Croatian Radiotelevision

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**Hrvatska radiotelevizija**

Type	Broadcast radio and television
Country	Croatia
Revenue	1.42 billion kuna (2005)^[1]
Key people	Vanja Sutlić
Launch date	May 15, 1926 (radio) May 15, 1956 (television)
Former names	Radiotelevizija Zagreb (RTZ) (until 1990)^[2]
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, 60% of HRT's funding comes from television licence fees, 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).

1 History
2 Television
- 2.1 Channels
- 2.2 Popular TV programs
  - 2.2.1 Former shows
3 Radio
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

Croatian Radiotelevision headquarters at Prisavlje, Zagreb

Croatian Radiotelevision is a direct successor of Zagreb Radiostation (Radio stanica Zagreb) that started broadcasting on May 15, 1926. During the first 14 years of its existence, Zagreb Radiostation was owned by a private corporation Radio Zagreb which was nationalized on May 1, 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 May 15, 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. On January 1, 1993, HRT was admitted as a full active member of the European Broadcasting Union.

[edit] Television

[edit] Channels

HRT1 or Prvi program is HRT's primary television channel. Its old name is "HTV1" (Hrvatska televizija, prvi program).

HRT2 or Drugi program is the secondary channel, nowadays primarily used for sports and entertainment.

Up to 2004 there also existed a HRT3 but it was denationalized and made into a commercial concession contract. The current contractor is RTL Televizija.

HRT Plus is the name of HRT's cable TV channel, which is also transmitted via satellite.

"Slika Hrvatske" is a Free-To-Air international TV channel, broadcasting an 8-hour block of programmes for the Croatian Diaspora, during the non-broadcasting hours of HRT Plus.

Two new TV channels, HRT3 (featuring sports and entertainment), and HRT4 (a news channel), are planned to launch in 2008, for digital broadcast.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Popular TV programs

Dnevnik, the most popular evening news program in the country
Latinica, weekly talk show hosted by Denis Latin
Nedjeljom u dva ("Sundays at two o'clock"), weekly talk show
Dobro jutro, Hrvatska ("Good morning, Croatia"), mosaic morning show

[edit] Former shows

Kviskoteka (quiz) hosted by Oliver Mlakar, aired in the 1970s and 1980s, later moved to Nova TV
Slika na sliku (political magazine), aired in the 1990s
Upitnik (Question mark) (quiz) hosted by Joško Lokas, aired in the 2000s

[edit] Radio

The Croatian Radio (Hrvatski radio) features three channels.

HR 1, which mostly does serious mosaic programme, with regular news every full hour.
HR 2, which mostly airs entertainment mosaic programme, with news usually every hour at the half-hour mark.
HR 3, which is mostly for classical music and similar programme.
HR Sljeme, Local station for Zagreb
HR Rijeka, Local station for Rijeka
HR Pula, Local station for Pula
HR Osijek, Local station for Osijek
HR Split, Local station for Split
Glas Hrvatske (Voice of Croatia), International station for the Croatian Diaspora

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 fighting in the early 1990s, and has operated on somewhat reduced power since on 1134 kHz.

[edit] See also

List of radio stations in Croatia

[edit] References

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[edit] External links

Official Site (Croatian) (English)
Zakon o Hrvatskoj radioteleviziji (Croatian) (Croatian Radiotelevision Act)
Statut Hrvatske radiotelevizije (Croatian) (Statute of Croatian Radiotelevision)