RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

The first radio program was broadcasted from Zagreb on Мау 15, 1926, thirty years after Nikola Tesla, the distinguished scientist of Vugoslav origin, built the first laboratoij radio station in the United States. This was also the first radio broadcast on the Balkan Peninsula. The first television program was transmitted from Zagreb on Мау 15th, 1956. The dispersion of information in Vugoslavia is an integral part of the socialist order and an essential element in the development of the self-managing society and its individual self-managers. The increasingly successful ascendancy over state influence has placed the dissemination of information in the more direct service of the producers, the workers’ majority, This is a historical process in the development of mass communications media which resulted from the advancement of self-managing relations in all areas of the society production, politics, and in the social, cultural, artistic and scientific fields. That process is accelerated by the strengthening of the direct influence of the self-managers working people and citizens, The position and organization of radio and television in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia are in concordance with the social and political character and structure of the country as a socialist, self-managing democratic community of working people and equal nations and nationalities (ethnic minorities). The radio and television centers are self-managing organizations of associated labor. Ву popling independent program policies and autonomous operations into a uniform communications system, they fulfill the obligations stipulated by the Constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Vugoslavia relevant to the right of citizens to receive prompt and truthful information in their own languages concerning local and foreign events. The nine radio and television organizations in Vugoslavia are now able to utilize their highly-developed technical base and program staff to independently produce, broadcast and exchange programs, among themselves and with other countries, and to саггу out their intricate and responsible civic duty. The principal income of the radio and television organizations comes from subscriptions which they collect