Al Jazeera Balkans

Al Jazeera Balkans
CountryBosnia and Herzegovina
Broadcast areaBosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
North Macedonia
Montenegro
Serbia
Slovenia
AffiliatesRadio Studio 99
HeadquartersSarajevo
Trg djece Sarajeva 1
(inside ARIA Centar)
Programming
Language(s)Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian[1]
Picture format16:9 1080i (HDTV)
Ownership
ParentAl Jazeera Media Network
Key peopleTarik Đođić (General Director)

Šemsudin Skejić (Head of News)

Svjetlana Mustafić (Online editor)
Sister channelsAl Jazeera English
Al Jazeera Arabic
Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
History
Launched11 November 2011; 13 years ago (2011-11-11)
ReplacedNTV 99
Links
Websitebalkans.aljazeera.net
Availability
Terrestrial
Analogue (Bosnia)Sarajevo area UHF 56
Fojnica area UHF 36
evotv (Croatia)Channel 105
Streaming media
AJB playerWatch live
Al Jazeera Balkans poster in Zagreb in late November 2011.

Al Jazeera Balkans (AJB) is an international news television station headquartered in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina aimed at the media markets of the countries that used to be constituent units of SFR Yugoslavia. It is part of the Al Jazeera Media Network.

The station broadcasts in local variants of the "common language spoken in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro"[1] (commonly known as Serbo-Croatian[2]) from 7.30 to 3.30 CET (start and end 30 minutes later on the weekends), with both of live, pre-recorded original, and subtitled Al Jazeera English programming. The live dirty feed of Al Jazeera English is simulcast the remainder of hours with simply Gledate AJE (transl. You are watching AJE) text-bug overlaid at the top-right corner of the screen. Al Jazeera Balkans is a sister channel of the Arabic language Al Jazeera and the English language channel Al Jazeera English. The station broadcasts news analysis and features as well as documentaries, live debates, current affairs, business, technology, and sports news.

  1. ^ a b Al Jazeera launches Balkans channel. Aljazeera.com, 12 November 2011.
  2. ^ Al Jazeera launches Balkans television channel. BBC, 11 November 2011.