page_title: Mass media in Slovenia
section_title: Cinema
hierarchical_section_title: Mass media in Slovenia / Media outlets / Cinema
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial plate, Ljutomer, Slovenia: "At this site dr. Karl Grosman shot the first Slovene film recording in 1905. Photographic and Cinematographic Association of Slovenia, 1969." Slovenščina: Spominska plošča na glavnem ljutomerskem trgu
context_page_description: The mass media in Slovenia refers to mass media outlets based in Slovenia. Television, magazines, and newspapers are all operated by both state-owned and for-profit corporations which depend on advertising, subscription, and other sales-related revenues. The Constitution of Slovenia guarantees freedom of speech and Slovenia ranked 40th in the 2016 Press Freedom Index report compiled by Reporters Without Borders, falling by 5 places if compared to the 2015 Index.
  There were 2350 registered media in the government's official Media Registry in July 2020.Media Registry The gross value of the advertising market in 2008 was of 522.5 million euro, 15% more than in the previous year. The greatest share of advertising goes to television, followed by print press, outdoor media, radio and online media.
  The main media companies include three print media and three broadcast media. The biggest remains the public service broadcaster RTV Slovenia, with a 124.7 million euro turnover, of which 62.2% from subscription fees. Advertising covers from 1/3 to 1/2 of the main newspapers' budget.
  In Slovenia, the print press has a wider reach than radio and television.
context_section_description: Traditional cinema theatres in Slovenia are giving ground to multiplex cinema theatres, in Ljubljana and in the other main centres. Cinema admissions varied from  3.8 million in 1989 to 1.9 million in 1999 and 2.4 million in 2008. The biggest players are Kolosej - with 26 theatres and about 5,000 seats in Ljubljana, Maribor, Koper and Kranj - and Planet Tuš, with 18 theatres and 6,000 seats in Maribor, Celje, Novo Mesto, and Kranj (data 2008). The number of distributed audiovisual works in 2008 was of 654, of which 16.4% of Slovenian origin, 76.6 from the rest of the EU, and 7.0% from the United States. The DVD market displayed similar shares of origin.
  In Socialist Yugoslavia times, the national film producer Viba Film was the monopolist. After independence, Viba was disbanded and remained as a modern film studio, used for most Slovenian productions. 
  Producers apply with their film projects to the national Film Fund, which decides which one to co-finance according to the Law on Slovenian Film Fund, sometimes with a majority of even full share of the movie budget. 
  RTV Slovenia also co-produces or even produces movies. Other movies are produced and filmed without state subsidies; the Film Fund then enables their distribution in the theatres. The number of movies produced in Slovenia was of 45 in 2008.
caption: A plaque commemorating first Slovene film recording made in 1905 by Karol Grossmann in Ljutomer
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