Radio Sarajevo is a radio station and magazine that began airing 10 April 1945, four days after the liberation of

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see names in other languages'') is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo ...

, Bosnia and Herzegovina near the end of

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. It was Bosnia and Herzegovina's first radio station. The first words spoken by announcer Đorđe Lukić were "''This is Radio Sarajevo...

Death to fascism, freedom to the people "Death to fascism, freedom to the people!" ( sh-Latn-Cyrl , Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu! , separator= " / " , Смрт фашизму, слобода народу! , sl, Smrt fašizmu, svoboda narodu!, mk, Смрт на фашизмот, ...

!''" Today, its legal successor is national

public broadcasting Public broadcasting involves radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing ...

service,

BHRT BHRT (Bosnian-Herzegovinian Radio Television) ''Bosanskohercegovačka radiotelevizija''/ ''Босанскохерцеговачка радиотелевизија'') formerly known as PBSBiH (Public Broadcasting Service of Bosnia and Herzegovina ...

via

BH Radio 1 BH Radio 1 is a Bosnian national public mainstream radio channel operated by Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHRT). The program is broadcast on a daily basis 24 hours with equal use one of the three official languages in Bosnia a ...

Radio Sarajevo 202

In the urban area of

, the first local radio station was opened on 1 July 1971 under the name Radio Sarajevo 202 (or Sarajevo 202 ( AM from ''frequency 202''). Unlike other 24 local radio stations in BiH, ''202'' was designed to entertain, inform and create a new role of radio listeners.

Radio Sarajevo 3

The third program (''Treći program'') Radio Sarajevo 3 started in 1973 and it was dedicated to the

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and theoretical considerations,

classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" al ...

and art.

Radio Sarajevo 2

Founded in 1975, correspondent network of the new national radio program Radio Sarajevo 2 (''Drugi program'') accounted more than 52 local radio stations with a coverage of about 80% of the population of BiH. Other local radio stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina were mainly funded by

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and set up with the expertise of ''Radio Sarajevo'', as part of the instruments of local governments, together with local newspapers and later TV stations. Radio stations jointly operated together with

RTV Sarajevo TVSA or Televizija Kantona Sarajevo (Sarajevo Canton Television) is a public TV channel founded by Assembly of Sarajevo Canton. Headquarters of TVSA is located in capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo (along with national and entity l ...

national network and other members of the

Yugoslav Radio Television Yugoslav Radio Television (''Jugoslavenska radiotelevizija''/Југославенска радиотелевизија or ''Jugoslavenska radio-televizija''/Југославенска радио-телевизија; JRT/ЈРТ) was the national ...

media system.

Music production

As main national broadcaster for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Radio Sarajevo was responsible for the careers of most of

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's music stars. They signed singers such as Zaim Imamović,

Ismet Alajbegović Ismet ( tr, İsmet) is a Turkish form of the Arabic name Ismet. Along with Turkish, the name is also seen in Albanian, Bosnian, and Macedonian. The name means "honesty" or "purity" and in classical "infallibility", "immaculate", "impeccability" an ...

Zehra Deović Zehra Deović (9 December 1938 – 30 October 2015) was a Bosnian sevdalinka- folk singer and was one of the leading female singers of the 1960s and 1970s in Yugoslavia, along with Silvana Armenulić, Nada Mamula and Beba Selimović. Deović s ...

Beba Selimović Izeta Selimović (27 March 1936 – 10 March 2020), known by her stage name Beba Selimović, was a Bosnian sevdalinka- folk singer and was one of the leading female singers of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s in Yugoslavia, along with Zehra Deović, ...

Emina Zečaj Emina Zečaj (''née'' Ahmedhodžić; 17 March 1929 – 19 April 2020) was a Bosnian interpreter of the traditional folk music, sevdalinka. Zečaj was called an "icon of traditional Bosnian music" by American ''Billboard'' magazine in 2004. Ea ...

Hanka Paldum Hanka Paldum (born 28 April 1956) is a Bosnian sevdalinka singer and founder of the record label Sarajevo Disk. She is regarded as one of the best female sevdah performers of the 20th century and is popular in her home country of Bosnia as well ...

, and

Safet Isović Safet Isović (; 20 October 1936 – 2 September 2007) was a Bosnian singer who performed the Bosnian traditional music sevdalinka. Early life and family Isović was born into a Bosniak family in Bileća, located in the Herzegovina region of mod ...

, among others. They even aired comedy acts like

Momo and Uzeir Momo and Uzeir was a Yugoslav comedy duo made up of Bosniak Rejhan Demirdžić (2 January 1927 – 22 August 1988) and Serbian-born Rudolf "Rudi" Alvađ (17 July 1929 – 21 September 1988). The characters of Momo and Uzeir were created by Niko ...

References

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