PGP-RTS

PGP-RTS is a record label based in Belgrade and the music-production branch of Radio Television of Serbia, Serbia’s public broadcaster. The label operates within a longer institutional tradition inherited from PGP-RTB, a record company established in Belgrade in 1959, when the city was the capital of the Socialist Republic of Serbia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. PGP-RTB became an important home for music from the Serbian and wider Yugoslav cultural space, issuing recordings by prominent pop, rock, and folk performers. The present PGP-RTS identity emerged in 1993, after the breakup of Yugoslavia and the restructuring of the former Yugoslav media and cultural system. The name change linked the label directly to Radio Television of Serbia, while preserving the production and catalog heritage associated with PGP-RTB. In this sense, PGP-RTS is both a contemporary Serbian label and a successor institution to one of the region’s historically significant record companies. Its core business is music production and recording distribution. The label’s historical scope has included Serbian popular music, rock, and folk music, with its artist roster and catalog reflecting the breadth of the domestic market. PGP-RTS has also functioned as a vehicle for preserving and circulating recordings connected to Serbian broadcasting and popular culture. Its institutional relationship with RTS distinguishes it from independent labels: the brand is embedded in a public-media organization rather than operating solely as a standalone commercial recording company. The label’s significance is primarily cultural and historical. Through the PGP-RTB and PGP-RTS lineage, recordings issued under the brand form part of the documented history of Serbian and Yugoslav popular music. The available reference material identifies PGP-RTS as a major Serbian record label and notes that it has signed numerous eminent Serbian pop, rock, and folk acts, both historically and in its more recent operations. A complete artist-by-artist roster is not specified in the supplied material, so individual artist credits and current executive information are not listed here. PGP-RTS remains associated with music production under Radio Television of Serbia. Its exact contemporary release program, corporate leadership, catalog strategy, and official web presence are not sufficiently documented in the supplied sources to describe in detail.

PGP-RTS traces its institutional history to PGP-RTB, which was established in Belgrade in 1959. At the time, Belgrade was the capital of the Socialist Republic of Serbia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. PGP-RTB developed as a significant record company serving the Yugoslav and Serbian music markets, releasing recordings by artists from several major strands of popular music, including pop, rock, and folk. The company’s historical importance came from its role in recording and distributing music within the Yugoslav media and cultural system. Its catalog was connected to the development of Serbian popular music and included work by numerous notable performers. As a record label with a broad domestic repertoire, PGP-RTB helped make commercially recorded Serbian-language music available to audiences in Yugoslavia and, later, in the successor states and diaspora markets. The political and institutional breakup of Yugoslavia changed the environment in which the company operated. In 1993, the company adopted the name PGP-RTS. The new name reflected its relationship with Radio Television of Serbia and identified the label as the broadcaster’s music-production branch. This transition preserved continuity with the earlier PGP-RTB organization while placing the label within the institutional structure of Serbia’s national public broadcaster. Under the PGP-RTS name, the organization continued its association with Serbian music production and with a roster spanning pop, rock, and folk. The label’s legacy therefore has two dimensions: it is a functioning music brand connected to RTS, and it is the successor to a historically important record company whose recordings document changing Serbian and Yugoslav musical cultures. The available reference material does not provide a detailed chronology of individual releases, ownership changes, executives, marketing campaigns, or specific controversies. It also does not identify a definitive list of current artists. Consequently, the documented history is strongest at the institutional level: the 1959 creation of PGP-RTB, the 1993 renaming to PGP-RTS after Yugoslavia’s breakup, and the label’s continuing role as the music-production branch of Radio Television of Serbia.

• 1993

  The label adopts the PGP-RTS name

  [1]PGP-RTSen.wikipedia.org

  Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, the company changes its name from PGP-RTB to PGP-RTS and becomes identified as the music-production branch of Radio Television of Serbia.

• 1959

  PGP-RTB is established

  [1]PGP-RTSen.wikipedia.org

  PGP-RTB is established in Belgrade and becomes the predecessor of the later PGP-RTS label.

A Serbian record label with a public-broadcasting connection and a heritage dating to the former Yugoslav record industry.

• Recordings · 1993

  PGP-RTS recorded music catalog

  The label’s principal offering is its catalog of recorded music associated with Serbian performers and the broader PGP-RTB/PGP-RTS institutional lineage. The documented repertoire spans pop, rock, and folk music. The supplied sources do not specify a complete catalog or identify particular title-level flagship releases.

• Archive and reissues · 1959

  PGP-RTB legacy catalog

  The PGP-RTB archive represents the historical foundation inherited by PGP-RTS. It contains recordings issued from the predecessor company’s establishment in 1959 and forms an important documentary record of Serbian and Yugoslav popular music. Specific reissue programs are not detailed in the supplied reference material.

• 1993

  Renaming from PGP-RTB to PGP-RTSStrategy

  Background

  The change occurred after the breakup of Yugoslavia, as the former institutional and political environment of the Yugoslav record industry was being reorganized.

  Action taken

  The company adopted the PGP-RTS name, linking the label to Radio Television of Serbia and defining it as the broadcaster’s music-production branch.

  Aftermath

  The renaming maintained continuity with the earlier PGP-RTB record-company heritage while establishing the label’s Serbian public-broadcasting identity.

  Source

1. 1PGP-RTSen.wikipedia.org