Radman was proposed by the parliamentary Media Committee as the candidate of the ruling coalition. He received 92 votes in favour, 21 deputies of the strongest opposition party HDZ voted against, while one lawmaker abstained from voting.

Radman, dean of the VERN University of Applied Sciences and former director-general of Zagreb Television, was chosen among eight candidates who applied for the post.

Presenting his program to the Media Committee recently, Radman said that his main objective was to establish a new, functioning organisational structure of HRT on the model of modern European public broadcasters. Among other aims he cited programming, personnel, technological and business restructuring, financial consolidation, and full digitisation of broadcasting services.

Radman was appointed for a term of five years.