Pro-regime TV returns regional broadcast license

The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) said that it was told by the REM that Informer TV would no longer broadcast on an open frequency. UNS said that it tried to contact Informer TV owner and editor in chief Dragan J Vucicevic but got no reply. It recalled that the cable TV permit is much cheaper than the open frequency permit.

UNS said it was told that the REM would decide on revoking the regional broadcast permit once the new REM Council is formed adding that Informer will no longer have to pay fees to the regulatory body.

Informer was given the regional permit in November 2024, just 3 days before the REM Council’s term in office expired with other media outlets reporting that the decision violated the law on electronic media. Informer is now available across the country because of the sale of the SBB cable services provider in April. That sale meant that pro-regime cable stations which are now available on both SBB and the state-owned Telekom Serbia while the independent stations N1 and Nova S are not.