 Director Stanko Crnobrnja wanted the TV marathon to take place in  the TV Belgrade studios which were devastated in the 1999 NATO  bombings of Belgrade and Serbia. The new management of TV Belgrade  did not allow this event to take place at the studio ruins but  instead offered to put at the disposal the largest TV Belgrade sound  stage, located in the remote Belgrade area called Kosutnjak. This  was the first time in the history of TV Belgrade that its official,  flagship studio was used as a venue for what was, in essence, a  multimedia event