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

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ), ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'' is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 2 ...

, 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!''" Today, its legal successor is national

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service, BHRT via BH Radio 1.

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,

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and

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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 local governments 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 BHRT (Bosnian-Herzegovinian Radio Television; ''Bosnian language, Bosnian: Bosanskohercegovačka radio-televizija; Croatian language, Croatian: Bosanskohercegovačka radio-televizija; Serbian language, Serbian: Босанскохерцегова ...

national network and other members of the

Yugoslav Radio Television Yugoslav Radio Television (''Jugoslavenska radiotelevizija''/Југословенска радиотелевизија or ''Jugoslavenska radio-televizija''/Југословенска 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, Zehra Deović, Beba Selimović, Emina Zečaj, Hanka Paldum, and Safet Isović, Kemal Monteno,

Zdravko Čolić Zdravko Čolić (, ; born 30 May 1951) is a Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian-Serbian Pop music, pop singer and widely considered one of the greatest vocalists and cultural icons of the former Yugoslavia. Favourably compared to Paul McCartney and T ...

, Neda Ukraden,

INDEXI Indexi was a Bosnian and former Yugoslav rock band popular in Yugoslavia. It formed in 1962 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and disbanded in 2001 when singer Davorin Popović died. Some of their most notable songs are "Svijet u kome ži ...

Ambasadori Ambasadori (The Ambassadors) were a Yugoslav schlager pop band from Sarajevo, active from 1968 until 1980. The band is most notable for their 1975 hit single , as well as for representing Yugoslavia at the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with " ...

, KAMEN NA KAMEN, among others. They even aired comedy acts like Momo and Uzeir.

References

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