Tag: МРТ

Meta.mk, under the cooperation agreement, republishes Truthmeter.mk's analysis: The number of correspondents from the interior of the country is reduced to a minimum. Macedonian Radio and Television has barely employed a few journalists from the interior, while private televisions receive information from part-time journalists   Author: Goran Lefkov   Uninsured, without employment contracts, with their own vehicle and equipment, few correspondents and media workers...

The Director of the Macedonian Radio and Television (MRT) Marjan Cvetkovski and the Director of the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) Emil Koshlukov yesterday signed the Memorandum for Understanding, which obliges both national broadcasting services to a reciprocal exchange of television production products. MRT and BNT will be exchanging news, children, entertainment, cultural and educational programs, MRT informed. The Macedonian Radio-Television...

The Basic Criminal Court Skopje has declared Macedonian Radio's First channel, but also the director of Macedonian Radio and Television, Marjan Cvetkovski, guilty for violation of the election silence. The court passed a sentence with fines for JRP MRT 1 in the amount of 1.800 EUR, including 200 EUR fine for Marjan Cvetkovski, who is held responsible, states the...

Media reforms in North Macedonia were very low on the agenda of policy and decision makers in the first quarter of 2020, states the report titled "Monitoring of Media Reform Process and the Work of AVMS and MRT" by the Media Development Center. COVID-19 pushed out the issue of media reforms from the agenda and an exception from this...

Last week, the Ministry of Information Society and Administration (MISA) approved the new systematization of job positions at the Macedonian Radio Television (MRT), proposed by MRT's Program Council. The Program Council's Vice President, Vedat Memedalija, said that the new systematization was signed by MISA's State Secretary, Adem Avziu and it plans an increase of new employees in the public...

The Association of Journalists in Macedonia (AJM) and the Independent Syndicate of Journalists and Media Workers (SSNM) aren't surprised by the data from the latest Rule book on internal organization and systematization of job positions at the Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) which indicates that the national broadcasting service lacks 469 employees out of which 202 journalists. According to the data...

The situation with the media in the reformatory sector have been stopped midway and the media in Macedonia are facing with another entrapment like we had in the period-2015/16С due to the danger of depending on public assets. This was stated in the latest research about one of the key conditions that were set by the EU for the...

At the session that took place on the 6th of February, the Macedonian Radio television's (MRT) Program Council elected the new Supervising Board with a 5 year mandate. As is stated at MRT's web page, the mandate of the members of MRT's Supervising Board will start on the 5th of March. Part of the elected members of the Supervising...

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) has called Meta.mk to react upon a published article about cutting budgetary assets for the year 2020 for the public broadcasting service, where it stresses that this decision by the Ministry of Information Society and Administration (MISA) is a dangerous precedent. "With the planed budget for 2020, instead of 0.9% of the budget,...

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) demand that the decision by Macedonian Radio Television's (MRT) Program Council to call for election of members of the Supervisory Board of the Public Broadcasting Service in conditions when the mandate of the members of this Council has expired. Meta.mk published the news yesterday that on the 17th of January at MRT...

At the government's 134th session,they expressed a negative opinion on an annual report for Macedonian Radio Television 2018, after Parliament requested it. The move follows the negative opinion from the Ministry for Information Society and Administration prepared in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance. The main problem in the negative assessment are losses at Macedonian Radio Television in 2018, which...

Macedonia is at 95th place in the latest World Press Freedom Index by "Reporters without Borders" (RWB), thus jumping 14 places compared to the previous report, about 2018. With this, Macedonia fares better than the neighboring Bulgaria, which is an EU member and is at 111th place. The Reports without Borders main objection for this year concerning Macedonia is the...

The parliamentary Committee on Transport and Communications yesterday accepted the proposal for re-balancing the budget of the Macedonian Radio Television, which will add another 3 million euros to the account of the public broadcaster, and MRT for 2018 will have a total of 20.8 million euros. If this is compared with the budgets that MRT has had for several years...

The parliamentary Committee on Transport and Communications today accepted the proposal for re-balancing the budget for Macedonian Radio Television, and as a result, the public broadcaster will receive nearly three million euros on its account for this year. In 2018, MRT was originally meant to receive 700 million denars, and with the budget re-balancing, this amount will increase by 186...

Macedonian Television has organized tomorrow the first TV duel at 20:00h, with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, SDSM leader, and the leader of the main opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, Christian Mickovski, MIA reports. Last week this TV duel was initiated by the leader of the opposition party, and the thrown glove was accepted by the prime minister. Three TV channels showed interest...

The parliamentary Committee on Transport, Communications and Environment held the fourth continuation of the amendment debate on the Bill on Amending the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services today, which is in second reading. VMRO-DPMNE’s fifth amendment was up for discussion, which requires the deletion of the paragraph of the bill that obliges the candidates for members of...

The Government is committed to creating space for the media to inform the citizens impartially and objectively. Our goal is MRT to be a completely impartial and independent media outlet, and the regulatory bodies to be transparent, professional and competent. It is especially important the regulatory bodies and the national broadcaster to not have members of senior party officials,...

The Government of Republic of Macedonia has nothing to do with the appointment of Macedonian Radio Television’s new director. This decision has been made by the old Program Council of the MRT, and the citizens of Republic of Macedonia “know very well, who the members are of that old Council, the way it used to operate and who influenced...

The current general manager of the Macedonian Radio-Television (MRT), Marjan Cvetkovski, out of 12 applications was reinstated as the head of the public broadcasting service, confirmed for Meta, Smilka Janeska, President of the MRT's Program Council. On the 26th of January, the Council issued a call for the election of a new director, because Cvetkovski's mandate is ending in March. Cvetkovski has...

The Government will communicate with the citizens through the social networks and the public broadcasting service (MRT), and it has no intentions whatsoever to spend budget money. This is the response provided by the government’s spokesperson Mile Boshnjakovski to a question from Meta asking whether the government will be paying for advertisements when communicating with the public through the...