Antena Group

The Kopernikus Corporation, owned by the brother of a Serbian Progressive Party official, purchased TV stations Prva and O2 after selling its cable operator subsidiary to the state-owned telecommunications company Serbian Telekom for almost 200 million euros, BIRN has learned.

The biggest threats to media pluralism in Serbia are the concentration of audience and political influence over the media, according to research conducted by BIRN and the German branch of Reporters Without Borders.

Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos on Wednesday defended the decision to evict the influential private TV company Antena Group from its premises as legal and said it had nothing to do with attempts to stop it broadcasting.