LIST OF POTENTIAL BUYERS OF STATE-OWNED MEDIA PUBLISHED

5. December 2014.

Bujanovac, Vranje, Leskovac, Pirot– The Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (IJAS) published data on the companies and individuals that had submitted letters of intent pursuant to the Privatization Agency’s public invitation for the purchase of 49 state-owned media outlets.

Four media outlets from South Serbia are on the list that was published on the IJAS’s website and they include Radio Bujanovac, RTV Vranje, Radio Leskovac and TV Pirot.

As stated by the IJAS, Beljuli Eljhan is interested in the privatization of Radio Bujanovac, while Ninoslav Smiljković and Miklos Dimitrijevic, from the Union of Journalists of Serbia – RTV Vranje – sent letters of intent for the privatization of RTV Vranje. Lidija Cvetanovic is interested in the privatization of Radio Leskovac, while Branislav Ilic from P-Channel and Zoran Manic, a representative of the staff’s consortium, are interested in TV Pirot.

For the time being, the IJAS doesn’t provide more details about the persons who sent letters of intent for the privatization of the media, except that they are physical persons from Serbia.

The IJAS reminds that the deadline for the privatization of state-owned media is July 1, 2015.

If a media outlet fails to be sold by then, the procedure shall be discontinued and the capital privatized by transferring free shares to the employees.

If an employee doesn’t accept the transfer of free shares, the media outlet ceases to exist and is deleted from the registry, while the founder of publishers reaches a decision on change of the publisher’s activity or on dissolution of the publisher.

Source: Jugmedia and Coordination Body