Results of 156 competitions: Most funding awarded to Alo, Informer, and their subsidiary companies, followed by media companies owned by Radoica Milosavljević.

Two local governments are still delayed in publishing the tenders for this year, as the deadline was March 1, namely Vrbas and Gadžin Han, while solutions for the distribution of funds have not been published in another five municipalities.

According to an analysis by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) on the first 155 completed media tenders, the highest amount of funding was awarded to Dnevnik Vojvodina Press 46.1 million, followed by Zona Plus from Niš – 41.4 million, VTV from Subotica – 41 million, Radiotelevizija Pančevo – a total of 37.8 million dinars, Novosadska TV 35.2 million, Kopernikus Cable Network from Niš 32.3 million, INI media from Niš 27.5 million, and RTV Vranje 22.5 million.

More than 20 million from previous tenders also went to Vranjska Plus, RTV Kruševac, RTV Novi Pazar, Televizija Pirot, TV-5, Televizija Leskovac, Radio Televizija Stara Pazova, Radio Televizija Kraljevo, and Ibarske Novosti.

Looking at ownership, the most funds were awarded to tabloid publishers Alo and Informer, who are record holders for violating the Code of Journalists of Serbia – Alo Media System and Insajder Team along with their subsidiaries. They have received a total of over 185.3 million dinars from previous tenders.

Insajder Team received 14.5 million, 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 so far won nearly 125.1 million dinars in media tenders. This has been distributed as follows: Radio Televizija Bačka Palanka received 17 million, TV-5 Užice 24.5 million dinars, Konzum Lav Čačak 17.5 million, Informational Center Priboj 11 million dinars, Televizija V5 from Valjevo 6.7 million, Televizija Kikinda 16 million, Lotel Plus 11.5 million, Santos from Zrenjanin 12.8 million, Infomačvi 6.6 million, and Radio Televizija Majdanpek, which recently came under their ownership, nearly 4.5 million.

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 for project co-financing of media content to date.

Furthermore, in terms of the amount of funding, media companies from the Radoica Milosavljević group have received a total of 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.

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 105.6 million so far based on media tenders.

Media owned by Vladan Stefanović from Subotica – VTV, Magazin Dani, Radio Subotica, and City Radio have so far received a total of 66.6 million dinars.

Media owned by Slavko Stijaković, specifically 30 outlets, have received support amounting to nearly 47.7 million dinars. This includes publishers Radio Fruška Gora, Televizija Fruška Gora, Vidik sa Cera, Peto-tri 1941, Portal Ćilim, Vojvoda 1914, Narcis and Jorgovan, Omorika and 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 is also the owner of 60% of the company Tačno from Belgrade, which publishes Tanjug, has generated a total of 47.2 million dinars from tenders for these two media companies.

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

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 been co-financed to date in the amount of more than 26.9 million dinars.

Following are the media companies of Danilo Babin - Vesti sa Sever 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 Dokumentarna TV registered at the same address, have received a total of 20.5 million dinars in the completed media tenders 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 serves as the editor-in-chief, has received support for 12 projects so far amounting to over 18.6 million dinars, with 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 the results of the tenders for project co-financing of media content for 2026 is available at this link.

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

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