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HU OSA 308
Fonds 308: Monitoring of the Yugoslav Television

Date(s) 1996-1999

Extent and medium

Estimated total:
439 video cassettes-VHS, 2 floppy disks (3 1/2 in)
Currently processed:
445 VHS, 11 linear meters

Name of creator(s)

Radio Televizija Srbije (Serbian Broadcasting Corporation)

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Purchased from VIN (Weekly Independent News, Belgrade) , later from Gordana Susa as a private person, editor-in-chief at VIN

Scope and content

Off-air recordings of the evening news programs (7:30 p.m.) and other political programs of Belgrade’s state-controlled television. Few programs produced by independent television stations of Yugoslavia, such as Television BK (Brothers Karic) and Television Politika are also part of this fonds.
Valuable parts of the fonds are the political programs and feature films screened for propaganda purposes during the three months of NATO bombing in 1999.
Also includes analysis and commentaries of television programs by an independent Serbian journalist.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyrights held by producers

Language/scripts of material Serbian

Finding aids

Related materials

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Andrea Jakobs 1998-1999; described by Suzanne Adamko 1998, revised by Zsuzsanna Zadori September 2002
Online version updated 18 December 2008
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