How Novi Sad Allocated Funds to Media in the Project Co-Financing Competition
The highest amount of funding in this year's competition for project co-financing of media content in Novi Sad was awarded to TV Kanal 9 and Poljoprivrednik, each receiving 1.5 million dinars, according to the resolution on the allocation of funds published today.
Novosadska TV received one million dinars each for two media outlets, Novosadska TV and VTV, the same amount awarded to the media outlet Mondo from Belgrade.
Dnevnik Vojvodina Press was allocated a total of one million dinars in Novi Sad for three media projects - Dnevnik, kulturnidnevnik.rs, and sportskidnevnik.rs.
Half a million dinars were distributed to Balkan TV (Sremska Mitrovica), NS uživo, Gradske info, Radio Jugović (Kać), Planeta 21000, TV Most, and Objektivno24h.
Radio Signal and RTI FM 101 each received 300,000 dinars.
Novi Sad distributed a total of 11,600,000 dinars to 18 media outlets and an additional 3,350,000 in grants to nine non-governmental organizations.
Regarding media content in the languages of national minorities, only the portal Romanenevimata.rs, owned by the publisher of Telegraf.rs, received funding in Novi Sad, amounting to 500,000 dinars. The remaining 423,000 dinars were allocated as grants to four non-governmental organizations.
Among others, the projects of Radio 021, TV Subotica, Večernje novosti, KTV, TV Sremska, Telegraf.rs, UNS, and others did not pass the competition.
It is worth noting that among the media that stand out based on the total amount of funding received by the end of August this year in the territory of Vojvodina are Dnevnik Vojvodina Press, Novosadska TV, and Radio-television Pančevo.
The publisher Dnevnik Vojvodina Press received a total of around 25,073,000 dinars. This amount includes two projects co-financed by MIT, four from the Provincial Secretariat, and projects in seven local governments.
At the national level, they were awarded 700,000 dinars for internet media and five million dinars for printed media, while in the Province they received funding for four projects – two at four million, one at five million, and one at 3.5 million dinars.
Two projects of "Dnevnik" will be co-financed through a competition in Sremska Mitrovica – one for 200,000 and another for 800,000 dinars, while they will receive 100,000 from Bačka Topola, 300,000 from Pančevo, 82,000 from Kovin, 300,000 from Kanjiža, 250,000 dinars from Inđija, and 750,000 from Mali Iđoš.
According to the resolutions published by the end of July this year, Novosadska TV received a total of 15,390,000 dinars from competitions. In the MIT competition for internet media, this media outlet was awarded 900,000 dinars, and for television, it received two million dinars twice.
In AP Vojvodina, two projects of this television station were supported, for which they were allocated funding of three and two million dinars respectively.
They also received funding from the competitions of eight local governments, specifically in Sremska Mitrovica (500,000 and 1,000,000), Temerina (400,000), Senta (540,000), Titel (200,000), Kanjiža (600,000), Kula (2,050,000), and Ada (200,000).
More data can be found in the ANEM media competition database.
Source: ANEM
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