Zdravko Milinovic, editor-in-chief of the Zagreb weekly Globus, commented on the situation with N1 television, among other things, in N1 television's morning program Novi dan.

“I think that N1 with this concept of news information has become a value that has shown itself and proven in the market,” Milinovic said.

“After a few years of existence, they have become in some way desperately needed, not only for us who follow the information professionally, but also for politicians. When I talk to politicians on both the left and right, everyone says “call me later, I’m watching N1 ″. This means that N1 got what they wanted, that they have become Croatia’s CNN.

“Whether and to what extent there is a financial conflict in the background between the telecoms, the management of this company and other telecom operators, that’s something you know better than I do. There are probably elements of that,” Milinovic told N1 Television’s news director, Tihomir Ladisic.

“However, I think that N1 is what the Croatian public needs and that it has become an essential part of democracy, since (state television) HRT’s channel 4 couldn’t. I believe it couldn’t because whatever is owned by the state can hardly be critical of the government. That’s why I think N1 deserves to be on all screens and the only thing I can see going forward is granting N1 a terrestrial broadcasting license.”

Cable television operator A1 stopped carrying United Media produced channels N1 Television and Sport Klub on March 29 because talks on extending the contract have failed. Last week, N1 television sent an expression of interest to the government’s Electronic Media Agency calling on the agency to announce a new tender for the allocation of new free-to-air (FTA) frequencies.