North Macedonia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 21 times since its official debut in 1998. The country had attempted to participate in 1996, but failed to qualify from the audio-only qualifying round. The Macedonian participant broadcaster in the contest is the Macedonian Radio Television (MRT).
Nikola Gruevski is a former Macedonian politician who served as Prime Minister of Macedonia from 2006 until his resignation, which was caused by the 2016 Macedonian protests, and led the VMRO-DPMNE party from 2004 to 2017. He is the longest serving post-independence Macedonian prime minister, serving more than nine years in office.
Radio Television of Vojvodina (RTV) is the regional public broadcaster in the Serbian province of Vojvodina, headquartered in Novi Sad. Alongside statewide Radio Television of Serbia, RTV serves as the second major public broadcaster in the country. The radio service began in 1949, and the television service launched in 1975. RTV broadcasts in multiple languages, including Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, and Rusyn, later adding Romani and Ukrainian.
Television is the most popular medium in Russia, with 74% of the population watching national television channels routinely and 59% routinely watching regional channels. There are 6,700 television channels in total. Before going digital television, 3 channels have a nationwide outreach : Channel One, Russia-1 and NTV.
Naša TV is a private national and satellite television channel in North Macedonia. The channel mostly retranslates programs it produces.
Petar Stojkovikj is a Macedonian actor who works in theater, television and film. He is also an LGBT human rights activist.
Cartoon Network is a European pay television channel broadcast in the Baltic States, Bulgaria, CIS, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. It launched on 1 June 1998 and is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery under its International division.
Risto Apostolov is Macedonian songwriter, composer, and music producer. He is also guitarist, singer, and leader of rock band Vodolija.
Zoran Zaev is a Macedonian economist and politician who served as prime minister of North Macedonia from May 2017 to January 2020, and again from August 2020 to January 2022.
Alfa TV is a privately owned TV station in North Macedonia. Its headquarters is in Skopje, and the program director until 2018 was Ljubomir Nikolovski. Since 2018, the director is Vasko Eftov. Then he was relieved and the new director was Jani Bojadzi
TV Nova was a local television channel in Kumanovo, North Macedonia. Their director was Marjan Stoshevski. TV Nova was robbed in 2012 and lost some of its equipment but it did not interfere with the work of the station.
TV Plus is a local television station in Kumanovo, North Macedonia.
TV KRT Dalga was a local television channel in Kumanovo, North Macedonia.
Republika is a weekly newspaper from North Macedonia. Publishing began in 2012. In 2017, the print edition was shut down due to financial problems, but the publication has continued online.
Match TV is a Russian free-to-air federal sports television channel owned by Gazprom Media.
In April 2016, protests began in the Republic of Macedonia against the incumbent President Gjorge Ivanov and the government led by the interim Prime Minister Emil Dimitriev from the ruling VMRO-DPMNE party. Referred to by some as the Colorful Revolution, the protests started after the controversial decision by President Gjorge Ivanov to stop the investigation of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and dozens of politicians who were allegedly involved in a wiretapping scandal. The demonstrations were organized by "Protestiram" and supported by a coalition led by the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia and other opposition parties, in addition to the newly formed Levica demanding that the government resign and be replaced by a transitional government and that the parliamentary elections planned for 5 June 2016 be cancelled, on the grounds that the conditions for free and transparent elections were not in place. The government and its supporters, who had organized pro-government rallies, maintained that the elections on June 5 were the only solution to the political crisis, with some observers blaming the opposition for creating a "Ukraine scenario" in Macedonia.
TV 21 is a television channel in North Macedonia. The channel was launched with an initial investment of 6.5 million euros and employs around 100 people. It is the Macedonian version of the Kosovan channel RTV21, and offers programming primarily in Albanian, with occasional content in Macedonian.
1TV was a television channel in North Macedonia. Editor was Aco Kabranov. Owner of the company BMJ MEDIA GROUP DOO Skopje was Mile Jovanovski.
Aleksandr Anatolyevich Oleinikov is a Russian director, screenwriter, film producer, and television presenter.
TV1 is a Bulgarian television channel and production company headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was founded in 2008 by Rumen Kovachev, replacing his previous channel, Estate TV. Its programming features newscasts, business news, political commentary, art and culture coverage, and variety shows.
