| Type | Broadcast radio, television and online |
|---|---|
| Country | Croatia |
| First air date | 15 May 1926 (radio) 15 May 1956 (television) |
| Revenue | 1.55 billion kuna ($288.42 million USD) (2008)[1] |
| Former names | Radiotelevizija Zagreb (RTZ) (until 1990)[2] |
| Former affiliations | Yugoslav Radio Television (JRT) |
| Official website | hrt.hr |
Croatian Radiotelevision (Croatian: Hrvatska radiotelevizija, HRT) is a Croatian public broadcasting company. It operates several radio and television channels, over a domestic transmitter network as well as satellite. As of 2002[update], 70% of HRT's funding comes from broadcast user fees with each house in Croatia required to pay 79 HRK, kuna, per month for a single television), with the remainder being made up from advertising.[3]
Croatian Radiotelevision has three organizational units, three sister companies - the Croatian Radio (Hrvatski radio), the Croatian Television (Hrvatska televizija) and Music Production (Glazbena proizvodnja).
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Croatian Radiotelevision is a direct successor of Zagreb Radiostation (Radio stanica Zagreb) that started broadcasting on 15 May 1926. During the first 14 years of its existence, Zagreb Radiostation was owned by a private corporation Radio Zagreb which was nationalized on 1 May 1940. During the Independent State of Croatia, the station was known as Hrvatski krugoval. After World War II it began to operate as a 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 15 May 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 the southeast European area.
In June 1990, the Croatian Parliament renamed the company from Radiotelevizija Zagreb to Hrvatska radiotelevizija. On 1 January 1993, HRT was admitted as a full active member of the European Broadcasting Union.[2]
The television programme was aired under the name "Croatian Television", Hrvatska televizija (HTV) between 1990 and 1994. Since then, the current name is used. The radio broadcast unit is still referred to as "Croatian Radio", Hrvatski radio (HR).
In the 1980s there was a third channel called Z3 and later HTV Z3. It was taken off air on 16 September 1991 when its main transmitter, the Sljeme TV tower, was damaged in an air raid. On 7 November 1994 the channel came back on air, this time called HRT 3. The channel was later shut down with its frequency de-nationalized and out up for lease in a public tender in 2004 (it has been used by RTL Televizija ever since).
| Original name | Croatian translation | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Gossip Girl | Tračerica | United States |
| The Scent of Rain in the Balkans | Miris kiše na Balkanu | Serbia |
| Dirty Sexy Money | Prljavi seksi novac | United States |
| Without a Trace | Bez traga | United States |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Zakon i red: Zločinačke nakane | United States |
| Wire in the Blood | Struna u krvi | United Kingdom |
| Ghost Whisperer | Šaptačica duhovima | United States |
| Beverly Hills 90210 | Beverly Hills 90210 | United States |
| Full House | Pun Doma | United States |
| House | Doktor House | United States |
| Midsomer Murders | Umorstva u Midsomeru | United Kingdom |
| Curb Your Enthusiasm | Bez oduševljenja, molim | United States |
| Soy tu dueña | Gospodarica tvoga srca | Mexico |
| McLeod's Daughters | McLeodove kćeri | Australia |
| 101 Dalmatians | 101 dalmatinac | United States |
| Xiaolin Showdown | Šaolinski obračun | United States |
| Garfield and Friends | Garfield i prijatelji | United States |
| Beverly Hills, 90210 | Beverly Hills | United States |
| The Simpsons | Simpsoni | United States |
| Red Dwarf | Crveni patuljak | United Kingdom |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | Zvjezdane staze: Enterprise | United States |
| Jeeves and Wooster | Jeeves i Wooster | United Kingdom |
| Original name | Format | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Bitange i princeze | sitcom | Croatia |
| Dolina sunca | soap opera | Croatia |
| Stipe u gostima | sitcom | Croatia |
| Mamutica | crime show | Croatia |
| Original name | Croatian translation | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Veronica Mars | Veronica Mars | United States |
| Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip | Studio 60 na Sunset Stripu | United States |
| Lie to me | Lagati mi | United States |
| Fringe | Resa | United States |
| Mar de amor | More ljubavi | Mexico |
| Ashes to Ashes | Pepeo u pepeo | United Kingdom |
The Croatian Radio (Hrvatski radio) runs three national and eight local (county-level) stations.[4]
The three national stations are available throughout the country and are streamed live via the Internet.
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 Serbian shelling of the city in the early 1990s, and has operated on somewhat reduced power since on 1134 kHz.
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