RTV Pink
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| Launched | 1994 |
| Owned by | RTV Pink International, Željko Mitrović |
| Country |  Serbia |
| Website | www.rtvpink.com |
RTV Pink is a popular TV network based in Serbia with stations in several nearby countries.
The controlling company is called "RTV Pink International", owned by Željko Mitrović.
From the very beginning TV Pink has offered a light entertainment program, mostly a compilation of movies, American sitcoms, dramas, soap operas, and Latin telenovelas, as well as locally produced talk/variety shows and lately sitcoms. All Pink channels promote the turbo folk music genre. Recently Pink has released 9 more expirimental channels via satellite, they include PINK BiH, Pink M, RTV Pink, Pink News, Pink Nostalgie, Total Pink, Pink Films, Pink Movies, and Pink Music.
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[edit] Programming
[edit] Entertainment
Right from its inception in 1994 TV Pink has strongly been oriented towards entertainment programmes. Different talk/variety shows endure to this day. Variety programmes like City Club (following the general format of BBC's Top of the Pops) and much maligned Grand Show (mostly featuring turbofolk performers) were the most popular in the beginning with the latter still going strong almost 13 years later.
Following its success with variety format, Pink brass started adding more traditional talk shows with Jedan pa tri (hosted by Tanja Vojtehovski), Svet oko nas (Ivana Zarić), Do poslednjeg daha (Miodrag Popov), Maksovizija (Milovan Ilić), etc. leading the pack. Others similarly set programmes that appeared in this period and onwards included: Svet Plus (Jelena Bacić-Alimpić), Pet do dvanaest (Bosko Jakovljević and Aleksadra Kajganić), Lepota, zdravlje i jos ponesto (Jelena Bacić-Alimpić), Sav taj pink (Bosko Jakovljević and Aleksadra Kajganić, and alternately Ognjen Amidzić and Marija Jaksić), etc.
Special mention goes to the short-format programme City - sort of a shorter multiple daily version of entertainment news shows in the vein of Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood - which over the years became the network's signature show and launched the careers of many its personalities who became minor celebrities in the process (Bosko Jakovljević, Biljana Obradović, Rada Radenović, Bojana Nikolić, Adrijana Cortan, Aleksandra Kajganić, Ivana Baltić, Ana Pendić, Marija Macić, etc).
Over the last 5-6 years, following a similar global trend, Pink started putting on a slew of reality and quiz shows, many of which were produced in co-operation with Emotion production company, like Leteći start (Milan Kalinić and Ana Mihajlovski), Potera, Zvezde ulice (Miki Perić), Ruski rulet (Irfan Mensur), Pravo lice (Sanja Radan), (Ne)moguća misija (elaborate candid camera show in the vein of Punk'd), Sve za ljubav (Milan Kalinić and Sanja Marinković), Menjam zenu (local version of Wife Swap), etc. Also, more talk-shows were added like Magazin IN (Sanja Marinković), Bravo Show (Jelena Bacić-Alimpić), etc.
[edit] News
Following a regime change in Serbia on October 5, 2000, RTV Pink started assembling its news division headed by Tanja Jordović. At first the entire production was limited to Infotop, short multiple daily bulletin-type broadcast along with a central 30-minute newscast around 7pm. It mostly consisted of news agency reports as Pink didn't yet develop a traditional network of correspondents.
Around the same time, weekly political panel discussion talk-show Klopka hosted by Olivera Kovačević appeared on the network drawing big ratings but also much criticism for seemingly copying its concept from Olja Bećković's Utisak nedelje that aired on Studio B since 1991. Kovacević took her show to BKTV in 2003, while Pink introduced a virtually identical talk-show Zamka hosted by Tanja Vidojević as replacement. Zamka got cancelled in fall 2005 as it never managed to recover the loss of ratings caused by Klopka's departure.
During fall of 2005, Pink created a lot of buzz in regards to its news division. For months in advance, the network agressively promoted the October 2005 start of its central daily newscast Nacionalni dnevnik. It came as a replacement to recently scrapped Infotop, placed in the 7:30pm timeslot up against RTS' longtime signature newscast Dnevnik 2. And although it premiered to much fanfare and anticipation from a spacious new studio, Nacionalni dnevnik soon became the target of wide criticism, even ridicule, for its amateurish approach and various on-air errors and blunders. Since then, the broadcast somewhat stabilised though it still lags far behind Dnevnik 2 in the overall viewership.
Parallel to Nacionalni dnevnik, Pink also started the weekly political talkshow Piramida hosted by Branka Nevistić, which has managed to build a sizable viewership base.
[edit] Criticisms
RTV Pink has been criticized as sensationalist and vapid. According to the Open Society Institute, which monitors telecommunications independence within the European Union, as a result of private encroachment in the television industry, stations like Pink have "resorted increasingly to low-quality entertainment and sensationalist newscasts." [1] Other criticisms include the granting of equipment and stations to Pink as a result of their alleged support of Slobodan Milošević's government during his time in power. [2]
[edit] Channels
[edit] TV
[edit] Terrestrial
[edit] Satellite
- Pink Plus - Based in Vienna, Austria
- Pink Extra - Broadcasts programs from Pink BH[3]
[edit] Radio
- Radio Pink - Able to be heard all over the world via Satellite
- Radio Pingvin - Only in Serbia
[edit] External links
- Official Site
- Paradox of Pink (Columbia Journalist Review)
- Pink Files (by B92 - in Serbian)
- Satellite Carrier of PINK in America
