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Dritan Hoxha, the visionary that Albanian media is missing today.
2025-10-18 13:10:57 / JETË
There are people who do not belong only to their time. Dritan Hoxha was one of them. He was not simply the founder of a television, but the creator of a new era in Albanian media. In an Albania that was still trying to find itself after years of transition, Dritan brought the spirit that was missing: the modernity of the idea, the courage to take risks and the belief that the media can be an engine of change, not just a mirror of reality.
Two days ago, Top Media remembered and honored the man who gave life to a vision. I myself did not know Dritan closely, nor did his collaborators who could tell me how he worked or how he inspired, but I know his work: Top Media. Due to the events that have unfolded these days and the political noise, but also the KLA protest, I decided to write today, on the weekend, about a model that the Albanian media misses more than ever.
Top Channel was not just another television station. It was a revolution. It brought European standards to a market that did not yet know what “standard” meant. It brought modern technology, clean images, news that spoke differently, journalists who thought differently. Above all, it brought a new philosophy: that the public is not to be underestimated, but to be respected and challenged.
Today, when you look at the Albanian media landscape, the void left by Dritan Hoxha is felt more than ever. Not for lack of talented people, but for lack of vision. Many media outlets have turned into voices that repeat each other, studios that lack ideas, and news that is copy-paste. In this tired landscape, Dritan's model would be oxygen. A model that breathes into the media as a place of opportunity where it developed, created and never repeated what its counterparts in Albania were doing.
So strong is the television model that Dritan Hoxha left behind, that even today, when moderators or journalists leave Top Media, their names are immediately erased, just as they are lit every time someone starts at Top Media.
I would love to imagine how he would act today, at a time when television is losing ground to podcasts, social networks and algorithms that dictate everything. He would not have seen this as a risk, but as an opportunity. Time has shown that with what he did with Top Media, Dritani did not wait for the new to happen, he created it. He would certainly have united traditional media with digital, television with networks, journalists with new content creators. He would have understood that power no longer lies in frequency, but in influence.
At a time when the "influencer" is replacing the journalist and the "click" is replacing the news, what is missing is a figure like Dritan Hoxha, who can restore the balance between speed and substance, between audience and quality.
Dritan Hoxha was rare. Today, when every media outlet is trying to escape from digital oblivion, from financial problems, perhaps the only way is to return to his spirit: the courage to do what no one else has done.
Dritan did not simply build a television station, he built a way of thinking about the media.
And until someone comes along to think with that vision, the void he left will remain. A void that we feel every day, every time we look for that energy on screen that once came from a man who didn't talk much, but changed everything.
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