Television in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Television in Bosnia and Herzegovina was first introduced in 1956. First broadcasting in Bosnia and Herzegovina started in 1961 when Televizija Sarajevo began its programme although without its own TV studio at that time (it used Radio Sarajevo's premises for this purpose).

Today there are 150 licensed TV broadcasters in Bosnia and Herzegovina (23 Public and 127 Private). The process of digitization is still going on in Bosnia and it is expected to leave the analog frequency bands. Planned is a public TV corporation which will operate, consolidate and improve quality of all Bosnian public broadcasters.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has 3 public broadcasters financed from radio and television fees (RTV pretplata/pristojba). The amount of television fees in BiH is 7.5 BAM per month (collected along with the bill for landline telephony service).

The national public broadcaster for Bosnia and Herzegovina is BHRT (Radio televizija Bosne i Hercegovine). With one television and one radio channel it covers more than 97% of the country. BHRT is the only Bosnian member of the European Broadcasting Union.

The entity broadcaster for Federation of BiH is RTVFBiH (Radio televizija Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine). The program is broadcast on one radio and one television channel. The entity broadcaster for Republika Srpska entity is RTRS – Radio televizija Republike Srpske. The program is broadcast via one radio and two television channels (one channel is via cable systems).

There are 23 other public TV stations which broadcast only locally at the municipal, local, and regional levels, such as 5 cantonal TV stations (TVSA, RTV TK, RTV USK, RTV ZE, and RTV BPK).

Private TV stations with a nationwide coverage are OBN and Pink BH.

Out of 30 private TV stations, the majority are only locally available, either on a municipal level (e.g. TV KISS from Kiseljak or TV Maglaj from Maglaj) or on a near national level (e.g. Hayat in the FBiH entity or Alternativna TV in the Republika Srpska entity). These broadcasters are primarily focused on the entitiy markets, but they also broadcast a joint program known as "Program Plus" on 85% of the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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