The Serbian news agency Tanyug quotes the Minister for the Diaspora, Srdjan Sreckovic, as saying that “The Serbian government will rent a satellite as of January 1, 2010, in order to be able to broadcast programmes of Radio and Television of Serbia RTS in the territory of the USA, Australia, and Europe, maintaining that it is in the state interest to air RTS programmes in all countries where Serbs live.”
The minister added that “This is the beginning of a completely new stand toward the diaspora,” suggesting that there will be significant changes in the way programmes are distributed. The minister was only referring specifically to broadcasts in Serbian. As reported previously, a budget has been agreed for continuing broadcasts in Serbian plus eleven foreign languages, but only satellite and Internet were mentioned in the announcement, suggesting that shortwave transmissions may be dropped.
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