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OBN Press Release

OBN - Most Professional of All Local TV Stations

16 June 1999

This month's issue of Media News concludes OBN's coverage of the Kosovo crisis has been the most professional of all local TV stations.

Media News, the fortnightly specialised service reporting on the media scene in Bosnia & Hercegovina, monitored OBN's coverage of the Kosovo Crisis and reported, "It's approach has been comprehensive, but without artificial balance, or what is even more important - without artificial symmetry".

The report also gave credit to Bakir Hadziomerovic, presenter of OBN's special programme "Kosovo Crisis" stating, "... without doubt one of the best male TV moderators" and "this fellow radiates self-assuredness, which is one of the preconditions for success on TV".

Having just celebrated the 1000th edition of TV INFO, OBN's popular daily news programme, the report also stated, "OBN/TVINFO is the first pan-Bosnian TV station in the real (positive) meaning of the word."

This is not the first time OBN Media News have commended The Open Broadcast Network - earlier this year in March Media News reported OBN coming the closest to the ideal of a Bosnian-Herzegovinian television station based on monitoring seven days of OBN's TV INFO.

For further information contact Sally Aldred, OBN Tel : 00 387 71 212 950


OBN Press Release, 16 June 1999