BTV Story

Bulgarian television channel

Television channel

bTV
bTV Comedy
bTV Cinema
bTV Action
RING

HistoryLaunched28 January 2012 (2012-01-28)Former namesbTV Lady (2012 – 2023)LinksWebsitewww.btv.bg/story

bTV Story is a Bulgarian female-oriented television channel. The channel is part of the bTV Media Group, owned by the American media conglomerate CME (Central European Media Enterprises). It began broadcasting on 28 January 2012.^[1]

The channel airs shows such as The Dr. Oz Show, The Nate Berkus Show, and the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Part of the programming scheme of the channel are reality and talk show programs, Turkish, Indian, South Korean and Latin American telenovelas, programs on health, beauty, home care, family and garden, American series and romantic films. Since March 2012, the program "Mommy's Hour", which until years ago was broadcast on bTV, is being renewed. The channel also broadcasts repeats of some bTV shows - Zvezdev's Kitchen, Predi obed, Moderno, The Globe, The Spirit of Health, and since September 2012 the Bulgarian series "Where is Maggie?".

In March 2012, television broadcast the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards. Since 2013, it has also been broadcasting the Miss Universe pageant.^[2]^[3]

From 7 October 2012, channel switches to broadcasting with the 16:9 SD picture format. Since 1 January 2016, bTV Story has been broadcast on bTV Media Group's paid online platform – VOYO in HD quality, and since 6 July 2018 – on cable networks in HD quality.

In November 2023, it was announced that bTV Lady was about to change its name to bTV Story.^[4]

On 11 December 2023, bTV Lady was officially rebranded as bTV Story.

Logos

bTV Lady logo between 2012 and 2016
bTV Lady logo between 2016 and 2023
bTV Story logo from 2023

References

^ www.btv.bg
^ www.btv.bg
^ www.btv.bg
^ "bTV Lady becomes bTV Story".

Television in Bulgaria

Public state-owned

Bulgarian National Television	BNT 1 (HD) BNT 2 (HD) BNT 3 (HD) BNT 4 (HD)

Private with national coverage

bTV Media Group	bTV (HD) bTV Comedy bTV Cinema bTV Action (HD) bTV Story bTV International Ring (HD)
Nova Broadcasting Group	Nova Nova News Kino Nova Nova Sport (HD) Diema Diema Family Diema Sport (HD) Diema Sport 2 (HD) Diema Sport 3 (HD)
Investor.BG	Bulgaria ON AIR Bloomberg TV Bulgaria

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Fen TV television Group	Fen TV (HD) Balkanika TV (HD) Fen Folk
Payner Media	Planeta TV Planeta Folk Planeta HD
Disney Bulgaria	Disney Channel Disney Junior Disney XD Star Channel (HD) Star Crime (HD) Star Life (HD) 24Kitchen (HD) National Geographic (TV network) (HD) Nat Geo Wild (HD)
Viasat Broadcasting	TV1000 Balkan Viasat History Viasat Explore Viasat Nature
AMC Networks International UK	AMC CBS Drama CBS Reality Crime & Investigation Da Vinci Learning Extreme Sports Channel Fine Living Network Food Network History (HD) JimJam Outdoor Channel (HD)
AXN Networks	AXN AXN Black AXN White
Warner Bros. Discovery	TLC Discovery Animal Planet HBO (HD) HBO 2 (HD) HBO 3 (HD) Cinemax (HD) Cinemax 2 (HD) Cartoon Network Cartoonito
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