Radio Beograd 202
Radio Beograd 202 was launched in 1969 as the fourth programme of the then Radio Beograd. Today, this radio station is part of the Public Media Institution "Radio-televizija Srbije" (RTS). It represents an alternative radio programme focusing on news, service information, pop and rock music and communication with the audience (via the Internet and SMS messages). The station often broadcasts music that cannot be heard on other popular radio stations, promoting independent artists and producers. The daytime programme usually deals with current social and political events, while the afternoon programme deals with popular culture.
Audience Share
3.91%
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
1969
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.
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 said 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 her professional career at Radio 202. Still, her name remains associated with Radio B92, of which she is one of the founders, together with Veran Matić. She was a journalist and editor of the news programme at B92 Television. She continued her career in advisory positions: as a special advisor to Mlađan Dinkić in the Government of Serbia, in the Ministry of Labour and Employment of Slobodan Lalović, but also as an advisor to two ministers of economy, Mlađan Dinkić and Saša Radulović.
Kuburović was also a member of the Board of Directors of RTS from 2006 to 2016. Daily Danas states that as a member of the Board of Directors of RTS, she is partly responsible for the election of Dragan Bujošević to the position of director of this company in 2015.
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Financial Information
Revenue (in Mill. $)
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Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
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Advertising (in % of total funding)
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Market Share
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Further Information
Meta Data
RTS does not have publicly available 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.
There is little information in the public domain about the director and editor-in-chief of Radio Belgrade 202, and that information dates mainly from the time of their election to their positions in 2017 and 2018.
