Radio Beograd 1
Radio Beograd is one of the oldest electronic media in Europe. Founded in 1924 as Radio Rakovica, it started broadcasting six months after Radio Paris and Vienna. Today, it is the fourth most listened to radio station in Serbia, with the highest number of listeners between five and seven in the morning. The content of Radio Beograd 1 is mainly informative, with news every hour. The station is also known for producing cultural programmes.
With a rich informative programme and political broadcasts, Radio Belgrade is currently the only radio station with a national frequency that focuses on informative content. The editorial policy of this radio gives more space for critical debates on issues not found in other state or government-controlled media, which distinguishes it from the RTS television programme.
This radio started broadcasting its programmes on a digital signal in November 2018, completing the process of digitisation of public services in Serbia.
Audience Share
5.07%
Ownership Type
Public
Geographic Coverage
National
Content Type
Free content (subscription for public media services is 299 RSD in 2023)
Media Companies / Groups
RTS
Ownership Structure
Radio Beograd is 100% owned by the Public Media Institution "Radio-televizija Srbije", whose formal founder is the Republic of Serbia.
Individual Owner
General Information
Founding Year
1924
Affiliated Interests Founder
RTS and Radio - televizija Vojvodine (RTV) together form the system of public media institutions of Serbia.
Both are founded by the Republic of Serbia, as the public media service. Radio-televizija Srbije has around 2,500 employees working on four television channels, four radio stations and a portal. RTS is the successor of the oldest TV and radio channels in Serbia. Radio started broadcasting as Radio Belgrade in 1924, while the first TV station, TV Belgrade, started broadcasting in 1956. The Law on Public Media Services, which regulates the management of RTS, was adopted in 2014. RTS, like RTV Vojvodina (PBS for the region of Vojvodina), has no formal owners but is managed by a general manager and a nine-member Board of Directors. The programme council, with 15 members, should function as an advisory body and represent the interests of the public. The Council of REM (Regulatory Body for Electronic Media) elects nine members of the board of directors for a period of five years after a public competition. The Board of Directors elects the General Manager and members of the Program Council on the proposal of the Parliamentary Committee for Culture and Information. The professional public usually criticises the elections of RTS leadership members due to the connection of certain members with the governing party.
Radio engineer Robert Vege and several others including Djura Milutinovic, Milos D. Stanojevic, Slavko Boksan, dr. Emer Tartalja, Dusan Grubic, Djulijus Hanau, Stevan Karamata, Milutin Stevanovic and lawyer Zafir Stankovic formed Radio joint-stock company in 1924 which broadcasted as Radio Rakovica at first.
Affiliated Interests Ceo
was elected as radio manager by the Board of Directors of RTS in October 2017 after the dismissal of Milivoje Mihajlović. In the announcement of RTS regarding the election of Nedić to the position of director of this radio, it is stated that he is a long-standing, respected journalist and editor of Radio Belgrade and RTS with rich managerial experience in various editorial offices and media houses. Daily Danas states that Nedić worked in the information service of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce until a few years ago. Nedić also worked at the former BK Television as editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief.
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
started his career as a journalist and presenter at Radio Belgrade and later trained in the RTS television programme, according to the press release of the Board of Directors of RTS on the occasion of the election of Bošković to the position of editor of the First Program of Radio Beograd. Bošković was once employed in the media service of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, reports the newspaper Danas and adds that during the 1990s, he ran the RTS Dnevnik (Journal).
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Financial Information
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RTS does not show financial data for each media that operates within its composition, but provides summary data for the entire business operation. The data of the Agency for Business Registers for the year 2022 show that the total business income of RTS was about 14 billion dinars (more precisely, 14,063,932,000) and that this company operated with a loss of slightly more than 38 million dinars.
Data from the financial statement from 2021, which RTS published on its website, show that in that year the total income was 13.6 billion dinars, and most of that money (10.2 billion dinars) is the fee for public media services. Income from marketing and commercial activities in 2021 amounted to 3 billion dinars.
