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| Broadcast area | Southeast Europe[1] |
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| Headquarters | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Zagreb, Croatia Belgrade, Serbia Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Programming | |
| Picture format | 576i (16:9SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | United Group[2] |
| History | |
| Launched | 30 October 2014; 11 years ago (2014-10-30) |
| Links | |
| Website | n1info |
N1 is a 24-hour cablenews channel launched on 30 October 2014. The channel has headquarters inLjubljana,Zagreb,Belgrade andSarajevo and covers events happening inCentral andSoutheastern Europe.[3] Available on cable TV throughout formerYugoslavia, N1 isCNN International's local broadcast partner and affiliate[4][5] via an agreement with theLondon-basedWarner Bros. Discovery EMEA. As it is focused on the audiences of the three countries in which it is headquartered, it has three separate editorial policies, separate reporters, TV studios as well as internet and mobile platforms. In cases where news overlaps, it is presented jointly.[6][7]
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TheOrganization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and Pauline Adès-Mével, a representative ofReporters Without Borders, describedN1 as “the only bigindependent television station in Serbia”.[8][9][10] Workers have been constantly labeled as “traitors” and “foreign mercenaries” and received hundreds of insults and threats of physical violence through social media.[11] Unidentified individuals sent a letter to the station on 4 February 2019 threatening to kill its journalists and their families and blow up its offices.[12]
After President of SerbiaVučić was hospitalized withcardiovascular problems in November 2019, his associates and pro-government media accused theN1 journalist Miodrag Sovilj of aggravating the President's health by probing allegations of corruption by government ministers.[13][14] TheCouncil of Europe's platform on journalist safety warns about a lack of state response to intimidation, threats and asmear campaign against Sovilj.[15] The representative of Reporters Without Borders expressed concern about attacks faced by the Station’s executive director, as well as about the distribution of leaflets advisingN1 to leave Serbia and threats made via social networks.[10]
In January 2020, theEuropean Federation of Journalists associated itself with theIndependent Association of Serbia’s Journalists in supportingN1. It stated that it viewed the state-owned cable operator’s decision to dropN1 as an attempt to shut down critical discourse in Serbia.[16] Parallel to the dispute betweenthe United Group and cable operator,Harlem Désir, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and Reporters Without Borders both expressed concern overcyberattacks onN1’s Serbian web portal and mobile app.[17][18]
On 13 October 2023, the National Bureau of Investigation (NPU) filed criminal charges against Damjan Žugelj, former director of the Office for Money Laundering Prevention, and his closest associates on suspicion ofabuse of office. The NPU stated that they were being prosecuted for unlawfully looking into 224 bank accounts in Slovenija, allegedly also includingDragan Šolak, the founder and co-owner of United Group and United Media, that owns N1. There were several other cases of bank accounts browsings based only on short anonymous letters during Žugelj's time, including the Office's investigation of the bank accounts of the wife of the Parliament President who an opposition member.[19] Žugelj’s Office was browsing bank accounts of the Parliament President's wife at the very time when the then Janša coalition was unsuccessfully trying to remove him from his position.[20]
In 2023 and 2024, N1 reported on mismanagement and physical abuse allegations at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Ljubljana (UPK Ljubljana). According to an official report, a commission of the Slovenian Ministry of Health that carried out an external supervision, proposed a range of measures, including replacing the management of UPK Ljubljana. The clinic denied the claims and has taken legal action. The clinic also responded to the report, but the final decision by the Ministry of Health has not yet been announced.[21]
N1 Sarajevo[22]
