Serbia: INTERNATIONAL RADIO SERBIA MARKING ITS 75TH ANNIVERSARY

07.03.2011.

The director and editor in chief of International Radio Serbia (Radio Yugoslavia), Milorad Vujović, expressed hope at a round table marking the 75th anniversary of International Radio Serbia (Radio Yugoslavia) that the media strategy to be adopted by the Ministry of Culture and Information would point to possible legal frameworks for status solutions in media. Although Serbia is lagging a decade behind developed countries in terms of technology, programme digitalization, which awaits radio signals as well, is an investment in future and an opportunity for broadcasters to survive and promote their business, he said. He stressed that the government is bound by the Law on Electronic Telecommunications to, before the transfer of analogous TV broadcasting to the digital one is completed, established the method of the use of the remaining bandwidth of radio frequencies intended for terrestrial digital radio diffusion. The state secretary in the Ministry of Culture, Snežana Stojanović Plavšić, said that the Ministry is aware of its obligation to, at the moment when work on a media strategy has begun, fully envisage the significance of this radio and the possibility of adaptation to modern tendencies. International Radio Serbia (Radio Yugoslavia) is the only short-wave radio station in Serbia and one of the 100 in the world. The radio was founded on 8 March 1936, as Radio Yugoslavia, and broadcasts programmes in 12 languages abroad and for diaspora, on short waves, via the satellite and the Internet.

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