Macedonian Radio Television

Macedonian Radio Television, or MRT (МРТ) for short, is the public broadcasting organisation of North Macedonia. It was founded in 1993 by the Macedonian Assembly.

Its legally defined service is the production and broadcasting of radio and television programmes of all genres, which should satisfy the public information, cultural, educational and recreational needs of the people of North Macedonia.

MRT is directed by Marijan Cvetkovski.[1] MRT has 1,200 employees.

History

Radio in Vardar Macedonia began in 1941, when Skopje was administrative capital of Vardar Banovina in Kingdom of Yugoslavia. On 27 January 1941 Radio Skoplje (Радио Скопље) started broadcasting in Serbian and retransmitting some programs from Radio Belgrade. On 20 April 1941 Radio Skopje was relaunched under Bulgarian control as Radio Skopie (Радио Скопие), retransmitting some programs from Radio Sofia.

Broadcasting in Macedonian began on 28 December 1944 as Radio Skopje (Радио Скопје) with the live transmission of the Second Session of ASNOM

Services

Television

Macedonian Television broadcasts 73 hours of programmes daily on its three national terrestrial and two international satellite channels.

All terrestrial channels air natively in high-definition.

Terrestrial
MRT 1 broadcasts a generalist programming.
MRT 2 is centred towards the Albanian community of North Macedonia.
MRT 3 broadcasts sports and entertainment.
MRT 4 caters to the different national minorities in the country, such as the Turkish, Serbian, Romani, Aromanian and Bosnian communities.
MRT 5 is focused towards children.
MRT Sobraniski Kanal was formed in 1991 as an experimental channel, but now it broadcasts the activities from the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia.

Satellite
MRT Sat started in 2000 and broadcasts a continuous 24-hour programme, which are a selection of programmes from MRT, as well as special programming produced for the channel of 5 hours.
MRT 2 Sat was introduced in 2012 and broadcasts a continuous 24-hour programme in Albanian.[5]

Radio

The framework of the Macedonian Radio consists of three national channels, a satellite channel and a non-profit regional channel. It broadcasts 86.5 hours of programmes daily on its national and satellite channels. Macedonian Radio also broadcasts its programme over the Internet.

The First channel, Radio Skopje, broadcasts a continuous 24-hour programme. It mainly functions as a talk radio.
The Second channel, Radio 2, broadcasts a continuous 24-hour programme, too. It is focused on popular music and entertainment.
The Third channel of Radio Skopje, broadcasts programmes in all the languages of the national minorities in North Macedonia, including Albanian (since 1948); Turkish (since 1945) 5 hours; Aromanian (since 1991); Romani (since 1991); Serbian (since 2003) and Bosnian (since 2003) all 30 minutes each per day.
The satellite channel, Radio Macedonia, commenced in July 2003, and broadcasts a 24-hour continual programme, which is a selection of programmes from Macedonian Radio and its original programme "Radio Macedonia" with a duration of 6 hours and 30 minutes.
Kanal 103 provides FM broadcasting only for the region of Skopje with the mission of promoting avant-garde music and culture.

network logo	Macedonian Television, 2012 logo.svg
network type	Broadcast national television network
country	North Macedonia
available	National; international (via MRT Sat and Radio Macedonia)
founded	28
founder	ASNOM
owner	North Macedonia
launch date	28
callsign	MKRTV
former affiliations	Yugoslav Radio Television (JRT) (1945–1991)
website	https://mrt.com.mk/

Macedonian Radio Television

History

Services

Television

Radio

Management

Notable people

See also

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