Since 2004, the Czech editor and moderator Václav Moravec has been leading political discussions on Czech Television in the show Otázky Václav Moravec. He ended his career unexpectedly on March 8, 2026, when he announced his retirement right at the end of the live broadcast of the Otázky Václav Moravec show. He justified this by the fact that under pressure from the management and due to political interference, he could no longer guarantee the independence of the editorial work. In an interview for the website, he revealed how much he earned as a presenter of a political show.
Moravec honestly admitted that he was relieved after leaving Czech Television. He indicated that, in his opinion, he was selectively and purposefully bullied by the ČT Board, which was supposed to interfere with specific shows. “One does not suffer from the fact that the weak and permissive director of CT does not understand that the more he does to the advisers, the more he will harm the institution. And that is exactly how it has been for the last year and a half.” he complained.
After leaving Czech Television, Moravec created his own platform, which bears his surname. It is a journalistic video platform. Nowadays, the trend is paid podcasts and with that comes better earnings. “Some people think in purely business terms. They counted on me making millions from podcasts just like everyone else. True, I could rent a studio for a few thousand per hour, not invest in technology and program, not have around me a team of people who made up the team at CT for the canceled 168 hours, and earn in half a year for a new car” he said honestly.
After leaving Czech Television, he can tell from his own experience how much it costs to produce such a show. “It would be an unfair comparison. This is one of the most painful topics. Because in recent years, if the management has been throwing “bones” to councilors that they canceled the low-cost 168 hours and did not replace it with a series of twice as expensive sessions with low public reach, will receive nothing but questions like the typical: “How much does Moravec cost Czech Television?”” he commented on the margin of what everyone was interested in.
He is hurt by what people think of him. “And now they will still say that I made money in CT, and that’s why I can start my own project. It’s unfair. Absolutely unfair. I repeatedly said how much my salary was in CT – in gross, it was around 90,000 (Czech crowns, converted to approx. 3,700 euros, editor’s note). The dentists in the district town have more,” he revealed how much he earned at Czech Television.
