Sladjana Tomasevic posts Belgrade Chronicle clip
The host shared a behind-the-scenes exchange with reporter Sanja Belovic on Instagram, recorded before the first live cross and never aired on RTS.
Sladjana Tomasevic, host of Belgrade Chronicle on RTS, posted a clip on her Instagram account @sladjana.tomasevic showing a conversation with reporter Sanja Belovic, recorded while the broadcast was being prepared. Viewers never saw that exchange on air. In the clip, Tomasevic tells the reporter to take the covering off her head.
Kurir reported the post on October 21 at 6:48 p.m., and Nportal ran it as well. According to both outlets, Belovic covered her head because of the rain, ahead of the first live cross. Kurir says she covered her face, while Tomasevic says on the recording that the reporter has her head wrapped up. Neither article specifies which item of clothing it was.
What can be heard in the clip?
In her first lines, the host combines two complaints, the head covering and the spot the reporter is reporting from:
“Take that off your head, Sanja, are you out of your mind? Sanja, what are you doing by the Bajloni market for the first live cross, Sanja?”
Sladjana Tomasevic said this on the recording she posted herself. Reporter Sanja Belovic replied that she was not at the location the host mentioned:
“That’s not Bajloni, it’s by Despot Stefan so we can make it to the second one, don’t worry”
Tomasevic then repeated her demand, adding “Here I’m stopping, fine”, and then once more: “Sanja, take that off your head, damn it.” Belovic added her own explanation:
“And I’m staying here because this is where I finish up my work”
That was the RTS reporter’s reply, and the exchange was not broadcast.
Who is Tomasevic addressing as “Kaca”?
Further on, the host also speaks to a person she calls Kaca, who is on air from another location. That is not Sanja Belovic: Tomasevic says “sorry” to Kaca and then turns back to Sanja. Her words:
“Go ahead, Kaca, sorry. Sanja, take that off your head, damn it, you can’t go on air with your head covered like that.”
In the same stretch, Tomasevic added: “It’s not you who’s the problem, Kaca, it’s Sanja.” Kurir and Nportal report that she then asked for the message to be passed on to the reporter to take the covering off, because, as she put it, it can’t go into the program like that.
What is known and what is not
Here is what is established:
- the clip comes from the preparation of the Belgrade Chronicle broadcast on RTS
- the host is Sladjana Tomasevic and the reporter is Sanja Belovic
- Belovic covered her head because of the rain ahead of the first live cross
- the exchange was not aired, and Tomasevic posted it on Instagram
- Kurir reported it on October 21 at 6:48 p.m.
What Belovic had on her head is not known, because the articles we read do not say. Neither of them carries a comment from RTS or from Sanja Belovic about the post. For now, the only source of the conversation is the host herself, who put the clip on her own account.
