Radio Television of Serbia (RTS)

The public broadcaster which, according to ODIHR, gave the president almost half of its prime-time news programming during the 2022 elections, and in 2026 favoured the ruling party's list and portrayed the Student List mostly negatively, contrary to its mandate. According to BIRODI, from December 2022 to May 2024 the president was portrayed positively 87.9% of the time on Dnevnik 2, while criticism accounted for 0.7%. The State Audit Institution found that in 2023 RTS improperly and non-transparently allocated 3.5 billion dinars for programming from external producers. When students blockaded it, RTS filed a criminal complaint against the blockaders.

Affairs

  • Arrest warrant for Aleksandar Radić over the "sound cannon"
  • Irregularities in the 2022 elections
  • Irregularities in the 2026 elections: According to ODIHR, contrary to its public-service obligations, it favoured the “United Serbia” list; according to CRTA, the authorities had 94% of prime time
  • Attacks on journalists
  • Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation
  • Pressure on bus operator Milomir Jaćimović
  • REM, RTS and state money for the media: According to employees, students were compared to Nazis on the Dnevnik news on 16 April 2025; the director denies it
  • Dragana Sotirovski and the Niš Emergency Situations Headquarters

People

  • Borivoje Uskoković: acting editor-in-chief of the RTS News Programme
  • Branislav Klanšček: chairman of the RTS Management Board
  • Branislav Klanšček: member of the RTS Management Board
  • Dejan Jovanović: deputy general director of Radio Television of Serbia
  • Manja Grčić: General Director of RTS
  • Dragan Bujošević: General Director of RTS (acting since 2021)
  • Dragana Sotirovski: journalist and editor of RTS's Niš bureau