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Croatian Radiotelevision
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| Hrvatska radiotelevizija | |
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| Type | Broadcast radio and television |
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| Country |  Croatia |
| Key people | Vanja Sutlić |
| Launch date | May 15, 1956 |
| Website | hrt.hr |
Croatian Radiotelevision or Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT) is the Croatian public broadcasting company. It operates several radio and television channels, over a domestic transmitter network as well as satellite. 60% of HRT's funding comes from television licence fees, with the remainder being made up from advertising [1]
Croatian Radiotelevision has three organizational units, three sister companies - the Croatian Radio (Hrvatski radio), the Croatian Television (Hrvatska televizija) and Music Production (Glazbena proizvodnja).
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Croatian Radiotelevision is a direct successor of Zagreb Radiostation (Radio stanica Zagreb) that has started broadcasting on May 15, 1926. First 14 years of its existence, Zagreb Radiostation was owned by private corporation Radio Zagreb which was nationalized May 1, 1940. After WW2 it operates as state owned Radio Station.
Zagreb Radiostation was the first public broadcasting facility in South East European area, including countries of former Yugoslavia.
At the end of the first year of operation, Radio Zagreb company had little over four thousand subscribers.
On the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Zagreb Radiostation, on May 15, 1956, the first television programme was broadcast from the transmitter built at Sljeme. For the next two years this was the only TV broadcasting service in the southeast European area. On 1 January, 1993, HRT was admitted as a full active member of the European Broadcasting Union.
HRT1 or Prvi program is HRT's primary television channel. Its old name is "HTV1" (Hrvatska televizija, prvi program).
HRT2 or Drugi program is the secondary channel, nowadays primarily used for sports and entertainment.
Up to 2004 there also existed a HRT3 but it was denationalized and made into a commercial concession contract. The current contractor is RTL Televizija.
HRT Plus is the name of HRT's cable TV channel, which is also transmitted via satellite.
"Slika Hrvatske" is a Free-To-Air international TV channel, broadcasting an 8 hour block of programmes for the Croatian Diaspora, during the non-broadcasting hours of HRT Plus.
- Dnevnik, the most popular evening news program in the country
- Latinica, weekly talk show hosted by Denis Latin
- Nedjeljom u dva ("Sundays at two o'clock"), weekly talk show
The Croatian Radio (Hrvatski Radio) features three channels.
- HR 1, which mostly does serious mosaic programme, with regular news every full hour.
- HR 2, which mostly airs entertainment mosaic programme, with news usually every hour at the half-hour mark.
- HR 3, which is mostly for classical music and similar programme.
- HR Sljeme, Local station for Zagreb
- HR Rijeka, Local station for Rijeka
- HR Pula, Local station for Pula
- HR Osijek, Local station for Osijek
- HR Split, Local station for Split
- Glas Hrvatske (Voice of Croatia), International station for the Croatian Diaspora
The Mediumwave transmitter at Zadar was at onetime one of the most powerful in Europe and at nighttime could be heard throughout most of the continent with JRT (Yugoslav) and later HR (Croatian) programming from Zagreb and Pula. However it was badly damaged during the fighting in the early 1990's, and has operated on somewhat reduced power since on 1134 kHz.
- Official Site (Croatian) (English)