Serbian electronic media watchdog demands investigation into N1

The REM Council did not adopt a proposal to change the broadcast slots for reality shows despite a large number of demands to do so.

The Council adopted reports on irregularities in advertising in May, August and September and launched proceedings against media service providers Prva TV and Happy TV. A statement said that the Council also decided to ask state bodies to determine facts within their competencies about the operating of N1.

N1 would like to remind the REM Council that N1 TV provides media services under a license from the regulatory body of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for electronic media. The holder of that license is Adria News S.a.r.l. of Luxembourg and the grounds to provide N1 TV media services in Serbia is the European Convention on Transfrontier Television which has been a part of the legal order of Serbia for a full decade as well as the Law on Electronic Media which guarantees freedom of reception and re-broadcasting which the REM determined was the case several years ago.

Instead of clearly stating these facts, the REM Council, under pressure from the Kurir tabloid, asked the competent state bodies a question that it already has the answer to.

The government of Serbia, as the majority owner of Telekom Serbia, never answered the several times posed question about the legal and business justification for the transfer of several dozen million to companies owned by Kurir tabloid owner Igor Zezelj.