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              | Date: 2000-10-07 
 
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 Nach jahrelangem Kampf ist diese Art von Zensur besiegt.
 Angeführt von xs4all.nl haben auch andere, völlig
 verschiedene Menschen & Medien versucht, B 92 zu helfen.
 Der unten zitierte Effort, Sendungen von B 92 mit 500 KW auf
 1476 KHz AM via ORF Wien europaweit auszustrahlen, hatte
 allerdings den gegenteiligen Effekt: zwei Tage nach
 Aufsetzen des Relays wurde die Station von den gesetzlich
 ermächtigten Behörden Jugoslawiens geschlossen.
 
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 q/depesche 99.3.26/2
 
 Realaudio & AM: B 92 sendet via ORF
 Ab heute abend 22.15 wird die Stimme der Opposition, das
 drangsalierte & verbotene Belgrader Radio B 92 von
 Österreich aus europaweit zu hören sein. Ermöglicht wird
 dies durch ein Zusammenspiel von einem Realaudio feed mit
 einer mächtigen alten Mittelwellen-Orgel auf der Frequenz
 1476 KHZ.
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 rainer.rosenberg@orf.at To: follansb@real.com, erich-
 moechel@quintessenz.at, maurice@xs4all.nl,
 drazen@opennet.org, nebojsa@opennet.org,
 Aleksej.Zoric@bbc.co.uk, geert@xs4all.nl Copies to:
 rainer.rosenberg@orf.at Subject: AW: B 92 AM mediumwave
 relay from Austria Date sent: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:27:48
 +0100
 
 Mehr
 <http://www.quintessenz.at/archiv/msg00596.html>
 
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 Date sent: 	Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:14:56 +0200 To:
 mediawatch@freeb92.net Subject: 	ANEM press release:
 RADIO B92 LIBERATED From: 	mediawatch-
 owner@freeb92.net Send reply to: 	mediawatch-
 owner@freeb92.net
 
 ANEM press release
 
 RADIO B92 LIBERATED
 
 BELGRADE, Friday September 6, 2000 - Among yesterday's
 wave of people liberating pro-regime media throughout Serbia,
 a group of Otpor activists liberated the premises of Radio
 B92.  The station was then handed over to its real owners,
 the staff and associates who created the radio and made it
 the most influential and celebrated broadcaster in Belgrade in
 the past decade.
 
 None of the station's real owners had been inside the
 premises since April 2, 1999, when, after an illegal decision
 by the Belgrade Business Court, the director of Radio B92
 was dismissed by a new pro-regime management and
 employees denied access.  The station's staff were not even
 permitted to remove their personal belongings and
 documents.
 
 At the time of the hijack, the station had not broadcast for
 eleven days after police serving a banning order had
 confiscated essential transmission equipment and thrown the
 station's editor-in-chief, Veran Matic, into jail.
 
 This was the third banning of the Belgrade's highest-rating
 radio station.  It had earlier been banned during protest in
 March, 1991 and during the winter demonstrations of 1996.
 On that occasion, public pressure forced the government to
 rescind the ban after less than two days.  The government
 claimed then that there had been no ban, instead making the
 now notorious claim that the transmissions had been cut by
 water seeping into a coaxi
 al cable.
 
 All permanent staff of Radio B92 were sacked by the usurping management, and associate contributors left the radio in solidarity. They stayed together to launch the ANEM project Free B92 and in August 1999 resumed broadca
 sting as Radio B2-92 on the third frequency of Studio B Radio until that station was taken over by the Serbian Government on May 17 this year.
 
 Even after the takeover of Studio B, Radio B2-92 did not disappear from the air.  It re-emerged as a regional radio and television station in collaboration with all stations on the ANEM network and other friendly electron
 ic media in the region.  In this way it managed to provide accurate and up-to-date information not only throughout Serbia, but the entire Balkans, even during the most difficult periods of the information blockade.  News
 was distributed 24 hours a day on a radio program transmitting on several frequencies in an attempt to avoid constant signal jamming.  It was also broadcast on Net radio on the most frequently-visited Web site in Yugoslav
 ia, with more than 100,000 visitors daily.  More than 20,000 readers subscribed to a daily e-mail news bulletin, which in many towns in Serbia was printed and distributed as a newsletter.  All of these broadcast modules t
 ogether make up on totally new electronic news medium, Radio-Web-TV, which has emerged as a response to the circumstances and the dramatic events which created it.
 
 The wheel has turned full circle with the return to the premises of the original Radio B92 in the Dom Omladine building in central Belgrade.
 
 We salute all the member stations of ANEM and other independent media for the courage and professionalism they have shown in these most difficult days and years.  We salute everyone who has been willing to defend the free
 dom of expression, whatever the cost.  We salute the liberators of Radio B92.  In this euphoric moment we also especially salute all our courageous colleagues who have been murdered by the cowardly oppressors and not live
 d to see this day of freedom.  We salute all our colleagues who have been harassed, beaten and jailed. Nor have we forgotten the ruthless fines and other forms of repression of the independent media.  Our task now is to r
 edress these injustices urgently wherever possible.
 
 The independent media have done their part of the job in introducing democratic change to this society despite all the obstacle and brutal repression to which they have been subject.  ANEM and Free Radio B92 will remain d
 edicated to the principles of professional work and the truthful and accurate provision of information to the public.  Only the scope of that work will be broadened as we embrace even more modern media technology.
 
 Veran Matic, Chairman, ANEM
 
 
 --- mediawatch@freeb92.net is a moderated list for
 distribution of information on the media situation in
 Yugoslavia.
 
 This will usually consist of a weekly update from ANEM
 which will most often be sent on Mondays.
 
 Further information on the media in Yugoslavia is available at:
 www.freeb92.net
 
 
 
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