Yugoslavia [LINK] is no more. Yugoslavia only existed from existed from 1918 to 1992 and in many ways it was Josip Broz Tito though force of will, (and every other kind of force) which allowed it to survive that long. Slobodan Milosevic was able to wrest sovereignty for Serbia and without that majority, the states separated. But let's move on from the big political story to our side quest.
As an unexpected side-effect, this break up led ICANN to retire the .yu top level domain in March of 2010. [SOURCE] (This is well explained by Jacob Filipp.) [SOURCE] So in 2010, the majority of Yugoslavian websites dissapeared, or migrated to other TLDs, including every radio station website. That would be the end of it, nothing but human memory and magnetic decay, except that the Wayback Machine exists...
With thanks to the miracle of the Wayback Machine have cached copies of many of these radio stations just as they were prior to 2010, though many ceased updates prior to 2002. There were lots of animated gifs. This is not a complete list of course, Yugoslvia was almost 99k square miles in size. That's about the size of Wyoming in American terms. Consider this a highlight reel.
RADIO 106 [LINK] - Radio 016 began operating on March 29, 1993. It was the first radio station in southern Serbia and the third in Serbia after Radio "PINGVIN from Belgrade and Radio 34 from Kragujevac). It operated on the frequency 101.60 MHz and with a 250 watt transmitter.
RADIO 021 [LINK] The earliest capture is from 1999 and mysteriously reports "On Thursday, March 25, the Federal Ministry of Telecommunications temporarily confiscated the transmitter of Radio 021, which has not yet been returned." They appear to have returned to broadcasting and the website continued to be updated through early 2007 referring to a new domain outside of Yugoslavia [LINK] perhaps not feeling very confident about the future of the new TLD.
RADIO 101 [LINK] MUSIC RADIO 101, claimed to be the first and oldest music radio in the country, but only began broadcasting on May 3, 1989. It broadcast on 101.4 and 98.5 MHz. Though the resume of EIC Zarko Obradović I found the station came from the Radio Belgrade "EKO Program" in the 1980s. This source confirms Radio 101 stopped broadcasting in 2006. [SOURCE]
RADIO 103 [LINK] Radio 103 is a radio station located in Subotica, and covers the area of North Bačka and part of the area of West Banat in Serbia near the Hungarian border. It first signed on in 1989 and had been on air for 17 years when the website ceased updates.
Radio 31 [LINK] Radio 31 broadcast from Užice in what is now Western Serbia. It began operating on April 1, 1993. It was block formatted in that era, playing pop and rock but with robust new programming. It seems to be primarily folk music now. They exist today as Radio 31+ an internet-only station on a Russian TLD. [LINK]
RADIO 5 [LINK] Radio 5 had a fun anthropomorphic bio. It described itself as a Leo born on August 10, 2001 in Novi Sad. It first broadcast on 107.5 MHz and signed on formally on 20 at 11.55 AM.
RADIO 90 [LINK] Radio 90 is still using the same yunord email they had on their site in 2005. They are still on air and have been broadcasting since August 11, 2000.
RADIO ADA [LINK] Their 2009 site was just a .pls file an an animated gif. Earlier versions had a little more information. The station was based on Vojvodina on 107.7. They are still on air but have no website that I can fine.
RADIO ANTENA [LINK] In Novi Sad on 106.0 Mhz this station described it self as "folk radio." Older versions have little info aside from broadcast schedules. The images show kids which made me think it was a college station.
RADIO AS [LINK] This station broadcast on 101.2 starting on October 26th 2000 in Novi Sad. It mised music and talk radio programming. Their coverage map confirms they also broadcast on 101.6 in Subotica with some signal clearly receivable in Hungary.
RADIO BARAJEVO [LINK] Broadcasting from 105.9 this station broadcast from Barajevo in Belgrade, Serbia. It appears to be some kind of municipal service. The site was taken down before 2003 and had not been updated since 1999.
RADIO BEOGRAD [LINK] This was also known as Radio Yugoslavia. Versions of the page exist from 2007 which reveal a third draft of the site. Another cache exists on a .com domain here. No cache of Beograde 2 survives. The station still exists today operating 8 channels: Radio Belgrade 1, Radio Belgrade 2, Radio Belgrade 3, Radio Belgrade 202, Radio (RTS) Vrteshka, Radio (RTS) Rockenroller, Radio (RTS) Jukebox, and Radio (RTS) Pletenica. Vrteška, Rokenroler, Jukebox and Pletenica only signed on in 2019.
RADIO BIS [LINK] Radio Bis was another folk music station. In 2005 boat that it aired original national music "devoid of kitsch and Islamization." Oh my. Their motto was "Sumadija radio for generations from two to one hundred and two years old" Sumadija was presumably it's city of license, probably near it's capital, Kragujevac in Serbia.
RADIO BUBA MARA [LINK] This cache is mostly a history of broken gifs. There is one bright yellow incarnation from 2004 which mysteriously says to click on the Ladybug. All links beyond are broken. The station still exists on 105.2. They are self-described as Macedonia's favorite online radio station.[LINK] The new site has a history page which traces the station back to April 1994 as the most listened to station in Skopje.
RADIO BRAVO [LINK] Very little of this site was cached. It broadcast on 103.5 from Pokrivamo Croatia. The motto "good music lovers club" implies it was a music station.
RADIO BUM [LINK] The page was constructed entirely of gifs carefully positioned. One cache from 2002 yielded the below logo. A 2007 cache yielded a station history. It signed on April 26th 2001. broadcasting music and news from Boljevac, Timocka Krajina, Serbia.
RADIO BUCA [LINK] Radio Buca was founded on November 20, 2000 as a folk music station. It was on 89.0 Mhz broadcasting out of Novi Sad.
RADIO BUS [LINK] Bus appears to be a community station of some kind. The history gives no start date but reports "The main mission of BUS radio is to inform, entertain and educate the target group of citizens in the wide area where BUS can be heard." They broadcast on 94.1 in Novi Sad.
RADIO B92 [LINK] This station was the leading independent pro-democracy station in Yugoslavia. It was shut down by the Serbian government in April 1999. The site moved freeb92.net by 2000. That year their about section became mostly about their survival. " Information and contributions from a number of associates will also be published on the Free B92 site. These will throw more light on the bombing of Yugoslavia and the consequences of this. The common aim of these projects is to preserve the spirit of professionalism which has been stripped from everyday communication in Yugoslavia through the Belgrade regime’s banning and takeover of Radio B92."
RADIO CITY [LINK] This site was built in flash so most of the content was lost. From the one surviving line of text I gather is was a news station. There are multiple stations with that brand today in the region.
RADIO DAK [LINK] Another folk station. This one was 9 years old in 2006 meaning it was founded around 1997. The station broadcast on 106.3 from Ćuprija. Their logo includes what is surely an unlicensed image of Daffy duck so I'm not going to post it. This may be a pun. Dak does not mean duck, it means station. These are english letters in a nation which mostly uses Cyrillic letter. So Radio Dak means radio station. (радио дак is Duck Radio)
RADIO DELFIN [LINK] According to the website Radio Delfin is the most listened to radio station in Uzice. It plays all commercial music except folk, which might be a relief by now. It also has no news. Their signal covered an area which included Ovčar Banja and Zlatibor in Serbia.
RADIO DOINA [LINK] Radio D 96 actually had an English version. This station was based hear the Romanian border in Grabovica, Serbia.They had little information posted but a small pology for their home brew HTML page " We have not abandoned the updating of the presentation, but at the moment the connection to the Internet is quite bad, so a lot of effort is put into updating it." There are three station with that brand now in the region but none on 96.
RADIO DUGA [LINK] This station operated on 100.2 in Pozarevac in the Braničevo District in eastern Serbia. They were the third private station in Serbia and broadcast live in the style of Radio Luxembourg. It began broadcasting April 28th 1992. This site was last updated in 2006.
RADIO DUNAV [LINK] Dunav broadcast on 98.8 in Novi sad and 99.5 in Belgrade. The website had no info beyond that and the heart-like logo. A station with that brand operated today on 101.5 [LINK] It purports to have been using the brand since May 18th, 1998 from Vukovar in Croatia. It also reports that over the years they have broadcast locla programs in the languages of "Hungarian, Ukrainian and Ruthenian national minorities." That's only the second time I've ever read the word Ruthenian but we will get to Dorothy Thompson another time. It describes the music mix as (50% folk-folk , 25% local pop-rock and 25% foreign music). That's how Canada does it right?
RADIO DZENARIKA [LINK] This station broadcast on 103.8. Dzenzarika just means plum. Modern streaming sites describe it as a Serbian folk station. It signed on in 1992 and is based in Cack Serbia. [SOURCE]
RADIO GAGA [LINK] Radio GAGA was the first private radio station in the Jablaničko Okrug, which started broadcasting in 1994. It operated on 105.0 Mhz broadcasting mostly news.
RADIO GALEB [LINK] Broadcasting on 104.6 this station covered the municipalities of Veliko Gradište, Golubac, Požarevac and parts of the municipalities of Smederevo, Majdanpek, Petrovac na Mlavi, Kucevo, Bela Crkva, Vršac, Kovin, Žagubic. They first began broadcasting on February 14th 1995. Their motto means "Fly On Wings of Radio - The Seagull"
RADIO HORREUM MARGI [LINK] Aka Radio Margi, this station broadcast from Ćuprija, on 95.1 MHz. It signed on in 1992 as the first local radio station in the city. It apped a second signal on 100.3 as a simulcast. They advertised a 100 km coverage area. The Romans founded the town as a fort Horreum Margi, and the station is named for it. (It means Marava River Granary)
RADIO INDEX [LINK] This website cache is covered in news blurbs from 2001. There is an English version of the page with a history! [LINK] It was founded in June of 1992 as a college radio station by Nenad Cekic and a group of enthusiastic Belgrade University students, over the years Radio Index grew into a major player on 99.8 FM in Serbia's media landscape. Their media coverage included protests against Milosevic. The station was banned by Milosevic in 1998, and it's EIC Nenad Cekic arrested. After NATO bombing ended in 1999, Radio Index returned after 9 months of silence.
RADIO JAT [LINK] Radio Jat was established on March 21st, 1999 on 95.7 MHz in the Belgrade area. It aired a mix of popular music and news. Station manager Momcilo Kostic might be the same one who teaches engineering at U. of Sarajevo today.
RADIO KNEZ [LINK] Every cache version of this site is all broken image links. A couple Top 10s survive. There is no information online.
RADIO KULA [LINK] Radio Kula broadcast on UKT 89.2 Mhz for 6-24 hours and programs are in broadcast in three languages: Serbian, Hungarian and Ruthenian. They operated out of the Information and Propaganda Center KULA (IPC Kula) and printed a newspaper called the Kula Commune. It appears to have been liquidated in 2007. [SOURCE]
RADIO KRAJINA [LINK] - no info, just links to other sites. The incomplete site was retired before it was finished. They are still around today on a new domain.[LINK] The new station about section has no history. But their new site dopes have a 24/7 folk music stream.
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