- country
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- description
- country
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- actor category
- Regime-Aligned Media
- actor id
- ACT-BIH-012
- actor name
- ATV (Alternativna TV)
- actor type
- Broadcast media — partially state-aligned
- campaign ids
- BIH-CAMP-003; BIH-CAMP-004
- notes
- US sanctions status documented. Sanctions-as-patriotism framing is analytically distinctive — no direct parallel in Serbian database. Parallel to TV Informer (Serbia) in function. No specific dated cases coded yet — media infrastructure structural enabler role documented but individual broadcasts not yet primary-sourced. DETECTION NOTE: ATV content should be monitored for colour revolution framing of Bosnian civic protests — this is the BiH equivalent of the Serbian August 2024 Informer TV special (SRB-024).
- role in campaigns
- RS-based broadcaster. Under US government sanctions. Functions as "Operative" amplifier — more aggressive than RTRS. Uses its US sanctions status as "badge of patriotism" — frames sanctions as proof of RS sovereignty vs. Western interference. This inverts the usual delegitimization dynamic: being sanctioned becomes authorization signal rather than reputational damage. Amplifies colour revolution framing of civil society; platform for Tadić, Karan, and other legitimizer/operative actors. Parallel function to TV Informer in Serbia.
- website
- atv.rs.ba
- entity id
- 591
- entity type
- Broadcast media — partially state-aligned
- id
- ACT-BIH-012
- name
- ATV (Alternativna TV)
- original id
- ACT-BIH-012
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