Radio Television of Serbia ( Radio Televizija Srbije ) is official radio and television broadcaster of Serbia. Its abbreviation is RTS, and channels are named RTS 1, RTS 2 etc. Sometimes, the TLA PTC is used to refer to it due to the Cyrillic spelling (Радио-телевизија Србије). Formerly, it was the Radio Television of Belgrade .

=History=

1929 is considered to be the year of foundation of RTS. The formation of RTS was the result of the decision of republican executive council on 13.02.1958.

The first news announcer in 1929 was Jelena Biblija. She was reading the news over radio to rare owners of radios in that time.

After WWII, the government of new Yugoslavia in 1956. decided to give money for building TV network in country.

23 August of 1958 was the date of first broadcast. It was Dnevnik news programme. The first people to appear on the new TV station were Miloje Orlovi, Branislav Surutka, Olga Nadj, Olivera ivkovi and Vera Milovanovi.

From 1961 RTS had equipment for delay airing.

The first TV receivers were made in Yugoslavia by RR, Cajevac and RIZ.

In 1970 the whole of Serbia was covered with TV signal and number of receivers raised to over 1800000.

Every republic of former Yugoslavia had its own TV station which were named after capital cities (RTB,RTZ,RTNS...).

There were no private stations until the 1990s.

RTS station was bombed on 23.4 1999 during the NATO aggression of Yugoslavia, when sixteen people were killed.

This TV station was controlled by Slobodan Miloevi until 5.October 2000. when people got into the building and burned one part of it. After that RTS aired under the name Nova RTS (New RTS) for a few months as symbol that it will never be device of manipulation again.

=Programmes=

*RTS 1 (prvi program TV Beograd) is mostly covered with news and domestic production. *RTS 2 (drugi program TV Beograd) is mostly covered with older domestic and foreign tv shows (called RTJ-RadioTelevizija Jugoslavije for some time) *RTS 3 (trei kanal RTS) is music and sports channel or 3. Kanal *Studio B is a variety channel, that was taken over by Milosevic in the early 1990s (until 2000)while it was an independent channel. For a time it was called RTS4. Although technically belonging to RTS, all programming is decided by the city of Belgrade. *TV NS 1 (TV Novi Sad) is the station in Novi Sad. *TV NS 2 (drugi program TV Novi Sad) is the 2nd station in Novi Sad, during half the day it broadcasts the same program as NS 1, and then in afternoon turns to broadcasts in other languages (mostly Hungarian). *RTS Satelit the satellite service. *TVP (TV Pritina) this is a former state owned station in Pritina, that hasn t been broadcasting since the start of nato bombing in the Kosovo War.

RTS is planning to restart TVP as 2 channels (1 broadcasting in Albanian, and the other broadcasting in Serbian and other minority languages). As well RTS says that they would like to create more stations, including one in Ni, and to reforming NS 2.

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