Radio Televizija Podgorica
Gradska TV was established in 2020, by the Capital of Podgorica, and from the beginning raised controversies in terms of funds invested in the media, and the need for such a large local public broadcaster.
The Council of the Radio Television Podgorica is responsible for supervising local public broadcasters and appointing the director. The new composition of the Council is composed of Vesna Radulović on behalf of the Union of employers as President of the Council, Tatjana Novović, on behalf of the University of Montenegro, Zoran Rakočević, on behalf of the civil society, Aleksandar Đurišić, on behalf of the Chamber of lawyers and Tatjana Džudović, on behalf of the Trade union. The new Council was elected by the local parliament on November 30th 2023.
Since its foundation, Gradska TV was accused of bias in reporting and promoting the interests of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS). The newly elected local government started the procedure to change the leadership of Gradska TV in 2023.
The previous Council was composed of Živko Andrijašević, the president, and members Husein Tuzović, Dragaana Tripković, Božidar Jaredić and Amer Ramusović. Those individuals are Podgorica residents and were appointed by Podgorica’s Local Parliament, according to the Law on Electronic Media.
The TV Gradska is availavle through cable and satellite television networks.
Business Form
Public
Legal Form
Limited Liability Company (LLC)
Business Sectors
Production and broadcasting of television program
Individual Owner
Other Online Outlets
Gradski portal
https://gradski.me/
General Information
Founding Year
2020
Affiliated Interests Founder
Capital City Podgorica Parliament
Employees
53
Contact
ul. 19. decembra 13, Podgorica
Email: office@gradski.me
Website: gradski.me
Phone number: +3820435881
Tax/ ID Number
(PIB): 03328139
Financial Information
Revenue (Financial Data/ Optional)
1.909 milion EUR / 2.005 USD
Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
-0.137 million EUR / -0,143 USD
Advertising (in % of total funding)
Missing Data
Management
Supervisory Board
The Council of the Radio Televizija Podgorica is responsible to supervise local public broadcasters and to appoint the director. The Council is composed of Živko Andrijašević, the president, and members Husein Tuzović, Dragana Tripković, Božidar Jaredić and Amer Ramusović. Those individuals are Podgorica residents, appointed by the Podgorica’s Local Parliament, according to the Law on Electronic Media.
Other Influential People
The newly elected Council of the Radio Television Podgorica has elected a long time journalist Vladimir Otašević as acting CEO of Radio Television Podgorica on December 12th 2023. He had the support of four out of five members of the Council. The fifth member, lawyer Aleksandar Đurišić has publicly stated that he didn’t support the election of Otašević because he claims that his biography was incomplete. He stated that Otašević has excluded to enlist the fact that he is a governmental official and the fact that he was employed in the Daily “Dan” during 2018 and 2019.
Đurišić has also stated that there was confusion about the level of qualifications of Otašević since he has finalized his fifth year of faculty during last year and as such he doesn’t fit into the minimum level of qualifications required by the propositions. „Having in mind this illegality my opinion was that his application should have been rejected as illicit. This is why I have voted against his election” concluded Đurišić.
After the decision on Otašević's election was published many representatives of the civic society commented that the election of Otašević as acting CEO was illegal and appealed on the President of the Council of Radio Television Podgorica Vesna Radulović to urgently convene a new session of that body and dissolve Otašević. Still, there was no reactions on the public appeals from the civil society.
Further Information
Meta Data
The data on the media company was collected from the Central Registry of business entities of Montenegro, Agency for electronic media, Tax administration portal Taxis, website of the media and desk research.
MOM team in Montenegro contacted the media outlet on August 18, 2023, as is the practice for Media Ownership Monitor, to invite the media owners to proactively disclose information relevant to the study.
The annual average exchange rate of the Central Bank for 2022 was used to convert EUR into USD (1,05).