Callatis Club
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Callatis Club is a dopo-festival show aired every year during the Callatis Festival
Callatis Festival
Callatis Festival is the largest music and culture festival held in Romania.-Location:Every year the location is the same - a barge that is docked into the touristic harbor of Mangalia. This barge consists of a huge stage and a very large backstage area, enough to hold over 200 people...

 on the Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n TV channel TVR 2
TVR 2
TVR2, Televiziunea Română 2 , is the second channel of the public broadcaster TVR.The channel was created in 1968, but it was suspended from 1985 until after the fall of the Communist regime in 1989...

. The show was hosted in 2006 by Cătălin Măruţă
Catalin Maruta
Cătălin Constantin Măruţă is a Romanian television host.He currently presents the "Happy Hour" show on Pro TV. Since June 2002, he has been the host of the "Tonomatul DP2" show on TVR 2...

, and by Leonard Miron
Leonard Miron
Leonard Miron is a Romanian television and radio presenter and journalist and works for Romanian National Television . He was born in Galaţi, Romania but was brought up in Piteşti and graduated from the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy before starting a career in media...

 in 2008 and most of the singers who performed on the stage of the festival are invited.

In 2006, several scandals emerged during this show. The most important was the one between the host Gabriel Cotabiţă
Gabriel Cotabita
Gabriel Cotabiţă is a Romanian rock vocalist. In 2002 he joined a group of other rock musicians and together they formed the band VH2, of which Gabriel is the vocalist. He was also the host of the Callatis Festival and is a prominent part of the Romanian mainstream rock scene...

 and the singer Cream, the latter disputing Cotabiţă's competence as a general producer of the festival.

After a break from Romanian National Television in 2007, it returned to the national channel TVR2 with Leonard Miron
Leonard Miron
Leonard Miron is a Romanian television and radio presenter and journalist and works for Romanian National Television . He was born in Galaţi, Romania but was brought up in Piteşti and graduated from the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy before starting a career in media...

, and focused less on scandals and more on interviewing guests, giving them the chance to discuss the festival itself and the music. The contestants of Miss Diaspora
Miss Diaspora
Miss Diaspora, themed-night at the Callatis Festival in Romania, where young Romanian women from all over the world compete to take the title of "Miss Diaspora".The reigning Miss Diaspora 2007 is Ana Sofia Marcu, a resident of Chicago, USA.-External links:...

, a competition for young Romanian women living abroad, were also invited to the show, giving them the chance introduce themselves to the general public and jury.

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