Audicija
A TV Sarajevo satire of the Academy of Performing Arts audition, and a Yugoslavia-wide stage hit.
Branko Đurić's streetwise character Solomon Bičakćić made it famous; performed 150 times.
On the box
Sarajevo on television
Sarajevo's television — the sketch shows and sitcoms that made the city's humour famous, and the broadcasters that kept it on the air. The films · The theatres
FTV
The Federation's public channel — original home of Viza za budućnost and Lud, zbunjen, normalan.
Launched 27 October 2001 under RTVFBiH; the most-watched channel in the country (14.4% share, 2012).
Kanal S
The wartime channel broadcast from Pale using equipment taken from former TV Sarajevo transmitters.
It evolved into what is today's RTRS.
Lud, zbunjen, normalan
The Fazlinović family sitcom — one of the most-watched shows in Bosnia and the wider region.
Audiences: 'The biggest Bosnian series ever', with the first hundred-odd episodes the golden era.
309 episodes across 13 seasons; cancelled after the death of Mustafa Nadarević, who played the patriarch Izet. Shown across all of former Yugoslavia — Nova TV (Croatia), Nova BH, Face TV, Prva TV/RTS/B92 (Serbia), A1 and Kanal 5 (North Macedonia), POP TV (Slovenia) and TV Vijesti (Montenegro).
Nadreality Show
The 21st-century TLN revival — Zenit Đozić's return to Sarajevo sketch comedy.
18 episodes; aired 2007–08 on FTV, RTL and B92, reuniting the old TLN crew (Zenit Đozić, Elvis J. Kurtović, Milan Pavlović); a second season, Nadreality Show 2, followed on FTV in 2017.
Nadrealna televizija
Nele Karajlić's return to sketch comedy after more than twenty years.
Pilot aired on 1Prva on 12 December 2012 with high viewership; the ten episodes, directed by Milorad Milinković, ran 3 September – 15 November 2013.
OBN
The post-war channel founded by the international community as a neutral voice.
Headquartered in the Pofalići neighbourhood. Launched 23 July 1996 as the Open Broadcast Network, founded by the Office of the High Representative and the EU with about $20 million in backing; privately owned since 2000.
Primus
Boro Kontić's Saturday magazine on Radio Sarajevo — the radio home where Top lista nadrealista was born.
'Priče i muzika subotom' ran Saturdays 8–11am on Radio Sarajevo's Channel Two from 6 January 1979; Kontić's fifteen-minute TLN segment debuted 10 November 1979 and was taken off air in March 1985. Kontić later edited the Youth Program on Radio Sarajevo 2 (from 1987) and, as program director of channel two from 1990, revived the wartime political magazine Dežurni mikrofon on Radio BiH in 1992.
Radio Sarajevo 202
The city's first local radio station, named after its AM frequency — a symbol of Sarajevo's urban culture.
Opened 1 July 1971 as the first local station in urban Sarajevo; revived by RTVFBiH in the 2000s, it was forced off the air on 1 January 2010 after 38 years, prompting a public outcry.
Radio TV Sarajevo / BHT 1
The city's public broadcaster — Radio Sarajevo from 1945, Television Sarajevo from 1961, today BHT 1.
Its Sivi Dom was shelled during the siege, worst on 28 June 1995 (one person killed, at least 30 injured); it kept broadcasting a single programme via the damaged Hum Tower. TV Sarajevo's largest project was host transmission of the 1984 Winter Olympics; under cultural director Slobodan Terzić it also made the first music videos for bands like Crvena Jabuka, Plavi Orkestar and Dino Merlin, and ran the short-lived commercial channel TVSA 3 in 1989. RTVBiH never went off air during the war and joined the EBU as an active member in January 1993. Today the state-level broadcaster BHRT — the EBU member and heir to RTV Sarajevo's archives — runs BHT1, BH Radio 1 and a music-production unit from the RTV Dom at Bulevar Meše Selimovića 12. It is separate from the Federation's RTVFBiH and from RTRS: three distinct public broadcasters within one 'Public RTV System', funded by a 7.5 KM/month RTV tax split 50/25/25. The system has been in chronic crisis — RTRS withheld BHRT's share (a debt past 104 million KM by January 2026), BHRT owed the EBU close to 22 million KM, and on 25 February 2026 it suspended its regular schedule ('Došli smo do zida'), airing only informational programmes. BHRT employs about 700 people (2026) and finally began a DVB-T2 digital rollout in July 2025 — 'the last European country' to do so, in the words of the communications minister.
Radio Zid
The pirate radio that kept music and humour alive in the besieged city.
Its recordings were released abroad as the Rock Under Siege compilation (1995).
Top lista nadrealista
The New Primitivism sketch show that made Sarajevo's deadpan humour famous across Yugoslavia.
Audiences: The legendary Sarajevo comedy — 'best sketches on our spaces', prophetic; its catchphrases are the most-quoted in the language.
27 episodes across three series. Running sketches like 'Burek u svemiru' and the 'Ćega, ba' catchphrase passed into Yugoslav slang; the 1989–91 series turned prophetic on the coming war. Under siege the group returned: when Radio Sarajevo's four channels were merged into a single Radio BiH on 9 May 1992, Boro Kontić revived the political magazine Dežurni mikrofon (Sundays 9am, from 24 May 1992) and from late June 1992 gave the Nadrealisti a weekly 15-minute slot on it — reuniting Đuro, Zenit Đozić, Šiber, Srđan 'Srki' Velimirović, Elvis J. Kurtović, Zlatko Arslanagić, Sejo Sexon and Saša Petrović, plus new faces — that ran until July 1993, opening with lines like 'good evening to all three of you who still have generators.' In August 1993, after some fifty radio shows, the group shot and aired four television episodes.
Tragom ptice Dodo
Timothy John Byford's children's series — Nele Karajlić starred, Sejo Sexon wrote the score.
The bridge between New Primitivism and TV Sarajevo's youth output. Byford made three children's shows for TV Sarajevo — Nedeljni zabavnik (Sunday Magazine), 'Musical Notebook' and Tragom ptice Dodo — alongside his better-known TV Belgrade series.
Viza za budućnost
The first post-war Bosnian series — a Sarajevo family ordered to share their apartment with the family who left for Norway.
Audiences: A beloved portrait of post-war BiH society with an all-star regional cast.
206 episodes; sold across the region.