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Published: 15 January 2010

National Co-ordinator José Arantes
International Affairs and Archive Director, RTP

Portugal
RTP

José Arantes

International Affairs and Archive Director
tel: +351 217 947 479

RTP – Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
website: www.rtp.pt 

RTP is the Portuguese public service broadcaster for Radio, TV and Multimedia.

Founded in 1957, the RTP is still fully owned by the Portuguese State and mainly financed through state budget transfers under (1) a public service contract, (2) an universal license fee and (3) some commercial income generated by TV advertising on RTP channel 1. Complimentary sources of income are irrelevant.
Total combined annual income and expenditure: circa 300 million Euros. Number of RTP permanent employees (TV, Radio and Multimedia, plus all the common administrative and management services): circa 2.250.

The company is affiliated and / or a partner to a number of international organisations, like CIRCOM, EBU, COPEAM, URTI, OTI, EURONEWS, just to name the most important.

Currently RTP produces and broadcasts 8 different television channels, apart from 7 radio channels (and a few more thematic channels on the IP platform), serving a wide array of audiences both in Portugal and abroad.

2 free to air channels: RTP1 – the main TV Public Service Channel, featuring quality entertainment, news and sports; RTP2 – knowledge, culture and youth TV channel
2 thematic cable channels: RTPN – 24 hours news; RTP Memoria – entertainment channel based on the contents of the RTP video archives
2 regional channels: RTP Madeira – produced and broadcasted in the Madeira islands; RTP Açores - produced and broadcasted in the Azores islands
2 international channels: RTP International – Portuguese programming broadcast globally to 201 million Portuguese speakers worldwide; RTP Africa – a channel dedicated to the Portuguese Speaking African audiences

RTP´s channels have significant importance in the Portuguese audiovisual panorama, with RTP1 and RTP2 reaching a combined share of 30 percent plus of TV audience.

RTP also has a strong international presence, with offices in 12 countries (São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola, Belgium, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland and USA. Our international channels cover five continents with tailored broadcasts for each continent and are distributed via cable and Direct to Home Satellite to more than 20 million households.

Within the Radio universe, RTP - Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A. operates through the brand mark RDP - Radiodifusão Portuguesa. For this purpose, there are 7 radio channels, such as “Antena 1” (Information and generalist music), “Antena 2” (classic music) and “ Antena 3” (a youth channel). It has also three other radio channels operating in the islands of Madeira and in the Azores (through RTP Madeira and RTP Açores), as well as another two radio channels catered to the Portuguese speaking communities worldwide (RDP Africa and RDP International).

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RTS - Serbian Broadcasting Corporation
website: www.rts.rs
National Co-ordinator Milorad Lapčević

Serbia
RTS

Milorad Lapčević

International Relations Dept.
Takovska 10
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
tel: +381 11 321 1653
fax: +381 11 321 1650

RTS-Serbian Broadcasting Corporation has the task of informing, educating and entertaining, but at the same time has a special role in the social, cultural and political life of Serbia.
Three television programmes (24 hour programme): Channel 1, Channel 2 and Digital Channel.
Four radio programmes (24 hour programme), Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 3 and Belgrade 202.
With its six programmes – four radio and three television –  satellite programme, a wide network of regional corresponding centres, Teletext and Internet editions, music production (folk, pop music, jazz, symphonic orchestra, choirs and  children choir Kolibri), music production (PGP), publishing, research and documentation centre, RTS has grown into an important establishment of Serbian culture.

TELEVISION

Channel 1

Distinctive public service programme intended for the widest audience with high quality content, providing a choice of different popular genres of national significance, reflecting the social, cultural and national diversity in the Republic. This Channel broadcasts daily news  programme, current affairs, debates, a majority of feature and entertainment programmes, with a significant share of domestic production. Also present are programmes treating in a popular way aspects in the domain of science, culture, alongside popular children programmes and top level sport events.  

Ratings: From 2006 RTS Channel 1 is continously the most viewed Serbian television.

Channel 2

The task of this programme is to be a channel of innovation, aiming at the auditorium interested in intelligent, provocative, creative and innovative programmes. The aim of this programme is to ascend the essential interest of the auditorium. Its presents high quality content of educative, documentary, science, feature, children and sport programme and attends new types and genres of specialized thematic programmes.

RTS Digital

RTS-Serbian Broadcasting Corporation has started broadcasting experimental digital signal from 2005 and regular digital broadcasting from November 26th 2008.on RTS Digital, an experimental culture and art programme. This is our first thematical programme and the only culture and art programme in this part of Europe. Besides excellent foreign music programmes broadcast premiere on the territory of Serbia, the admirers of classic and jazz music can enjoy domestic repertoire, live concert broadcast of the RTS Symphonic orchestra, Big band, as well as best recordings of the RTS programme archive. Besides music, film and documentary programmes RTS on its first digital channel broadcasts educational, school and science programmes in the culture domain. Amongs them distinguish programmes about the origin of civilization, history of arhitecture, cultural heritage and development of contemporaty music and film.

RTS Satellite

Intended for our viewers living abroad, of multigenre character consisting of the best programmes from Channel 1 and Channel 2 at the same time has the task of being current, informs, advises of business and all other relevant infomation of interest to our citizens living abroad. The task of this programme is to provide a credible image of events in the homeland, informing them of the possibility of returning, preparing special culture, entertainment, business programmes as well as providing relevant transmission of sport events. The problem is that sport and film licence programmes can't be transmissed by satellite as the cost of such transmission is too high. Besides Europe starting January 1st 2010 Australia and North America  are covered with our signal.

RTS Internet

According to the guidlines of EBU the task of public broadcasting services is to evolve from mono to multimedia organizations, RTS in order to broaden the offer of programme  content is furhermore working on the application of the latest technologies in the Internet domain. RTS on Internet combines all actual Internet options (text, graphic, audio and video streaming). Visitors of the site can follow up TV and radio programmes by Internet, which is of special  importantance for parts of the World without satellite signal coverage.

RTS employs 3.390 altogether and has a network coverage of 95% terrirory of Serbia with 8,5 million inhabitants.

RTS regional corresponding centres:

RTV - Radio Television of Vojvodina
website: www.rtv.rs
National Co-ordinator Maja Smiljanić

Serbia
RTV

Maja Smiljanić

Address:
Ignjata Pavlasa 3
21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
tel: +381 21 210 1642
       +381 21 210 1642
mob: +381 64 8195 140

Public Broadcasting Service of Vojvodina was founded in 1974 as Radio Television of Novi Sad. Radio Novi Sad's first broadcast was on November 29th, 1949 and TV on November1974.

The Broadcasting Institution of Vojvodina, Radio-Television of Vojvodina, is now a Regional Public Service, producing and broadcasting regional programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on two TV channels, RTV1 and RTV2, and three radio channels, RNS1, RNS2 and RNS3. Programs are produced and broadcasted in 10 languages, including nine minority languages (Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Ruthenian, Ukrainian, Roma, Croatian, Macedonian and Bunjevac) and Serbian language.

Also, Radio-Television of Vojvodina owns a studio-concert hall, “Studio M”, which was officially opened in 1965. Numerous concerts took place here that covered a broad range of styles including classical music, jazz, ethnic, rock and more alternative sounds.

The RTV web portal www.rtv.rs delivers the latest breaking news and current top stories from Vojvodina and around the world covering politics, society, culture, and entertainment. Some of its features are live streaming, delayed viewing, and radio pod casts. RTV web portal also brings news in Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian and Ruthenian language. It was also the first - and until recently - the only one in Serbia to introduce a special service called "Read for Me" designed for the blind and visually impaired.

During the NATO bombing in the spring of 1999, the TV building and supporting facilities of Radio Television Novi Sad were almost completely destroyed so TV production is still in rented premises.

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National Co-ordinator Dite Dinesz
Senior journalist at TVR Timişoara

Romania
TVR

Dite Dinesz

TVR - Romanian Television
website: www.tvr.ro 
Address:
191, Calea Dorobantilor
71281 Bucharest

TVR is Romania’s public television service. It has five channels (TVR1, TVR2, TVR International, TVR 3, TVR HD) which are served by a studio in Bucharest as well as five regional studios (TVR Cluj, TVR Iasi, TVR Timisoara, TVR Craiova, TVR Târgu-Mureş). TVR is funded from the state budget and advertising.

Romanian Television broadcasts TV programmes for Romanians living at home, for Romanians living abroad, for each region of the country.

TVR 3: A première in Romanian audiovisual – the first national channel dedicated to local communities

Romanian Television launched a new TV channel called TVR3 on  October 10th 2008.
TVR 3 is the sixth channel offered by Romanian Television to its viewers after TVR1, TVR2, TVR Cultural,  TVR International and TVR HD. In this way, TVR fulfills once more its mission of public television meant to respond to the public’s needs and expectations.
TVR 3 comes up with a dynamic and varied programme grid, which will reflect the regional events. TVR 3’s grid is made up of programmes produced by the regional studios from Iaşi, Craiova, Cluj, Timişoara, Târgu-Mureş and Bucharest. The southern part of the country will be covered by productions made by the central studios.
During the week, TVR 3 offers both informative programmes and utilitarian or entertainment programmes from Romania.
TVR 3 is a channel of public interest and a “must carry” for the cable operators. Like all the other TVR channels, TVR 3 is broadcast by Eutelsat satellite W2/16 degrees E.

• TVR IASI

Bulevardul Independentei, D1 – D 2, mezanin
Tel +40232 209 011
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Director: Sava Catalin Gabriel
Executive Producer News, Sport, Programmes: Baiardi Gabriela

The station started broadcasting in 1991 by producing almost all types of programmes from news, current affairs to entertainment. The station broadcasts on the national network, channel 1, 210 minutes from Monday to Sunday and 360 minutes on the Channel 2.
The station covers 8 districts in the East and North-East of Romania. It has already co-operated with some regional stations in Europe and is participating to the integration activities of the Circom Regional.

• TVR CLUJ

160 Donath St., cod 400292 CLUJ
Tel +40264 420 723
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Director: Gelmarean Vig Alin Ovidiu
Executive Producer News, Sport, Programmes: Pasca Adina Laura
Executive Producer Minorities: Feketelaki Tibor

The station started broadcasting on 3rd of January 1990. It broadcasts on the national network, Channel 1, 250 minutes/week and on Channel 2, 270 minutes/week. Among the 520 minutes of broadcasting/week 15% is a programme dedicated to the Hungarian minority to the Hungarian language and 6% to the German minority in the German language for the inhabitants living in the 10 districts covering the North-West and the Western side of Transylvania.

• TVR TIMISOARA

14A Pestalozzi str, cod 300115 TIMISOARA
Tel +40256 499 560
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Director: Borosovici Andrei
Executive Producer News, Sport, Programmes: Mihoc Florin
Executive Producer Minorities: Spataru Daniel

The station started broadcasting on the 17th October 1994 on the 1st and 2nd national channels. Now it is broadcasting about 7 hours weekly on the public TV channels. It's producing news, current affairs, cultural and entertainment programs covering 4 districts situated in the South-West of Romania. Every week a one-hour program is co-produced by the Hungarian, German and Serbian communities living in this multiethnical region. TVR Timisoara has been a member of CIRCOM Regional since 1995.

• TVR CRAIOVA

Strada Calea Unirii 62, cod 200345 CRAIOVA
Tel +40251 424 379,
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Director: Musuroi Tiberius Daniel
Executive Producer News, Sport, Programmes: Cojocaru Alina Claudia

The station started broadcasting on 1st of December 1998. TVR Craiova is servicing the area of Southern part of the country, along the Danube river.

• TVR TARGU MURES

Aleea Parcul Sportivilor 2, cod 540307, Târgu Mureș
Tel: +40265.211.093
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Director: Georgescu Cristian Radu
Executive Producer News, Sport, Programmes: Miron Costin​

Romanian Television got the audiovisual license via satellite for the regional studio in Targu Mureş.
On 6 of May , 2008 TVR Tg Mureş starts to broadcast . The new regional station joins the other four regional studious: TVR Cluj, TVR Craiova, TVR Iasi and TVR Timisoara.
Setting up the new regional channel is part of the TVR strategy concerning the development of the regional studious in order to reflect and broadcast the regional issues.

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National Co-ordinator Miroslav Debnár
Director, regional studio STVR Banská Bystrica

Slovakia
STVR

Miroslav Debnár

Address:
Studio STVR Banska Bystrica
Prof.Saru 1
975 68 Banska Bystrica
Slovakia

tel: +421 48/ 471 7135

STVR is public, national, independent, informational, cultural and educational institution, established by law, which provides services to the public in the field of radio and television broadcasting. In order to fulfil its mission and tasks, STVR cooperates at the national and international level with television and radio companies, especially public service companies and with other associations and organizations. STVR is a member of public service broadcasters – the European Broadcasting Union.

TV channels

Jednotka:
The program is aimed at a universal family viewer. It offers an interesting and high-quality choice between broadcasting of commercial television programs.

Dvojka
The program in individual parts of the day interests some groups, including regional viewers, and national broadcasts bring information, enrichment of knowledge in various areas in life, spiritual values, national and cultural heritage, education, but also cultured entertainment and relaxation. In the evening time the channel is aimed at a more demanding viewer who appreciates quality documentaries, films with an art focus, programs with deeper message, brings closer destinies of families and the stories of personalities. In the later evening time, it is the space for discussions on topics that resonate.

:24
The news program service was launched in connection with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. It offers the viewers new information from home and around the world. Except for regular news block, the program mainly consists of journalistic formats, expert discussions, but also archive material.

Sport
The program of Sport is primary aimed for fans and supporters of sports. It offers 24 hours attractive broadcasting.

Radio stations

Radio Slovensko
Radio Slovensko is primarily focused on streaming with a dominant focus on current news and analytic journalism supplemented by blocks of artistic program.

Radio Regina
Radio Regina is the second radio with regional full-format program focusing on listeners of mature age. During the day it is divided into three autonomous 12-hour programs (Radio Regina West, Radio Regina Middle and Radio Regina East) and together evening and night broadcasting.

Radio Devín
Radio Devín is the radio with artistic and cultural program service with 24-hour broadcasting aimed at demanding listeners in music, artistic words and cultural information from home and the world. It accepts proven cultural values and at the same time captures and reflects the current world trends, supports experiments looking for new themes and new forms.

Radio FM
Radio FM is music and cultural program service with 24-hour broadcasting, aimed at the more demanding young listener.

Radio Pyramída
Radio Pyramída is digital program service, which provides listeners with the best that editors, authors, directors, sound engineers, actors, musicians, production and technicians have created over the past decades.

Radio Litera
Radio Litera is the digital artistic program service with 24-hour repeat broadcasts aimed at more intellectual listeners.

Radio Junior
Radio Junior is the digital artistic program service with 24-hour repeat broadcasts designed especially for children. The mission of the radio is to create the way for children to have a close relationship with art, above all with literature and music (through folk and authors creations).

Radio Patria
Radio Patria broadcasts a program about nationalities in language of nationalities. This is the program service that offers an international and reflective space for non-Slovak national communities in Slovakia.

Radio Slovakia International
Radio Slovakia International is the only broadcasting in Slovakia with broadcasts for the listeners in foreign languages.

Contact information

HQ:

Radio and Television Slovakia

Mlynská dolina

845 45 Bratislava

+421 02 6061 1111

Regional studios

Studio STVR Košice

Rastislavova 13

043 07 Košice

+421 55 72 33 730

director: Jaroslav Kerner

Studio STVR Banská Bystrica

Profesora Sáru 1

975 68 Banská Bystrica

+421 48 47 17 134

+421 919 249 335

director: Miroslav Debnár