The fourth season of the Romanian reality talent show Vocea României premiered on ProTV on September 16, 2014.
The battle round was simplified by allowing coaches to steal one losing contestant only, instead of two as in the previous year, and eliminating the sing-off from the show.
Tiberiu Albu, initially mentored by Smiley, but stolen by Chirilă in the battle rounds, was declared winner of the season.
In March 2014, ProTV announced their intention to turn season 4 into a children's competition,[3] according to The Voice Kids format, but they changed their minds a month later and decided to have a competition for people ages 16 and up, as in previous years.
[4] ProTV also revamped the set of the show and used better sound equipment compared to previous seasons.
[2][6] Former producer Mona Segall resigned from the MediaPro trust in April 2014 and moved to the rival channel Antena 1, together with her entire team.
[8] These decisions came in the context of a controversial series of dismissals and resignations from the media trust at the beginning of 2014,[9] influenced by changes made by the then-newly appointed CEO of ProTV, Aleksandras Česnavičius, who was implementing a cost-saving strategy.
[10][11] The fourth season of the show was produced by an international team co-ordinated by Peter Majeský and Melanie Triebel, who had previously worked on German, Czech and Slovak television productions.
The first phase of the competition, the blind auditions, taped August 19–21 and 26–27, 2014 at the MediaPro Studios, Buftea,[16][17] began airing when the season premiered on September 16, 2014.
[24] After the blind auditions, each coach had fourteen contestants for the battle rounds, which aired from October 31 to November 14, 2014.