Croatian public broadcaster HRT has appointed one of the country's industry veterans as its new director general following a parliamentary vote.

The UK’s Channel 4 has acquired its first Croatian series for on-demand foreign-language drama service Walter Presents.

Croatian pubcaster HRT’s supervisory board will search for a new director general in January following 10 months of interim management caused by two general elections in less than a year.

Serbian channel Nova TV, recently acquired by one of the country’s richest businessmen, has begun the process of securing a national broadcasting licence.

Serbia’s first ever DTT pay TV platform could be heading for the courts with four existing national broadcasters protesting that the service is operating illegally.

Greece’s Antenna Group is giving up its majority stake in Slovenian commercial channel Planet TV, with Telekom Slovenije, Antenna’s partner in the joint-venture channel, upping its stake following a legal wrangle.

Croatian public broadcaster HRT has opened a pitching round for 21 new shows it hopes to produce, including a local telenovela, as it attempts to close the ratings gap on its main commercial rival.

The Slovenian arm of Greece's Antenna Group has been taken to court over an unsettled debt by the country's public broadcaster, with whom it operates a leading commercial channel.

A new regional film channel will start broadcasting from Zagreb to the countries of former Yugoslavia from September 1.

The general director of Bosnia’s public broadcaster BHRT has resigned for health reasons.