Branko Pekic reports: Radio France Internationale (RFI), in partnership with the Beta news agency, will start a news radio station in Belgrade in September. “This is the first partnership deal for RFI, which has crowned its ten-year effort to receive a frequency in Serbia. RFI is the only international radio operating in Belgrade,” RFI said in a statement, adding that Beta was among 14 of 45 applicants to have been granted frequencies. Radio Beta Plus will primarily be “an economic and European radio station,” RFI said, adding that 12 hours of programmes in French will be aired every day from 7pm to 7am (1700-0500 UTC) as of September, while the 12 hours of programming in Serbian will be launched in October, reports BETA news agency. Programs will be prepared by BETA’s journalists and RFI’s department of Slavic languages in Paris.
(Source: R. Netherlands Media Network weblog)
