Yugoslav Radio Television
Yugoslav Radio Television was the national public broadcasting system in the SFR Yugoslavia. It consisted of eight subnational radio and television broadcast centers with each one headquartered in one of the six constituent republics and two autonomous provinces of Yugoslavia.
History
JRT was one of the founding members of the European Broadcasting Union and the SFR Yugoslavia was the only socialist country among its founding members.Among other activities, it organized the Yugoslavian qualifier for the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcast both of events for the Yugoslav audience. JRT's news program, TV Dnevnik, broadcasts on all stations today in six countries.
Each television center created its own programming independently, and some of them operated several channels. The system dissolved during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s when most republics became independent countries. As a result, the once subnational broadcasting centers became public broadcasters of the newly independent states, with altered names:
Federal unit | HQ | Established as | TV launch | Present-day broadcaster |
SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo | RTV Sarajevo | 1969 | Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
SR Croatia | Zagreb | RTV Zagreb | 1956 | Croatian Radiotelevision |
SR Macedonia | Skopje | RTV Skopje | 1964 | Macedonian Radio-Television |
SR Montenegro | Titograd | RTV Titograd | 1971 | Radio Television of Montenegro |
SR Serbia | Belgrade | RTV Belgrade | 1958 | Radio Television of Serbia |
SR Slovenia | Ljubljana | RTV Ljubljana | 1958 | Radio-Television Slovenia |
SAP Kosovo | Pristina | RTV Pristina | 1975 | Radio Television of Kosovo |
SAP Vojvodina | Novi Sad | RTV Novi Sad | 1975 | Radio Television of Vojvodina |
Frequencies
JRT TV Frequencies:- 1956. Zagreb 1
- 1958. Beograd 1
- 1958. Ljubljana 1
- 1964. Skopje 1
- 1969. Sarajevo 1
- 1970. Ljubljana 2
- 1971. Koper – Capodistria
- 1971. Titograd
- 1971. Beograd 2
- 1972. Zagreb 2
- 1975. Novi Sad
- 1975. Priština
- 1977. Sarajevo 2
- 1978. Skopje 2
- 1979. Split
- 1988. Zagreb 3, satellite program relays ; full program commenced in 1989 as Z3
- 1989. Beograd 3K, same as Zagreb 3; full program from July 1989
- 1989. 3P Novi Sad
- 1989. Sarajevo 3, same as Beograd 3K and Zagreb 3
- 1991. Novi Sad Plus
- 1991. Skopje 3, same as Beograd 3K and Zagreb 3
- 1991. Titograd 3K, same as all third channels mentioned