The
International Radio of Serbia and Montenegro is the only state-run
short-wave radio station broadcasting its program to all parts of the
world, in thirteen languages – English, French, German, Russian,
Spanish, Arabic, Albanian, Greek, Bulgarian, Italian, Hungarian, Chinese
and Serbian.
The
broadcasting of the program for foreign countries from this region
started on March 8, 1936, in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and an immediate
reason of the establishment of a short-wave radio was the need to
confront the fascist propaganda. In November 1941, during the occupation
of Belgrade in the Second World War, a FREE YUGOSLAVIA radio station
started its work and it broadcasted its program until 1945, from the
city of Ufa on the Ural River (Russia). From 1945, the program intended
for foreign listeners throughout the world was broadcasted within the
scope of Radio Belgrade. RADIO YUGOSLAVIA was established by a
resolution of the Federative People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, and was
working in that status until January 1954, when Radio Belgrade took over
the broadcasting of the program for foreign listeners, again. A Decree
on the establishment of the informative working organization of RADIO
YUGOSLAVIA was rendered on January 26, 1977, and the radio started
broadcasting on February 2, 1978, as a separate institution.
From
1951, the foreign program for the world had been broadcasted through
Stubline Transmission Center, located in the vicinity of Belgrade, and a
new center beside Bijeljina (the Republika Srpska) was completed in
1987. In 1992, due to war operations in the territory of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, two transmitters were moved from Bijeljina center to the
short-wave center in Stubline. During the 1999 NATO bombing of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the main building of Stubline
transmission center was destroyed, along with all transmitters.
Radio
Yugoslavia – the International Radio of Serbia and Montenegro has got
its Internet web site since March 1997. The radio station web site
(radioyu.org) offers a possibility of daily listening to the program
in six languages – Serbian, English, French, German, Russian and
Spanish, or a follow-up in writing, in thirteen languages- Serbian,
English, German, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Bulgarian,
Hungarian, Albanian, Arabic and Chinese.
Beside
the program intended for foreign listeners abroad, since 1991, Radio
Yugoslavia alias - the International Radio of Serbia and Montenegro has
been broadcasting a local program at JU RADIO, on 100,4 MHz.
The
station maintains regular contacts with listeners from the country and
from abroad. Several thousands of letters are received annually from all
over the world. About 190 staff-members take part in the program
realization.
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