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This paper looks into the concession granted for the new commercial TV station that began broadcasting in May of 2004 on the former 3rd HTV channel. The author was a member of the tender-collecting body. She poses several related questions. In the first part of the paper, she examines the final decision concerning the concession grant in the light of the dubious quality of the so-called media laws in Croatia. In the second part she analyzes the role of the public media in relation to the rampant commercialization of programming. In the third part she looks into the new ownership relations on the media markets & the relentless ownership concentration. By granting this concession, Croatia became the 24th country in which the RTL, a branch of the media giant Bertelsmann AG, is broadcasting. The global trend of the emergence of the media empires has spread even to those markets that have only recently & after much struggle got rid of their former owner: the state. Where does this rise of the new centers of power lead to & what are their goals? 1 Table, 10 References. Adapted from the source document.

This paper looks into the concession granted for the new commercial TV station that began broadcasting in May of 2004 on the former 3rd HTV channel. The author was a member of the tender-collecting body. She poses several related questions. In the first part of the paper, she examines the final decision concerning the concession grant in the light of the dubious quality of the so-called media laws in Croatia. In the second part she analyzes the role of the public media in relation to the rampant commercialization of programming. In the third part she looks into the new ownership relations on the media markets & the relentless ownership concentration. By granting this concession, Croatia became the 24th country in which the RTL, a branch of the media giant Bertelsmann AG, is broadcasting. The global trend of the emergence of the media empires has spread even to those markets that have only recently & after much struggle got rid of their former owner: the state. Where does this rise of the new centers of power lead to & what are their goals? 1 Table, 10 References. Adapted from the source document.

The article presents a digest of the results of research that analyzed the contents of radio broadcasts. The research was carried out in the area of Zagreb proper & Zagreb County. The research covered all the radio programs from this area (a total of 21), 1 Jan 1999-31 June 1999. The results show that the radio programs, on the average, consist of 80% music, about 12% topic-related broadcasts (excluding news), & about 8% commercials. An analysis of the topic-based contents shows that almost 40% belong in the category of so-called entertainment, offered in the most elementary radio forms, which confirms the assumption about the predominance of the so-called "light" programs. Commercial media have to fall in with the market requirements & offer those contents that are sought by their listeners. However, this only emphasizes the need for the public media as a counterbalance to the rampant commercialization. One of the reasons for this is the regular monthly income from subscriptions that creates for the public media a privileged market niche, but also higher expectations regarding the variety of contents & topics they cover & the timely & objective provision of information. 7 Tables, 1 Graph, 2 References. Adapted from the source document.

Electronic media in many countries have from their inception been linked & defined with commercial content. However, together with the development of the system of commercial radio, democratic countries very soon began to build &/or revamp the alternative systems of public &/or noncommercial radio. The 1994 Croatian Law on telecommunications again allowed private ownership of electronic media & consequently the number of radio-stations doubled. There are 114 of them today (excluding Croatian Radio stations). However, the expected democratization of the media resulted only in an increase of commercial & entertaining broadcasts. The true role of the radio as a public media whose purpose is public dissemination of information has been replaced by a new (& profitable) role of public entertainer. Should radio be left there? 2 Tables, 28 References. Adapted from the source document.

Reporters' work from a country at war is eventually subjected to censorship. That the job of war correspondents is dangerous has been proved by the number of journalists who are killed every year & by certain "rules of wartime journalism." The article looks into some forms of wartime censorship in the earlier NATO military actions, describes the censorship during the aggression on the Republic of Croatia, &, on the basis of the available information, addresses the relevant situation in SR Yugoslavia. When this article was written (May 1999), NATO's military intervention in that country was still going on; consequently, newspaper censorship was still very much in force there. 25 References. Adapted from the source document.

The privatization of electronic media in the Republic of Croatia, particularly of the radio, has brought about a plethora of thematic changes in the content of broadcasts. Entering the market has turned many radio programs into "commodities"; radio stations increasingly need competent salesmen more than journalists. Survival in the market depends solely on the profits from commercials (advertising). Are commercial radio stations in the near future going to need journalists at all, or only good entertainers? Who are the radio-stations' employees & editors? Are the people working on the radio soon to become redundant? The study on this topic was conducted in 1997 at 80 local Croatian radio stations. 7 Tables, 5 References. Adapted from the source document.

The concession for the third network of the Croatian TV is the most substantial concession that has been granted for the radio or television broadcasting in the Republic of Croatia. It attracted a number of big-time bidders from all over the world e.g. News Corporation, RTL Group, SBS Broadcasting & CME Group. The article outlines how the decision to disaffiliate the third network from the HTV system was eventually reached, & describes the entire procedure of grant concession, from inviting the tenders & their analysis to the final decision. The concession was granted to the corporation "RTL Ltd" on the basis of the project they had submitted called "HRTL." Thus Croatia became the 24th country in which the RTL Group, a division of the German broadcasting giant Bertlesmann, broadcasts its programmes. On 30 April 2004, eight months after the concession had been granted, the new TV station went on the air. 3 Tables, 15 References. Adapted from the source document.

Was Wesley Clark, NATO's commander-in-chief, right when he said that, instead of launching operation 'Allied Force' against it, the allies should have electronically isolated SR Yugoslavia? Yugoslav hackers & crackers used to good advantage the freedom of cyberspace. During NATO's intervention, they declared a real 'virtual war' to all the countries supportive of this campaign, particularly to the US. By swooping down by all available means on numerous official web pages of various American institutions & totally abusing the communicational freedoms on the Net, Yugoslav hackers in fact demonstrated a small part of the possibilities of the new e-force. However, the deleterious consequences of Yugoslav online users' activities were so harmful that they prodded the international community into issuing a blunt warning to the Serbian Telecom -- we shall switch you off from the Internet! The objective of this research is primarily to evidence a totally novel phenomenon on the Internet, the first organized virtual war taking place in cyberspace, at the time when a real military campaign was waged against SRY. One of the outcomes of these activities was 'striking out' the documents from the Net that had been preserved only in Mucalo & Svilicic's archive. There are no additional scientific resources, since the key sources for this article were the Internet & newspaper articles. Although envisaged as a medium available to all, the Internet must soon be safeguarded & protected by legal means. Otherwise, it might simply cave in under the onslaught of all abuses & innumerable viruses circulating the global cyberspace. Due to the increase in the number of users & services, it may be expected that soon a completely new branch of criminal law is to emerge -- computer crime. 2 Figures, 21 References. Adapted from the source document.