The Yugoslav Radio Television (Jugoslavenska radiotelevizija or Jugoslovenska radio-televizija) or JRT was the national public broadcasting system in the SFR Yugoslavia. It consisted of eight subnational radio and TV broadcast centers with each one headquartered in one of the six constituent countries and two autonomous areas of the Yugoslav federation. Each center had its own programming and some of them had operated several channels. The system dissolved during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s as many of its former federal units became independent states. This resulted in the upgrading of the once subnational broadcasting centers based in their capitals to national ones, but with altered names:
Federal unit | Based in | Established as | Present-day broadcaster |
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SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo | RTV Sarajevo | Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHRT) |
SR Croatia | Zagreb | RTV Zagreb | Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) |
SR Macedonia | Skopje | RTV Skopje | Macedonian Radio-Television (MRT) |
SR Montenegro | Titograd | RTV Titograd | Radio Television of Montenegro (RTCG) |
SR Serbia | Belgrade | RTV Belgrade | Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) |
SR Slovenia | Ljubljana | RTV Ljubljana | Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVSLO) |
SAP Kosovo | Priština | RTV Priština | Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK) |
SAP Vojvodina | Novi Sad | RTV Novi Sad | Radio Television of Vojvodina (RTV) |
JRT was one of the founding members of the European Broadcasting Union and the SFR Yugoslavia was the only socialist country among its founding members. Among other activities, it organized the Yugoslavian Contest for the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcast both of events for the Yugoslav audience. JRT's news program, Dnevnik broadcasts on all stations today in 7 countries.
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