Diary (TV show)

The first news release called “TV Diary” was released on August 23, 1958, becoming the first television program broadcast in the Socialist Republic of Serbia. Initially, it went out at 20:00 Belgrade time, but from October 1, 1974 it began to go out at 19:30 in order to allow citizens to find out the latest news and provide extra time for relaxation. Later, the program was renamed the "Diary". The main news program Vesti, which was released during the day, was soon also renamed the Diary.

From March to May 1999, the Diary 2 news releases recorded on the RTS Satellite TV channel were broadcast on the American C-SPAN channel with off-screen translation into English.

In the spring and summer of 1999, RTS news releases left the temporary studio due to the destruction of the television center building in Belgrade . On April 23, 1999 at 2:03 a rocket hit the building at the moment when the news was broadcast during the screening of the plot with Slobodan Milosevic . At that moment, the image froze for a few seconds, and then the broadcasting of all three RTS channels was interrupted. It is worth noting that for several weeks after the bombing, broadcasting of TV channels could go under the RTS logo without indicating the channel number (and on April 26, 1999, the RTS B1 logo was used on the screen, which was used in 1992-1995).

Since 2014, special issues of "children's news" with leading children have been released. These issues are called Mali Diary ^{[1] [2]} . In these issues, the roles of presenters and correspondents are played by guys from Belgrade, Niš, Uzice and other major Serbian cities ^[3] .

The main theme of the program is the so-called “Planet of Dots”: the splash screen shows a world map on a plane of dots, which then collapses into a globe under which the name of the program appears, and Belgrade is marked with a red dot on the map itself. The topic was used from May 1979 ^[4] to October 30, 1992. From 1983 to 1987, the Latin version of the screensaver was used.

From October 31, 1992 to 1996, a 3D globe-saver was used. It was executed in dark colors (black and gold), which many associated with political events in the disintegrated Yugoslavia.

From 1998 to October 5, 2000, a somewhat modernized version of the screensaver of 1979-1992 was used (the background was changed, the effect of minimizing the world map on a plane in the globe, visual effects were added).

The current topic was approved on May 5, 2010 and is used in four versions:

• Morning Diary: yellow dots (green symbolizes Belgrade), white planet
• Diary 1: red dots (blue symbolizes Belgrade), white planet ^[5]
• Diary 2: blue dots (red symbolizes Belgrade), white planet ^[6]
• Diary 3: white dots (dark red symbolizes Belgrade), dark blue planet ^[7]

• The morning news release is part of the “RTS Morning Program” at 8:00.
• Diary 1 - 12:00 (on weekends at 13:00)
• Diary 2 - 19:30 (every day)
• Diary 3 - 23:00 (only on weekdays, at 17:00 there is a news release from Vojvodina)

On the RTS official website, videos of all news releases that were released at 19:30 are presented.

• Nada Gogich (morning edition)
• Branko Veselinovich (Diary 2)
• Vladimir Elich (Diary 2)
• Militsa Nedic (Diary 2)
• Zoran Stanoevich (Diary 3)
• Milos Milic (Diary 3)
• Miran Javenitsa (Diary 1 and other issues)
• Aneta Kovacic (Diary 1 and other issues)
• Yvona Pantelich (Diary 1 and other issues)
• Maria Mitrovich-Jokic (Diary 1 and other issues)
• Vladimir Petrovich (Diary 1 and other issues)
• Vesna Radosavlevich (Diary 1 and other issues)
• Boris Malekovich (Diary 1 and other issues)
• Milyana Lazic (Diary 1 and other issues)

The RTS television company and its Diary information program were considered the mouthpiece of Slobodan Milosevic’s propaganda, even though in 1993 they were allowed to broadcast pre-election videos before and after the news ^[8] . A public relations specialist, lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Snejana Milivojevic and an employee of the Institute of Social Sciences Jovanka Matic, noted in one of their studies that during the Yugoslav wars, about 72.4% of the texts read in news releases were the voice acting of already published newspaper articles, which testified that the "Diary" simply repeated someone’s statements and did not interpret them in any way. Also, during the Yugoslav Wars, human rights activists accused the Diary of anti-Croat propaganda and Islamophobia, since the program’s presenters and correspondents repeatedly called the Croatian military “Ustashi” and the Muslim soldiers ’“ Islamic extremists ”and“ Mujahideen ”(which nevertheless partially corresponded to the truth ) ^[9] . Also, TV presenters did not hesitate to speak rudely to the military and political leadership of NATO member countries during the bombing of Belgrade by NATO aircraft , calling the North Atlantic Alliance “fascist phalanx”, “maniacs” and “Mongoloid monsters” ^[10] .

In 2000, during the Bulldozer Revolution, the transmission audience decreased to 15%, which testified to an extreme mistrust of the authorities: many public figures accused the program’s journalists of promoting the views of Slobodan Milosevic’s supporters. After the overthrow of Milosevic, the transfer rating grew in the first days to 20% ^[11] . Nevertheless, the RTS and after the Bulldozer Revolution showed opponents, but of different convictions: they accuse the Journalists of not having their own opinion about their attitude to NATO and Serbia’s foreign policy. In March 2016, protests against joining NATO were held in Belgrade , the leaders of which said: “Once the national RTS Diary began with the song Love you, our homeland , and now begins with Oda to joy and NATO propaganda” ^[12] .

• Time (TV show)
• Bht dnevnik

• Official RTS website (Serb.)
  • List of all issues of the Diary program on the RTS website (Serb.)
• A list of all diary screensavers on YouTube