Media Regulator: Informer Banned from Advertising for Five Days and from Airing Kolegijum Program for 25 Days

Supporters of TV Informer held a protest against the actions of REM, Belgrade Oct. 10 2026 (BETAPHOTO/MILAN ILIC)

The Council of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media issued multiple measures against Informer TV on Nov. 10, including a five-day ban on advertising and two bans, of 10 and 15 days, prohibiting the airing of the Kolegijum program.

The Council issued the five-day ban on advertising (airing commercials between 6 and 9 p.m.) against Informer for broadcasting the Drzavnik (Statesman) documentary. A warning was issued for failing to label as campaigning reporting from an election rally. The Council issued the 10-day ban against Kolegijum over derogatory comments against Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media Council member Rodoljub Sabic and Bureau for Social Research director Zoran Gavrilovic, and the other, 15-day ban over multiple violations of the rules of reporting during an election campaign.

Council chairman Stevica Smederevac said at the session that freedom of speech, which Informer invoked multiple times, should not be taken single-mindedly or as an absolute. "My freedom of speech must not threaten anyone else's freedom of speech, that is, freedom of speech is reflected in my limiting myself in some part of what I intend for the good of the other person, and vice versa," Smederevac said.