Vijesti

What is Vijesti?

Vijesti is a Montenegrin media group made up of a daily newspaper, a national television channel and a news portal at vijesti.me. The Media Ownership Monitor Montenegro, in its 2023 data, lists Daily Press d.o.o. as the company behind the daily and Televizija Vijesti d.o.o. behind the channel, and names the portal and the weekly Monitor as related outlets.^[1][2] The outlet's own site could not be retrieved.

The Agency for Audiovisual Media Services' register lists TV Vijesti, operated by “Televizija Vijesti” d.o.o. in Podgorica, with national coverage under licence O-TV-K-19 issued on 21 July 2011, and gives its website as vijesti.me.^[3]

What does Vijesti cover?

No sport page of vijesti.me could be retrieved. The regulator records TV Vijesti's programme type as electronic media and television programme; the register entry does not break the schedule down by genre.^[3]

The group's coverage is general news, and the evidence retrieved concerns it as a news source. In the Ipsos survey for the AMU reported on 28 December 2025, Vijesti is one of two portals, with CDM, that are followed by “između 60 i 80 odsto tog segmenta publike” among readers of digital editions.^[4]

The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom records litigation involving the daily in 2025: “A notable case in 2025 involved the brother of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić filing a lawsuit against the daily Vijesti.”^[5] The report as retrieved gives no outcome, and none is given here.

How large is Vijesti's audience?

Montenegro has no agreed audience currency. A study dated October 2025, prepared with the OSCE Mission's support and published on the AMU's website, states: “Zasada u Crnoj Gori ne postoji usuglašen i industrijski općeprihvaćen jedinstveni sustav mjerenja gledanosti/slušanosti medija.”^[6] The Media Ownership Monitor's television profile says the same in its own words, that there is “no credible centralized audience measuring mechanism in the country”.^[2]

The published figure is a survey of news sources. Radio Televizija Budva reported on 28 December 2025 on an Ipsos survey for the AMU, carried out from 25 October to 11 November on 1,041 respondents. It reported that Televizija Vijesti is considered the primary source of information by “više od 40 odsto građana”, followed by TVCG 1 with almost 30 per cent.^[4] That is a stated preference for news, not a viewing share, and it is not specific to sport.

The Media Ownership Monitor's television profile states that the channel has been the “most viewed TV station in Montenegro since December 2016”; the profile gives no measured source for that statement, and it is carried here as the Monitor's.^[2]

Since when has Vijesti existed?

The Media Ownership Monitor states: “The first issue of the newspaper was published on September 1st, 1997.”^[1] The regulator's register dates the television licence to 21 July 2011; no first broadcast date for the channel was retrieved.^[3]

Ownership, with its dates. The Media Ownership Monitor's profile of the daily, compiled in 2023, states: “Daily Press d.o.o. has three shareholders: United Media S.A. R.L. (51%), Mne Media One d.o.o. (33.94%) and Media Development Investment Fund, INC (15.05%)”.^[1] Its television profile gives the 2022 shareholders of Televizija Vijesti as United Media S.A.R.L. 51 per cent, MNE Media Two d.o.o. 32.2126 per cent and the Media Development Investment Fund 16.7874 per cent.^[2]

The AMU's ownership platform, transparentnostmedija.me, retrieved on 24 September 2026, lists for Televizija Vijesti d.o.o. United Media Sarl with 51 per cent, through a chain of companies that includes United Group BV. It lists the Media Development Investment Fund INC. with 16.79 per cent and individual holdings including 14.08 and 12.28 per cent. The platform states that the ownership data were collected from the media founders, and shows no date for them.^[7]

Why does Vijesti matter in Montenegro's sport?

Vijesti's place in sport rests on its reach as a news source rather than on any sport rights retrieved. No rights agreement held by TV Vijesti for a sport competition was found in a primary source, and none is claimed here.

Its ownership is part of a monitored subject. The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom states: “The open market for foreign ownership has resulted in four out of five national private TV channels being majority-owned by Serbian capital, two of which belong to the same media conglomerate.”^[5] Reporters Without Borders, in its 2026 Index, states: “Three of the five television networks with national coverage are partially or completely foreign-owned, mainly by companies from neighbouring Serbia.”^[8] Neither passage names Vijesti, and the two bodies' counts differ; both are reported as published.

The AMU's information of 19 June 2026 concluded that “nijedan emiter ni distributer linearnih AVM usluga nema dominantnu ulogu na tržištu, u smislu člana 135 stav 4 Zakona”, the Law on Audiovisual Media Services.^[9]