The decision was adopted by the Serbian Radio-Diffusion Agency (RRA) which decided to give the only regional frequency to Panon Radio instead. Panon Radio, a new station without a minute on the air, will address the radio audience in Hungarian.
"We believe that this decision denied the successful work to a radio station advocating multi-ethnicity, but it also denied the collective right to the Croat national community in Serbia," the Croat National Council said in a statement on Thursday.
The Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina said that this decision should not be viewed as an isolated incident, but as part of a number of questionable decision made in the past month to the detriment of all residents of Subotica.
The radio programme in Croatian has been on the air every day since 1998. The three-hour programme was prepared by four journalists and several correspondents.
On this occasion, representatives of Radio Subotica on Wednesday held a news conference in Belgrade. The event was also attended by Croatian Ambassador in Belgrade Tonci Stancic.