Radio Television of Republika Srpska (
Serbian
Serbian may refer to:
* someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe
* someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people
* Serbian language
* Serbian names
See also
*
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* Old Serbian (disambiguat ...
: ''Радио Телевизија Републике Српске'' / Radio Televizija Republike Srpske or RTRS) is the entity-level
public broadcaster which operates radio and television services in
Republika Srpska,
Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the official public broadcasting service that covers government activities in the Republic of Srpska.
Services
Founded in 1992, RTRS broadcasts a 24-hour television channel known as
Televizija Republike Srpske, and one radio station called
Radio Republike Srpske. There is also a unit known as Muzička Produkcija RTRS ("Music Production Section of RTRS", locally known as MP RTRS for short) which was established in 2011.
Headquarters of RTRS is located in
Banja Luka. Regional radio and TV studios are located in the following cities:
Prijedor,
Istočno Sarajevo,
Bijeljina,
Trebinje,
Doboj and
Brčko.
Radio and television programming is mainly produced in the
Serbian language (in one of two alphabets:
Cyrillic
, bg, кирилица , mk, кирилица , russian: кириллица , sr, ћирилица, uk, кирилиця
, fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs
, fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic
, fam3 = Phoenician
, fam4 = G ...
and
Latin alphabet. Since April 2013, RTRS stations are broadcast on
Eutelsat 16A (Team:Sat platform).
As of January 2015 RTRS consists of three organizational units:
*
Radio Republike Srpske – public radio service ()
*
Televizija Republike Srpske – public television channel ()
* Muzička Produkcija RTRS – music production section of RTRS ()
On 19 April 2015, RTRS started to broadcast a second channel called
RTRS PLUS.
History
The first experimental programs of Radio Banja Luka were broadcast on 25 January 1967. Regular programming began on 2 February 1967.
In May 1992 Radio Banja Luka became the information-technical center for Bosnian Serb broadcasting, whose main office was in Pale.
In December 1994, Serbian radio-television (Српска радио-телевизија (СРТ) / Srpska radio-televizija (SRT)) was founded, and programs from Banja Luka TV and radio studios were broadcast on demand. RTRS has a permanent staff of 100 journalists, editors, cameramen, musical collaborators and organizers.
See also
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List of radio stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
*
Televizija Republike Srpske
*
RTVFBiH
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BHRT
References
Sources
* Cokorilo, Radmila. Radio as media: Banja Luka: Faculty of Philosophy, 2009. .
External links
* (in Serbian)
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State TV used by pro-Russian leader for political aims in Republika Srpska ''Integrity Initiative'', October 2018
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Publicly funded broadcasters
Television stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mass media in Banja Luka
Television channels and stations established in 1992
Government-owned companies of Bosnia and Herzegovina