Employees of TV Avala have stopped broadcasting the station's programme and all their regular activities because of the employer's failure to pay salaries to employees. Only the first part of the July salary has been paid to employees to this day, while the part-time employees have received their June wages, which means that they are owed four and a half and five salaries, respectively, says the statement signed by "TV Avala Employees".
(Beta, BizLife, RTS, blic.rs, UNS, 22.12.2012, Blic, Danas, NUNS, UNS, Pravda, Politika, Press, Alo!, 23.12.2011)

The Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) supports the protest of the employees and part-time employees of TV Avala who are protesting against the employer's failure to pay salaries. UNS expects that the owners of TV Avala will immediately pay the salaries.
(UNS, 22.12.2011)

The Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) supports the full-time and part-time employees of TV Avala who have stopped broadcasting the station's programme. NUNS calls on the owner of TV Avala to immediately respond to justified demands of journalists and other media workers of the company.
(NUNS, 23.12.2011, Pravda, Kurir, 24.12.2011)

The management of TV Avala said in the TV station's programme that no programmes would be aired live until further notice. It also said that the owners and the Managing Board were fully informed about the situation and that it was expected that the problem would be solved very soon. The management also said that "it is ironic that this situation developed in the year during which TV Avala has achieved the best business results in its history and strengthened its reputation with the viewers". "At this moment, the business decision about the further functioning of the TV station has to be made by the owners", concludes the statement.
(rts.rs, 22.12.2011., Politika, 23.12.2011)

The employees of the Belgrade television station TV Avala, who have been striking for seven days because of unpaid salaries, will continue their strike since the station's owners have not contacted them, while the Managing Board has not voiced any opinion about their demands. They said that they would continue to honor the minimal work process agreed with the general manager, Bojana Lekic.
(Beta, Danas, NUNS, 29.12.2011)

Representatives of the Striking Board of TV Avala met with four members of the Managing Board and owners of the TV station, which has a nation-wide frequency. They were informed that they could receive one salary before 31 December, out of four and a half late salaries, while the second salary would be paid in January. Payment of salaries should be stabilized and brought back to normal as of April next year. The president of the Journalists' Union of Serbia, Dragana Cabarkapa, said that the trade union would offer its assistance to the strikers.
(Politika, UNS, 30.12.2011)

Representatives of the Independent Trade Union of Radio Cacak and the local newspaper Cacanski Glas said that their employer had not paid salaries for the last six months. "We will lose our health insurance next year", said Aleksandar Maksimovic, journalist for Radio Cacak and the president of the Independent Trade Union. Maksimovic claims that the employees have been deceived several times by their employer, who promised them that salaries would be paid on time. At the same time, the journalists are angered by the position taken by the Privatization Agency, which is protecting the media owner who has obviously violated the contract on privatization. Radio Cacak was privatized in December 2009 and officially bought by a high school student Milos Bojovic, who was 18 at the time. Before the privatization, the company was making good profit, as it does today. However, the biggest problem is the fact that the company is burdened by debt.
(Pravda, Press, Vecernje Novosti - Serbia, UNS, NUNS, 22.12.2011)

In October of this year, broadcasters committed almost ten times less violations of the Law on Advertising than in October 2010, said the Republic Broadcasting Agency (RRA) to the daily newspaper Danas. According to their information, TV stations Pink, B92, both channels of Radio-Television Serbia, Avala, Prva and Happy broke the law on 114 occasions in this period, while in the same period of the last year they committed no less than 1,099 such violations. The only one of the national broadcasters who has increased the number of violations in comparison with the previous year is TV Avala. The station committed six violations of the Law in October 2010 and 15 violations in October 2011.
(Danas, Politika, NUNS, RRA, 22.12.2011)

Sheiks from the Saudi Arabia intend to buy the newspaper Pobjeda from Montenegro via their man, Fahrudin Radoncic, the owner of the newspaper Dnevni Avaz. They are also interested in the Serbian media, claims Kurir's source from the Bosnian government. Their main goal is to strengthen their political and cultural influence in all parts of the Balkans. Radoncic was one of the key players in bringing TV Al-Jazeera to the Balkans. His aim is clear – he wants to buy as many media outlets as cheaply as possible, dismiss the "unneeded" journalists and hire his people from Sarajevo to edit Serbian media outlets, claims the unnamed source. On 14 December, during his appearance in the TV programme "Between Two Fires" ("Izmedju dve vatre") on TV B92, the executive editor of Kurir, Nebojsa Rodic, said that the owner of Avaz had begun buying media outlets in the Balkans.
(Kurir, UNS, 30.12.2011)

The Media Association, which brings together the major publishers in Serbia, demands that the public interest be maximally protected in the process of change of the ownership structure, and immediate examination of suspected irregularities in the attempt of sale of ownerships shares in Politika, Vecernje Novosti and Dnevnik from Novi Sad.
(Beta, NDNV, 30.12.2011)

After the privatization of local media outlets in Cacak and Gornji Milanovac, more than 40 journalists, photojournalists and cameramen have found jobs in other professional areas, while those with less luck have been hired by other media outlets. The newspaper Takovske Novine, which has been published in Gornji Milanovac for half a decade, is probably the only successful example of a successful privatization of a local print media outlet. Five years ago, a consortium of employees bought the newspaper for 199,000 dinars and their unbiased editorial policy has succeeded in attracting readers.
(Pravda, NUNS, 23.12.2011)

While I was fighting for my life in the hospital, Lola and Zlatko Krmpotic were trying to sell my company, said Zeljko Mitrovic to the investigative judge. He also said that he was in possession of reliable information that they had attempted to sell stocks and companies owned by him – claims the source of Kurir from the Higher Court.
(Kurir, NUNS, 24.12.2011)