Communications in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia's main broadcaster BHRT may close down altogether, experts and journalists warn, as the financial woes that have plagued the broadcaster for years already continue to worsen.

BHRT director Belmin Karamehmedovic told local news portal Klix on Wednesday that because of rapidly falling revenues, staff now have no health insurance, and their salaries are being paid late.

A video showing a man painting over the Serbian Cyrillic portion of traffic signs in the Herzegovina area of Bosnia-Herzegovina has been posted online.

According to RTRS, the public broadcaster of the Serb Republic (RS) entity, the video was posted on the "Forgotten Sons of the Homeland War" (Croatian: "Zaboravljeni Sinovi Domovinskog Rata") Facebook page.

Serb Republic (RS) Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic has been hospitalized at the University Clinical Center in Banja Luka.

The public broadcaster of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, RTRS, reported this on Wednesday.

RTRS has reported that it obtained secret orders issued by the Bosnia-Herzegovina Intelligence and Security Agency (OBA) for eavesdropping on Serbian officials.

RTRS is the public broadcaster in the Serb entity (RS) in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Bosnian opposition parties are demanding that the government disclose details of the agreement reached at the end of May with the International Monetary Found, IMF, saying the conditions attached to the new loan of 550 million euros are of public importance.

Bosnia and Herzegovina Radio and Television, BHRT, Bosnia's state television, is experiencing extreme financial hardship, which is making it difficult to support the functioning of the network and might result in it having to stop broadcasting, the network's administration said.

The bank accounts of the Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BHRT, could be blocked any day, due to the accumulated debt of Bosnia's main public broadcaster.

Officials warn that this could disrupt the broadcasting of both BHRT and the main broadcaster in Bosnia's Federation entity, Radio and Television of BiH Federation, RTVFBiH.

Bosnia's Communications Regulatory Agency for, RAK, is receiving first requests to halt the broadcasting of local television stations whose analog signal is troubling neighbouring countries that have all moved over to digitalization.

The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the larger of the country's two entities, is contemplating selling two telecom companies - BH Telecom and Eronet - that are in partial state ownership, to raise funds for the construction of a key highway.

Bosnia's three state and entity radio and television stations risk going off air as political quarrels and conflicting views about their role block the passage of legislation needed to provide them with money.