Radio Television of Vojvodina

Radio Television of Vojvodina (Serbian: Радио Телевизија Војводине (РТВ) or Radio Televizija Vojvodine (RTV), Hungarian: Vajdasági rádió és televízió, Slovak: Radio Televizia Vojvodiny, Croatian: Radio Televizija Vojvodine, Romanian: Radioteleviziunea Voevodina, Rusyn: Радіо Телебачення Воєводини) is the public broadcaster in the Serbian province of Vojvodina. Its headquarters is in Novi Sad.

History

Formerly, it was known as Radio Television Novi Sad (Радио Телевизија Нови Сад - РТНС, Radio Televizija Novi Sad - RTNS). In 1992 Radio Television Novi Sad, together with Radio Television Belgrade (RTB) and Radio Television Priština (RTP), became a part of Radio Television of Serbia. In 1999, the buildings of the RTNS in the Mišeluk neighborhood of Novi Sad were bombed and destroyed by the NATO airforce. After the war, the RTNS was moved to the new building in the city centre.

In May 2006, the Radio Television of Serbia was officially divided into two public broadcasting systems: Radio Television of Serbia (Public Service of Serbia) with headquarters in Belgrade and Radio Television of Vojvodina (Public Service of Vojvodina) with headquarters in Novi Sad.

Languages

Radio Television of Vojvodina broadcasts programme in 10 languages: Serbian, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovak, Rusyn, Romanian, Bunjevac, Ukrainian, Romany and Macedonian.

Certain TV shows are also translated into Sign language.

In autumn 2011, programme and news in German language will be also broadcasted.

Radio

RTV has the following radio channels:

• Radio Novi Sad 1 (Радио Нови Сад 1), in Serbian
• Radio Novi Sad 2 (Радио Нови Сад 2), in Hungarian
• Radio Novi Sad 3 (Радио Нови Сад 3), in Croatian, Slovak, Rusyn, Romanian, Bunjevac, Ukrainian, Romany and Macedonian

Television

Current TV channels

• RTV 1 (РТВ 1), in Serbian.
• RTV 2 (РТВ 2), in Serbian and minority languages.

TV Channels before 2006

Before the transformation of television into Radio Television of Vojvodina, the Radio Television Novi Sad had two channels:

• NS 1 (НС 1)
• NS 2 (НС 2)

TV Channels before 1999

Before the NATO bombing, the Radio Television Novi Sad had two channels:

• NS (НС)
• NS+ (НС+)

Internationally created shows broadcast by RTV (as of September 2009)

References

See also

• List of television stations in Serbia

External links

• Official Site
• in Hungarian