The public broadcaster of the Republika Srpska. Its statute, the Zakon o radio-televiziji Republike Srpske, is listed as published in Sl. glasnik RS 49/2006 and amended to 2016; Article 4 names the Republika Srpska as founder. The state-level system law lists it as one of three public RTV services.

Does its law mention sport?

Yes. Article 13 of the entity law states that the RTRS programme includes information, culture, education, entertainment and sport, and RTRS names an editorial department for entertainment and sport programming.

When did RTRS start broadcasting?

RTRS states that Television of Republika Srpska began work on 19 April 1992. That is the broadcaster's own account.

How large is its audience?

No audience figure for RTRS was retrieved. The Media Ownership Monitor 2023 includes it in its television sample but gives it no share.

РТРС — Радио Телевизија Републике Српске

What is RTRS?

RTRS is the public broadcaster of the Republika Srpska, one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its site gives its name in Cyrillic as “Радио Телевизија Републике Српске” and in Latin as “Radio Televizija Republike Srpske”, and offers both scripts.^[1]^[2]

Its statute is the Zakon o radio-televiziji Republike Srpske, read in a legal database that lists it as published in “Sl. glasnik RS”, br. 49/2006, 73/2008, 42/2010, 89/2013 i 44/2016. Article 1 opens: “Ovim zakonom uređuje se Javni radio-televizijski servis Republike Srpske”. Article 4 reads: “Osnivač Radio-televizije Republike Srpske je Republika Srpska.” The law constitutes it as a javno preduzeće and places its seat in Banja Luka.^[3]

The state-level Law on the Public Radio-Television System lists “Radio-televizija Republike Srpske (u daljnjem tekstu: RTRS) kao Javni RTV servis Republike Srpske” as one of its three public services.^[4] RTRS describes itself as one of three equal public broadcasters in the country's public service system. Its organisation page describes a television service, a radio service and a third channel, PLUS, together with a web portal and teletext, and states that the radio has 60 staff in seven editorial departments.^[2]

What does RTRS cover?

The Republika Srpska law names sport in the programme remit. Article 13 provides: “Program RTRS uključuje informacije, kulturu, obrazovanje, zabavu i sport.” The law also refers to “sportskim i drugim događajima”, and its Article 37 deals with access to and broadcasting of events.^[3] The state-level law carries the same programme formula for all three services, and its Article 5 includes “sportskim i drugim događajima” among the events on which the public services are to inform the public.^[4]

RTRS's own page on its organisation names a “Редакција забавног и спортског програма”, an editorial department for entertainment and sport, among its television departments.^[2] Its sport section sits on a path of its own domain, rtrs.tv.^[1]

On 23 September 2026 the home page carried sport headlines in Cyrillic. One was a report from the Republika Srpska's first football league, “Прва лига Српске: Лакташи гостују у Лопарама”. Another announced the start of the Euroleague season, “Почиње сезона у Евролиги, Звезда сутра дочекује Жалгирис, Партизан у петак са Миланом”.^[1] The page also carried volleyball and Turkish basketball items.

No list of RTRS's sports rights with terms and end dates was retrieved, and none is asserted here.

How large is RTRS's audience?

Television audiences in Bosnia and Herzegovina are measured by peoplemeter. Audience Measurement d.o.o. describes a panel of 450 households and a universe of 3,366,277 individuals aged four and over in television households. Its site publishes no current channel shares.^[5]

The Media Ownership Monitor Bosnia and Herzegovina 2023, run by BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina, includes “Radio televizija Republike Srpske” in its sample of eleven television outlets.^[6] Its television indicator, on data for 1 March 2022 to 31 March 2023, names four owners with a combined recalculated share of 58 per cent: Nova BH, BN TV, OBN and FTV. It gives no share for RTRS.^[7]

No audience figure for RTRS, and none for its sport programming, was retrieved from the broadcaster, the audience measurement company or a regulator. None is given here.

Since when has RTRS existed?

RTRS's organisation page states: “Телевизија Републике Српске почела је да ради 19. априла 1992. године.” That is the broadcaster's own account of its television's first day of work.^[2] The site's footer runs from 2001, which dates the site, not the broadcaster.^[1]

The statute under which it now operates was published in “Sl. glasnik RS” br. 49/2006, per the legal database read. The same database lists amendments to 2016.^[3] No independent source for the 1992 date was retrieved, so it is attributed to RTRS and not adopted.

Why does RTRS matter in Bosnia and Herzegovina's sport?

RTRS is the public service in the Republika Srpska under both the entity law and the state-level system law.^[3]^[4] Its sport output on the build date ran from the entity's own football league to international basketball.^[1]

Its governance is a monitored subject. Reporters Without Borders, in its 2026 index, writes that in the Republika Srpska “authorities took political control of the entity's public broadcaster RTRS and pushed the national public channel BHRT to the brink of financial collapse”. That is RSF's characterisation, attributed to it.^[8]

The Media Ownership Monitor 2023 lists “Javno preduzeće Radio-televizija Republike Srpske” among the media-owning companies in its sample. Under Article 4 of its statute, the founder is the Republika Srpska.^[9]^[3]