Yldon Media Group
Yldon Media Group is owned by Ylli Ndroqi and includes Ora News and Channel One, two separate companies that operate two local TV stations and one radio station in Tirana. Ora News is a 24 hour news station founded in 2007. Their moto is ‘first with breaking news’ and claim to be a leader in the category of 24 hour news stations in Albania. The television station writes in his website that its philosophy is to inform the public objectively, with accuracy and in real time. Its signal is transmitted both free to air and in pay per view digital platforms like DigitAlb, since 2008. Radio Ora News transmits news often from the feed of the TV station on 96.7 FM. Channel One TV, is the second TV station of the Yldon Media Group, founded on March 7, 2011. Channel One TV is a local general interests TV station broadcast in four cities, including Tirana. The slogan of the TV station is ‘Channel One – your first choice.”
Business Form
Private
Legal Form
Limited Liability Company and Joint-Stock Company operating under an umbrella of Ylldon Media Group
Business Sectors
Radio and Television Broadcasting
Individual Owner
Other TV Outlets
Channel One (0.57% Telemetrix / 1.11% Abacus)
Other Online Outlets
http://www.oranews.tv/
http://www.channel-one.al/
Media Business
Radio and Television Broadcasting
Ora News (100%)
General Information
Founding Year
2006
Affiliated Interests Founder
Ilda Prifti – In 2006 Ilda Prifti founded a company named Ora, to run a local television based in Tirana with paid capital of 100.000,00 Lek (USD 1.067). In December 2006, the capital of the company increased to 25 Mio. Lek (USD 266.894) and the television station was launched in the 24-hour-news format ahead of the 2006 local elections. She is a relative of Alba Gina, the wife of Aleksander Frangaj. Ilda Prifti was born in 1988 and was 18 years old when her name appeared in the business registry as founder of the company.
Employees
80
Contact
Rruga Aleksander Moisiu, Ish-Kinostudioja "Shqiperia e Re", Tirana, Albania.
Email: redaksiaora@gmail.com
Tax/ ID Number
Ora: K71505003O, Channel One: K12412002L, Yldon: K31618007S
Financial Information
Revenue (Financial Data/ Optional)
Ora News: 1.46 Mio. $ / 187.8 Mio. Lek; Channel One: Revenues: 0.053 Mio. $ / 6.9 Mio. Lek Yldon: 0.165 Mio. $ / 21.2 Mio. Lek
Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
Ora News: 0.03 Mio. $ / 3.7 Mio. Lek; Channel One: ‘-0.057 Mio. $ / ‘-7.26 Mio. Lek; Yldon: ‘-0.09 Mio. $ / ‘-11.5 Mio. Lek
Advertising (in % of total funding)
Missing Data
Management
Supervisory Board
Blerina Hoxha – member of the Supervisory Board at Yldon Media Group.
Redon Ndroqi – member of the Supervisory Board at Yldon Media Group, the son of Ylli Ndroqi, the owner of Yldon Media Group.
Mimoza Ndroqi – member of the Supervisory Board at Yldon Media Group, the wife of the owner of the group, Ylli Ndroqi. She owns 40% of the company and holds a position of the CEO in the company.
Other Influential People
Mariam Akopian Ndroqi – the wife of Redon Ndroqi, is the general director of Ora News.
Artur Zheji – is an opinion maker and former Director of Public Radio and Television. He hosts a TV show called 360 Grade and runs a website with the same name 360grade.al.
Dritan Hila – has been an opinion maker since 2008 and was a diplomat before that. He worked as Deputy Minister of Defense under Socialist Party government 2013-2015 and resigned in 2015 and founded Dritare.net, a news website.
Further Information
Meta Data
Yldon Media Group is not a registered legal entity. Ora News is a Joinst-Stock company. Channel One is an LLC. Its ownership structure and financial statements are published in the Albanian National Business Registry. For the purpose of evaluating weigh of assets and revenues of this company in the media market, MOM have calculated the value of assets, revenues and profits of 8 TV groups and two pay-per-view platforms. The companies included in the calculation are as follows: DigitAlb, Tring, Top Channel, Klan, Media Vizion, Multiscreen, Focus Media News, ABC News, Ora News and Scan. The financial data provided are for 2016. The Central Bank's average exchange rate for 2016 was used to convert the amounts into USD. Audience share for Top TV stations was provided by Abacus Research and Telemetrix for 2017, the data are conflicting that’s why both audience shares are presented. Ora News is a Joinst-Stock company. Channel One is an LLC. Its ownership structure and financial statements are published in the Albanian National Business Registry. For the purpose of evaluating weigh of assets and revenues of this company in the media market, MOM have calculated the value of assets, revenues and profits of 8 TV groups and two pay-per-view platforms. The companies included in the calculation are as follows: DigitAlb, Tring, Top Channel, Klan, Media Vizion, Multiscreen, Focus Media News, ABC News, Ora News and Scan. The financial data provided are for 2016. The Central Bank's average exchange rate for 2016 was used to convert the amounts into USD. Audience share for Top TV stations was provided by Abacus Research and Telemetrix for 2017, the data are conflicting that’s why both audience shares are presented.
