Zoran Modli

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Zoran Modli (Serbian cyrillic: Зоран Модли) (born April 22, 1948 in Zemun, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian journalist, radio disc jockey and aviator. He was one of the most popular Yugoslav radio personalities, running one of the most notable radio shows of the early 1980s in Yugoslavia, Ventilator 202. This show became best known for publishing the first demo recordings of some bands that were yet to become very popular all across Yugoslavia, such as EKV, Partibrejkers, Rex Ilusivii and many others. Modli left the show in 1987.

Later, Modli has been running a successful radio show Modulacije in the 1990s, and since 2000, he has been running ZAIR (Zakon akcije i reakcije), a radio show about the new technologies, that is broadcasted on numerous Serbian radio stations. His career is also very versatile, since he has also been a professional pilot, writer, author of numerous commercials and an expert in the fields of technical innovations and computer science.

Modli currently resides in Belgrade, where he still runs ZAIR and pilots for a private airlines company Prince Aviation, after spending over 20 years as a pilot in the state-owned Jat Airways, piloting a Boeing 727.^[1] He also runs the site www.modli.co.yu, that was proclaimed one of the best 50 in Serbia in 2001, 2003 and 2004 by a professional computer magazine PC Press.