Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Nuwambar 1989, Czechoslovakia ta koma tsarin dimokiradiyya na 'yanci ta hanyar zaman lafiya "Velvet Revolution" (wanda Václav Havel da Civic Forum suka jagoranta). A cikin shekaru masu zuwa ƙasar ta shiga cikin saurin canjin tattalin arziki. Wannan kuma ya shafi kafofin watsa labaru waɗanda suka sami 'yanci daga iko mai ƙarfi na Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta Czechoslovakia kuma sun sami damar haɓaka cikin yanayin gasa. Koyaya, tun kafin Juyin Juya Halin Velvet kuma duk da tsanantawa, akwai mujallu da aka buga ba bisa doka ba a cikin abin da ya faru na Samizdat, wanda ya ba da damar yada ra'ayoyin masu adawa tsakanin mutanen da ke da matsayi na ikon al'adu da iko. Václav Havel <unk> shugaban karshe na Czechoslovakia daga 1989
har zuwa rushewa a 1992 <unk> na ɗaya daga cikinsu. Tun bayan rushewar Tarayyar Soviet, yawancin kafofin watsa labarai na Czech sun kasance mallakar kamfanonin yammacin Czech. Wannan yanayin ya canza bayan koma bayan tattalin arzikin duniya na 2008, lokacin da kamfanonin Czech suka sayi yawancin su. A farkon shekarar 2014, takwas daga cikin mutane goma da suka fi tasiri a cikin kafofin watsa labarai 'yan Czech ne ko Slovak.