Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006

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Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006Television and radio broadcasting licenses for the territory of Vojvodinaand Belgrade were allocated on April 19 th , 2006. 518 Television frequencylicenses were allocated to: TV Pink, TV B92, TV Focus, TV Avala and TVKosava/Hepi (national coverage), and TV Super from Subotica (Vojvodinacoverage). 519 Radio frequency licenses were allocated to: Radio B92, RadioS, Radio Focus, Radio Roadstar and Radio Index (national coverage); nota single radio station had applied for the Vojvodina coverage, which iswhy the competition would be re-ran. 520 Appeals were announced by TVBK Telecom, TV 5 from Nis and the RTL. 521 After the decision had beenannounced, TV BK launched a serious public campaign, through which itfiercely criticized the Agency’s decision. 522Permits for Belgrade were awarded on July 4 th , 2006. 523 The permits werereceived by TV stations: Art, Enter, SOS, Metropolis, Plus and Studio B, aswell as 14 radio stations. 524518 Decision on the allocation of radio and television broadcasting frequencies, see on the Agency’s web site: http://www.rra.org.yu/srpski/odluka-dozvole.pdf, visited on November 26 th , 2006519 Ibid520 Ibid521 Allocation of frequencies has been decided, B92, April 21 st , 2006, see the B92’s web site: http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2006&mm=04&dd=21&nav_category=12&nav_id=195534, visited on November 26 th ,2006522 A fragment of this campaign can be seen on the BK Telecom’s website: http://www.bktv.com/forum/,visited on November 27 th , 2006523 The decision to award permits for the Belgrade region is available on the website: http://www.rra.org.yu/srpski/odluka-bg.htm, visited on November 26 th , 2006524 Ibid106
Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006Closing down MediaIn the evening of April the Agency issued a decision on suspension of TVBK Telecom, after a closed session with the station’s editor-in-chief, MilomirMaric. 525 The Agency then explained its decision as having been made afterTV BK Telecom’s repeatedly illicit behavior that followed the warning in2004. 526 TV BK was warned for having fostered rather biased reporting infavor of the presidential candidate Bogoljub Karic. 527 The Agency’s decisionwas enforced in the night between April 25 th and 26 th , when the Agency’sofficial, with the assistance of the police, interrupted the broadcasting ofTV BK’s program from the transmitter and tried to enter the televisionpremises. 528 The attempt was prevented by the TV BK’s employees andcitizens who gathered in the meantime. The police withdrew after severalhours. 529 The following day, April 26 th , all cable distributors were ordered tostop broadcasting TV BK’s program, which they obeyed; 530 all transmittersbelonging or used by this television station were turned off, 531 as the AgencyCouncil’s President, Nenad Cekic, warned that those who eventually acceptto broadcast the TV BK’s program would be punished. 532 BK televisionwas thus shut down, although it refused the Agency’s formal decision. 533All journalists’ and broadcasters’ associations have condemned this wayof banning and shutting down of a television station, and all seriouslycondemned the police’s late-night intervention and its attempted forcibleentry on the TV BK’s premises. 534 The Government of the Republic ofSerbia did not issue any press release, nor did it publicly react to the tenderprocedure,allocation of frequencies or the “BK case”. 535 Instead, recordedwere only isolated incidents of some of the ministers voicing their supportto the Agency’s work 536 or fiercely condemning its decisions. 537525 Police intervenes in the BK, program interrupted, B92, April 25 th , 2006, see on B92 website: http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?nav_category=12&dd=25&mm=4&yyyy=2006, visited on November 27 th , 2006526 A Decision on the Suspension of BK Telecom’s License, see the Agency’s web site: http://www.rra.org.yu/srpski/odlukaBK.pdf, visited on November 27 th , 2006527 Ibid528 See above under 525529 Ibid530 Most of Serbia left without BK’s signal, B92, April 26 th , 2006, see B92’s website: http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?nav_category=12&dd=26&mm=4&yyyy=2006, visited on November 27 th , 2006531 Ibid532 Ibid533 Ibid534 TV BK: re-examination and petition, B92, April 27 th , 2006, see B92’s website: http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2006&mm=04&dd=27&nav_category=11&nav_id=196029,visited on November 27 th , 2006535 All Government’s press releases can be found at the Government’s website: http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/vesti/sekcija.php?id=250, visited on November 27 th , 2006536 Minister Mladjan Dinkic, see above under 534537 Minister Dragan Kojadinovic, see above under 534107
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