MUSIC PROGRAMS ON SERBIAN PUBLIC TV CHANNELS

Abstract

During nearly half a century-long history, Radio and Television of Serbia, nowadays known as Serbia Public Broadcasting Service, met not only with diversity, but also with quality standards in terms of program requirements. Music programs of the Public Broadcasting Service is one of the possible indicators that show that high standards can be reached even in the time of “abundance” of the trash music that overwhelms the comercial television programs. The aim of this paper is to examine the quality and variety of the music programs of Belgrade Television (all three programs –1, 2 and RTS Digital), as well as the presence of various musical genres in these programs. The analysis was conducted on the basis of the RTS Centre for Research of Public Opinion, Programs and Auditorium, based on the 24-hour regular monitoring. The database was provided to us for the purpose of analysis in this paper. The aim of our research analys is the program type and the musical genre.

[1]Belgrade Television is a constituent part of RTS, that is, Serbia Public Broadcasting Service. Belgrade television comprises of RTS 1, RTS 2 , RTS Digital, as well as of RTS SAT and specialized channel “RTS channel package” which are out of scope for this paper.