Apart from being frequently exposed to excessively long advertisement blocks on television channels, viewers are also disturbed by loud commercials. Although the maximum allowed sound volume is 50 kHz, some of the commercials are no less than three times louder than that, according to research. Regardless of the fact that the Republic Broadcasting Agency (RRA) warned some of the broadcasters last year that they would be subject to "certain measures", many citizens have complained again to the RRA.
(Blic, NUNS, UNS, e-kapija, 20.08.2012)

The trade union of TV Mozaik announced today that their members' general strike would begin on September 3 at 12.00. The union decided to take this step because it has not yet received any response from the management to its demands
(Danas, 25.08.2012)

Immediately after TV Prva announced that it had canceled the appearance of the British band "The Prodigy", TV Pink said that it would broadcast an interview with the band. The war between two most powerful media companies is continuing!
(Informer, 25.08.2012)

The company Pink has been completely recovered and we don't have any problems with liquidity. We have paid all five remaining salaries to workers and completely closed the hole worth 40 million euros in our capital that appeared a year and a half ago during my absence. We have achieved this thanks to my personal funds – amounting to several million – and the sale of the water company, said Zeljko Mitrovic, the president of Pink Media Group, during a press conference. After 15 years, I am back at the position of the general director of Pink, he added, presenting the new senior management of the company.
(Blic, Kurir, Politika, E kapija, NUNS, 28.08.2012)

Privatization and the state-owned media

During his interview to Radio-Television Serbia (RTS), Aleksandar Vucic said that "the media has to be free, while everything else is not a media issue, but is related to anti-corruption laws". Complete truth about the sale of Politika will be known by the end of August, he pointed out.
(Politika, Blic, NUNS, UNS, Vecernje novosti, 19.08.2012)

The first deputy prime minister, Aleksandar Vucic, said that the general picture about the changes in the ownership structure of the newspapers Politika, Novosti and Dnevnik from Novi Sad is now known. Talking to journalists in the Embassy of Serbia in Moscow, he added that all the details would be known by the end of August. He pointed out that a "political party leviathan" was behind the affair, and that even diplomatic and consular representative offices were used in the interest of a political party.
(Blic, Informer, Kurir, Politika, 24.08.2012)