• Radio Tuzla started working on this day in 1953 by the decision of the Tuzla District Board. The first voice was of the late actor, speaker Maks Damadžić. At that time, Radio Tuzla had a 100-watt hand-made transmitter made by the late Đorđe Lukić-Cigo, amateur radio, and one of the chief technicians of Radio Sarajevo. Radio Tuzla was the first local radio station in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  • The first specialized rock magazine in the former Yugoslavia, Džuboks, appeared on the market on this day in 1966, as a kind of successor to the previously closed magazine Ritam, a magazine for jazz and pop music. It was edited by Nikola Karaklajić, at that time the host of Radio Belgrade and the author of the first charts in this area. Džuboks was published regularly until the summer of 1970 and went out after 39 issues. In 1974, the new Ladin Džuboks was launched, which was the most popular and influential domestic rock magazine until it stopped publishing in 1985.

  • On this day in 1989, the music radio Radio 101, the youngest radio within the program of Radio Belgrade, started working. The program content of this radio consisted of music blocks interwoven with commercial information and messages of economic and propaganda character. The initiative to start Radio 101 came from the “ECO program” of Radio Belgrade, and its first editor-in-chief was Žarko Obradović. Radio 101 stopped broadcasting in 2006.

  • “This is Radio Kaj” first aired at seven in the morning on this day in 1990. Radio for the Kajkavian-speaking area, which broadcasts throughout northwestern Croatia, is the organizer of many cultural events. Today he celebrates his 31st birthday.
  • World Press Freedom Day has been celebrated every year since May 3, 1993, when it was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly. The aim of marking the Day, which brings together media professionals, who then assess the state of media freedom and discuss options for addressing several challenges, is to raise awareness of the importance of media freedom and its fundamental principles. It marks the anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, a statement on the principles of free media compiled by a group of African journalists in 1991 in Windhoek, Namibia, with a unique vision – to protect the fundamental rights of the free press.

  • On this day in 2018, our Media daily portal also started working. The portal launch was live at 7.58 minutes in the show Dobro jutro Hrvatska, which featured Neven Šantić, editor-in-chief, and Zoran Kovačić, the originator and owner of the portal.

  • On this day in 2018, Extra FM radio was launched in Zagreb. Radio is the successor to the frequencies of Radio Cibona, Hit FM, Prvi radio, and Laganini FM.

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