Results of 147 competitions: Most funding awarded to Alo, Informer, and their subsidiary companies, followed by media companies owned by Radoica Milosavljević.

Three local governments are still delayed in publishing the calls for this year, given that the deadline was March 1. These are Surdulica, Vrbas, and Gadžin Han, while in another 12 local governments, decisions on the allocation of funds have not yet been published.

According to the analysis by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) on the first 147 completed media competitions, the highest amount of funding was awarded to Zona plus from Niš – 41.4 million dinars, followed by VTV from Subotica with 35.9 million, Radiotelevizija Pančevo – a total of 35.6 million dinars, Kopernikus Cable Network from Niš with 32.3 million, Novosadska TV with 31.6 million, RTV Vranje with 28.8 million, Dnevnik Vojvodina Press with 29.1 million, and INI media from Niš with 27.5 million dinars.

Over 20 million from the previous competitions also went to Vranjska Plus, RTV Kruševac, RTV Novi Pazar, Televiziji Pirot, TV-5, Televiziji Leskovac, Radio televiziji Stara Pazova, Radio televiziji Kraljevo, and Ibarskim novostima.

Looking at ownership, the highest amounts were allocated to the publishers of tabloids Alo and Informer, who are record holders for violating the Code of Journalists of Serbia – Alo Media System and Insider Team along with their subsidiaries. They have received a total of more than 180.3 million dinars from the previous competitions.

Insider Team received 14.5 million dinars, while Alo Media System received a total of 18.2 million dinars.

Their joint subsidiary, Best Media Team, which has acquired several local media outlets in Serbia since the beginning of the year, has won nearly 120.1 million dinars in media competitions so far. The distribution is currently as follows: 17 million for Radio Televizija Bačka Palanka, 24.5 million for TV-5 Užice, 17.5 million for Konzum lav Čačak, 11 million for the Informational Center Priboj, 6.7 million for Televiziji V5 from Valjevo, 11 million for Televiziji Kikinda, 11.5 million for Lotel Plus, 12.8 million for Santos from Zrenjanin, 6.6 million for Infomačvi, and nearly 4.5 million for Radio Televizija Majdanpek, which has recently come under their ownership.

INI media, which is co-owned by Alo Media System and is the publisher of the unregistered television and portal NišTV, has received 27.5 million dinars to date for project co-financing of media content.

Moreover, media companies from the Radoica Milosavljević group have thus far received 122 million dinars for RTV Kruševac, TV Pirot, TV Leskovac, RTV Caribrod, TV Požega, RTV Brus, Kanal M, SOS Kanal Plus, Telemark, and the Information Center Novi Kneževac.

Firms owned by Goran Lalić - Srbija Danas, which owns Novosadska TV and also possesses Dnevnik Vojvodina Press and Radio Televizija Stara Pazova, have so far received a total of 85 million dinars based on media competitions.

The media outlets of Vladan Stefanović from Subotica – VTV, Magazin Dani, Radio Subotica, and City Radio have received a total of 61.5 million dinars to date.

The media of Slavko Stijaković, specifically 30 of them, have so far been supported with a total of nearly 47.7 million dinars. This includes publishers such as Radio Fruška Gora, Televizija Fruška Gora, Vidik sa Cera, Peto-tri 1941, Portal Ćilim, Vojvoda 1914, Narcis i jorgovan, Omorika i bor, Portal Lazarica, Portal Koštana, Heroji Morave, Portal Ramonda, Braničevski kas, Plavinac, SS Turistička televizija, Portal Voz, Zlatni vir, Skadarlija, Banatski let, Naše trube, Cvet na Tisi, Šest žica, Tvrđava, Talasi Dunava, Hej Salaši, Devič, Božur, RTC Srem, Gradska M televizija, and Radio Breg.

The owner of Radiotelevizija Pančevo, Tatjana Cuk, who also owns 60 percent of the company Tačno from Belgrade, which publishes Tanjug, has generated a total of 45 million dinars from competitions for these two media firms.

As a co-owner with Stijaković in Radio Fruška Gora, Televiziji Fruška Gora, Radio Breg, Gradska M televizija, and RTC Srem, Aleksandar Milutinović is also the owner of TV Apatin, which has so far received 13 million dinars in competitions, and he is also a director of Zogaks from Gornji Milanovac, which has received 3.2 million dinars.

Media companies owned by Aleksandar Vinčić from Šid – Sremska S televizija, Sremski M radio, and Sremske novine, in which he holds just over six percent ownership, have thus far been co-financed with amounts exceeding 26.9 million dinars.

Next are media companies of Danilo Babin - Vesti sa severa and its subsidiary Hashtag Digital Media Group from Novi Sad. These two publishers, under which the media NS uživo, Vojvodina uživo, Moja Bačka Topola, and Moj Vrbas operate, along with the unregistered Documentary TV registered at the same address, have received a total of 20.5 million dinars from the completed media competitions so far.

Interestingly, Zaple Media Group, which only started several local media outlets at the beginning of this year, where Gradimir Banković from the Center for Social Stability is the chief editor, has received support for 12 projects so far worth more than 18.6 million dinars, the highest amount coming from the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications - 4.9 million.

The recently established Association of Independent Journalists (ANS) received 1,110,000 dinars in Belgrade, 500,000 dinars in Novi Sad, and 1.3 million from the Ministry.

ANEM's database with results from the competition for project co-financing of media content for 2026 is available at this link.

The register of selected members of competition commissions for 2026, initiated by ANEM, is available at this link.

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