Croatia’s Agency for Electronic Media (AEM) has awarded terrestrial licences to the broadcasters Laudato TV and VTV.
The one issued to the former covers the digital region d44-46, which includes the capital, Zagreb, while latter’s covers digital region 2.
In a note about its decision, AEM says that it failed to reach majority agreement about a licence for another digital region (7) that was being contested by VTV, TV Dalmatia and TV Adriatic.
It is also critical of bidders for digital regions 2 and 7 for failing to offer anything additional, in terms of local content, to that already available to viewers.
Laudato TV is a religious/family-oriented channel, while VTV has operated as a broadcaster in North Western Croatia since 1999 and now covers over 70% of the country.
