08. 11. 2005

CEKIC: TRANSFORMATION OF RTS

NOVI SAD, November 8, 2005 – Chairman of the Serbian Broadcast Agency Council Nenad Cekic said the broadcast field in Serbia is chaotic. Cekic also said the transformation of Radio Television Serbia into a public broadcast service is the priority of the Council, anticipating the process to be concluded by April 2006. He however discarded the objections to introduce TV subscription before the transformation of RTS into a public service saying the transformation had to be financed somehow. Cekic said one of the main aims of the Council was the allocation of national commercial frequencies, saying there would be only 5 of them. “There are currently 755 radio and television broadcasters in Serbia. That’s too much for the field like Serbian.”