Based in Ljubljana, it has regional broadcasting centres in Koper and Maribor and correspondents around Slovenia, Europe, and the world.With the advent of privately owned, purely commercial television in Italy, the station's popularity eventually began to diminish.On January 1, 1993, RTV Slovenija was admitted as a full active member of the European Broadcasting Union following the collapse of Yugoslavia, and began participation in the Eurovision Song Contest.This portal includes regular news updates, broadcast archives, and the live transmission on line of most services, both radio and television.In August 2008 TV Slovenia broadcast their first HD event – Olympic Games 2008 on test DVB-T channel.RTV Slovenia has a Programming Council and a supervisory board; RTV is required by law to be independent and autonomous, to respect human integrity and dignity in its programs, to observe the principle of impartiality, and to ensure the truthfulness of information and the pluralism of opinions and religious beliefs.The law also requires the public broadcaster to provide radio and TV programs for the Italian and Hungarian minorities in Slovenia.[6] After EU accession, the new 2005 Law on RTV Slovenia reintroduced a dominant role of the state and the executive in the appointment of RTV's governing bodies, excluding civil society institutions (e.g. universities, association of writers, and sports organisations) which were previously involved.[6] The current governance system[obsolete source] of RTV Slovenia allows control over almost all managerial bodies and over the appointment of all key editors to the governmental majority.Majority parties also control the majority of the new Programming Council and supervisory board of RTVS[obsolete source], thus being also able to appoint RTVS' Director General[obsolete source], who will in turn appoint and manage the directors of radio and TV, the editors-in-chief, and the senior management.This governance system is deemed a threat to the independence and credibility, trust, and respect with the public of RTV Slovenia by the European Journalism Centre.The Varuh pravic poslušalcev in gledalcev ("Listener and Viewer Ombudsman") of RTV Slovenia was appointed for the first time in 2008, according to art.16 of the RTV Slovenia Law, to "address the comments and suggestions of viewers and listeners" and "give instructions to the director-general regarding changes that must be effected on channels.