B92
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B92 (Б92) is a radio and television station in Belgrade, Serbia. Its target audience is chiefly urban, young and educated public, and its programs display fairly recognizable left and neoliberal political attitudes.
The station was a rare independent outlet for news and information in Serbia under Slobodan Milošević, and was a force behind many demonstrations that took place in Belgrade during the turbulent 1990s. Due to this, B92 won MTV Free Your Mind award in 1998, and many other awards for journalism and fighting for human rights. B92 is the subject of the bestselling book This is Serbia Calling. During that time, the station also received significant aid from western governments and the Soros Foundation[citation needed].
B92 is led by Veran Matić, one of the most respected media managers in the Balkans region.
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[edit] History
The radio station originally went on the air in 1989, though it was shut down by authorities a few times in its early years. It was forced off the air for a time in 1999 when NATO bombed the region, and government agents cracked down on independent reporting. B92 went back on the air after the ousting of Slobodan Milošević in October 2000, and has continued as a combined music and news radio station since.
Later on, TV station and Internet portal were introduced, as well as CD and book labels.
[edit] Radio
The B92 radio station was founded in May 1989 in Belgrade as a predominantly youth-oriented station. Throughout the years it has become a regional radio with wide audience. The radio station has about 400,000 listeners on a daily basis which is around 35% of all radio listeners with almost 80 stations on the air. As of recently, radio B92 covers Vojvodina and Central Serbia.
The most notable radio shows are Kažiprst (index finger), featuring usually live or occasionally live-to-tape interviews with notable public figures, Peščanik (hourglass), liberal talk show, radio blog of a sort, and the morning program Dizanje (getting up).
[edit] TV
In September 2000, B92-TV began broadcasting as a local TV station reaching Belgrade's greater municipal area and parts of Vojvodina. Over the next few years, the station expanded its network of repeaters and could be seen in most of Serbia.
In April 2006 B92 was officially given a national commercial broadcasting licence along with TV Pink, Fox Televizija, TV Avala and TV Košava. Since the late 2002 when Serbian TV ratings began to be recorded in earnest, B92 consistently ranks among the top five most popular stations, not too far behind public service broadcaster RTS and leading commercial network TV Pink.
The station's most notable regular TV programmes include Utisak nedelje (Impression of the week) by Olja Bećković, Poligraf by Jugoslav Ćosić and Antonela Riha, and Timofejev by Aleksandar Timofejev. The Insajder series by Brankica Stanković runs intermittently and presents perhaps a unique case of investigative journalism on Serbian televisions. Short comedy series Mile sa Čubure by Zoran Cvijanović has a kind of cult status.
In recent years, B92 has undertaken a noticeable shift towards commercialization with populist comedies such as Mile vs. Tranzicija and folksy talk shows like Timofejev and Ovo vas jos nisam pitala. Since 2006, it broadcasts the Serbian version of Big Brother reality series (Veliki brat), for which it received both a huge ratings boost as well as much criticism from its traditional viewers. The trend is set to continue with the announcement of Uzmi ili ostavi and Želite li da postanete milioner? quizes (local versions of Deal or No Deal and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, respectively) coming to the network in spring 2007.
B92 also currently holds the Serbian market TV rights for Formula 1, UEFA Champions League (since September 2003) and Spanish La Liga live broadcasts.
[edit] Music and book publishing
B92 also runs a record label, although in recent years its releases are few and far between. Some of the notable Serbian acts B92 helped launch include: Eyesburn, Darkwood Dub, Kanda, Kodža i Nebojsa, Intruder, Vrooom, Kal etc. The label also released albums by somewhat more established acts such as Boban Marković, Rambo Amadeus, Eva Braun, Jarboli.
B92's book publishing arm is Samizdat B92 featuring prominent young authors such as Marko Vidojković and Srđan Valjarević, as well as a number of foreign authors.
B92 also runs the Rex cultural centre in Jevrejska Street.
[edit] B92.net
B92.net, the internet portal of B92, has been the most popular website in Serbia for nearly 10 years and it counts some 107,000 visitors per day. The B92 portal is ranked on 1570th place worldwide according to Alexa [1].
[edit] Design
Brand like B92,promote a very modern and recognizable way in design,and the most important part of serbian design scene.Creators of B92's unique style are Creative team of b92.Creative team of B92 makes : Đorđe Marković, Igor Oršolić, Nikola Radojičić, Nenad Radojičić, Srđan Mitrović, Vladimir Šojat, Branislav Tomić, Jelena Sanader, Jovana Timotijević, Aleksandra Berić, Sandra Pajović i Milica Žebeljan.
