Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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Broadcast area | Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia North Macedonia Montenegro Serbia Slovenia |
Affiliates | Radio Studio 99 |
Headquarters | Sarajevo Trg djece Sarajeva 1 (inside ARIA Centar) |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian[1] |
Picture format | 16:9 1080i (HDTV) |
Ownership | |
Parent | Al Jazeera Media Network |
Key people | Tarik Đođić (General Director) Šemsudin Skejić (Head of News) |
Sister channels | Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera Arabic Al Jazeera Documentary Channel |
History | |
Launched | 11 November 2011 |
Replaced | NTV 99 |
Links | |
Website | balkans |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Analogue (Bosnia) | Sarajevo area UHF 56 Fojnica area UHF 36 |
evotv (Croatia) | Channel 105 |
Streaming media | |
AJB player | Watch live |
Al Jazeera Balkans (AJB) is an international news television station headquartered in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina aimed at the media markets of the countries that used to be constituent units of SFR Yugoslavia. It is part of the Al Jazeera Media Network.
The station broadcasts in local variants of the "common language spoken in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro"[1] (commonly known as Serbo-Croatian[2]) from 7.30 to 3.30 CET (start and end 30 minutes later on the weekends), with both of live, pre-recorded original, and subtitled Al Jazeera English programming. The live dirty feed of Al Jazeera English is simulcast the remainder of hours with simply Gledate AJE (transl. You are watching AJE) text-bug overlaid at the top-right corner of the screen. Al Jazeera Balkans is a sister channel of the Arabic language Al Jazeera and the English language channel Al Jazeera English. The station broadcasts news analysis and features as well as documentaries, live debates, current affairs, business, technology, and sports news.