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DEPARTURE OF A JOURNALISM LEGEND: Dejan Đurović, one of the iconic voices of Radio Television Belgrade, has passed away!

by Serbian Times3. January 2026.3. January 2026.

Dejan Đurović, actor, announcer and host, one of the iconic voices of Radio Television Belgrade, passed away in Belgrade at the age of 88.

With his convincing, appealing and recognizable voice, Dejan Đurović was directly connected to the programs of Radio Belgrade for more than half a century. He was born on November 7, 1938, in Belgrade. He was educated in Valjevo, Belgrade, Ulcinj and Marseille, and graduated from the Acting Department of the Theatre Academy under Professor Mate Milošević in Belgrade in 1963.

He began his announcing career in the late 1950s on the newly launched Second Program of Radio Belgrade. In the mid-1970s, for the program Inspirations, he was awarded the Prize for Hosting Interpretation at the Festival of Yugoslav Radio in Ohrid.

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From 1980, for three and a half decades, he hosted Dragstore of Serious Music on Belgrade 202, and his voice colored the famous documentary television series Survival, the programs Saturday Evening and Sunday Evening, dedicated to art music, and many others.

Correct diction and articulation, the clear and harmonious delivery of Dejan Đurović, his appropriate linguistic style, careful choice of words, respect for interlocutors and refined spontaneity of expression made him become and remain the standard of good speech and language in the media, which also resulted in the recognition for the beauty of speech, the “Radmila Vidak” award, in 2016.

His roles are well known in the film Saturday Evening directed by Vladimir Pogačić, in the film-television series When I Was a Soldier directed by Stjepan Zaninović, and the theater play The Diary of Anne Frank directed by Hugo Klajn on the stage of the National Theatre in Belgrade, as well as in the television series Neven by Timothy John Byford.

For 25 years, Dejan Đurović was the host of the event “Joy of Europe,” whose ceremonial final concert was broadcast by “Eurovision,” as well as of “Jugovizija.” Released by PGP RTS, the record of love poetry A Kiss Is the Greatest Encounter in the World achieved significant circulation.

He was the recipient of Yugoslav and Serbian entertainment awards for hosting, the Annual Award of Radio Television Belgrade in 1983 for innovation in programming for the show Dragstore of Serious Music, the “Golden Microphone” award of Radio Belgrade for 2004, as well as the “Plaque of the Yugoslav Film Archive” for outstanding contribution to film art in 2007.