Samizdat B92
| B92 | |
|---|---|
| Launched | 15 May 1989 |
| Owned by | Antenna Group |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Audience share | 5.8% (2016) (Audience share from 2003 to 2016) |
| Country | Serbia |
| Headquarters |
Zemun, Autoput 22 |
| Sister channel(s) |
B92 Info Prva Prva Plus |
| Website | www.b92.net |
B92 is a television broadcaster with national coverage headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia. The network's key demographic is chiefly urban and young audience. Veran Matić is the CEO and one of the founders of B92. Dragan Đilas was also one of the founders of B92, he was a news editor at the radio station. Since 19 March 2012, B92 uses a cube-shaped logo in which its name is spelled with a lowercase b (as b92).
The station was a rare outlet for Western news and information in FR Yugoslavia under Slobodan Milošević, and was a force behind many demonstrations that took place in Belgrade during the turbulent 1990s. Due to this, B92 won the MTV Free Your Mind award in 1998, and many other awards for journalism and fighting for human rights. B92 is the subject of the best-selling book This is Serbia Calling.
In April 2008, B92 launched their second TV channel with 24-hour news coverage named B92 Info. This channel is cable only.
On November 3, 2014, B92 started broadcasts in 16:9.
The radio station originally went on the air in 1989 with financial help from the Soros Foundation and USAID, though it was shut down by authorities a few times in its early years.
It was forced off the air for a time in 1999 when NATO bombed Yugoslavia, and government agents cracked down on pro-Western reporting. The government took over the station in 1999 but the team continued broadcasting in borrowed studios as B2-92. In a dawn raid in May 2000 government troops seized everything but Internet broadcasting from secret studios continued until after the ousting of Milošević in October 2000, when the two stations were unified. It has continued as a combined music and news radio station since.
During the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s, B92 was one of the very few sources for news not controlled by the government. Although the government did everything in its power to prevent B92 from transmitting its programs they failed. With the help of Dutch internet provider XS4All, B92 started broadcasting their programs over the internet in 1996. These broadcasts were then also re-transmitted via the BBC World Service while several local stations on the ground made the programs available throughout Serbia In 1996 the Internationale Medienhilfe organisation awarded the title "Radiostation des Jahres" to Radio B92.
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