RTV Studio B

RTV Studio B, more often called Studio B (Serbian Cyrillic: Студио Б), is a radio and television broadcaster in Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

, Serbia

Serbia

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, which was the first broadcast station outside the national electronic media system.

Background

RTV Studio B broadcasts in a radius of 100 km around Belgrade, covering an area in which there are three million viewers. One notable program was Beograde dobro jutro, "Good Morning, Belgrade", which was launched in 1975.

History

Studio B was launched as a radio station in 1970 by the journalists from the Borba

Borba (newspaper)

Borba is a Serbian newspaper, formerly the official newspaper of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia...

 group. In 1972, it became a corporation owned by Belgrade's Municipal Council. From 1975, Duško Radović

Duško Radović

Dušan "Duško" Radović was a Serbian children's writer, poet, journalist, aphorist and TV editor.He was known for his poetry , books, television screenplays, and for his aphorisms....

was the editor of Studio B. It became independent in April 1991, but this was reversed by a decision of the corporate court on 15 February 1996. In October 1997, Zoran Ostojic was removed from the post of director and Lila Radonjic from the post of editor-in-chief of Studio B, and this was opposed by a demonstration. In May 2000, Studio B was again taken over.

External links

• RTV Studio B