Radio Mega.1: 33 years after the application
The story of Vitogoj Kodarin and RTV zavod Radio Mega.1 Koper
On 29 March 1993, RTV zavod Radio Mega.1 Koper submitted an application for a radio frequency. It did not receive one. More than three decades later, Vitogoj Kodarin is still seeking an answer as to why.
This is the first story in our Your Stories section, which we launched with the article House of Justice opens its doors to your stories. We are publishing it as told by Vitogoj Kodarin.
An application submitted before the deadline
According to Kodarin, Radio Mega.1's application was complete and submitted a week before the required deadline. Even so, no licence was issued. Without it, the radio station could not operate normally and became inactive.
The same rules for everyone?
Kodarin is convinced that the same rules did not apply to everyone when frequencies were allocated. He particularly highlights the period after 26 May 1994, when public tenders were required for frequency allocations. He claims that some radio stations could already be heard on certain frequencies before the tenders, with the formal procedures allegedly carried out only later.
Removal from the register
The broadcasting institution was later removed from the court register. Kodarin acknowledges that its inactivity may have contributed to this, but stresses that it was inactive precisely because it had not been given the opportunity to operate.
For him, a dispute over a single frequency grew into the loss of business and income. According to him, the consequences also affected his pensionable service, his ability to retire and the people connected with the institution.
2004: almost resolved
In 2003 and 2004, Kodarin presented his case to the National Assembly's Commission for Petitions. According to him, he submitted documentation intended to demonstrate irregularities in the allocation of frequencies.
In April 2004, after eleven years, a solution appeared close. Kodarin claims that Nikolaj Simič, then director of the responsible agency, was prepared to resolve the matter by entering an available frequency in the original 1993 application. When he learned that the institution had meanwhile been removed from the court register, he allegedly withdrew from this course of action. The frequency was not entered in the application.
Kodarin continued to approach state institutions. He also mentions 4 October 2005, when the then Information Commissioner, Nataša Pirc Musar, sent a letter to the competent authority concerning his requests for access to documentation. This, too, failed to bring the clarification he had expected.
He attributes part of the responsibility to his former legal representatives. According to him, in some proceedings they did not use all available legal remedies, particularly appeals, causing some opportunities for further action to be lost.
The response in 2026
In September 2026, Akos informed the Broadcasting Council that a final decision had been made on the application for a licence dated 29 March 1993.
The council explained that it had no authority to intervene in administrative proceedings, oversee the lawfulness of Akos's decisions or reconsider final decisions. In its current composition, it had not identified the violations described by Kodarin. It added, however, that it could not rule out the possibility that his allegations referred to periods before the current council's term of office.
What remains unresolved
The institutions say that a final decision was made on the application. Kodarin claims that the story has never truly been clarified. Documents, above all, can show who is right: when and how the 1993 application was decided, under which rules frequencies were allocated to others, and why the proposed solution in 2004 was not carried out.
As with Wolfova 1, the proceedings here have lasted decades, while key documents remain difficult to obtain. That is why this story deserves to be heard in full.
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