Austria

[AT] ORF Becomes Associate Member of ARTE

IRIS 2001-6:1/6

Alexander Scheuer

Institute of European Media Law (EMR), Saarbrücken/Brussels

Under a contract signed in March this year, Austrian public television broadcaster ORF has increased its cooperation with the European cultural channel, ARTE. The main purposes of the new association are programme exchange - eg the broadcast of ORF programmes on ARTE and co-productions. An ORF editor will also be permanently seconded to ARTE, and ORF will participate in an advisory capacity at meetings of ARTE bodies such as the Programming Committee and General Assembly.

The contract, which entered into force on 1 April, builds on co-operation between the broadcasters dating back to 1998.