MILORAD KOMRAKOV PASSES AWAY: Former Television Belgrade news anchor dies at the age of 70!

Former Belgrade Television journalist Milorad Komrakov passed away at the age of 70 at the Clinical Hospital Center “Dedinje,” his family confirmed to Tanjug.

Komrakov was born on June 7, 1955, in Vršac.

He graduated from the 11th Belgrade Gymnasium and the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade.

He published in Politikolog, Student, Index 202, Radio TV Review, NIN, Program 202 Radio Belgrade, and from 1979 to 2002, he was employed in the News Department of Belgrade Television – i.e., RTS.

In television journalism, he went through everything, from “telex tearing,” reporter, correspondent, program editor, to editor-in-chief.

He edited and hosted the most TV news programs in the half-century history of TV Belgrade.

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In 1989, the Journalists’ Association of Serbia awarded him the “Svetozar Marković” award – because he, in the most striking way, being more than a witness to events, conveyed the truth about subtle and specific forms of counter-revolution in AP Kosovo and Metohija.

In 1996, the Journalists’ Association of Serbia awarded him the “Dimitrije Davidović” award – for many years of editing the central news programs of Belgrade Television and Radio-Television of Serbia. He is also the winner of several annual awards from Belgrade Television and Radio-Television of Serbia.

He was the editor of the Journalists’ Association of Serbia from 1996 to 2000.

He wrote eight books: “My Sixth October,” “Fifth October on RTS,” “Bombing of RTS – My Truth,” “Hunt for the Fifth October,” “Killer from Wuhan,” “Masks Fell Too Quickly,” “Corona Out of Control,” and “Secrets of the Titanic.”

For the past few years, he hosted the Weekend Morning Program with Zoran Ostojić on TV “Tanjug.”