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| Radio NB map from their 2002 site |
First, a foot note from Part 1. The radio format "folk" in this region is going to be music most Americans would call Polka. But the usage here is more like ethnic, thought there are multiple ethnicities at play... hence the break-up really. I will say that the more you listen, the more you can hear other cultural influences that take the music somewhere distinctly different than a Polish Polka. But still.. like Reg Mex... there's a lot of Polka in there.
As I browse the sites for information I keep finding references to NATO bombings and it's not lost on me how bloody the break up was. This was not an amicable separation. This was a collapse driven by nationalistic rivalries and multiple wars of independence. If you are looking for more in that history I recommend the BBC documentary series The Death of Yugoslavia. It's on Youtube here.
RADIO LASAREVAC [LINK] The Radio L website was loaded with Flash so it's content is mostly lost. The landing page gives the frequencies 103.6, 89.3 and 648 ST. The about section is blank. According to Streema today the station is based in Lazarevac, Serbia and the station Airs Adult Contemporary and Top 40/Pop music.
RADIO MADONA [LINK] This pop station broadcast on 101.00 and 104.9. It had some connection to a disco of the same name. It's hard to know if that was metaphorical or literal. The website says that it had only two shows: Hit Needle - Saturdays from 3:00 - 9:00 PM and DJ Time & Top 20 - Sundays from 9:00 to Midnight. Their transmitter was on Crni Vrh, a mountain in eastern Serbia between towns of Bor and Žagubica.
RADIO MARIJA [LINK] This was a religious station with the motto "God's voice in every house" The name means Radio Maria. It broadcast on 102.9 in Novi Sad. The station signed on in 1987 and is still on air today [LINK] The new site uses the TLD .cr indicating a home in the modern boarders of Croatia. That modern site explains:
"The Radio Marija Association is a non-profit, non-governmental and non-political civil society organization, founded in Croatia in 1995. The first initiative committee was created within the framework of the Rosary Movement for Conversion and Peace, and on the eve of its foundation, cooperation was established with Radio Maria of Italy. The idea of Radio Marija and the first program originated in 1983 in a parish in Erba in northern Italy."
RADIO MORAVA
[LINK] Radio Morava signed on July 1st 1996. on 98.4 broadcasting folk music. It was based in Jagodina in central Serbia. The site information suggests they had live music as well. The .rs TLD of their new site [LINK] indicates their domain is hosted Romania though they are still physically in Jagodina.
RADIO NB [LINK] Located in Novi Becej, at the center of Vojvodina, This station was founded in 1998 by the Novi Bečej Municipal Assembly and broadcast programs in Hungarian and Serbian. It's signal was on 106.1 and the map was cached and pictured at top. These municipal stations seem to be akin to a community station in some ways.
RADIONICA [LINK] This is not a radio station but I included it because it's the only website I found which actually addressed the dissolution of the .yu domain. It describes the process for transferring .yu websites which would very messy and bureaucratic "I hope that this whole campaign about the National Internet domain will have some results and as soon as possible, because this current situation is unsustainable and unacceptable.." I think this was a web host. Radionica means workshop in Croatian but I'm keeping it here for it's ICANN commentary which is lengthy and detailed.
RADIO NOVI SAD [LINK] This station was founded in 1949, possibly the oldest in the set if not the region. It broadcast in Derbian, Hungarian, Slovak, Ruthenian, Romanian, Ukrainian and Romanian. It operated Radio Stotka on 100 Mhz and Radio Novi Sad on UKT 89.5 MHz and 93.7 MHz, St 1485 kHz which operated 13 hours a day. It describes the programming as "The basic purpose of this City Radio service has been reporting from the City Assembly meetings, the government and all the other city authority body. It also means covering the work of public utilities and services under city control." But it was also home to the Tamburitza Orchestra and had robust music programming.
RADIO NOVOSTI [LINK] Some of the flash survived on this one. Novosti means news, and this is an all news station which broadcast on 104.4 in Begrade, Serbia. It operated today on 104.7 on a .com TLD. [SOURCE] That news site confirms they signed on in 1993 and today broadcasts with 10 digital channels.
RADIO PALIC [LINK] This station broadcast on 103.0 starting in 1998 from Subotica, Serbia. The site is mostly text. But the a staff list survived. I found a news article which suggested a radio tower in Palic was bombed by NATO in 1999. It may have been destroyed. The station does not exist today. There is another station Radio 103 which seems to occupy the same frequency. [SOURCE]
RADIO PINGVIN [LINK] Pingvin means Penguin. It signed on November 23rd 1991 broadcasting in Belgrade on 90.9. The description confirms it had several different owners before 2006 and different names but that it's basic policy of no politics and no populists had remained constant. That logo is great and they are still on air today. [LINK]
RADIO POZAREVAC [LINK] This station, founded in 1977, has a really good history page which I'll quote "The solid roots of Radio Požarevac were established in the early seventies through the so-called "Radio LJ K I", a program that, in cooperation with the Organizing Committee of the Ljubičevo Games, ran every summer before and during this tourist and sports event... The first program of this type was broadcast from the premises of the KPD Zabela, while it was later moved to the premises of the Požarevac Municipal Assembly. The program consisted of news, specialized programs dedicated to the Ljubičevo Games, a news program, music programs, as well as listeners' wishes.In the summer of the same year, the experimental program of Radio Požarevac began, which lasted from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The ceremonial start of the broadcasting of the Radio Požarevac program followed on October 12. The program was broadcast on medium waves of 240 m and ultra-short wave area of 92.1 Mhz.This significant undertaking was started by Bogran Živanović, Jovan Rajković, Ljubiša Dobrosavljević, Siniša Ristić and Zoran Vasić as journalists, Novica Mišić and Radenko Ristić as sound engineers, and Petar Crnobrnja and Gordana Kuzmanović as announcers. "
RADIO PULS [LINK] Puls (which means pulse) broadcast news, music, sports and had call in programs from 91.1 FM. I think this is the same station which today broadcasts on 96.0 from Despotovac, Serbia. If so it was founded December 19th 1997. [SOURCE] A 2003 cache tells me the station was founded in September 2002 and their original frequency was 91.1 and that they carry music and information programs.
RADIO S [LINK] Radio S had multiple signals 104.7 in Beolgrade, 94.3 in Kragujevac and 96.9 in - Novi Sad. Their stick in Belgrade was the first and signed on August 17th 1994. The had a very fancy site of all flash which was cached.
RADIO SAFIR [LINK] Safir signed on in 1995 and their "about" section brags that they have over 70,000 songs in their library. I think there were two more stations in the group from the line "your Gold 013 FM 106.4 MHz"Their studio was based in Pancevo across the river from Belgrade, Serbia.
RADIO SECANJ [LINK] The landing page reads "Public Enterprise of Broadcasting Activities" This public station started broadcasting on July 9th 1999 on 96.3. As of 2005 it employed 13 workers. and planned to launch a cable television channel and establish a local radio and television stations.
RADIO SOMBOR [LINK] Surely the oldest station in this list, Sombor started broadcasting on July 31st 1972. It reads "On medium and ultra-short waves, the program was broadcast on weekdays from 1 to 6 p.m. Among the first shows were "Chronicle of the Day", "Pop Studio", "Twice Forty" and others. The program was prepared by the journalists of "Somborski novina" and the newly formed editorial staff of Radio Sombor. Today, Radio Sombor broadcasts its program on two frequencies, 90.9 MHz and 97.5 MHz. On 90.9 MHz, 11 journalists - nine in the Serbian-language newsroom and two in the Hungarian-language newsroom prepare a daily program that lasts 24 hours."
RADIO SPEKTAR [LINK] The Spektar group was founded on November 11th 1995. The station broadcast on 107.7 from Pancevo 24 hours a day with a mix of news, education and music programming. Their about section emphasized a number of local programs:" The Businessman's Club, Every Word, Evergreen Club, Danube flows into Tamis, Top Kiss, a Quiz show, a Nostalgia program and Happy Turnips (Veseli repici) which purports to be about pets... Google thinks the name is Slovenian.
RADIO STARA CARSIJA [LINK] This station broadcast ion 99.1 from Cuprija Serbia. There's not much info on the programming but it says that "According to some of our internal research, conducted in Cuprija, Radio Stara Carsi is mainly listened to by the intellectual class of the population." They're still broadcasting today [LINK]
RADIO SUBOTIKA [LINK] This website was available in Magyar, Croatian and Serbian. The station was founded by the Subotica Municipal Assembly on November 29th 1968, and was broadcasting on 91.5 in 2006. Their history notes that broadcasting on Medium wave was interrupted by NATO
bombing on May 22nd 1999. [SOURCE] The station broadcast programs in Serbian and Hungarian for six hours a day, and in Croatian for one hour. They actually have a Wikipedia page which reports they launched a German program in 1998, which is the first radio show in German since 1944... ahem.
RADIO TOCAK [LINK] Instead of an about page they post a mission where they report that Radio "Točak" was the first Roma electronic media in the region of Western Serbia broadcasting on 104.2 FM. The station broadcast news and educational programs for Roma minority groups. The station was founded April 28th 2003 and served an ethnic minority of 40,000 Roma. Točak means wheel in English
RADIO X [LINK] Broadcasting from Požarevac on 100.5 this station broadcast folk music. Not just folk, it clarifies "folk music - songs from the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s" So that's the Adult AC of Folk. Their signal covered Pozarevac and the entire Branicevski district, Smederevo and surrounding towns. Their biggest program was Željoteka Live which inenglish means disco with live folk music groups.
RADIO ZENIT [LINK] This station covered the municipalities of Kula and Vrbas and broadcast 24 hours a day mostly in Bosnian. The site has a great animated .gif of the coverage area. Their name translates to Radio Zenith. The station was founded on December 26th, 1998, and broadcasts on 100.7. The station is still on air today. [LINK] Their new site has a .ba TLD for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
RADIO ZVEZDARA [LINK] The cache is very fragmented. Zvezdara is a city in Belgrade, presumably it's locality. This station broadcast on 106.2, information only preserved in page title. The station still exists today [SOURCE] on the same frequency.
VOICE OF AMERICA, SERBIAN SERVICE [LINK] The history on this site has nothing specific to Yugoslavia, not even in 1999. It's very generic info that describes the whole global VOA network. Locally it was called Glas Amerike, this service was started in 1942 during WWII. All programming originates in the USA, but if broadcast 24/7, 365. It purports to be objective and accurate but it's Western propaganda initially created to combat Nazi propaganda. But it's still on air today and depending on where you live, it might be a better news source than you have otherwise. The cache goes back to 1998. It's still operating in Serbia and Macedonia today of course. [LINK] and [LINK] They ended their Croatia service in 2011. More here and here.
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