Željko Mitrović
Željko Mitrović is a Serbian businessman who, until 2018, owned a national frequency TV in Montenegro - Pink M. In 2018, Mitrović sold the company to United Media, which was re-brander to Nova M. Mitrović’s Pink Media Group continued to broadcast the Pink M channel for Montenegro, but from Serbia, and it is distributed only via cable operators.
Željko Mitrović started his career in the 1990s in a media environment that was strictly controlled by Slobodan Milošević and Mirjana Marković. Mitrović was a member of Mirjana Marković's party Jugoslovenska levica (JUL) and a federal representative of this party. He was in JUL since 1996, and in this party, he was the head of the marketing department. He was expelled from the party in 2002.
Using his close ties with the ruling elite, Mitrović launched the Pink radio station in 1993, and then obtained the national frequency for broadcasting Pink television in 1994. Just four years later, PINK became the leading commercial television station in the country.
Mitrović always maintains good relations with each new ruling structure.
Since 2012, Pink TV has published several videos and reports broadcast in central news programs targeting members of the opposition and public figures who criticise the regime of Aleksandar Vučić. One of those videos was of Oliver Ivanović, the opposition leader of Serbs from the north of Kosovo, who was killed just a few weeks after the video was broadcast on Pink TV.
Thanks to his close relations with state officials, Mitrović's business has been constantly expanding over the years in various areas and beyond the borders of Serbia.
Business
Production and broadcasting of television programs (Media prime time, 100%, Red Network, 100%, RTV center, 100%)
Air traffic (Air Pink, 48%, Air emeralds, 100%)
Music production (City Records, 100%)
Information technologies (Digital media system, 100%, Pink research & development center, 52%)
Food production (Mgum technology, 80%, United food, 100%, Prolibero, 100%)
Film, audio and television production (United games, 50%, Appolon media, 80%, Pink Films International, 100%, Pink Library, 100%)
PR and marketing (Global digital agency, 100%)
Hospitality (Pink ugostiteljstvo, 100%, S Choice Food, 51%)
Cinemas (Odeon Theatre, 100%)
Leasing (Help team, 50%)
PR and marketing (Pink Media M, 100) Montenegro
Further Information
Meta Data
Pink M is not registered in Montenegro. This is the reason why there is no Montenegrin company owned by Mitrović, available to the public.
REM: TV Pink, Accessed on 1 October 2023