Dnevnik HRT was started on 29 November 1956 within an experimental schedule on Zagreb TV as a weekly news broadcast.

In 1959, the program was cancelled and replaced by then-Belgrade TV's Dnevnik, as the institution of the Yugoslav Radio Television (JRT) resulted in forming a unitary broadcasting schedule between Belgrade, Zagreb and Ljubljana TV.

These first full-time presenters were Silvije Hum, Obrad Kosovac and Miroslav Lilić.

The presenter pairs, made up of Sanja Mikelušić-Pavić and Đurica Drobac, as well as Tina Šimurina and Stipe Alfier,[4] were cancelled only a year later, in 2016.

At the same time, the "Topic of the Day" segment was integrated into the main segment of the broadcast instead of being shown at the end, specialized on-the-scene reporters were employed and the broadcast was expanded to air for 65 minutes in total.