Media-related news

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(ASMEDI Newsletter, September 2012)

Grand Production and its top management – Sasa Popovic, Brena and Boba Zivojinovic – have been negotiating for two months on the takeover of TV Avala from its present owners: Danko Djunic, Johannes Werner Krauss and Zeljko Mitrovic. The Republic Broadcasting Agency (RRA) has extended the broadcasting license of TV Avala until the end of October. If the TV station does not pay the remaining debt to RRA, as well as the Republic Agency for Electronic Communication (RATEL) and ET, it might lose its broadcasting license and become available for sale as of April next year, when the RRA will again allocate frequencies to national broadcasters.
(Blic, 19.09.2012,E-kapija, 20.09.2012)

The newly appointed acting director of the public company Radio Sid, Nikola Vidic, says that the company, which has a regional frequency, plans to increase the number of channels in its cable distribution system, offer internet services and launch its own TV programme. In order to achieve these plans, it is necessary to take a loan in the amount of around 10 million dinars. The Municipal Council was asked to increase the KDS monthly fee from 603 dinars to 750 dinars. The council will decide on this issue on Tuesday. Vidic points out that the current price results in a loss of around 110 dinars per subscriber.
(Vecernje novosti – Vojvodina, 22.09.2012)

Instead of the channel C37, citizens will be able to watch the programme of the media company at the channel S30 and the frequency of 375.25 MHz, NTV has announced. Frequencies with other cable providers have not been changed.
(Juzne vesti, 25.09.2012)

Digitalization

The governor of the National Bank of Serbia (NBS), Jorgovanka Tabakovic, and the general director of the Public Company "The Official Gazette" ("Sluzbeni Glasnik"), Slobodan Gavrilovic, will sign on September 20 a contract on cooperation on the project of digitalization of the Serbian official bulletin, announced NBS on Tuesday.
(Tanjug, E-kapija, 18.09.2012)