Radio Visoko is a

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n local public radio station, broadcasting from

Visoko Visoko ( sr-cyrl, Високо, ) is a city located in the Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the municipality had a population of 39,938 inhabitants with 11,205 livi ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

. It broadcasts a variety of programs such as news, music, morning and talk shows. Program is operated by RTV Visoko and it is mainly produced in

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History

Radio Visoko was launched on 26 July 1977 as local/municipal

Radio Sarajevo Radio Sarajevo is a radio station and magazine that began airing 10 April 1945, four days after the liberation of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina near the end of World War II. It was Bosnia and Herzegovina's first radio station. The first words s ...

network affiliate. When

war in Bosnia and Herzegovina The Bosnian War ( / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following several earlier violent incidents, the war is commonly seen as ha ...

started, in 1992, sister company Television Visoko (now RTV Visoko) was founded. With the establishment of the new national public service broadcaster RTVBiH - Radio BiH (now

BHRT BHRT (Bosnian-Herzegovinian Radio Television; '' Bosnian: Bosanskohercegovačka radio-televizija; Croatian: Bosanskohercegovačka radio-televizija; Serbian: Босанскохерцеговачка радио-телевизија'') formerly k ...

- BH Radio 1) radio stations from the former ''Radio Sarajevo 2'' local network generally continued to operate as local public radio stations under the jurisdiction of local authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (municipalities, cantons). Since there was optical visibility of the Transmitter on the hill ''Kula Banjer'' (near Visoko) and

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 ...

Hum Tower The Hum Tower ( Bosnian: ''Toranj Hum / Predajnik Hum'') is a tall telecommunication tower located on Mount Hum in the periphery of Sarajevo. The original tower was finished in the 1960s, rebuilt in the 1980s. During the Bosnian war, on 2 May 19 ...

( Bosnian: ''Toranj Hum / Predajnik Hum''), TV Link was installed as the only media connection of other, then free parts of

with the then

besieged Sarajevo The siege of Sarajevo () was a prolonged military blockade of Sarajevo, the capital of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the ethnically charged Bosnian War. After it was initially besieged by Serbian forces of the Yugoslav People's Arm ...

. The first TV show broadcast was about the damage caused by the shelling of Visoko on July 13, 1992. In addition to informative news shows and rebroadcasts of the TV Sarajevo (later Radio and Television of BiH) programs, a "TV School at a distance" ( Bosnian: ''TV škola na daljinu'') was also broadcast on ''TV Visoko'' during the war, which enabled primary and secondary school students to watch classes during the 1992/1993. and 1993/1994. school years. Radio Visoko continued to operate as a

municipal A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the gov ...

radio station within RTV Visoko. Estimated number of potential listeners of ''Radio Visoko'' in

Zenica-Doboj Canton The Zenica-Doboj Canton (; ; ) is one of ten cantons in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is part of the entity of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The seat and largest city is Zenica. Spread over an area of , the canton roughly occupies the centr ...

, parts of

Sarajevo Canton The Sarajevo Canton, officially the Canton of Sarajevo (; ; ), is one of the ten cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its cantonal seat is the city of Sarajevo, also the capital city of Bosnia and Herzeg ...

and

Central Bosnia Central Bosnia (, ) is a central subregion of Bosnia, which consists of a core mountainous area with several basins, valleys and mountains. It is bordered by Bosnian Krajina to the northwest, Tropolje (Livno area) to the west, Herzegovina to th ...

area is around 63.874 This radiostation is also available via internet and via IPTV platform in BiH (

Moja TV Moja TV is a Bosnian IPTV provider, subsidiary of the BH Telecom, which provides various thematic channels, High-definition video, HD and Timeshift channel, Timeshift channels, Video on demand, video recording, the use of an Electronic Program G ...

- Channel 197).

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www.www.visoko-rtv.ba

Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Radio stations established in 1977 Visoko

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