Top Channel

These include mainly daily news about the political, economic, cultural, and social environment in Albania. The programs also provide information regarding the main events occurring in every part of the world.

Fiks Fare is a critical and problem-raising show, which through humour and satire denounces the negative aspects of life such as corruption, fraud, law-breaking by high-rank officials, human rights violations, country development issues and many other such issues. The popularity of this program and its simple language in addressing problematic issues of Albanian society has proven to be a significant mean of raising awareness and many times leading to solution of most evident drawbacks of the ongoing transition of the country. This program is broadcast every day of the week immediately after the main news edition. It is the Albanian version of an Italian format "Striscia la Notizia".

Shqip was the flagship program shown on Top Channel on Mondays. It first aired on May 3rd, 2002. The one-hour live interview is the result of detailed research and investigations. The program host asks the difficult questions and gets behind the stories that make the news in the nation; from political leaders to intellectuals and decision-makers facing huge challenges. Shqip reports the events and interviews on politics development, security and social issues. According to a survey conducted in 2003 by the International Research & Exchanges Board, Shqip was ranked as the most watched TV program of the same kind and thus gained some of the highest peak audience in the country. The program was presented by known journalist Rudina Xhunga. It stopped airing on September 7th, 2015 and shortly after moved to "Dritare TV", as an independent web series.[6]

Portokalli is a weekly night sketch comedy and variety show filmed in Tirana in front of a live audience. It was first shown on 31 December 2003. The format of the show includes stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, and live music, making the show similar to NBC's Saturday Night Live. Portokalli is known to make fun of everyday problems through humour and satire. It also makes fun of political figures such as Sali Berisha, Alfred Moisiu, Lulzim Basha, Edi Rama, Hashim Thaçi, Ramush Haradinaj, and others. Portokalli reaches an audience of many ages through young and old, and has been criticised over the vulgar language often used. The show still airs to this day.

Top Story is a hard talk program hosted by Sokol Balla which started to air in 2006. The show consists of political figures being interviewed, either with the host or as a political discussion between four politicians. Top Story broadcasts Monday and Tuesday at 21:00 (10 PM) and Wednesday at 22:00 (11 PM). The show stopped airing in the 28th of December 2017 after the end of Edi Rama's interview. The program aired again in April 7th, 2022 and still airs to this day. In October 2022, Sokol Balla left Top Channel and was replaced by Grida Duma in November 2022.[7]

Top Show is an Albanian talk show hosted by Alban Dudushi. Founded in 2004, where politicians, celebrities, and even activists talk about a topic or their own topics. On the 2nd of May 2013, Top Show Magazine was created for topics like showbiz and fashion. The show stopped airing on the 10th of March 2020.[8]

Top Fest was an Albanian music competition organised by Top Channel. It began airing in 2004 with its last edition being in 2015. The event was annually held in Tirana, Albania.[9] The songs were usually performed in Albanian with artists from Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and other Albanian-speaking territories. From its 7th edition (2010), the participants performed their entries 100% live.[10]

Big Brother Albania is the Albanian version of the Dutch reality competition franchise Big Brother created by producer John de Mol in 1997. It follows a number of contestants, known as housemates, who are isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom-built house. Each week, one of the housemates is evicted by a public vote, with the last housemate remaining winning a cash prize.[11] The series started airing on 24 February 2008 on Top Channel and it has had nine seasons to date. Arbana Osmani hosted the first seven seasons and the ninth season. Ledion Liço hosted the eighth season as Osmani was pregnant and took time off to be with her family. The eviction show aired on Saturdays except for the seventh season where the eviction show was moved to Fridays. There are also two live pay-per-view channels available to watch when aired on Albanian pay TV platform DigitAlb.