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Lacal TV In January 1996 the Mass Media authority ( Statens Medieforvaltning ) handed out 30 seven-year licenses for local public service TV. There is one license holder for local TV in each of the 30 license areas Norway is divided into. The 30 license areas together cover all of Norway, including Spitzbergen. Newspapers and other media organisations are shareholders in most of the TV licences. According to Norwegian law, no single owner can control more than 1/3 of the total Norwegian market for local TV and local radio respectively. When processing applications for local TV licences, substantial...

In October 1995, the Oslo Byrett (the lower court of Oslo) condemned the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) to pay damages of 320 000 Norweigan Kronor to a number of seal hunters in Norway. The reason for this was the broadcasting of a documentary on seal hunting produced by the Norwegian free lance journalist, Odd Lindberg and the Swedish producer, Bo Landin, which the court found to be defamatory. The case has been given topical interest again since the seal hunters have appealed for higher damages to the Lagmansretten (the appeal court) with reference to a previous...

Long negociations between EuroSport and cable operator, Janco Kabel, on the retransmission of the European sport channel's programmes came to a halt since the parties could not agree on the fee to be paid in return for the permission to distribute the EuroSport signal. Janco Kabel though, continued to broadcast EuroSports programmes for two and a half months, according to EuroSport, without any permission. A Norwegian court found that Janco Kabel had no right to retransmitt the programmes and sentenced the cable operator to pay damages of nearly 1,5 million Norwegian Krones. An appeal is now pending....

Norway is drafting new rules for local broacasting which will apply as from 1 January 1996 onwards. On that date, all present licences for local broadcasting will expire and all local broadcasters will have to apply for a new licence. Licences granted to local radio broadcasters will be limited to a five year period; those granted to local television broadcasters, to a seven year period. The Mass Media Authority will grant only one licence for local television per geographical area. More licences per geographical area may be granted to local radio broadcasters, especially in the case of ideological...

In its advisory opinion of 16 June 1995, the EFTA Court has ruled that the «Television without Frontiers» directive (89/552/EEC of 3 October 1989) - which is integrated into the EEA Agreement - must be interpreted as precluding a general prohibition imposed on an advertiser, whereby he is prevented from showing an advertisement contained in a television programme of a broadcaster established in another EEA State. The prejudicial question to the EFTA Court arose as a result of a disagreement between the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman and the Norwegian subsidiary companies of Mattel and Lego. The toy-manufacturers...