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The Czech News Agency (CTK) is a national news and information agency whose mission is to provide unbiased and comprehensive information for the free creation of opinions.
About ČTK
the Czech News Agency is celebrating its 90 birthday this year?
the Czech News Agency is a public service institution which was established by law. The state is not liable for the agency's obligations, just as the agency is not liable for the state's obligations. The Czech News Agency does not receive any state funding?
the Czech News Agency also provides technical services associated with securing the transmission of the reports?
the Czech News Agency has branches in 16 towns and cities of the Czech Republic?
the Czech News Agency has branches in 4 cities in the Slovak Republic?
Text News in Czech
the Czech News Agency's INFOBANK is unique in its scope and comprehensiveness. It contains all current and archive reports, an extensive document database and an archive of all of the dailies and other periodicals?
we issue reports in Czech, Slovak and English?
we issue reports non-stop, 24-hours a day, seven days a week?
we provide our reports to a number of international agencies, just as international agencies provide their news services to the Czech News Agency?
the Czech News Agency has its own network of correspondents in nine countries throughout the world?
the Czech News Agency provides so-called made-to-measure news? You can purchase, for example information which only concerns your field of business.
the Czech News Agency also provides one-off information searches according to your requirements?
internet publishers issue at most only 20% the Czech News Agency's news reports? However, you can acquire approximately 15,000 more Czech News Agency reports every month directly from the Czech News Agency.
the Czech News Agency issues several daily summaries of the most important news?
the reports are supplemented with key words, according to which it is possible to select the required topics?
all up-to-date reports are equipped with thematic categories, according to which it is possible to select only those reports which interest you?
the majority of reports are indexed with the region which they apply to? The region can be a selection criterion for reports from the required area.
the agency service provides clients with lucidly prepared reports in objective and historical contexts?
the Czech News Agency provides its clients with, amongst other things, seminars on working with the Czech News Agency's Infobank, and it does so both at the Agency's head office or directly at the client's facility?
we can create a made-to-measure search for selected information?
Economic News
the economics reporting incorporates a wide range of news ranging from stock exchange developments to the prices for important commodities and on to telecommunications or the internet?
the economics reporting includes information about economic events both at home and abroad and about the results of significant domestic and international companies and markets.
the economic reports also provide information about the what is happening in individual companies and about the development of the situations in the individual commercial fields?
the economic reporting also includes the opinions of economic experts?
Sports News
the sports reporting includes results from important matches and competitions and information about the economic aspects of events in the world of sport?
we publish up to 120 up-to-date reports from various sports every day?
sports competitions are also supplemented with up-to-date results tables?
the Czech News Agency's sports reports also provide the impressions and opinions of the sportspeople and coaches?
News in English
we issue more than 100 up-to-date reports in English every day?
the reports in English are divided into general and economic topics in relation to the Czech Republic and Slovakia?
News in Slovak
the reports in Slovak also contain information about the relations between Slovakia and the Czech Republic and the other countries of the EU?
the reports in Slovak provide a fast summary of the current affairs in important social and economic areas in Slovakia?
together with the reports in Slovak, you also receive profile material pertaining to the current reports which provide you with comprehensive information on the development of the given event or phenomenon?
Infographic News
summaries of the popularity of politicians, petrol prices, formula 1 tracks and a comparison of Oscar nominations are just some of the topics from the Czech News Agency's graphic production?
you will receive on average six pieces of material daily by subscribing to the Infographic Service?
the Infographic Service provides the lucid representation of the important events of the day not only in the form of graphs, but also as maps and diagrams?
you can acquire access to the archive or to earlier published Infographic materials?
you also have the option of using individual Infographic materials?
Audio Reporting
audio recordings are labelled with several topical categories, the region and key words, according to which it is possible to select the relevant records.
by subscribing to the audio reports, you will acquire fast access to authentic recordings by important individuals and cultural and sports stars and to the phone reports of the Czech News Agency's reporters.
by acquiring the audio reports, you will receive an average of 50 recordings a day, each of which will be in the MP3 format and will last about 30 seconds?
the Czech News Agency's archive already has approximately 30,000 audio recordings available?
you will find reports on press conferences, significant social and business events, seminars and conferences among the information about events?
CTK Schedules
you can search for any events in the information using the event's date or venue or its themes?
the information about the events is regularly updated?
the information about the events is always supplemented with contact information for the event's organiser?
by using the information on the events, you will acquire an overview of future events for up to the next 10 days?
Documentary Databases
the documentary databases provide summaries, depict developments, record events and contexts and publish factual information?
you will acquire detailed information about the Czech Republic in thematically divided sections in the Czech Republic Database?
the regularly supplemented Czech Republic Database contains current and historical data, chronologies and statistical summaries, for example, from various specialist fields?
we systematically supplement the EU Facts Database with information about European institutions and events?
the EU Facts Database contains the characteristics of individual politicians, programmes and treaties and the development of the relations with the main candidate countries, the USA, Russia and some other regional organisations ?
the EU Facts Database contains dictionary entries for the most important European terms?
the World Countries Database collects updated facts about all the countries in the world every day?
the World Countries Database contains current and historical data, basic geographical, political and economic data, a description of the media scene, the transcription of the names of people and institutions and information on the relations with the Czech Republic?
you can find daily updated information about international affairs in the World Database?
the World Database contains facts about international companies and organisations and about multinational companies?
the World Database provides a dictionary of terms concerning various historical and current events?
the World Database describes the relations between international organisations and the Czech Republic, international military operations and any eventual Czech participation in them?
you can find regularly updated information about significant or interesting events and personalities in the Czech Republic and abroad sorted from the point of view of time in the Anniversaries Database?
the Biography Database collects biographical information about important individuals in the political, economic, cultural and sporting life of the Czech Republic and the world?
the regularly updated Sports Database contains over 2,750 documents with information about sports events in the Czech Republic and the world?
the Sports Database contains summaries of the world, European and Czech champions in various sports, the results of other top international competitions and a table of world and Czech records?
the Sports Database monitors more than 60 sports, including young, dynamic or alternative disciplines?
Company Database
Prodata is an extensive source of information about Czech companies? Its core consists of the Czech News Agency's company news and the company data from Čekia, a.s?
it is possible to expand the Prodata to include the Economic Information Database and the Business Bulletin for a complete overview?
Archiv slovní
we have been storing textual reports in the Czech News Agency's Infobank in electronic form since 1988?
Photo Archive
the Czech News Agency has an extensive photographic archive where it is possible to search according to many criteria and topics?
Fotobanka/fotozpravodajství
the Czech News Agency's Photobank contains over 1,300,000 photographs in electronic form and you can find there all of the Czech gold medallists from the history of the modern Olympic Games, amongst other things?
the authors of the photographs in the Czech News Agency's Photobank include great names such as František Drtikol?
The photographic archive was established in the 1920s and it is one of the oldest and most extensive in Europe?
the Czech News Agency's Photobank is not only used by the media, but also by significant publishing houses and renowned advertising agencies?
not only the Czech News Agency's photojournalists, but also tens of external photographers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and other countries have contributed to the creation of the photographs?
we also have photojournalists in Slovakia who contribute to our photographic news reporting every day?
Videobank / TV News Service
the Czech News Agency's Videobank contains more than 5000 reports?
you can also choose individual shots from the Czech News Agency's Videobank for further use?
you can download reports from the Czech News Agency's Videobank at various levels of quality ranging from television quality to internet quality and on to a format which is suitable for mobile phones?
you can download the contents of the Czech News Agency's Videobank directly from the website or by FTP?
the contents of the Czech News Agency's Videobank can be automatically sent using the XML format?
you can set-up the sending of email dispatches concerning each new report?
you can search in the Czech News Agency's Videobank using not only key words, but also, for example, according to the date?
Distribution Channels
you can receive the Czech News Agency's reports in your computer network, on your FTP server or by email?
you can receive Czech News Agency reports by means of satellite transmissions to special equipment for the receipt of the news service?
You can also use rented lines in fixed line data circuits for the transmission of Czech News Agency reports?
you can use the products in the Czech News Agency's Infobank non-stop via the internet?
entry into the Infobank gains you the option of working with all the documents - textual, pictorial, graphic and audio?
it is also possible to transfer the Czech News Agency's reports via the internet using the FTP protocol?
you can also receive our reports at a selected email address?
we can setup a detailed, specified selection of reports and documents which will be sent to you regularly by email?
owners of the Lotus Notes system can also automatically replicate current agency reports, newspaper texts or transcripts from radio and television shows in electronic form and at any time?
you can receive English bulletins of general or economic news in the PDF format by email six times a week?