30. 04. 2004

Broadcast Act by November 1

PRIJEPOLJE, April 30, 2004 – Serbia’s Broadcast Act will be adopted by November 1, Culture Minister Dragan Kojadinovic said today. “Although a lot of time has been wasted with no concrete results during the past period, the new government will deal very seriously with solving unresolved issues in local media operations,” he said. Speaking in Prijepolje, the minister said that the guidelines for privatisation of media were being prepared, together with a development strategy for the broadcast system in Serbia. “Do you remember what it was like at the beginning of the 1990s? Today we are faced with a different problem. We have swung from one extreme to the other. We have a lot of newspapers, a great many radio and television stations and a smaller market than ever before. Still, if we have managed to make so many things during the worst of times, I am sure that we will succeed in preserving the greatest part of what has been made from the nineties up to now,” said Kojadinovic.