Results of 153 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 competitions for this year, as the deadline was March 1, namely Surdulica, Vrbas, and Gadžin Han, while in another 5, the decisions on the allocation of funds have not been published.

According to an analysis by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) on the first 153 completed media competitions, the most funding was received by Zona plus from Niš – 41.4 million dinars, followed by VTV from Subotica with 39.9 million, Radiotelevizija Pančevo – a total of 37.8 million dinars, Kopernikus Cable Network from Niš 32.3 million, Novosadska TV 35,2 million, RTV Vranje 28.8 million, Dnevnik Vojvodina Press 31.1 million, and INI media from Niš 27.5 million.

More than 20 million dinars in previous competitions were also awarded to Vranjska Plus, RTV Kruševac, RTV Novi Pazar, Televizija Pirot, TV-5, Televizija Leskovac, Radio Televizija Stara Pazova, Radio Televizija Kraljevo, and Ibarske Novosti.

Considering ownership, the most funds went to the publishers of tabloids Alo and Informer, who are record holders for violating the Code of Journalists of Serbia – Alo Media System and Insajder Team along with their subsidiary companies. They have received more than 185.3 million dinars in previous competitions.

Insajder 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 purchased several local media outlets in Serbia since the beginning of the year, has won nearly 125.1 million dinars in media competitions to date. This has been distributed 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 Informative Center Priboj, 6.7 million for Televizija V5 from Valjevo, 16 million for Televizija 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.

Furthermore, in terms of the amount of funds, media companies from the group of Radoica Milosavljević stand out, having received 122 million dinars so far, including RTV Kruševac, TV Pirot, TV Leskovac, RTV Caribrod, TV Požega, RTV Brus, Kanal M, SOS Kanal Plus, Telemark, and Centar za Informisanje Novi Kneževac.

Companies owned by Goran Lalić - Srbija Danas, which owns Novosadska TV, as well as Dnevnik Vojvodina Press and Radio Televizija Stara Pazova, have received a total of 90.6 million dinars from media competitions so far.

Media outlets of Vladan Stefanović from Subotica – VTV, Magazin Dani, Radio Subotica, and City Radio have received a total of 65.5 million dinars to date.

Media outlets of Slavko Stijaković, specifically 30 of them, have so far been supported with a total of nearly 47.7 million dinars. These include 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 47.2 million dinars from these two media companies in competitions.

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

Media companies of Aleksandar Vinčić from Šid – Sremska S Televizija, Sremski M Radio, and Sremske Novine, in which he has slightly over six percent ownership, have been co-financed to date in the amount of over 26.9 million dinars.

Next are the 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, and at the same address is registered the unregistered Dokumentarna TV, have received a total of 20.5 million dinars in the completed media competitions so far.

Interestingly, Zaple Media Group, which just started several local media outlets at the beginning of this year, where the main editor is Gradimir Banković from the Center for Social Stability, has received support for 12 projects to date worth over 18.6 million dinars, the largest portion 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.

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

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

The project of the Association of Independent Electronic Media "Participatory Monitoring 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, which does not necessarily reflect the official views of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.