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If you write my first and last name in Goolge and add SBB or REM, dozens of texts will appear in which I, many years before, announced the outcome of the “war” between Telekom and SBB.
It’s been clear to me for a long time that laws can be broken, but not constantly or forever. It was obvious that the moment Telecom woke up from a long-term dream (and that happened with the arrival of Vladimir Lucic as CEO), United Group would launch an unprecedented campaign through its media to endanger independent media. , close them and bring them. under state control, all through the state operator – Telecom, the main competitor in the Serbian market.
The fact that SBB has inviolably held more than 54 percent of the cable TV market for decades, opened new channels, bought the most expensive national series, had lucrative deals in the cable and wireless fields , landline, satellite TV, especially illegal sales of ad space Cross-border channels, the fact that SBB built its network on someone else’s infrastructure, which violated all national laws for years and presented its channels as cross-border, despite that it broadcasts programs from studios in Belgrade without the permission of the regulator, it does not mention any of that protection from the EU, OSCE, foreign embassies …
SBB has experience with that kind of pressure and estimates that it will be similar to that of 2014, when it lobbied in Brussels to change the proposed law on electronic media and that operators could be broadcasters.
Although the EU was explicit and asked Serbia that the producer of the program could not be the operator, so RTS was forced to separate and form a separate company (Broadcasting and Communications) from its composition, SBB succeeded in its intention and he quickly became the undisputed leader and master of the Serbian media scene.
The media, especially local televisions, which together with Telekom were the biggest losers for this, had to remain silent because the “knife and bread” were in the hands of SBB. If someone rebelled, they were immediately kicked off the SBB network, which meant it was the end of that television.
I was the first to feel it on my skin. After the first text in the newspaper where it pointed out the disastrous consequences for national television because the fate of the station is decided by the operator, SBB first removed the SOS channel from Total TV, and then from the analogue network without even explaining why . it also did.
United Group-owned televisions have tried for years to build the image of independent and professional media, but now they have revealed their true faces because they have put professional information on the back burner, representing the interests of the company they own.
I would not like to be the lawyer for the director of Telecom, who, as the media writes, said that “SBB” should be “destroyed”, that is, “put an end to the business”.
Perhaps someone will say that the statement is militaristic and that Lucic could have said it in a more appropriate way, but I do not see anything that offended and infuriated the competitors to such an extent that the “independent” journalist from H1 asked the president. for an explanation of what he said.
If before the Zvezda-Partizan derby, the coach of a team said “we will break them or destroy their defense with the tactic I have prepared”, he did not think that the opposing club would close, but that he would win, that they would be better, that they would be ahead from the table and they would win the title.
This is how I understood the statement from the director of Telekom, and the phrase “ending SBB’s business”. I understood that SBB will finally begin to operate in accordance with the law, that REM will no longer look between its fingers, that these televisions will finally obtain permission from the regulator and will begin, like all national televisions, to pay fees to REM, OFPS , SOKOJ, to pay taxes on all ads …
Dragisa Kovacevic
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