Who are the record holders: Organizations that received the most financial resources in media competitions in 2025.

This year, the highest amount of funding in the media content project co-financing competitions in Serbia was awarded to Zona Plus, a company based in Niš, which owns the eponymous television station. According to the database of media competition results compiled by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM), this Niš-based company received funds from various authorities that announced the competitions, totaling 41,160,000 dinars.

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Who are the record holders: Organizations that received the most financial resources in media competitions in 2025.

A comprehensive analysis by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) reveals that the second highest recipient for the year 2025 is the company registered in Niš – Kopernikus Cable Network, which has been supported from various sources with a total of 31,490,000 dinars.

Following this, on the list of those who received the most funds is Radio Television Novi Pazar, which received a total of 31,300,000 dinars.

Among the "top 10" are RTV Kruševac with "earned" 23,770,000 for 16 projects, Televizija Pirot with 22,600,000 for seven projects, Dnevnik Vojvodina Press with 22,182,000 for 19 projects, Vranjska plus with 21,835,000 for 13 projects, RTV Vranje with 21,620,000 for 13 projects, Televizija Leskovac with 20,800,000 for ten projects, and RTV Trstenik with 20,050,000 for nine projects.

List of organizations that received the most funding in the competitions (over 10 million dinars):

  1. Zona plus, Niš – 41,160,000 – 25 projects
  2. Society for Radio and Television Activities Kopernikus Cable Network, Niš – 31,490,000 – 14 projects
  3. Radio Television Novi Pazar – 31,300,000 – 2 projects
  4. Radio Television Kruševac – 23,770,000 – 16 projects
  5. Televizija Pirot – 22,600,000 – 7 projects
  6. Dnevnik Vojvodina Press, Novi Sad - 22,182,000 – 19 projects
  7. Vranjska plus - 21,835,000 – 13 projects
  8. Radio Television Vranje - 21,620,000 – 13 projects
  9. Televizija Leskovac – 20,800,000 – 10 projects
  10. Radio and Television Trstenik – 20,050,000 – 9 projects
  11. Novosadska TV – 19,190,000 – 18 projects
  12. TV-5, Užice – 16,810,000 – 12 projects
  13. Radio Television Kraljevo and Ibarske novosti – 16,020,000 – 8 projects
  14. Radio Television Kanal M, Paraćin – 15,750,000 – 14 projects
  15. VTV Subotica – 15,570,000 – 10 projects
  16. Studio B, Belgrade – 14,900,000 – 5 projects
  17. Radio Television Caribrod, Dimitrovgrad – 13,200,000 – 6 projects
  18. Kompanija Novosti, Belgrade – 12,890,000 – 16 projects
  19. Radiotelevizija Pančevo – 12,118,000 – 20 projects
  20. Radio-Television AS, Šabac – 11,960,000 – 8 projects
  21. TV Apatin – 10,880,000 – 9 projects
  22. Melos, Kraljevo – 10,550,000 – 8 projects
  23. Insajder tim – 10,500,000 – 3 projects
  24. Moto boem trans, Negotin – 10,180,000 – 8 projects

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) has published a database with the results of all completed competitions during 2025 for project co-financing of media content, along with a list of organizations that were awarded based on the competitions, searchable by project submitters.

The database was created based on published decisions regarding the allocation of funds released on the platform of the Unified Information System (JIS) of the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications.

Currently, the database contains 1,755 projects and 654 organizations that have been co-financed by the Ministry, the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, and local governments this year.

The database will be updated when competitions in eight more local governments are completed. Among these are Bujanovac, Čačak, Vrbas, Preševo, Sjenica, Gadžin Han, Lazarevac, where the competition was canceled and no new one has been announced, and Surdulica, which has yet to announce a competition for 2025.

The database is sorted in alphabetical order of the names of project submitters, and searches can be conducted using filters by their names.

The complete database is available online at THIS LINK.

As a reminder, media and journalism associations (ANEM, UNS, NUNS, Lokal Pres, and the Association of Media) submitted an official letter to the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications in August of this year with proposals for changes to the process of project co-financing of media content, which included a request to establish a database of media projects within the JIS that would be searchable by publishers and media at the national, provincial, and local levels to ensure easier access and greater transparency in the process at all levels of government and insight into the database of all supported projects through project co-financing. No response has been received from the Ministry so far.

The project of the Association of Independent Electronic Media “Participatory Monitoring of the Implementation of the Project Co-Financing Process” is supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the MATRA program. ANEM is solely responsible for the content, which does not necessarily reflect the official views of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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