Manja Grcic became a kind of “beheader” at the Public Service. According to a similar principle, she worked on the “resting” of the independent B92, writes Dragan Ilić in the new issue of “Vremena”.
“You shouldn’t get carried away, free RTS never existed, only conditional freedom changed.”
This is how Dragan Ilić explains the new wave of resignations and cancellations of shows on Radio Television of Serbia. The board of directors recently decided not to renew the contracts of three shows made as foreign franchises to make room for new projects, while Vladimir Kecmanović will no longer edit the Cultural and Artistic Program.
All this is explained by the arrival Less Grcic to the head of RTS.
“The new director started with shifts using the tried-and-tested technology with which she once drowned B92,” Ilić writes for the new “Vreme”, to which you can subscribe here. “Actually, the government now has its own chief, who chooses the most suitable for Dnevnik RTS. It doesn’t matter if you are in favor of retirement, as a colleague from Dnevnik, retirement has never been an obstacle to work at RTS, on the contrary. Admittedly, that argument was used to fire him from Radio, because the contract was not extended to Žikica Simić or Dejan Cukić, who have had exceptionally high-quality music shows for years.”
Jelena Popadić Sumić, the author, was the last in the series to be replaced “Important Things” show at RTS, where she was the editor of the Children’s program. She has not forgotten that a boy mentioned the student protests in her show.
Who will play Sarapa?
Ilić thus writes that two ladies were brought to Radio Belgrade whose task was to discipline the program that was hurting the government because it broadcast news from protest rallies during the last year.
“They don’t extend the contracts of the freelancers, they move the unsuitable ones to less represented parts of the program. Apart from the newsroom, we will have replicas of shows from ‘Pink’ on television, and you will see who will play Sarapa and who will be the host of the weekend morning program,” he adds.
He also says: “Maybe you won’t have nudity dibiduz, but it will be duz, as Čkalya said.”
Read Dragan Ilić’s entire column in the new issue of “Vremena”, which is on newsstands from Thursday (April 23), or subscribe to the print and digital editions.
Source: Vreme
