RTS 2
RTS 2 started airing in 1971,as being initially called Televizija Beograd 2 (TVB 2). It was the pioneer television station to broadcast in colour. Compared to RTS 1, the second public service channel has low viewership and ranks seventh concerning viewer ratings.
The channel's programming mainly features cultural, artistic, educational, and children's programs, as well as film and series programs. The public service channel airs the sessions of the Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.
RTS 2 holds an iconic show, Trezor, which sheds light on forgotten television shows and employs archival material.
The Government of Serbia amended the Law on Financing Public Media Services in October 2023 to partially fund RTS and Radio-televizija Vojvodine from the budget until 2024's end. A sum of 900 million dinars (approximately 8,21 million USD) is allocated for funding the essential operations of public services, identical to the previous year, and 20.3 million dinars (approximately 185,668 USD) is allocated for financing public service projects.
Audience Share
1.04%
Ownership Type
Public
Geographic Coverage
National
Content Type
Free Content
Media Companies / Groups
RTS
Ownership Structure
TV station RTS 2 is 100% owned by the Public Media Institution " Radio-televizija Srbije", whose formal founder is the Republic of Serbia.
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General Information
Founding Year
1971
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
A long-time journalist and editor of RTS. In addition to being the acting director of television, Cerović is also the editor of the RTS educational and scientific program. He has been in the scientific editorial office of this television since 1991. He is the author and editor of more than 200 shows, interviews and series of scientific research, documentaries and popular science genres. He participated in the biggest international archaeological film festivals.
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
Acting chief editor of the news programme. He started his journalistic career in Večernje novosti, and then worked in the weekly Vreme. He is known for reporting from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. He was the only Yugoslav correspondent in East Berlin at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Stefanović was first elected to the position of acting editor-in-chief of the news program in 2004. In April 2023, RTS opened a public competition for the selection of a new news program editor, but not a single application was received for that position.
Chief editor of the cultural and artistic programme. He is the author of numerous novels and short stories ("Sadržaj šupljine“, „Poslednja šansa“, „Feliks“, „Top je bio vreo“, „Sibir“, „Osama" ("Contents of the Hollow", "Last Chance", "Felix", "The Cannon Was Hot", "Siberia", "Loneliness"). Kecmanović wrote "The Scar of Cain" (Kainov ožiljak) with Dejan Stojiljković and "Nemanjići", and with the historian Predrag Marković the book "Tito, afterword" (Tito, pogovor)). He is one of the authors of the scripts for the TV series “Senke nad Balkanom“ ("Shadows over the Balkans") and "Žigosani". Kecmanović's works have been adapted for film, television and theatre, and at one time he publicly criticized the film version of his novel "The Cannon Was Hot" directed by Slobodan Skerlić.
Sandra Perović
Acting chief editor of the educational programme. She is the editor of the family magazine "Sve boje života", which has been broadcast on RTS for years.
Affiliated Interests other important people
Director of BU - TV program
Director of BU Television Technical Engineering
Director of BU Production
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Financial Information
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Further Information
Meta Data
RTS does not publish 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 directors of RTS television and the management people in the business units that are part of the television, and these data date mainly from the time of their election to their positions in 2015.
