Radio Television of Kosovo
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Broadcast radio, television and online Analog: Terrestrial transmission, cable TVDigital: DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-T, DVB-T2, |
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| Headquarters | Pristina, Kosovo |
| Owner | Government of Kosovo |
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Key people
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Mentor Shala |
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Launch date
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1945 (radio) 1974 (as RTP) 1999 (as RTK) |
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Former names
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Radio Televizioni i Prishtinës/Radio Televizija Priština |
| RTK 1 RTK 2 RTK 3 RTK 4 RTK Sat |
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Official website
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www.rtklive.com |
Broadcast radio, television and online
Radio Television of Kosovo (Albanian: Radio Televizioni i Kosovës, Serbian: Radio Televizija Kosova / Радио Телевизија Косова – RTK) is the public service broadcaster in Kosovo. It offers two radio stations broadcasting a diverse programming of news and music and four 24-hour television services broadcasting on terrestrial and satellite networks.
RTK replaced Radio Televizioni i Prishtinës (RTP), which ceased to function on July 1990. After UNMIK took over the administration of Kosovo on June 1999 and re-employed former RTP staffs, RTK began broadcasting in September 1999 on analog satellite with a daily two-hour transmission, expanding to four hours per day in November 2000, with programming mainly in [weee language|Albanian]], and partially in Serbian and Turkish. The following July, it expanded to seven hours a day and began offering programming in Bosnian as well.
In 2001, RTK was established as an independent public service broadcaster by a UNMIK broadcasting regulation. The station was initially managed by the European Broadcasting Union to permit time for a non-political Board of Directors to be established. This was in place and the station was independent of the EBU by the end of the year. In January 2002, an office was opened in Tirana, with a website launching in July. A second office was opened in Tetovo in November 2002.
In 2002, at which time it was broadcasting 15 hours a day, 35% of the station's broadcasts were produced externally, with the bulk of programming local. It included news and business coverage as well as farming information. Broadcasting remained multilingual, with programming in another language (the Romani language magazine “Yekhipe") beginning in September 2003. On 22 December of that year, the station began broadcasting 24 hours a day. Also in 2002, RTK began hosting awards with the best news moderator being honored by the "Drita Germizaj" award and the best cameraman by the "Rudolf Sopi" award.
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