Radio Television of Republika Srpska ( Serbian: ''Радио Телевизија Републике Српске'' / Radio Televizija Republike Srpske or RTRS) is the entity-level

public broadcaster Public broadcasting involves radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing ...

which operates radio and television services in

Republika Srpska Republika Srpska ( sr-Cyrl, Република Српска, lit=Serb Republic, also known as Republic of Srpska, ) is one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is locat ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...

. 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 Televizija Republike Srpske ( Cyrillic: Телевизија Републике Српске, "Television of Republika Srpska"; locally known just as RTRS (РТРС)) is a Bosnian entity level public mainstream TV channel operated by RTRS. T ...

, and one radio station called

Radio Republike Srpske Radio Republike Srpske or Radio RS is the entity-level public radio channel operated by Radio Televizija Republike Srpske (RTRS). Its headquarters are located in Banja Luka. This radio station broadcasts a variety of programs, including news, m ...

. 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 Banja Luka ( sr-Cyrl, Бања Лука, ) or Banjaluka ( sr-Cyrl, Бањалука, ) is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest city of Republika Srpska. Banja Luka is also the ''de facto'' capital of this entity. I ...

. Regional radio and TV studios are located in the following cities:

Prijedor Prijedor ( sr-cyrl, Приједор, ) is a city and municipality located in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 89,397 inhabitants within its administrative limits. Prijedor is situated in ...

Istočno Sarajevo Istočno Sarajevo ( sr-cyr, Источно Сарајево, lit. "East Sarajevo") is the ''de jure'' capital city of Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It consists of a few suburban areas of pre-war Sarajevo which are now includ ...

Bijeljina Bijeljina ( sr-cyrl, Бијељина) is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the provincial center of Semberija, a geographic region in the country's northeast. Administratively, Bijeljina is part of the Republika Srpska ...

Trebinje Trebinje ( sr-Cyrl, Требиње, ) is a city and municipality located in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the southernmost city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is situated on the banks of Trebišnjica river in the r ...

Doboj Doboj ( sr-cyrl, Добој, ) is a city located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the banks of Bosna river, in the northern region of the Republika Srpska. As of 2013, it has a population of 71,441 ...

and

Brčko Brčko ( sr-cyrl, Брчко, ) is a city and the administrative seat of Brčko District, in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lies on the banks of Sava river across from Croatia. As of 2013, it has a population of 39,893 inhabitants. De jure, ...

. Radio and television programming is mainly produced in the

Serbian language Serbian (, ) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. It is the official and national language of Serbia, one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina and co-official in Montenegro and K ...

(in one of two alphabets: Cyrillic and

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

alphabet. Since April 2013, RTRS stations are broadcast on

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(Team:Sat platform). As of January 2015 RTRS consists of three organizational units: *

– public radio service () *

– 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 RTRS PLUS ( Cyrillic: РТРС ПЛУС) is a Bosnian public cable TV channel operated by RTRS. The program is broadcast on a daily basis from RTRS headquarters located in Banja Luka. The radio and television program is mainly produced in Serb ...

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.

References

Sources

* Cokorilo, Radmila. Radio as media: Banja Luka: Faculty of Philosophy, 2009. .

External links

* (in Serbian) * *
State TV used by pro-Russian leader for political aims in Republika Srpska
''Integrity Initiative'', October 2018 {{Authority control 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

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