<nettime> ANEM weekly report on media repression in Serbia

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ANEM WEEKLY REPORT ON MEDIA REPRESSION IN SERBIA
OCTOBER 7 - OCTOBER 13, 2000

PUBLIC INFORMATION ACT TO BE ABOLISHED

BELGRADE, October 7 2000 - President of the Serbian Parliament Dragan
Tomic, has scheduled a session of the Parliament for Monday, to debate
bills tabled by the Serbian Radical Party and the Serbian Renewal
Movement.   
MPs will discuss bills on the repeal of the Public Information Act and
the ownership transformation of the Politika media corporation as
proposed by the Serbian Radical Party.

FORREIGN CORRESPONDENTS DETAINED AT BORDER

BELGRADE, October 7 2000 - A large number of foreign journalists who
spent all afternoon at Belgrade airport and the Horgos border crossing
were allowed to enter the country tonight, Beta reports.
Reuters correspondent Sean McGuire told Beta that no official
explanation had been given for the delay.
When asked whether all 62 journalists from 18 countries were allowed
to enter, McGuire replied "it seems they will let them all in". 

STATE TELEVISION BROADCASTS FROM KOSUTNJAK STUDIO

BELGRADE, October 7 2000- Staff from the state media network, Radio
Television Serbia, have begun broadcasting from the network's studios
in the outer Belgrade suburb of Kosutnjak. The program is under the
administration of former director Nenad Ristic.
Editor Nikola Neskovic told media that the staff were attempting to
establish a normal schedule and it was possible that this would
commence from Sunday.  
"It is impossible to work in the main offices in Takovska Street
because the building has been practically demolished, so we have been
working steadily and broadcasting from Kosutnjak," he said.
Neskovic also said that since the network had resumed operation under
new management at about 9.00 p.m. yesterday, there was no need for the
staff strike which began earlier this week to continue.

RADIO BELGRADE WITH NEW EDITORIAL POLICY

BELGRADE, October 7 2000 - The new Editorial Board of Radio Belgrade
stated on Friday that it would prepare and edit programmes in
accordance with the principles of objective informing, until such time
as the new management of Radio Television Serbia was formed. The
statement sent to SRNA agency said that members of the previous
editorial team of Radio Belgrade's First Channel had left the offices
thus virtually closing down the programme at around 6 p.m. on
Thursday.

B2-92 BACK ON 92,5 MHz 

BELGRADE, October 7 2000 - The entire ANEM network of independent
radio and television stations is now operating at full power to
provide a serious information service on current events in Serbia,
Chairman Veran Matic said today.
Matic said that the network's main concern was to encourage the public
to act with dignity in assisting the democratisation of the government
which had won at last week's elections and to make its transition to
power as efficient as possible.   
The return of autonomy to broadcasters in the provinces would commence
soon, said Matic, adding that Belgrade Radio B2-92 had finally merged
with Radio B92, the station hijacked by the regime last April. A group
of Otpor activists had liberated Radio B92 on Thursday, said Matic,
and Radio B2-92 staff were now broadcasting from their former
premises.

MEDIA EDITORS RESIGN 

LESKOVAC, October 7 2000 - Newly elected Democratic Opposition of
Serbia representative in Leskovac local parliament Milorad Marjanovic
told Beta that the representatives of the coalition had appointed new
editors of the local media during the night since the incumbent
editors had offered their resignations. According to Marjanovic,
correspondent for Danas, Radio B2-92 and Free Europe Zoran Rakic had
been appointed temporary acting director of local Television Leskovac
and DOS leader Drazen Ruzic had also become a member of the editorial
team.        

DNEVNIK EDITOR-IN-CHIEF RESIGNS

NOVI SAD, October 7 2000 - Editor-in-Chief of Novi Sad daily Dnevnik
Mile Stanivuk resigned yesterday and the paper appeared at newsstands
on Saturday after a one day pause, Beta reports. In his statement,
Stanivuk said that he had resigned in the full understanding of the
seriousness of the moment and the responsibility for the future of the
editorial staff and daily Dnevnik.

BLIC RETURNS TO THE BORBA PRINTING HOUSE

BELGRADE, October 7 2000. - Belgrade daily Blic will as of tonight be
printed again in Borba's printing shop, featuring colour pages, the
daily's director Miodrag Djuricic told Beta today. "People from the
Borba printing shop are our old and good partners, but they could not
accept us as we and they wanted for political reasons," Djuricic said.
He said that Blic would be printed in several printing shops, with
Borba as the major printer. Djuricic said that they had printed
200,000 copies of the Friday edition and would be printing 220,000 on
Saturday, Beta reports.

RTS NOVI PAZAR DISOBEYS YUGOSLAV LEFT MEMBER EDITOR

NOVI PAZAR, October 7 2000 - All employees of the Radio Television
Serbia local branch in Novi Pazar yesterday disobeyed Director Zuhra
Mumdzic and ceased broadcasting. Television Novi Pazar disconnected
its transmitter, while the radio is currently rebroadcasting Radio
Belgrade. According to journalists' statements, the conflict between
the employees and the director arose when the director demanded that
workers turn off the television on which they were watching the new
RTS. Director of Novi Pazar Television and President of the local
Yugoslav Left branch Zuhra Mumdzic called in the police over the
dispute.

INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION ON MEDIA TAKEOVERS

BELGRADE, October 8 2000 - Asserting that there was a tendency for
state media to be taken over in a "chaotic and unprincipled manner",
the Independent Association of Serbian Journalists announced yesterday
that all state media taken over by the opposition and journalists
needed to set up a crisis headquarters, "with an obligatory
consultation with the Association".
"The liberation of Radio Television Serbia must firstly be based on
hiring journalists and editors who have proved their professional and
moral integrity, who have not been sullied by totalitarian propaganda
and who hate rhetoric aimed against their own citizens and opponents,"
said the statement.
The Association also demanded the immediate release of political
prisoners, journalists Miroslav Filipovic and Zoran Lukovic. 

RTS STRIKE COMMITTEE DEMANDS DISMISSAL OF MANAGEMENT

BELGRADE, October 8 2000 - Radio Television Serbia Strike Committee
reiterated its main demand today that all managers, department heads
and compromised journalists be urgently dismissed from positions they
were attempting to return to.
"We demand that the Serbian Parliament form a new leadership in
accordance with the law, leaving out everyone from the incumbent
management. The new leadership must be made up of politically unbiased
people, whose only obligation will be high professionalism and the
unbiased informing of the citizens," said the statement.
"We demand the abolition of all illegal dismissal notices, and that
all workers on forced leave be immediately recalled. Only in this way
will we be able to create a truly new radio and television which will
serve its people," said the statement, Beta reports.

STV NEGOTIN BACK ON CABLE AFTER EIGHT YEARS

BELGRADE, October 8 2000 - Independent television Negotin, the only
member of ANEM in the Timok District, has resumed broadcasting its
programmes on the cable network, the television's director Dejan
Grujic told Beta on Saturday.
According to Grujic, the decision to broadcast STV via cable, which
covers the entire municipality, was made by Radio Television Krajina
Negotin's Managing Board and the founder, Negotin Municipal Assembly.
The demand for the return of STV to the cable network was also
expressed by the citizens of Negotin during the recent protests
against the election fraud.     
STV's right to broadcast via cable was abolished eight years ago.

NEW DIRECTORS IN LESKOVAC MEDIA HOUSES

LESKOVAC, October 8 2000 - Employees of the Leskovac local weekly Nasa
rec, founded by the Leskovac Municipal Assembly, yesterday voted
unanimously to appoint the daily's journalist Andreja Tomasevic as the
new acting director and editor in chief following the resignation of
long standing director and editor in chief Mihajlo Dedic.
Zivko Ljubisavljevic and Aleksandar Davinic resigned from Radio
Television Leskovac in the presence of DOS representatives on Thursday
night. DOS appointed Danas correspondent Zoran Rakic, who was sacked
from the television a year ago, as the new acting director.
In the local parliament, DOS won 28 seats, the Socialist Party and the
Yugoslav Left 42, and the Serbian Renewal Movement and a group of
citizens three each.

THREE RULES FOR MEDIA

BELGRADE, October 8 2000 - Member of the DOS media crisis headquarters
Goran Svilanovic told the Sunday edition of daily Blic that media
houses must resume work in an unbiased and professional manner, and
that, for now, there could be no sacking. Svilanovic also said that
programming should be carried out by those journalists who enjoyed the
support of their colleagues.
"I have asked the incumbent directors of some media houses to be
around, but not to interfere and to allow the journalists supported by
their colleagues do the work," Svilanovic said.
Svilanovic concluded that he would insist on the current situation
being legalised as soon as possible. 

CITIZENS CONFISCATE CACAK TELEVISION EQUIPMENT

CACAK, October 8 2000 - Dozens of citizens and Otpor members last
night broke down the door and entered the building housing the Cacak
branch of the Socialist Party and the offices of Television S, Beta
reports today. Several uniformed policemen standing in front of the
building did not intervene.
President of the local branch of New Serbia Jovo Popovic stated that
the citizens had gathered spontaneously, and in protest at the
confiscation of TV Cacak's equipment during the bombing, had entered
the premises of Television S, taken the equipment and brought it back
to TV Cacak.
Popovic added that he had contacted the president of the local
Socialists Dragan Bojovic, informing him of the events and asking him
to bring they keys, which he refused.

INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION TAKES OVER KEYS OF SERBIAN
JOURNALISTS' HOME 

BELGRADE, October 8 2000 - Representatives of the Independent
Association of Serbian Journalists yesterday entered the premises of
28, Generala Zdanova Street in Belgrade. Quoting article 8 of the
Association's Convention, which defines the right to the return of the
possession created by generations of journalists, the Association
stated that the said building belonged to all journalist associations
and threw out the journalists who were on the premises.
The Association scheduled an open session in the Serbian Journalists'
Home for Monday, October 9, at noon, inviting all journalists to
attend. The Independent Association of Serbian Journalists emphasised
that nobody would be thrown out of the premises, but that the offices
would be used equally by all journalists and journalist associations
in Serbia.

RADIO BELGRADE FORMS TEMPORARY EDITORIAL COLLEGIUM 

BELGRADE, October 9 2000 - A group of Radio Belgrade employees has
founded a temporary editorial collegium which has taken over all
management and editorial functions.
"The basic principles this collegium will adhere to are the principles
of professionalism, unbiased informing and openness toward all
political options and parties," said the statement issued by the
collegium, Beta reports. Members of the temporary management are
Slobodan Divjak, Dragan Mihovic, Radovan Pantovic, Elizabeta
Arsenovic, Jelena Hinic, Jovan Arezina, Rados Glisic, Slobodanka
Arsenijevic, Ljubica Cetkovic, Branislava Saper, Ivana Stefanovic and
Milan Orlic.       
"This body has the authority which comes from the majority support its
members have in all departments," said the statement. The temporary
editorial collegium will work until the legal appointment of the
house's management.

STATEMENT FROM BORBA EMPLOYEES

BELGRADE, October 9 2000 - A group of Borba employees yesterday
demanded an immediate change not only in editorial policy, but also in
the editorial team of this daily.  
A statement submitted to FoNet, signed by fourteen employees from this
media house states, "The journalists, photographers and contributors
signed below are sincerely concerned for the future of this daily. We
demand that affaires in this house finally be put in place, that
politics be returned to politicians, the new paper to those
professionals who did not sully the reputation of their honourable
profession, and the paper returned to its readers".

FORMER BORBA JOURNALISTS DENIED ENTRANCE

BELGRADE, October 9 2000 - Representatives of daily Borba's Crisis
Headquarters did not allow journalists thrown out of the building in
1995 to enter their former offices, a delegation of the sacked
journalists stated today.
The statement claimed that the Borba Crisis Headquarters barred around
sixty journalists who had gathered in front of the building from
entering.  
The delegation of journalists reminded the public that Borba was still
being published by the same crew of journalists and editors who were
previously managed by Yugoslav Left senior official Zivorad
Djordjevic, FoNet reports.   

VNS BROADCASTS TV SERBIA

PODGORICA, October 9 2000 - The Managing Board of the Montenegrin
Assembly of People's Councils Television stated today that they would
rebroadcast the programmes of New Television Serbia until further
notice.   
The statement added that the newly founded media house, for
understandable reasons, had not been in a position to prepare and
broadcast its own programmes for the past several days.
TV VNS began work on September 15 and was registered with the federal
administration. It stated that that the new television would speak
"with the voice of all those expelled from all media in Montenegro"
and that it would attempt to remove the information blackout of the
journalistic and party single-mindedness in Montenegro.    

GORICA GAJEVIC'S GUARDS SNATCH TAPE FROM ANEM CREW

BELGRADE, October 10 2000 - Bodyguards belonging to Socialist Party
senior official Gorica Gajevic yesterday confiscated a video tape from
an ANEM television crew shooting left coalition representatives
leaving the Serbian Parliament through a back door. Security guards
also took away their parliament credentials, Beta reports.    

CRIMINAL CHARGES FILED AGIANST AREZINA

BELGRADE, October 10 2000 - The Association of Yugoslav Composers
(SOKOJ) yesterday filed criminal charges against Commercial Court
President Milena Arezina. The Association claimed that it had launched
about twenty procedures against Radio Television Serbia for copyright
violations, and that Arezina had placed all such cases in her drawer.
Arezina had thus prevented the composers, despite court rulings in
their favour, from obtaining fees due to them. The total disputed sum
is estimated at around 28 million dollars.       

JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION: OUTBURSTS OF AGGRESSION IN CERTAIN OFFICES

BELGRADE, October 10 2000 - The Association of Serbian Journalists
Managing Board stated yesterday that the Independent Association of
Serbian Journalists could use certain offices in the Serbian
Journalist Home, but not the whole building, unless approved by
relevant republic bodies.
The Managing Board of the organisation, whose president until recently
was editor in chief of Radio Television Serbia Milorad Komrakov,
discussed the new situation in the media in Belgrade and Serbia at its
early session on Monday and assessed that efforts to change the
editorial policy in certain staff offices had resulted in aggression
not becoming not only of journalists but also of a democratic society.
The Independent Journalist Association held a session in the premises
of the Journalist Home, inviting representatives of the Journalist
Association to attend. Members of the Independent Association
announced that they would request official representatives of the
Journalist Association to show them documentation and invoices from
the organisation in order to reach agreement on the joint use of
Journalist Home offices.      

RTS STRIKE COMMITTE TAKES OVER EDITORIAL POLICY

BELGRADE, October 10 2000 - The Radio Television Serbia Strike
Committee yesterday temporarily took over the editing of all state
television programming, announcing that they would use only criteria
based on the professional journalist code.
The statement issued by the Strike Committee justified this decision
by the fear that RTS programming might once again become instruments
in the hands of political parties. It was emphasised that RTS
programming would be carried out solely by professionals who had not
compromised themselves in the past.
Gordana Susa, former journalist and state television editor, currently
editor of the independent television production Video Weekly and
President of the Independent Association of Serbian Journalists has
been appointed editor of the Info section and the main coordinator of
the Strike Committee's programming body is former RTS editor Nenad
Ristic.

DRAGOLJUB MILANOVIC AND KOMRAKOV ON HOME TREATMENT

BELGRADE, October 10 2000 - Former Radio Television Serbia heads
Dragoljub Milanovic and Milorad Komrakov have been discharged from the
Emergency Center where they for treated for injuries sustained on
October 5 and are now being treated at home, Belgrade daily Danas
writes today. During the demonstrations against Slobodan Milosevic in
Belgrade on October 5, angry citizens virtually stomped on RTS
director Dragoljub Milanovic. According to one version of events,
Milorad Komrakov was locked in one of the RTS offices, frozen with
fear, and then transferred to the City Assembly so that vengeful
demonstrators could not lynch him.         
The daily writes that former deputy editor in chief Dusan Vojvodic is
also back in Belgrade. When demonstrators were charging the RTS
building last Thursday, Vojvodic is reported to have ordered all
employees to remain inside, because tanks and the army were coming to
defend them. After that he calmly walked out of the television
grounds. The daily quoted employees as accusing Vojvodic of
"sacrificing people" during the NATO bombing of the RTS building last
year.

EDITOR IN CHIEF OF RTS STUDIO IN VALJEVO RESIGNS

VALJEVO, October 10 2000 - Editor-in-Chief of Valjevo Radio Television
Serbia studio Slobodan Rakovic handed in his written resignation
yesterday. Employees of the Valjevo studio have formed a seven-member
editorial collegium. In addition to reporting for RTS programmes, the
Valjevo studio is also broadcasting its own all day programme.

EDITORS OF RTV VRANJE AND LOCAL PAPER RESIGN

VRANJE, October 10 2000 - Editor of Radio Television Vranje Sinisa
Mitic and editor of local daily Slobodna rec Gradimir Jovanovic
resigned yesterday, Beta reports. Democratic Opposition of Serbia
representative Dragan Janjic stated that both editors had agreed to
resign after talks with the local mayor Stojadin Stankovic. It was
agreed at the meeting that the acting director of the television and
the paper be appointed by a consensus between representatives of the
local parliament and the local Vranje branch of DOS.       

TV NOVI SAD FOR NEW, UNCOMPROMISED MANAGEMENT

NOVI SAD, October 10 2000 - The TV Novi Sad Strike Committee today
demanded the dismissal of the entire management of TV Novi Sad and
Radio Television Serbia as well as that of Federal Minister of
Information Goran Matic and Minister of Information Aleksandar Vucic.
Beta reports that the Committee also demanded the immediate abolition
of the Public Information Act.
The statement issued by the Strike Committee specified that it would
appeal to Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and the Federal
Parliament to appoint a new management for TV Novi Sad, one which
would enable unbiased informing and undisturbed work. TV Novi Sad
strikers supported the demand made by the Independent Association of
Serbian Journalists that crisis headquarters be formed in state media
in consultation with the Association, since there was a tendency after
the October 5 demonstrations for media to be taken over in a somewhat
chaotic and unprincipled manner.        

RADIO PRIBOJ UNDER DOS CONTROL

PRIBOJ, October 10 2000 - DOS representatives in Priboj joined by the
local citizens and the Priboj Info Center Strike Committee last night
broke into the offices of Radio Priboj and broadcast a two-hour Free
Radio Priboj programme, Radio B92 reports today.
This move ensued after the failure of the RTV Priboj Managing Board to
carry out the promised dismissal of RTV Priboj editor and the change
in editorial policy. The Managing Board had initially responded
positively to DOS demands, however, they soon changed the locks on the
gate and ceased broadcasting. After the local DOS warning that such
action would result in the wrath of the citizens did not bear results,
the citizens of Priboj gathered in the town center and broke into the
radio's premises. Until the final status of the media house is
confirmed, programming will be edited by representatives of the RTV
Priboj Strike Committee. The problem of Television Priboj remains
unsolved, since its equipment has been taken to the local Socialist
Party premises together with all archives.           

JOURNALIST MIROSLAV FILIPOVIC RELEASED

BELGRADE, October 10 2000 - The Supreme Military Court today
overturned  Kraljevo journalist Miroslav Filipovic's seven-year prison
sentence for espionage and the dissemination of false information. The
Supreme Court returned the verdict for reconsideration to the
first-degree court in Nis. "I am happy to say that as of today
Miroslav is a free man," his wife Slavica Filipovic said after the
announcement of the verdict. The Supreme Military Court ruled to
abolish the verdict due to violations of the criminal procedure.

ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS DEMANDS MURDERERS OF SLAVKO
CURUVIJA BE FOUND 

BELGRADE, October 11 2000 - The Independent Association of Serbian
Journalists today issued a statement to remind the public that a year
and a half has passed since the murder of journalist Slavko Curuvija
without the murderers or those who hired them being found, or any
official statement by state bodies made on the course of the
investigation. The Association stated that the journalist profession
could not be made democratic until the murderers were found.      

ZORAN LUKOVIC TO BE RELEASED ON WEDNESDAY

BELGRADE, October 11 2000 - Journalist Zoran Lukovic, who is serving
his second month in Padinska Skela, will be released on parole on
Wednesday morning with the prison warden's consent, Lukovic's lawyer
Gradimir Nalic told Radio B92 today.
"We demanded this primarily because the management recommended that he
wrote a request so as to reduce the compensation the new authority
will have to pay. Namely, we will demand legal compensation for
damages, not only because of the financial damage caused to our
client, but also because of moral and social damage. We will seek the
annulment of all the consequences of this punishment," said Nalic.     
Zoran Lukovic was a journalist for Belgrade daily Dnevni telegraf. He
was sentenced to five months in prison because of his controversial
article on the then Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Milovan Bojic.

MORE THAN 100,000 UP IN FLAMES

BELGRADE, October 12 2000 - More than 100,000 German marks kept in the
Radio Television Serbia management safe went up in flames during the
demonstrators' break-in on October 5, FoNet reports quoting
well-informed circles in the new state television. A considerably
larger amount of marks, estimated by some as even half a million, was
reported to have been saved, because the safe had several
compartments. According to FoNet sources, this money was used for "the
daily needs" of RTS.

KOMRAKOV: I CANNOT CHAIR 

BELGRADE, October 12 2000 - President of the Association of Serbian
Journalists Milorad Komrakov told a session of the organisation's
Managing Board that due to a sudden deterioration in his health he
could not convene and chair the meetings, the organisation stated on
Wednesday.
According to state electronic media, Komrakov proposed that in
accordance with the Statute a member be elected to manage the
Association.  
A statement issued by the Association said that next election assembly
of the organisation would be held on November 6 2000 and because of
this latest development, the organisation had not presented this
year's journalist awards.

FILIPOVIC RETURNS TO WORK 

BELGRADE, October 12 2000 - Kraljevo journalist Miroslav Filipovic,
who was released yesterday after serving several months of a
seven-year prison sentence for espionage, told Radio B92 today that he
would return to work immediately.
Filipovic thanked the Serbian and international public who had made
him a symbol of the democratic struggle for change. He also said that
he was not optimistic that journalists would soon no longer need to
fear for their freedom.

DUVE: POLITICAL CHANGE ALSO ACHIEVED BY INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS

BELGRADE, October 13 2000 - OSCE representative for media freedom
Freimut Duve yesterday assessed that in addition to what had been
achieved by democratic forces, political change in Yugoslavia had also
been achieved by independent journalists.

Duve told a press conference in Belgrade yesterday that the new
authorities in Yugoslavia were showing the first democratic signals
and that one of them was the release of imprisoned journalist Miroslav
Filipovic. Duve said he also expected the release of Albanian poet
Flora Brovina within a day or two, a move through which the new
authorities in Yugoslavia would show pragmatism towards the solution
of the Kosovo status, for which difficult and hard talks were
expected.

Speaking about the media in Yugoslavia, Duve said it was very useful
that President Kostunica had included persons in charge of media
issues in his crisis headquarters. Duve also said that experts from
the OSCE, international media and other organisations could be of
great help to the Yugoslav authorities in the transitional period when
democratic institutions and legal reforms were being established. "The
transition of Yugoslav media to market principles should be followed
by legal and financial help from abroad," Duve said pointing out the
possible problems resulting from the transformation of state and
pro-regime media, which have changed their editorial policy since the
October 5 demonstrations. "We must tell the international community
and those who should and want to help that the situation in Yugoslavia
is different now," Duve emphasised.

URGENT RELEASE OF ZORAN LUKOVIC DEMANDED

BELGRADE, October 13 2000 - The Independent Association of Serbian
Journalists today protested against the postponed early release on
parole of Belgrade journalist Zoran Lukovic, who is currently serving
a five-month prison sentence because of an article published in
Belgrade daily Dnevni telegraf.
The Association especially condemned Deputy Justice Minister Zoran
Stevanovic for the two-day delay in announcing the response from the
parole commission. The Association pointed out that the Justice
Ministry itself had suggested that Lukovic seek early parole.
The Association and lawyers from the Yugoslav Committee of Human
Rights Lawyers requested that OSCE representative for media freedom
Freimut Duve and the chief of the Belgrade office of UN
Representatives for Human Rights Barbara Davis demand that the
republic authorities release Lukovic.

HALF A MILLION GERMAN MARKS FOUND IN STATE TELEVISION SAFE 

BELGRADE, October 13 2000 - Radio Television Serbia's Commission
yesterday found 500,000 German marks in the television's safe, Beta
reports today quoting RTS sources.

STATE TELEVISION BROADCASTS 'ANATOMY OF PAIN' ABOUT THE BOMBING OF ITS
PREMISES 

BELGRADE, October 13 2000 - Radio Television Serbia last night
broadcast a documentary film entitled Anatomy Of Pain about the NATO
bombing of its premises last year during which 16 employees lost their
lives, Beta reports. NATO planes bombed the RTS building in Aberdareva
Street in Belgrade at 2.06 a.m. on April 23 last year killing 16
employees and injuring several others. The film is a Radio B2-92
production which was awarded first prize at Belgrade's festival of
short films.       

RTV SAN RESUMES BROADCASTING 

NOVI PAZAR, October 13.10.2000. - Radio Television San from Novi Pazar
resumed broadcasting its radio programme on 98,5 MHz FM yesterday
morning, Beta reports. This station received a permit for experimental
programming back in 1993, but was closed down by Milosevic's regime
several times. The proprietor of RTV San Rusdija Sabotic told Beta
that for now it would broadcast only experimental radio programmes.
RTV San is also rebroadcasting Radio B2-92 programmes.

TELEVISION TERRA WANTS TO NEGOTIATE

BELGRADE, 13.10.2000. -  The editorial collegium and the employees of
Television Terra yesterday decided to appoint Zivojina Djelic as new
acting editor in chief of the station, because of the Managing Board's
failure to meet their demands to begin negotiations with the
Association of Independent Electronic Media and Radio B2-92 on the
regulation of property and legal relations of Televison Terra.

The statement issued by the television, which the Srbijasume company
and pro-regime Radio B92 launched several months ago under the title
Srbijasume 92, said that the Managing Board of Srbijasume had refused
to dismiss the incumbent editor in chief of Television Terra, Yugoslav
Left senior official and Deputy Serbian Minister of Information
Radmila Visic. Visic was accused in the statement of "drastically
moving away from the initial editorial concept of Television Terra, by
introducing political content which opposed the initial concept of
solely ecological, cultural and entertainment programming." The
statement demanded that the company's legal experts urgently begin
negotiations with ANEM and Radio B2-92 regarding the "equipment and
the frequency" of the television station.           

Due to a ruling by the Belgrade Business Court in April 1999, the
Belgrade Youth Council took over the then independent Radio B-92 and
appointed new management.  

The statement issued by Television Terra said that Djelic and the
editorial collegium would continue to fight for the return of the
television station to the air and that it would establish contact with
the majority owner and all the other founders and state public
institutions. The television also sent a public appeal to colleagues
and authorised state bodies not to allow the disappearance of this
station whose ecological concept was unique in the country.

STATE TELEVISION TO PRODUCE PROGRAMME ON MURDERED JOURNALIST

BELGRADE, October 13 2000  - Television Belgrade, part of the state
media network, announced yesterday that it had begun pre-production of
a programme on Slavko Curuvija, the journalist and newspaper publisher
who was murdered in Belgrade last year. The program will be aired in
several days. 

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