Croatian Radiotelevision

Croatian Radiotelevision
Hrvatska radiotelevizija

Type	Broadcast radio, television and online
Country	Croatia
First air date	15 May 1926 (radio) 15 May 1956 (television)
Revenue	1.55 billion kuna ($288.42 million USD) (2008)[1]
Former names	Radiotelevizija Zagreb (RTZ) (until 1990)[2]
Former affiliations	Yugoslav Radio Television (JRT)
Official 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^[update], 70% of HRT's funding comes from broadcast user fees with each house in Croatia required to pay 79 HRK, kuna, per month for a single television), 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).

History

Croatian Radiotelevision headquarters at Prisavlje, Zagreb

Croatian Radiotelevision is a direct successor of Zagreb Radiostation (Radio stanica Zagreb) that started broadcasting on 15 May 1926. During the first 14 years of its existence, Zagreb Radiostation was owned by a private corporation Radio Zagreb which was nationalized on 1 May 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 15 May 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.

In June 1990, the Croatian Parliament renamed the company from Radiotelevizija Zagreb to Hrvatska radiotelevizija. On 1 January 1993, HRT was admitted as a full active member of the European Broadcasting Union.^[2]

The television programme was aired under the name "Croatian Television", Hrvatska televizija (HTV) between 1990 and 1994. Since then, the current name is used. The radio broadcast unit is still referred to as "Croatian Radio", Hrvatski radio (HR).

Television

Channels

• HRT 1 (or Prvi program) - HRT's primary TV channel, previously known as TVZ 1.

• HRT 2 (or Drugi program) - HRT's secondary channel, nowdays primarily used for sports broadcasts and entertainment program.

• HRT 3 - family channel (coming soon)

• HRT 4 - news and documentary channel (coming soon)

• HRT plus - HRT's satellite channel, which is also transmitted via cable and IPTV.

• Slika Hrvatske - Free-to-air international channel, broadcasting an 8-hour programming block aimed at the Croatian diaspora, on air during the non-broadcasting hours of HRT Plus.

In the 1980s there was a third channel called Z3 and later HTV Z3. It was taken off air on 16 September 1991 when its main transmitter, the Sljeme TV tower, was damaged in an air raid. On 7 November 1994 the channel came back on air, this time called HRT 3. The channel was later shut down with its frequency de-nationalized and out up for lease in a public tender in 2004 (it has been used by RTL Televizija ever since).

Popular TV programs

Dnevnik is one of HRT's popular news-programs.

• Dnevnik HRT ("Daily News"), popular midday, evening and midnight news program
• Nedjeljom u dva ("Sundays at two o'clock"), weekly talk show
• Dobro jutro, Hrvatska ("Good morning, Croatia"), mosaic morning show
• Hrvatska uživo ("Croatia live"), mosaic afternoon show
• Transfer, show about the alternative culture and arts (visual arts, music and web culture)
• U istom loncu ("Ready Steady Cook"), cooking game show
• Kod Ane ("At Ana's"), cooking show
• Zvijezde pjevaju ("Just the Two of Us"), big Saturday singing show
• Ples sa zvijezdama ("Dancing with the Stars"), Saturday dancing show
• TV kalendar, long-running daily historical documentary television series

Former shows

• Male tajne velikih majstora kuhinje ("Small secrets of big chefs") (cooking show), aired in the 1980s
• Kviskoteka (quiz show) hosted by Oliver Mlakar, aired in the 1980s and 1990s, later briefly aried on Nova TV
• Slika na sliku ("Frame on frame") (political magazine), aired in the 1990s
• Upitnik ("Question mark") (quiz show) hosted by Joško Lokas, aired in the 2000s, later briefly aired on Nova TV
• Željka Ogresta i gosti ("Željka Ogresta and guests") (talk show), aired in the start of 1990s and later in start of 2000s
• Motrišta ("Points of view") (political informative magazine), aired in the 1990s
• Turbo Limach Show (kids Saturday show) hosted by Siniša Cmrk
• Dan za danom ("Day after day"), mosaic afternoon show
• The Pyramid (Croatian TV series), weekly show hosted by Željka Ogresta, winner of Rose d'Or (Golden Rose) aired 2004-2008.

Upcoming shows

• Dancing on Ice
• Big Saturday Live (Saturday night show)
• Friends (children's Sunday program)
• Talks with Coffee (talk show)
• Sunday Afternoon
• School work (educational school morning magazine)

Currently airing

Internationally created shows currently broadcast by HRT (July 2011)

Original name	Croatian translation	Origin
Gossip Girl	Tračerica	United States
The Scent of Rain in the Balkans	Miris kiše na Balkanu	Serbia
Dirty Sexy Money	Prljavi seksi novac	United States
Without a Trace	Bez traga	United States
Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Zakon i red: Zločinačke nakane	United States
Wire in the Blood	Struna u krvi	United Kingdom
Ghost Whisperer	Šaptačica duhovima	United States
Beverly Hills 90210	Beverly Hills 90210	United States
Full House	Pun Doma	United States
House	Doktor House	United States
Midsomer Murders	Umorstva u Midsomeru	United Kingdom
Curb Your Enthusiasm	Bez oduševljenja, molim	United States
Soy tu dueña	Gospodarica tvoga srca	Mexico
McLeod's Daughters	McLeodove kćeri	Australia
101 Dalmatians	101 dalmatinac	United States
Xiaolin Showdown	Šaolinski obračun	United States
Garfield and Friends	Garfield i prijatelji	United States
Beverly Hills, 90210	Beverly Hills	United States
The Simpsons	Simpsoni	United States
Red Dwarf	Crveni patuljak	United Kingdom
Star Trek: Enterprise	Zvjezdane staze: Enterprise	United States
Jeeves and Wooster	Jeeves i Wooster	United Kingdom

Nationally created shows currently broadcast by HRT (July 2010)

Original name	Format	Origin
Bitange i princeze	sitcom	Croatia
Dolina sunca	soap opera	Croatia
Stipe u gostima	sitcom	Croatia
Mamutica	crime show	Croatia

Coming soon on HRT

Original name	Croatian translation	Origin
Veronica Mars	Veronica Mars	United States
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip	Studio 60 na Sunset Stripu	United States
Lie to me	Lagati mi	United States
Fringe	Resa	United States
Mar de amor	More ljubavi	Mexico
Ashes to Ashes	Pepeo u pepeo	United Kingdom

Radio

Sljeme

Pula

Split

Osijek

Rijeka

Zadar

Knin

Dubrovnik

Map of the eight Croatian Radio regional stations

The Croatian Radio (Hrvatski radio) runs three national and eight local (county-level) stations.^[4]

National stations

The three national stations are available throughout the country and are streamed live via the Internet.

• HR 1 - The primary national-level station, mainly serious programming broadcasting news every full hour.
• HR 2 - Mostly airs entertainment programming, with news usually at the half-hour mark.
• HR 3 - Mainly airs classical music and radio drama.

Regional stations

• HR Dubrovnik - Based in Dubrovnik, covers the Dubrovnik-Neretva County.
• HR Knin - Based in Knin, covers the Šibenik-Knin County.
• HR Osijek - Based in Osijek, covers the Osijek-Baranja County.
• HR Pula - Based in Pula, covers the Istria County.
• HR Rijeka - Based in Rijeka, covers the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.
• HR Sljeme - Based in Zagreb, covers the city and the surrounding Zagreb County.
• HR Split - Based in Split, covers the Split-Dalmatia County.
• HR Zadar - Based in Zadar, covers the Zadar County.

International service

• Voice of Croatia (Glas Hrvatske) - Airs programming for Croatians living abroad, Croatia's minority groups and the international community. While mostly in the Croatian language, the station also features short news and segments in English, German, Italian, Hungarian, and Spanish at different times of the day.

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.

See also

• List of radio stations in Croatia

References

1. ^ HRT.hr
2. ^ ^{a b} "The Evolution of Croatian Radio and Television". Croatian Radiotelevision. 2009-10-01. http://www.hrt.hr/index.php?id=173&tx_ttnews%5Bcat%5D=96&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=23183&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=38&cHash=6ce1c9de2c. Retrieved 2010-09-30. 
3. ^ Circom-regional.org, Funding Arrangements
4. ^ List of radio programme content providers, Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency, retrieved 2011-10-25

External links

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

Coordinates: 45°47′35″N 15°58′29″E / 45.79306°N 15.97472°E / 45.79306; 15.97472