Television in Serbia


Television in Serbia was introduced in 1956. It remains the most popular of the media in Serbia—according to 2009 survey, Serbian people watch on average 6 hours of television per day, making it the highest average in Europe.

Free-to-air terrestrial television

has been completed in 2015 with MPEG-4 compression standard and DVB-T2 standard for signal transmission.

National broadcasting

has a total of 7 national free-to-air channels, which can be viewed throughout the country. These are RTS1, RTS2 and RTS3 from the country’s public network Radio Television of Serbia, as well as private channels Prva, O2, Pink and Happy.

Regional and local broadcasting

There are 28 regional and 74 local television channels. Serbia’s northern province, Vojvodina, has a public broadcaster, Radio Television of Vojvodina. It airs 2 channels throughout Vojvodina – RTV1 and RTV2. Via pay tv services those 2 channels can be viewed throughout Serbia, like many regional broadcasters. One of the largest and most watched regional broadcasters is Studio B, which airs across Belgrade’s metropolitan area.

Pay television

Some 67% of households are provided with pay television services. There are 90 pay television operators, largest of which are SBB with 48% market share, Telekom Srbija with 25%, followed by PoštaNet with 5%, and Ikom and Kopernikus with 4% and 3%, respectively.

Cable television

Nearly 39% of households in Serbia have cable television. As a result there are many cable television companies, by far the largest of which is SBB. Cable operators offer not only Serbian channels in their packages but also foreign channels - on average there are 90 channels in basic cable packages.

Internet protocol television

About 17% of households have IPTV. First IPTV was successfully launched in 2008 by Telekom Srbija and its IPTV service, called mts TV, is today by far the largest IPTV platform in terms of numbers of subscribers. In 2013 SBB has launched an OTT service called D3i.

Satellite television

There are 10.4% of households equipped with satellite dishes. Three dominant DTH services are: SBB platform called Total TV, followed by Polaris and Digi TV.

List of channels

Public channels broadcasting nationally

Private channels broadcasting nationally

Public channels broadcasting regionally

ChannelNotes
RTV 1First launched as Radio Television Novi Sad the network was renamed to Radio Television of Vojvodina in 2006. It is broadcast across Serbia's province of Vojvodina. It can also be seen throughout Serbia via pay television services.
RTV 2RTV 2 caters mostly for the minority groups living in the Serbian province of Vojvodina with a large number of foreign language content. It can only be seen in Vojvodina and is not broadcast via pay television services to the rest of Serbia.

Private channels broadcasting regionally

There are 27 private channels broadcasting with a regional licence. Due to pay television services being widely used across the country, many local and regional channels can be viewed throughout the country.
ChannelNotes
Regionalna TVAirs from Novi Pazar
SAT TVAirs from Požarevac
TV BanatAirs from Vršac
TV Belle AmieAirs from Niš
TV BorAirs from Bor
TV EnigmaAirs from Prijepolje
Info KanalAirs from Subotica
TV K 23Airs from Subotica
TV Kanal 9Airs from Kragujevac
RT KragujevacAirs from Kragujevac
TV KraljevoAirs from Kraljevo
TV KruševacAirs from Kruševac
TV Lav plusAirs from Užice
TV MostAirs from Novi Sad
TV Palma PlusAirs from Jagodina
TV PanonijaAirs from Novi Sad
Pannon RTVAirs from Subotica
TV PirotAirs from Pirot
TV PodrinjeAirs from Loznica
TV RaškaAirs from Raška
TV SantosAirs from Zrenjanin
Sremska TVAirs from Šid
TV Studio BAirs from Belgrade
TV ŠabacAirs from Šabac
TV VranjeAirs from Vranje
TV VujićAirs from Valjevo
TV YU EcoAirs from Subotica

Domestic pay-tv channels

Following is table of viewership for 7 national free-to-air channels: