What is "telenorba"

TeleNorba or Telenorba Shqiptare or simply TNSH (now ABC News) is a defunct private Albanian TV channel from Tirana, Albania owned by the Bari based TeleNorba Italia broadcaster. At first, it was owned by Italian businessmen, then a Greek businessman and finally by Albanian media mogul Aleksander Frangaj. The channel launched in 1997/8 in Albania and used to be available via analogue in central Albania and later on satellite in Europe on the Albanian TV package DigitAlb.

Traditionally, the channel broadcast a variety of programming but its core focus remained news programming and soap operas from Italy. In 2002, it was ranked fourth with 11.3% audience share. TeleNorba was the only affiliated channel to TV Klan which had the right to broadcast Njerez te humbur (Missing people) but did not hold the rights to broadcast the program live. Indeed, the program debuted on TNSH. On October 25, 2010, after some successful take overs from imminent bankruptcy, the channel was rebranded to ABC News.