At its next session the Serbian regulator will invite the TV station representative to give explanations about the disputable contents.
The DZH party said in the letter that on April 29 and May 6, host Ivan Ivanovic spoke disparagingly in his evening TV show about the Holy Father and the Catholic Church and that he called on Al-Qaeda to wait for Croatia to join the European Union and then plant an atomic bomb, with clear insinuations as to where.
The letter to the president of Serbia's broadcasting agency said Ivanovic had often said he hated the Croats, "inciting inter-ethnic hatred."
The Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) on Monday asked the agency to act on a report by the Democratic Union of Croats (DZH) and check its claim about insults having been levelled against the Catholic Church and hate speech against the Croatian people in a number of programmes of the Belgrade-based Prva Srpska TV station.
NUNS said in a statement it expected the agency to act on the report and inform the public about the measures taken, noting that the Serbian state and its institutions had the obligation to protect minorities.
NUNS leader Vukasin Obradovic said on Wednesday that the association supported the DZH request to the regulator to give its opinion on this case, but added that stripping the licence from the TV station would be an exaggerated reaction which would not facilitate efforts to stop ethnic hatred.