# Radio Yugoslavia

Radio Yugoslavia is an international media organisation which is owned by the Communist Pirate Party of Yugoslavia, and broadcasts news, music, podcasts and more content in English language.
Unlike most of other localised media organisations, Radio Yugoslavia is mostly focused on the younger generation of people and aims to inform them about news with a gonzo journalist and non-objective reporting, music, film and culture reviews, event information and more. All Radio Yugoslavia stations broadcasting using the HLS, a new adaptive-bitrate streaming technology format developed by Apple Inc.

## Radio Stations
### Radio Yugoslavia

The main station broadcasts scheduled and precise formatted programme throughout the workdays and weekends. It consists of music, news, podcasts, documentaries and more in English language.
The station is available in a adaptive bitrate from 96kbps to 320kbps, depending on users internet connection and transmitters capabilities to deliver.
The main station is to launch in 2025, with experimental broadcasts and programming in December 2024. Until then, the instrumental anthem of SFR Yugoslavia is broadcast on repeat.

### Radio Yugoslavia Jazz

The jazz sub-station broadcasts Yugoslav and international jazz of all styles 24/7 throughout the week. The station is available in a adaptive bitrate from 128kbps to 320kbps, depending on users internet connection and transmitters capabilities to deliver.

### Radio Yugoslavia Doku

The doku sub-station broadcasts only documentaries 24/7. All in English, they're ranging from historic to scientific from diverse set of sources.
The Doku station is available in a adaptive bitrate from 48kbps to 128kbps, being the lowest in bitrate quality out of all channels as most of the content is spoken-word.

## Radiotelevision

RTV Yugoslavia is a video on-demand service that hosts locally available films in English language. Despite the name, RTV Yugoslavia doesn't broadcast on air neither live and only offers the content on demand.

## History, newspaper and newsletters

Since 2010s, Radio Yugoslavia has existed in various forms. First it was founded as "Left-Side Freedom" on YouTube and "Underground Frequencies" (Подземни Фреквенции) as an streaming radio station in 2011 while slowly it evolved with the staff member learning technical skills such as web development and graphic design. The project had a highly active Facebook page with around 8000 followers mostly from the region, until Meta removed the page regarding anti-zionist propaganda that was shared whilst the Israel-Hamas War reached its peak.
Because the project never depended on Facebook neither social media, although they helped, through Substack newsletters the staff kept publishing news and information. Just before the social media and public website webt down, the organisation published anti-zionist and pro-Palestine propaganda, also heavily criticising the anti-European publication made by then minister of internal affairs Oliver Spasovski titled as "Murdering human rights and privacy to deal with script-kiddies? We can’t wait for EU!" that painted everybody who used a VPN service automatically as a potential cyber-terrorist.

## Original history

According to CIA documents, Radio Yugoslavia had a similar role to what was once Radio Moscow. It employed over 500 people in the 1950s and it was used to air not to Yugoslav territories, but to international ones. Starting with a 150kw radio transmitter, it broadcasted in Albanian, Bulgarian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Spanish. The use of Radio Yugoslavia was mostly to reach the Yugoslav diaspora throughout the world. Radio Yugoslavia broadcasted to Albania, Bulgaria, Czechkoslovakia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Poland and the Soviet Union.