Media-related news

TV Pink announced no less than 32 new programmes yesterday which are scheduled to appear in the autumn programme schedule. Its highlights are the new formats like "The First Cook of Serbia", quiz "Lie If You Dare" hosted by Branka Nevistic, show "Devil's Dinner" hosted by Sladjana Slavkovic, talk-show "Pink Target" authored by Aleksandra Jeftanovic, top list "One Hundred" hosted by Bane Tomasevic, and "VIP Room" hosted by Bosko Jakovljevic. Zeljko Mitrovic said that TV Pink will strive to win the urban audience concentrated in big cities. Recording of the domestic series by Dragoslav Lazic, "Zvezdara", will begin mid-October. The first series will have 48 episodes.
(Blic, Kurir, NUNS, 31.08.2012, Politika, 01.09.2012)

Yugoslavian Radio-Television (JRT) began test broadcasting of programme via the Internet. The station was founded by a group of enthusiasts who wish to "revive at least a part of the destroyed Yugoslavia". The aim of the station is to connect the largest regional centers – Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Pristina, Beograd, Zagreb, Podgorica, Skoplje and Novi Sad – and create a single service that would offer citizens timely, objective, concise and verified information.
(Fonet, NUNS, 31.08.2012, Blic, Alo!, Danas, 01.09.2012, FoNet, Politika, UNS, 05.09.2012)

An educational, six-episode series entitled "On Gender Equality", broadcast on the Second Channel of Radio-Television Serbia (RTS), will discuss equality and inequality of men and women in society.
(Danas, 10.09.2012)

Readers and everyone else who follow the Twitter account of the weekly magazine NIN will have a rare opportunity to join its editorial team. Beginning with the next issue, NIN will comment on the issues covered by the magazine together with its readers and Twitter followers each Friday between 12.00 and 12.30. The discussion will be "aired live" on Twitter.
(24 sata, 12.09.2012, Blic, NUNS, 13.09.2012)

Before the end of September, Serbia and the region will have their own VH1 channel. The popular music channel will broadcast domestic music videos for the first time. "The idea behind the launch of the channel was to advance the domestic music scene. We will broadcast old and new music videos because we want to return music back to our television channels", says Nikola Jovanovic, the music editor of MTV Television, which owns VH1.
(Blic, e-kapija, 13.09.2012)

As of this evening, Misa Stojiljkovic, a journalist with the media company B92, will host the News aired on this channel. He had already worked as a news presenter between 2006 and 2008. In his words: "Radio B92 has already implemented a new and ambitious autumn programme schedule, while the television channel has began preparations for the new programme. Our webpage is getting new content all the time. The show 'Kaziprst', hosted by Suzana Trninic, has been launched again. Olja Beckovic and Natasa Odalovic have returned to television with their programmes. New episodes of 'The Insider' will begin airing on 24 September. Ljubica Gojgic and Jugoslav Cosic are also preparing new projects."
(Politika, NUNS, 14.09.2012)