee before killing Elodia

[@vuivraalbastra]

Yes, too bad in this video we only get to see the question "Would you want all the emo followers to be arrested?" with 53% of people saying "yes".

[@beceaflorin01]

I was born in 1998 and started to watch Dan Diaconescu by my grandma every evening since I was like 6. Guys,this is real 100%. I used to tell my grandma " please let me watch Steaua Bucharest playing football" and she was like '' NO, we have to watch OTV, They have found her body in Bratislava" we didnt miss a single episode! There were crazy times,

[@brahmanwithin6623]

Elodia?

[@macabru999]

Sa moara mama de nu imi amintesc ca eram obligat sa ma uit la toate episoadele OTV

[@asoru5573]

OMG I can't stop laughing XD, best tv ever

[@GicaKontraglobalismului]

Misto! Ba, da' voi acia de ce nu vorbiti ROMANESTE ca filmu' ie despre ROMANIA. Toti scrie pe YouTUB in Limba Lor Materna: Sirbii in Sirbeste, Iranienii in Farsi, Arabii in Araba, Chinezii in Chineza, Japonezii in Japoneza, etc.... Numa' ROMANII se bilbiie in Limba Englezescu pe INTERNETE..... Jos Globalismul!

[@XxXRazzielXxX]

I was born in 97 and yes, i confirm, this is 100% true

[@TheMalayTanker05]

I guess all TV Programs in Balkan have one thing in common: saying they are better than their neighbors

[@TyrantSolo]

You beat me to first comment

[@TheMalayTanker05]

@@TyrantSolo yes sirr

[@chapayev6787]

I think this is a feature of any national television. We have many state-owned TV channels in Russia that promote the ideas of "progressivity" and the "most correct course" of Russia. Propaganda is the same everywhere.

[@CaptainbaII]

another thing is tv propgrams where they try to sell your broken shit for 50 euros

[@rochester212]

Romania is not a part of the Balkan peninsula, you moron.

[@rixorobert]

You forgot to mention how he actually got into parliament with 14% of the vote and his party fell apart almost instantly, and then he got imprisoned for nearly 3 years for blackmail. Anyway, after the 4th of March 2025 he will be allowed to return to "journalism" and said he wants to start a new TV station

[@DuZori]

I just wait to see. I just wait to see his new explanations about biden camila trump obama gaza and ucraina . My expectations are hight. I hope in the first show will be invited a least a romanian cousin of Kamala.

[@highlander7771]

The clowning is just a little more obvious then on the rest of Europe.

[@Josesandersdad]

My truck is payed off that month

[@jonomojo]

Man just wants his TV station 😂 and he’s hilarious so why not

[@Weirdgus]

Also, as I remember, one of the blackmail cases for which he was convicted and served years in prison for was something to the effect of this: He demanded a large sum of money from an elected official as straight up bribery in order not to broadcast knowingly manufactured “senzațional” segments on tv damaging his reputation. The mayor went to the police, organized a hidden camera recording during the transaction and caught him in the act.

[@CenturionulIesean]

2000s TV was proto-brainrot in the Balkans

[@tinachristine4573]

It was a global phenomenon. I went from watching amazing documentaries on the lives of true legends like Celine Dion on E! TV to watching the kardashians back to back, morning, noon and night. I finally sold me telly in 2013, I was simply done for.

[@dzonikg]

I tought that 90s Serbian TV stations could not be worst(100s off local TV station with cringe program everywhere) but i was so wrong ,in 2000s we got it even worster and was getting worst by the time.Now is for me even cringe to turn on TV for 5 seconds

[@novo121]

It still is

[@maxim_077]

It was (and still is) all around the world and reality tv is the reason why.

[@tinachristine4573]

@alex1207_ let's not even mention those Real Housewives nonsense 🙄🙄😫🤦🏽‍♀️ absolute TRASH!!!

[@Bodo69Boss]

Can’t forget the time Diaconescu was telling us that Michael Jackson signed up for PRM (Partidul România Mare / The Big Romanian Party) and he even made someone dress like Michael to appear on OTV

[@therealstella8101]

OTV looks like those middle eastern TV channels that you can see subtitled on Memri TV.

[@revisionreader1922]

So it seems. so it seems

[@rabeekhalil4391]

No. It was worse

[@Rägarded]

I don't care if it's Israeli propaganda, MemriTV is absolutely hilarious. Like that cooking show where the chef goes off on a escalating rant that culminates in the call for genocide against all Shias. The two guys getting into a fight over wether Saddam Hussein was the greatest leader ever or not. And there are so many timeless quotes ''By god restrain yourself, or I will show you the sharpness of my tounge''

[@fajaradi1223]

​@@Rägarded Do you mean the bottom of the shoes.

[@JaredtheRabbit]

@@Rägarded …oh.

[@mihaialexandruvlad8376]

Romainian tv in the 2000 was at it's peak... we got fake news over fake news, porn on music chanels after 12 in the night, soft core porn in the sport chanels after 11 in the night... next to none censorship... it was a gold mine basically

[@Panzerbaguette1944]

Man, I really wish I was born Romanian. I would enjoy seeing this stuff Lmaooo

[@half_real]

do they not have porn on TV any more in Romania? not that I really needed it after getting Internet in the late 2000s

[@piri3108]

@@half_real there still is, but you have to pay extra on your cable subscription to unlock them. look up superonetv

[@minitek326]

@@half_real we do, but was there prn on tv in the 2000s? at least in romania, i don't think there was

[@andreiistrate2214]

@@minitek326 I distinctly remember that for some reason, the AB Moteurs tv channel, which broadcast racing content during the day, transformed after midnight in a porn channel of Euro porn movies.

[@mysteryman765]

Romanian TV milking useless events isn't something that has completely dissappeared. Maybe you can look into the relatively recent Viorel and Vulpița saga...that's true brainrot right there

[@wyqtor]

Nothing can match the Elodia and Tolea Ciumac sagas, NOTHING!

[@Shiftinggers]

@@wyqtor Indeed. Dan Diaconescu went from streaming from a studio to owning a news helicopter

[@dyawr]

Romanian TV in general or the channel RomaniaTV?

[@ghyosa1]

That was 4 years ago, time flies

[@vangelisgru7271]

😅

[@s1d3k1ckRO]

Some viewed Dan Diaconescu as a clown, a crook or a slimy business man. But the man is a genius. He ran the business on low cost, high profit milking the stupid masses giving what they crave, was way ahead of the curve, sending all the other TV stations in a panic. After he got the ban everyone did what he was doing.

[@edg42]

👍

[@real151kmh]

I mean the guy was making millions from his apartment using randos in his neighborhood Of course all the big budget stations went haywire Towards the end of his run, he was running around to political meetings in his rolls royce phantom

[@HappyShibba]

As a romanian i gotta say Eyes From The Shadow and Life Lessons was the OG brainrot.

[@Im_a_Romanian]

Fr

[@Alma21_45]

Yea

[@Oscarutz]

True smr

[@adelinaiftime3152]

oh god I remember watching those with my mum snd sisters in the evening I'm pretty sure Life Lessons is still running to this day

[@scasino9358]

true, true, but OTV predates even those. OTV was just something else man, on it's own level. every single time you'd reach that channel, you'd have a surprise waiting for you. maybe a priest, maybe a witch-hunt, maybe a witch, maybe a fight, maybe a chicken, maybe a cow, literally anything the human mind can conceive and a few things it can't. "insane" doesn't even begin to cover it.

[@moroi3397]

Ending with Doamne Ajută is a true romanian move. We are proud of you.

[@quagsire_lover3235]

OTV was an absolute circus.

[@entropy_of_principles]

.....money circus...those idiot becone millionaire

[@mapleleafemoji]

BAA

[@p9thead]

this is the battle for dream island song battle for dream island the battle for dream island song

[@MoboFromDoomed]

​@@p9theadoh hell nah

[@AlvinoYukioktavian]

Yes

[@mariarevnic6415]

The American soap opera "Dallas" was a re-run in the '90s. At the end of the '70s or the beginning of the '80s Ceausescu actually allowed for Dallas to air. He wanted to show the Romanian people the decadence of the Capitalist Western society. It backfired spectacularly because people started to ask themselves why they cannot have cars and houses and clothes and food like them American Capitalists. The airing of "Dallas" is credited by some (like the makers of the documentary "The 8os: the decade that made us") to have contributed to the falling of the Ceausescu regime. When Larry Hagman the actor playing JR Ewing visited Romania, he was widely recognized in the streets and people started chanting "JR! JR!"

[@tbkswagg]

It was the same, Hungarys most viewed series was Dallas. Although Hungarians were and are too much lame to start a revolution. 2006 was the last one and Orban hijacked it, going strong since now. Although now he has an enemy which is considerable, coming from the husband of a failed politician from the party. lol

[@jordan2104]

I actually met Larry Hagman back then when he came to Romania. I was a student in Cluj-Napoca and he gave a speech at one of the Universities (art or something). I remember one of the students there giving him one of those little hats from Maramures because Larry was a well-known hat collector. Then when he went out to his car, he actually stopped and chatted with the students right there on the sidewalk. I couldn't believe that I was standing right next to JR lol! Good times...

[@Donkeypapuas]

Bullshit. It was aired because it was a good series. And it was buy with discount as many other american series (Roots, Kojak, Mannix). At the beggining of the 80s Ceausescu banned the import of movie or series payed in dolars. Only those in barter was accepted. And when the programs was dastrically shorted, even in that period some movies was aired, in a sort of piracy mode. With the title changed and splited in sequences.

[@mrminecraftcubeable]

DD TV (also owned by Dan Diaconescu) was pretty nice since it just ran old cartoons They got sued eventually for showing tom and jerry and other warner movies without a licence

[@HaartieeTRUE]

Lmfao, why am i not surprised ?

[@floricel_112]

It's because of it that I got to watch Felix the cat, Popeye the sailor, animated music cartoons, Gumby and that one cartoon that's one big canned tomato commercial

[@benjaminmichaels1759]

With an activate windows logo in the bottom right of the screen i bet

[@floricel_112]

@@benjaminmichaels1759 surprisingly not

[@HaartieeTRUE]

@@benjaminmichaels1759 that wasn't a thing in that period. + activating windows the pirate way was also easy

[@Todor.TheEasternEuropeanGuy]

For any lost USA citizen reading this: Imagine a no budget, unscripted Jerry Springer and going 24/7

[@DarkVeghetta]

Mix Jerry Springer with Alex Jones and you've got it.

[@chesscomsupport8689]

Oh my - that sounds fun! I have to check this out.

[@mikekowalewski7692]

​@@DarkVeghetta LOL!!! Imagine both of them on acid???

[@Psionikman]

Im a lost UK citizen - Jeremy Kyle ? ( Jerry Springer but bad teeth and cups of tea? )- I will pass to the networks. Great Suggestion. 5/5 *

[@aandrei99]

9:08 - the survey on the right side of the screen basically sums up OTV without further explanation. It reads "Do you think that humankind will disappear tomorrow? 40% Yes, 60% No" I don't know what's scarier, the people who voted Yes or the fact that people were voting to begin with.

[@vuivraalbastra]

The people saying "yes" today would probably be the majority. That being said, I still don't understand why people were bothering to vote one of the answers to those ridiculous questions, but they were the funniest part to me.

[@plus_osu]

imagine paying the equivalent of like 5 loaves of bread just to be a data point among hundreds of others, rounded to the nearest percent.

[@akuleet6029]

Was that about the Mayan prophecy?

[@Neomalthusiano]

As a religious person, I guarantee that religion is as much if not more about the end of times then about God. Scatology (the study of the apocalypse) is the most studied subject in religions in the west.

[@real151kmh]

​@balancristian9389 cred ca la sfarsitul lui 2012 otv deja avea design-ul nou cu sigla albastra, daca nu macar burtierele galbene

[@catalinmarius3985]

I was there Gandalf, I was there 3000 years ago, when OTV was at its peak, and it was..... beautiful. Best part is, OTV's host Dan Diaconescu knew very well what he was doing, the man was a genius.

[@copyright8291]

OTV was funny... and DD is a crook.

[@xxexplosivexxxxexplosivexx8512]

As a guy from Bratislava, i can confirm, Elodia was spotted on a bus.

[@codrinpetrescu1555]

I knew it! :))))

[@892ffffff]

avg bratislava

[@Vlad_-_-_]

SENSATIONAL !!!!

[@lysuka]

As Elodia Ghinescu, i can confirm i was on a bus in Bratislava

[@danielciocilteu3545]

"A shit, here we go again..."

[@andreicrisan5526]

8:28 I swear it feels like half my childhood was hearing about Elodia and the latest crackpot theory on what had happened to her. Elodia was immured in the walls of Cioaca's house, Elodia is buried in a cave near Rasnov, Elodia was tossed into the Arges river, Elodia is alive and in Argentina with Ceausescu, Elvis, and the Lindbergh baby, Elodia is on Mars, Elodia never actually existed. You didn't need to actively watch OTV to hear about this stuff, Dan Diaconescu was such a living meme that his shenanigans would find their way to you whether you liked it or not.

[@sharp4174]

you should have mentioned how the television had a big role in the 89 revolution, the news of what was happening mobilized thousands of people to join the protesters

[@oanaomg7298]

That might have been where our appetite for the absurd, sinister and mindfuck has come from. Seeing then shit live on TV and/or re-runs every single Christmas since then (us Millennials growing up with that) did us dirty.

[@xiaopingzdrang834]

"Cu televizorul a-ți mințit poporul "

[@SupremeBobb]

@@xiaopingzdrang834ați*

[@fantomas4935]

@@oanaomg7298 every Easter there's the Jesus series and every Christmas there's the Ceausescu series. The Christmas one is a bit darker I think, since it actually happened.

[@fyfyi6053]

OTV didn't exist back then.

[@ramstab]

Nuh-Uh. We couldn’t have had the need for a therapist in our mid 20s without: Curat Murdar, Schimb de Mame, Ochii din umbra, Turkish dramas that our grandmas watched. Let’s not forget to mention when visiting our grandparents in the country side, they had “borrowed tv cable” and we could watch cartoon network after 10 without the westerns. I left out some other after 12 shows too. I think i will never forget the time my sports teacher from 4th grade was on OTV for sexual harassment too.

[@edarddragon]

schimb de mama a fost ceva

[@minitek326]

the turkish dramas are kind of "new" though. back then there were the spanish and romanian telenovelas on acasa tv or the indian ones, now korean, on national tv

[@ramstab]

@@minitek326 turkish dramas on kanal d were present even in 2011 with suleyman and some other stuff but I agree with you

[@minitek326]

@@ramstab i'm talking earlier than 2011 lmao

[@Liminal.Headspace]

Am I the only one that had no idea that OTV was Oglinda TV? Like I couldn't answer to save Ardeal !

[@shadowpriest2574]

Da, nici eu nu știam . Nimeni nu îți explică de la ce vin inițialele .

[@portmoneul]

​@@shadowpriest2574 nici eu nu am stiut, eram sigur ca ii zero TV, si ca DD ii plecat Inveti ceva nou in fiecare zi.

[@Diss-jd2un]

@@shadowpriest2574 explicase soarecele Diaconescu la un moment dat ca Oglinda vine de la numele filmului lui Sergiu Nicolaescu: Oglinda, Inceputul adevarului

[@silviupanait8861]

Ironically (or not), it mirrored (for non-romanians, oglinda = mirror) Romanian society very well ..

[@DarkVeghetta]

Didn't know, but didn't want to know - mainly because I happily forgot OTV ever existed, now I need to re-forget about it.

[@Zer0Spinn]

Dude, 2000's OTV really reminds me of Spanish 90s-00s TV. It was crazy too. We had a period known as the "freak era" where some shows grew by basically finding and exploiting the weirdest types of humans that our country was able to produce. The famous Kekw laughting guy comes from that era.

[@minitek326]

that's like access direct here in romania. they mostly exploit people from the countryside who are living in poverty and don't have an education. two people actually died because of them

[@JoeStalin1945]

TV in the Balkans were crazy

[@playerdoestheinternet]

were? it still is

[@TheBogdanator]

Romania is not balkan. But nice to hear what was going on in the Balkans

[@playerdoestheinternet]

@@TheBogdanator Our country is very much a part of the balkans and thus is balkan.

[@TheSpeedsters86]

România is not part of Balkans

[@TheBogdanator]

@@TheSpeedsters86 Very hard to look at a map or ask google. Some people don't even bother to look and see what countries are balkan

[@YSRYSINE]

You should definitely make another video on Acces direct... From the year long drama "Vulpița și Viorel", to OTV level criminal investigations, ridiculing of people, ridiculing a woman when she came to talk about her "boyfriend" stalking and being violent, only for her to actually get murdered a few months later... To the infamous naked woman attack on live TV

[@minitek326]

i've just seen ovidiu balan, who's a criminalistic reporter or idk how to call it, talk about the case of "sacalul" as if he's not the same guy laughing about that woman at access direct and instigating along with mara banica (another specimen who was involved in the case you were talking about) another violent man to follow his wife (that ran away from home with her children because she was fearing for their safety) home from work and request that he sees his children who he "misses very much" and he did just that. guess what happened when he found her? punched her in the face in public and in front of their kid. guess what happened after? never called to see what his kids are doing ever again. not to mention that the woman had proof of being hit and these two baboons still called her a liar and made up stories that she "surely" ran away from home because of another man

[@liviuvelichi6847]

I can't believe you forgot to mention the most important part... Diaconescu's 12 year ban imposed in 2013... is expiring next year. And he has plans to allegedly relaunch OTV, in a new, more conventional format (if we are to believe him)

[@pizza.doctor]

He should launch another streaming service

[@AquDrIFT]

Isn't he in jail?

[@keNy590]

@@AquDrIFT nope, living in middle east .. also guys OTV is alive through whatsapp apparently. hahahahahha

[@personanongratis]

A new KZbin channel would be more appropriate with the times!

[@brothel_exe]

Fun fact about Romania's National Audiovisual Council (CNA) A year ago, a TV channel named Nașul TV (no relation to the movie, as far as I know) invited Sacha Stone, a british influencer, to one of the broadcasts. This influencer showed images of alleged Dacian tunnels under the Bucegi mountains, tunnels that "lead you to other continents" who also "have alien technology inside of them". Normally, CNA issues fines to TV channels that spew such lies but, CNA decided to have a little fun and basically told Nașul TV to go to the Bucegi mountains and find evidence to support the existance of these tunnels or else they'll get fined. They got fined.

[@anastan5445]

Wait... What? 😂 Trolling the trolls like this? Peak Romanian behaviour. PEAK. 😂😂😂😂

[@Psionikman]

as a British bloke. we have to go deeper. Are there lost tapes from Nasul TV? what do the CNA know? this is gold. I will begin some coach touring websites for USA cousins, with large wallets.. * opens Claude AI : Make a Bucegi Mountains Journey to the Centre of the Earth website with shopping cart in $$$ *

[@real151kmh]

​@@Psionikman nasul tv is pretty modern, remember seeing it a few years ago, don't know if they still air, but since otv's downfall, a tv archiving community came up in romania, so there should be a few clips from there

[@Psionikman]

lol 10 quadrillion, eat oumuamua x 300 ;) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqe0eZiqnbyradUsi=iuLe_o-0tHtgP5gK pahahaha

[@KlausCiocannis]

"Unde ești tu brânză Del, ce mergeai cu-n copănel? Roșii, ceapă și măslineee, mi-e așa de dor de tineee"... music to my ears.

[@doing_nothing3267]

cool username btw👌

[@ionutalexandru3645]

@@doing_nothing3267 am ras din cauza numelui

[@doing_nothing3267]

@@ionutalexandru3645 și eu la fel

[@figurapatrik]

First I thought that OTV was something like Budapest TV was in Hungary, but man... It's some next level shit with the fighting emos

[@DaveMillerDsafReal]

That's nothing once on a show on antena 1 a news channel a naked woman attacked the lady that was presenting news

[@Terter1551]

Typical Balkan moment. Not a long time ago a leader of a Bulgarian party (who has a very similar TV channel to OTV) went to a debate on national tv completely drugged. He was trying to arrange a public fight 1v1 between him and another politician. At least it is entertaining.

[@tmdosu]

We discussed about Elodia in crimonology class in law school. Basically almost everyone knows at an institutional level, where she is now. The river in question, where the body was thrown, has very strong currents and very extensive and deep cave system. Nothing that goes in, will ever go out, and nobody dares to search it.

[@dhanyrafael]

Please what's the name of the river ? I really want to end the mystery of Elodia.

[@pufocina]

I remember a few years ago when the Caracal case happened. I was at my grandma's that summer and all she watched was Romania tv (and her Turkish shows) and all they talked about was that. No wonder why old people are going crazy while all they watch is exaggerated shit

[@_o..o_1871]

@@andrewmackowen943Olt cred

[@_o..o_1871]

@@dhanyrafaelOlt

[@minitek326]

wait what? i remember her being found in cioaca's walls? did i confuse it with manole's legend and just gaslight myself all this time? 😭

[@pufocina]

As a Romanian, I saw this video on my page, wheezed because I knew it was gonna be wild and clicked immediately

[@GamePlanetTR]

Well, the only thing I know about Romanian TV is that Kanal D Romania and Kanal D Turkey are connected, both being owned by Doğan Holding. I also think Kanal D Romania airs a lot of Turkish-style sh*tty shows, just like we see in Turkey

[@SkyRied1]

Don't just think. They actually do that.

[@dvdpro3726]

not even turkish-style, just straight up turkish soap operas

[@monkofdarktimes]

And communist TV had to show Colombo

[@BananLord]

I thank Kanal D for airing Suleyman the Magnificent every day. It was my tween brainrot when it was airing. And it is now as an adult as it's airing on another channel and watch it every weekend evening. We even have a manea about it. Just search up Maneaua Suleyman Magnificul.

[@GamePlanetTR]

@@dvdpro3726 I was thinking about "İşte Benim Stilim" (Romanian version: Bravo, ai Stil!) and "Kısmetse Olur" (Romanian version: Casa Iubirii) while writing the OG comment (I even googled the shows to make sure if they were related or not) Wow, I never thought the day would come where I’d be Googling "İşte Benim Stilim". What a time to be alive 💀

[@squintps]

OTV was ahead of its time! The internet is full of similarly produced podcasts these days, basically just some people in a bedroom, and they're pretty popular.

[@bluemym1nd]

If Diaconescu ran a wrestling company, he would be the Romanian Vince McMahon

[@davinnicode]

If I understood the language I would watch it

[@AquDrIFT]

Ahahaha, then we'd have WrestleRomania

[@macedonian_yugoslavball]

Balkan tv has the most random crap on😂

[@rochester212]

Romania is not a part of the Balkan peninsula, you moron.

[@asillygoofygoober]

They still do

[@mimisor66]

1:11 here you are sooo wrong. We had a lot of US, British, Italian and French movies. Some even mention the serial "Dallas" as being a factor in the Revolution, because people saw how Americans lived and wanted that too. A lot of great movies, made after great books. Disney cartoons. Vintage movies from the 30 -40s. It was only in the latter years when you really did not have what to see on TV and one tried to catch Bulgarian or Serbian channels.

[@andreigeorgebadila4636]

The fact that Janos and the people that take care of this channel dig, document and spread the wonderful shitposting of romanian culture with the entire internet, brings me a smile everytime I see it. Thank you so much for sharing our pop culture and zeitgeist, Janos. You are truly one of us. Keep up the good work.

[@davinnicode]

He truly opened up the Balkan world to the world which probably only associated the region with wars and basketball before

[@alaska2026]

The best thing about Romanian Tv in general is that every foreign movie or cartoons were in English or another language accompanied by subtitles, so learning this language was pretty easy. I am amazed at how behind Germany is regarding this. They struggle with one of the easiest languages on earth because they dub everything 😂

[@DarkVeghetta]

This. I was appalled when Mini Max and other children channels started to dub cartoons about 15 years ago. It was entirely unneeded and a horrible idea. Once, at university (history/languages branch), I asked how many of my fellow students learned English from subtitled cartoons. Roughly 85% of the class immediately raised their hands, which was about what I expected.

[@spineshivers]

@@DarkVeghetta You can still watch them in English. Just change the audio language.

[@CFRTrainSpotter]

I went to Bulgariatwo years and all movies were dubbed... it was horrendous.

[@belstar1128]

yea its a big problem in a lot of smaller central European countries at least in Somalia and Bangladesh they have more than one voice actor but in Poland they got just one. also even very small countries like Latvia or Georgia do some dubbing because these guys don't like to hear other languages despite having a population of only 2 million . Romania has over 10x more but doesn't do this even Denmark has more people

[@DarkVeghetta]

@@spineshivers Wasn't an option at the time or, perhaps, my TV didn't support such a feature and thus I was not aware the possibility existed.

[@mihaisima481]

As a Romanian, "Doamne ajută" indeed

[@Romanian_user]

Amin

[@Sentymentkok]

I ve never seen a romanian wearing a tiny hat like the pope. Very weird.

[@respectkindness-oj6xz]

​@@Sentymentkokor like the jews

[@danalasmane6191]

Wow, I'm impressed... I thought that watching Kashpirovsky on post-USSR TV was the peak of Eastern European TV... But this is in a league of its own, hands down.

[@phoneboxchicken4108]

I'm a British guy, who has worked with many Romanians in the UK so this is fascinating. It reminds me of a sketch show in the 90s called The Fast Show. One of the running sketches was a made up foreign TV channel called Channel 9. The comedians would basically make up a language and talk nonsense. The level of protection also reminds me of Hong Kong. My primary school teacher hosted all the major sporting events like the Olympics.

[@CFRTrainSpotter]

ive never been to Britain but ive seen bits of British TV that lowkey remind me of OTV (especially Piers Morgan). but what would you say is the closest channel to OTV though?

[@phoneboxchicken4108]

Difficult to say. We have a lot of obscure channels on satellite/cable TV so there's probably a similar one on 'channel 687' or wherever that's almost as mental as OTV. If you want your plain old far right, anti working class, anti immigration Fox News type of thing, you have Talk TV (owned by the Murdoch family) and GB News. The latter being more crazy. Our media is generally dominated by right wing people who went to private school, and rant about foreigners, unemployed people, and the EU (even though we've finalised all that nonsense).

[@danielciocilteu3545]

During the 2000s we had a great english comedy show called Benny Hill. We didnt get much comedy back then so we watched Benny Hill religiously.

[@phoneboxchicken4108]

@@danielciocilteu3545 Interesting, as I think The Benny Hill show was from the 1970s until 1992.

[@doomepic]

OTV was basically reddit but on television

[@veneps]

reddit with a mix of 4chan really

[@saltykitty9215]

@@veneps Reddit is liberal 4chan

[@sarminder4357]

A barrel that someone threw random garbage from twitter, early youtube, reddit, 4chan, facebook groups and mixed it up.

[@belstar1128]

reddit more like Romanian tv in the 80s

[@asillygoofygoober]

I love this comments section

[@DaLoler1]

I'm Romanian. I just found out what the "O" in OTv means today.

[@inadopo4987]

Și eu 😂😂😂

[@crazy.panda12]

Same, same 😂

[@NoActualReasonToLive]

Holy shit man, the barrel showing how Elodia was melted just unlocked a memory. I saw it live on my parents tv, I remember it so vaguely because they REALLY wanted to get her husband in jail. At one point 90% of people thought she killed herself. They had so many news insisting she was haunting homes after years of her disappearance, this being shown also on other programs, Romania TV being the adopted son of OTV. After the death of OTV, Romania tv was the prime villain. Arguements, blown out of proportion situations, big actors or overall personalities suing the channel for labeling them as dead or with an incurable illness. Fake medication ads, scams. Many claims of ''x didnt die the way you think they did! They were actually working for the cia and were executed by the spies!'' and so on. They once claimed we're getting hit by a meteorite of quote unquote ''impressing proportions with high speed'' only to clarify later (2 hours of waiting) that it ''just missed us'' Lately they've chilled down, but they're still like the long lost cousin of otv, in the limits of television laws at least. All romanian channels have their own stories that could very much be clasified as social experiments more than anything. For example the antennas ; antenna 1 (main entertainment), antenna 2/star (gossip tv), antenna 3 (this one's got bribed by the cnn), and their one sided arch nemesis prima tv (which due to its rating dying out since wolf became dog has gotten petty and just mocks any antenna every chance they get. Despite their hosts having just as bad, if not even worse grammar.) There's also Kanal D which is the founding father of a romanian childhood with grandparents. If the turks didn't buy us with their food, they bought us with this one channel.

[@DarkVeghetta]

Can confirm. Both my grandmother and mother watched Kanal D often enough for me to recognize some of their programming while not having a TV myself.

[@leves777]

you mean they ran Turkish shows there?

[@raul-mg1dh]

​​@@leves777yes they had some show about Suleiman the Magnificent that everyone was watching and loved at the time

[@alexandrucoca9770]

Un show pacatos is back on antena stars. Maybe the crazy shit will come back :))

[@minitek326]

nah, before kanal d, there was definitely acasa tv with the spanish telenovelas and then the old romanian series like regina, lalaband etc. i still love this channel lmao. also tvr with the even older romanian movies like pistruiatu, florin piersic's margelatu, sergiu nicolaescu's series with comisarul moldovan, liceenii, nea marin miliardar, veronica, pacala, toate panzele sus, the movies with dem radulescu, jean constantin si puiu calinescu as petty thieves with toma caragiu as the cop who was sick of them and couldn't take them seriously etc. national tv too, which also had a lot of old foreign movies besides the romanian ones or the famous brainrot tv programs like "soacra poama acra" or "iubire interzisa". the dramatic indian series before they changed to korean historic dramas too 😭

[@vladadamescu3279]

If you can imagine, Diaconescu’s party came in third in the parliamentary elections of 2012, with 14% of the vote and over 1 million votes. So he really turned a TV station into a populist political party. It didn’t last long though, after he was jailed, his MPs went to other parties soon enough

[@erikpng]

Very well documented. This has done a better job at telling friends from beyond the border about OTV than I ever could. As Dan would say, exceptional!

[@Imperyon]

Man, you didn't mention one of the hard questions that was on OTV. "Did Cioaca take a shit between Rucar and Bran?"

[@Hayastantzi92]

KZbin is now our TV

[@Niko26-t1y]

Unfortunately 😢

[@thieph]

​​@@Niko26-t1yit is better but could be replaced

[@rarescevei8268]

​@@Niko26-t1ySeriously, our TV sucks

[@belstar1128]

@@Niko26-t1y trust me its better even if it has problems

[@newesthell]

this sounds like the most unserious television channel in the world, and i would’ve loved every second of it

[@Scp--tt9mh]

While Whatching this I kept thinking of the portuguese version of this: Correio da Manhã/Morning Mail and their famous channel CMTV. Here a list of some of the things that have happend over the years in their channel: -They once tried to interview Ronaldo during a press review and he refused to answer their questions. -They tried to interview Ronaldo another time except this time he threw their microphone into a lake and they got a diving team to get it back. -They interviewed a "witch" about a satanic ritual that happend in a random village. -Their reporters have sweared or appeared drunk live on TV multiple times. -Their broadcoasts are not very diferent from OTV ones. -While the other tv channels put their ads at the same time CMTV doesn't care and do what they want. -One time they went to Avalade stadium and were just insulted by Sporting fans(Sporting had lost) -When football games are happening they have this program where you have a bunch of silent comentaters and a guy screaming what is happening on the game(without them showing any visuals or game audio because they can't) -During the floods we had this year they edited a joke video of a toy car in mud and said it was a real car that got flodded. -When a woman disappered a few months ago they had a team always on site reporting the searches that were being made by the local vilaggers, that consisted of them digging holes, and walking around in the forest. -And much much more. The main diference between OTV and CMTV is that they do have a lot of normal news and that football broadcast I talked about is very popular like their other sports news. So because of that they are still well and kicking even if most people consider them a joke. EDIT: I almost forgot about the joke that CMTV reporters reach murder scenes before the murder happend ahhaha

[@KartingRules]

Can relate to all of that over here in the other side of the atlantic

[@alexandrucoca9770]

Loll CMTV reminds me of "Romania TV" which is also focused and news and is tabloid TV as well. The sensational graphics and topics is the same lol.

[@alexandrucoca9770]

The same arguing on TV with the hopeless moderator trying to calm them down. CMTV: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2rIlaCjqbWGpbc Romania TV: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnXNiWp4ab53m8U

[@Scp--tt9mh]

@@alexandrucoca9770 ahahhaha I guess Portugal and Romania are not so diferent after all xd

[@raymasacre3996]

The accuracy and consistency of your information is almost scary. At first, I thought you might be Romanian since you know this stuff so well, but I was shocked to realize you are just that good at getting information. You got all of my respect.

[@thevillager8339]

Romania truly has the peak of the human's television

[@caindis-abel-dhisbrother9601]

kinds words sir

[@TheNicaragua1979]

😂

[@mariabot]

I remember being in late primary or early secondary school and seeing one evening 'The Ghost of Medgidia' on OTV for a couple of seconds before my parents changed the channel. What makes things funnier is that I was living in Medgidia at the time and attended a local school. The next day at school, all the kids were talking about the ghost, with most of them being extremely scared while others were saying that it was just a stupid prank. I remember that teachers told us that it was bullshit and that we shouldn't pay attention to it, which was too late. Kids from my school and from all over the town were freaking scared and sustained that they have indeed seen the ghost and started making up stories. I remember hanging out with kids from around the neighbourhood and talking about the ghost, some kids claiming that they have indeed seen the ghost in their block of apartments which most of the time resulted in all of us going to 'investigate'. What a great time to be alive!

[@RomanianGordonFreeman]

babe wake up Living Ironically in Europe posted

[@krisstopher8259]

is this some kind of cheap trend comment? i've seen it before. not clever or funny but ok. "likes fishing" is what it is

[@immortalobelisk6302]

@@krisstopher8259don’t be a Debbie Downer bro

[@sagard.yenchilwar1379]

Its not babe Its Bunică

[@krisstopher8259]

@@immortalobelisk6302 why not?

[@char1721]

Ok prietene retardat

[@yanku33]

This was a good chuckle. Congrats, you're getting more romanian by the day. Actually, forget the congrats, I should feel sorry for you. Signed: an actual romanian.

[@SimonaDaRat]

Antena 3 is still playing on most tvs in my house non stop

[@axcn4733]

pentru ca sunteti batuti in cap

[@DacianRider]

Antena 3 is OTV 2.0

[@Soldado94aliasUnit594]

Antena 3 in Romania?

[@andreigindac5153]

Ești bolnavă

[@doing_nothing3267]

​@@Soldado94aliasUnit594yep. But tbh, Antena 3 fixed it's self as they now are in a CNN partnership. And no, don't you confound Antena 3 Romania with the Antena 3 Spain. Totally different as The Antenas in Romania are a whole TV group. Almost every channel owned by Antena has Antena name in it (except Happy Channel, WHO AIRS OTHER DAMN TURKISH DRAMAS, LIKE THEY CANT AIR LATINO TELENOVELAS OR K DRAMAS- ok, they air some telenovelas from Mexico)

[@ralajpg]

You need a part 2 about the 2000s icons Tonciu, Sanziana and Zavoranca

[@robertbalazslorincz8218]

As a Hungarian, this is the sole occasion I will state that, I wish I knew the Romanian langauge, so that I can understand brainrot from nearly 20 years before it was cool.

[@nydydn]

@@robertbalazslorincz8218 as a Romanian, this is the sole reason anyone should learn Romanian for.

[@georgeserixfolea5512]

Grewing up in 00s, I can confirm OTV had decreased the national avg IQ and to this day the effects are still visible

[@raphaelbunea7552]

You missed his recent attempt at making an NFT and the whole DD Universe arc

[@xRed47]

Never thought I'd see a video about OTV in English. When I saw the Del cheese part I started laughing out loud :))))). Good job brother, keep it up!

[@edarddragon]

tbh me either, i thought it would remain a romanian fever dream

[@GabrielDipo]

3:58 they even got spy from tf2

[@DragosCotoara]

Fr i saw that when i was little i though "is that a robber on the TV but he's having a interview" then i got a crisis of thoughs that made me think and solve the space and cure to cancer AT 3 frickin 3 years OLD and when i saw that again at like 14 years old i was like "YO YO is that the frickin TF2 SPY ON THE TV WHERE ARE THE SOLDIERS THo??"

[@nothing._.643]

WE NEED A PART2. WE NEED TO TALK ABOT: Iumor, Insula iubirii, romanii au talent, xfactor, aces in direct, comanda la mine, bravo ai stil, schimb de mame, curat murdar, lectii dr viata, etc. LIKE WE NEED A TOP!

[@中森明菜-n1b]

Are Samsung LG TVs popular in Romania?

[@HaartieeTRUE]

There was/is a show on the channel 'Prima TV', that in one season, a character straight up became a Dan Diaconescu, including running for (in his case) mayor.

[@Silviu-px2bb]

Actually he ran for president first then ran for mayor in later seasons

[@floricel_112]

For context, the show was called "Trăsniți în NATO" (Crazies in NATO) which was about a bunch of misfit A-holes, which later became "Trăsniții DIN NATO" (Crazies OUT of NATO) which follows their lives after getting kicked out of NATO, then got shortened to just "Trăsniții". This comedy ran for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of episodes

[@Silviu-px2bb]

@@floricel_112 1847 episodes to be more precise and then got sequel one year after it ended

[@floricel_112]

@@Silviu-px2bb wow.......

[@S1verC]

And none of the episodes were funny

[@LarsOfTheMohicans]

The lore of Dallas goes way deeper. It was one of the select few Western series that were allowed on Romanian TV during communism, as Ceausescu assumed that it would fuel anti-Western disdain among the proletariat as they witnessed the decadent materialism of the Texan bourgeoisie. Instead, the Romanian proletariat compared their crumbling system of rolling blackouts and bread lines to that of the capitalist Texans and came to admire the latter rather than disdain it. Yet another in a string of costly miscalculations on the part of the "genius of the Carpathians". But the question on the minds of an entire nation remains: what the hell happened to Elodia?

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

Ugh! Don't remind me. The OTV days were like LSD..so freaking tripping it makes Alex Jones have a point about everything.

[@Eminovici]

Noi ne uitam la el încă de când era la Tele7ABC 😅😅

[@hadinapokalix7329]

alex jones is right about everything he straight up said the deep state will try to kill trump and then they did

[@caindis-abel-dhisbrother9601]

this should be top comment

[@DarkVeghetta]

Hilariously, so did Dan Diaconescu... sometimes. He _was_ basically the Alex Jones of Romania.

[@hadinapokalix7329]

@@DarkVeghetta Alex Jones covers real news Like the satanist elite netting in the bohemian grove to practice occultic rituals

[@teddystanciu9216]

4:12 dude, you just opened a door from my childhood I've never thought it'll ever see the light of day. I remembered at some point about this shitfest, but being 7-8 yo at the time, I never knew the name, just the fact that I was laughing my ass off at the random nonsense displayed on the screen with my family... Fara Zahar - Lav Stori

[@war-painter]

I ❤💕🇷🇴Romania, having just returned from a tour of the Balkans and apart from Serbia, which was SUPER wonderful, I really had a great time in Romania, my favorite!

[@rochester212]

Romania is not a part of the Balkan peninsula, you moron.

[@padibuz]

Holy shit man, you've done your homework, I recognize a lot of those clips. Well done!

[@brunobastos5533]

The crazy thing to me as a Portuguese is knowing that Brazilian and Portuguese shows where broad cast al over eastern Europe

[@andreiionita8286]

As a Romanian I dread the thought of of Romanian shows being broadcasted _anywhere_ in Europe, let alone worldwide

[@norbertcsaszar4746]

Oh yeah bro, brazilian and argentinian soap-operas was huuuuge back in 2000s. There were so many of them. But here in Hungary we moved on to Turkish soap operas,i dont know if its better or worse lol.

[@brunobastos5533]

@@norbertcsaszar4746 Here to some how Turkish soap opera are strong now

[@VyndrosNoldor]

@@norbertcsaszar4746 Same thing here in Romania. It first started with Argentinian shows for a long time, then there was a Korean phase for some reason and for the past decade I think Turkish soap operas have been no 1 (most notably one about Suleiman and his harem of women that were always fighting and causing drama with each other). The fun thing is I would randomly watch an episode with my grandma and would immediately find out everything that had happened so far and would be able to predict with pretty good accuracy what would happen by the end of the season. I then realized this is by design so that my grandma who always fell asleep in her chair watching these shows would be able to keep up with them without a lot of effort.

[@KartingRules]

All heil the ALMIGHTY brazilian soap operas

[@deeea4173]

my dad used to watch the Elodia series on OTV all night😭

[@petrut.1224]

Same, and they really believed they discovered Elodia :))

[@Drakuba]

9:29 dat shoe! Im DEAD xD

[@george90210]

It was like an all night live streaming ... Starting the show around 8-9 pm and keeping it until 6 in the morning.

[@NicuMihai]

Dan Diaconescu just announced OTV is coming back in Feb 2025 🥹

[@Ayy_Doll_Fiddler]

Imagine if Italy was communist, we'd get something like Romania.

[@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave]

Depends if italy's communist dictator is a Tito type or a Ceacesceu type.

[@demidrokachev1020]

Undervalued comment

[@_o..o_1871]

@@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.MicrowaveCeaușescu or Ceausescu if you can’t use a ș

[@fyfyi6053]

it's not like that, it's just that western cultures are just better. That's just a fact. and before u say anything I'm not a westerner, I'm eastern european myself.

[@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave]

@@fyfyi6053 civilization was invented in Greece.

[@moikiddo2577]

im romanian and i never knew about this thanks for the piece of lore

[@zecontpro4695]

Nice romanian And thank you for letting people know about Romania A underrated country

[@rexarn781]

As a half-romanian swede who listens to Gutã without fully knowing the language and also knows nothing about my roots this was very cool to see. Good job!

[@mikimanusthe2nd778]

One of my university professors helped Diaconescu with the filming setup for OTV. It was filmed in a one-room apartment in Bucharest, where the walls had been demolished, and the entire production was shot using three DSLR cameras. Also Diaconescu really loves miners 😐.

[@hacktor_92]

as a romanian child living and being raised with this TV shitshow, I can confirm that this is THE SINGLE, ONE AND ONLY, MOST WELL MADE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT OTV.

[@vxdx]

In Croatia there was a tv show called "Nocna mora" (Nightmare stage). It was broadcast on local Zagreb television OTV, later on Z1 channel. The show was broadcast late at night from 22:00 until the morning. Something like this was not shown anywhere in the world. You have some episodes on KZbin.

[@jordanl5444]

What the fuck is this fever dream ass tv content? Diaconescu's show legit feels like a mash up of Jerry Springer and the local news lmfao

[@Rapha_493]

The fact that OTV showed a dead body uncensored on tv is beyond my understanding.

[@monkofdarktimes]

Not the first time it was shown on Romanian TV

[@veneps]

everything was possible back then really

[@ciupenhauer]

The wild wild east!

[@Cormano980]

They've shown a live autopsy on a decayed corpse once

[@Rapha_493]

@@Cormano980 nu mai zic nimic....

[@simionalexandru9546]

Romania had a lot of good movies during communism , still watch them today .

[@muzumaki619]

The on screen fight of the Jocks vs Emos on romanian TV can only be matched by the Emo Vs Punk brawl of Mexico city which featured the sudden arrival of Hare Krishna

[@ionyionela-l9e]

I love when someone is talking about my country. As a Romanian citizen I love it when someone cares about my country and talks about it

[@lukaadamovic9868]

Make one for Serbian TV

[@Mr.scooter-le8yo]

First comment before this blows up!

[@vladivascanu108]

Second comment before this blows up!

[@Franz-dq2pu]

If leaving out of this Pinktv & Karleusa🤮🤮 then yes

[@dzonikg]

MIlan Tarot moments

[@ksica]

​@@dzonikgthe legend 😂

[@vsaucelover9660]

I remember otv having a transmission that basically was showing a scene from a zombie movie and was saying that the us had fallen and if you were to donate a couple of 100 lei you could get access into a max security bunker

[@herrhauptmann1]

as a romanian i aprove that the romanian television reflects the intelect of romanian people.

[@raduradu334]

Sugi

[@Dotalol123]

Every Balkan state has the same thing, we always copy each other homework. Serbia has Pink and Happy TV, they are still going strong, producing tons of memes and brainrot if you Google "Milomir Marić" you will see that he even looks like Diaconescu! 😂

[@talpatv512]

Literally every country on earth has trashy TV, go suck some German dick bro😭 "I'm too good to be romanian" ahh post

[@herrhauptmann1]

@@Dotalol123 😄😅😆 da! tako je!

[@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave]

​@@Dotalol123we copy eachother and then claim we're better than the other even though the differences between us are a shorter list then the differences between Russia and Belarussia

[@KartingRules]

Man here in Brazil i still remember when Panico channel UNLEACHED A DANGEROUS MOSQUITO IN ARGENTINA for the entire nation to see. Peak rivalry stuff

[@mirouzunov4321]

Man, I think you missed the most interesting fact about Romanian TV. That being the broadcast of the execution of THE LEADER on Christmas morning True story 😅

[@DarkVeghetta]

Free Romanian TV got a great start with that one.

[@mariarevnic6415]

yup. I was 8 and I watched it. Because why not let children watch people being executed by the firing squad?

[@copyright8291]

It was not morning tho, it was 3 PM.

[@belstar1128]

Janos is gen z

[@DarkVeghetta]

@@mariarevnic6415 I think I saw it when I was about 5 or 6, in '91 or '92 - they showed the clip on PROtv a few times in the early days, not to mention documentaries on the topic included it. Perfectly acceptable viewing for Balkan children.

[@blackeyedpeas2011ilo]

Holy shit that was crazy, as a Polish person I would never know that this gold existed, thank you Janos

[@davidbanszky1945]

In Hungary the 90s and 2000s we have a low budget tv channel. The name is Budapest TV. The people making memes about the show.

[@mozeskertesz6398]

Tamás "Techno Healer" Tihanyi

[@prundeanuradu1656]

Thank you for this video!!! 🎉🎉

[@cristianandrei5462]

OTV was the greatest thing ever in the 2000s. Everyone watch it, nobody took it seriously but watch it for entertainment value. The difference between then and now Tv stations is that everyone took Dan Diaconescu with a grain of salt, while the older population don't even question today news. As outrageous as his party seems, some of the things he was advocating for were so ahead of the curve that he got straw maned out. The thing with the 20k euro is a strawman, he wasn't saying that, he was saying that he wants to give this money as an aid to small businesses not all citizens, a program which the other parties instituted later in 2017, giving 40k not 20k. What I hate him for is the Oltchim stuff, he ruined the livelihood of a whole town with his shenanigans.

[@danpollo4208]

I remember when i was growing up we had such thin floors that every gentle step at night was met by outrage from our downstairs neighbours even though i have been treading very gently and was very careful not to make noise. But when the Çeauşeşcu night speech came on before programs ended every day,i used to jump in the house and on the bed screaming "Çeauşescu PCR" repeatetly and not one of our neighbours used to say shiiieettt out fear... 😈 the security forces would hear they reproached a "loyal citizen" from praising the all powerful leader and the party...