Radio Televizija Republike Srpske

Radio Television of Republika Srpska

Type	Public broadcaster
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Availability	Terrestrial, cable, satellite and online
Founded	19 April 1992 (1992-04-19) by Republika Srpska
Headquarters	Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Broadcast area	Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Key people	Dijana Milanković, general director1
Former names	Srpska radio-televizija (SRT)
Radio station	Radio Republike Srpske
Television channels	Televizija Republike Srpske RTRS PLUS
Callsigns	RTRS
Callsign meaning	Radio Televizija Republike Srpske
Former callsigns	SRT
Official website	www.rtrs.tv

Radio Television of Republika Srpska (Serbian Cyrillic: Радио Телевизија Републике Српске; Serbian Latin: Radio Televizija Republike Srpske; RTRS) is the entity-level public broadcaster of Republika Srpska, one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It operates radio, television and online services, including Radio Republike Srpske, Televizija Republike Srpske and RTRS PLUS.²

RTRS is based in Banja Luka. It is one of the three public broadcasters in the public broadcasting system of Bosnia and Herzegovina, together with Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHRT) and Radio-Television of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (RTVFBiH).²

RTRS operates a 24-hour television channel, Televizija Republike Srpske, and the public radio service Radio Republike Srpske. It also operates RTRS PLUS, a second television channel, and the Music Production unit of RTRS.

Most RTRS programming is produced in the Serbian language, using both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. The broadcaster's regional radio and television studios are located in cities including Prijedor, Istočno Sarajevo, Bijeljina, Trebinje, Doboj and Brčko.

The radio tradition from which RTRS developed began with Radio Banja Luka. The first experimental programmes of Radio Banja Luka were broadcast in January 1967, while regular broadcasting began on 2 February 1967.²

Television of Republika Srpska began broadcasting on 19 April 1992, when the first edition of its main news programme was aired from the Banja Luka studio. In May 1992, the Channel S service from Pale also began broadcasting. On 31 December 1993, a common transmission and broadcasting system was established for Srpska radio-television, later Radio Television of Republika Srpska.²

RTRS later developed as the public broadcasting service of Republika Srpska, with radio, television, multimedia and music-production units. Its website was first launched in 2001 and later expanded into a multimedia portal with live radio and television streams, news, video, audio and teletext services.²