RTV Politika (Serbian: РТВ Политика) was a major Serbian TV station, owned by Politika AD, that was on the air from 1990 until 2007.
It was founded in 1990 and it was a majority-owned subsidiary of the aforementioned Politika AD media company that solely dealt in print media up to that point. The station had its own broadcasting frequencies and transmitters that covered most of the territory of Serbia and more than 90% of the population of Serbia.
During NATO bombardment of FR Yugoslavia and afterward, the station has been known for broadcasting pirate copies of the latest Hollywood blockbusters. For example, on March 31, 1999, TV Politika broadcast The Matrix two weeks before its official premiere in Yugoslavia [1]. On April 15, 2000 it showed a whole-day movie marathon with the illegal copies of The World Is Not Enough, American Beauty and Star Wars: Phantom Menace in order to divert public attention from the opposition protest rally in Belgrade against Slobodan Milošević. [2]
The station didn't receive a new license and had to stop broadcasting in 2007.