Croatian Radiotelevision

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Croatian Radiotelevision or Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT) is the Croatian public broadcasting company. It operates several radio and television channels, over a domestic transceiver network as well as satellite. 60% of HRT's funding comes from television licence fees, with the remainder being made up from advertising [1]

Croatian Radiotelevision has three organizational units, three sister companies - the Croatian Radio (Hrvatski radio), the Croatian Television (Hrvatska televizija) and Music Production (Glazbena proizvodnja).

Croatian Radiotelevision is a direct successor of Zagreb Radiostation (Radio stanica Zagreb) that has started broadcasting on May 15, 1926. First 14 years of its existence, Zagreb Radiostation was owned by private corporation Radio Zagreb which was nationalized May 1, 1940. After WW2 it operates as state owned Radio Station.

Zagreb Radiostation was the first public broadcasting facility in South East European area, including countries of former Yugoslavia.

At the end of the first year of operation, Radio Zagreb company had little over four thousand subscribers.

On the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Zagreb Radiostation, on May 15, 1956, the first television programme was broadcast from the transmitter built at Sljeme. For the next two years this was the only TV broadcasting service in Southeast European area.

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[edit] Television

HRT 1 or Prvi program is HRT's primary TV program. Its old name is "HTV 1" (Hrvatska televizija, prvi program).

Among the popular TV shows aired on HRT1 are:


Former shows have included:

  • Kviskoteka (quiz) hosted by Oliver Mlakar
  • Slika na sliku (political magazine)
  • Upitnik (Question mark) (quiz) hosted by Joško Lokas
  • Večeras s Joškom Lokasom ("Tonight with Joško Lokas"), late night talk show
  • Kolo Sreće (Wheel of fortune) hosted by Oliver Mlakar
  • Izazov (Jeopardy!) hosted by Joško Lokas

HRT 2 or Drugi program is the secondary channel, nowadays primarily used for sports and entertainment.

Up to 2004 there also existed a HRT 3 but it was denationalized and made into a commercial concession contract. The current contractor is RTL Televizija.

HRT Plus is the name of HRT's cable TV channel, which is also transmitted via satellite.

"Slika Hrvatske" is a Free-To-Air international TV channel, broadcasting an 8 hour block of programmes for the Croatian Diaspora, during the non-broadcasting hours of HRT Plus.

[edit] Radio

The Croatian Radio (Hrvatski Radio) features three channels.

  • HR 1, which mostly does serious mosaic programme, with regular news every full hour.
  • HR 2, which mostly airs entertainment mosaic programme, with news usually every hour at the half-hour mark.
  • HR 3, which is mostly for classical music and similar programme.
  • HR Sljeme, Local station for Zagreb
  • HR Rijeka, Local station for Rijeka
  • HR Pula, Local station for Pula
  • HR Osijek, Local station for Osijek
  • HR Split, Local station for Split
  • Glas Hrvatske (Voice of Croatia), International station for the Croatian Diaspora

The Mediumwave transmitter at Zadar was at onetime one of the most powerful in Europe and at nighttime could be heard throughout most of the continent with JRT (Yugoslav) and later HR (Croatian) programming from Zagreb and Pula. However it was badly damaged during the fighting in the early 1990's, and has operated on somewhat reduced power since on 1134 kHz.

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