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In a judgment of 21 September 2000, the Austrian broadcasting legislation is once more being analysed by the Strasbourg Court (Second Section) from the perspective of Article 10 of the European Convention, this time after a complaint by a private organisation that did not obtain a licence to set up and operate a television transmitter in the Vienna area. In its judgment of 24 November 1993 in the Informationsverein Lentia case, the European Court of Human Rights already decided that the monopoly of the Austrian public broadcasting organisation ORF was in breach of Article 10 of the European Convention...

On 24 February 2000, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers approved legislation (as "decree-law") creating a holding company designed to manage the state's participation in the media sector. The newly-created holding company, Portugal Global, SGPS, S.A., comprises the Public Service Television Company, Radiotelevisão Portuguesa, the Public Service Radio Company, Radiodifusão Portuguesa and the national news agency, LUSA. Portugal Global, led by the former Budget minister, João Carlos Silva, has the immediate task of co-ordinating the restructuring processes of these three major national media...

On 29 April 1999, the Portuguese Parliament revoked Law decree nº15/99 of 15 January 1999 on Cinema, Audiovisual and Multimedia. The law decree 15/99 was approved by the Council of Ministers and regulated the sector since early this year but the opposition parties struck down the legal framework defined by the government for this sector. Thus bringing back into effect the former Cinema and Audiovisual law of 1993 (Law decree nº 350/93 of 7 October 1993). According to the introductory words of the Law decree nº 15/99, this new legal tool was necessary because the previous law was `insufficient'...

Violence on Portuguese terrestrial channels is particularly acute on entertainment programmes, reveals the first in-depth study concerning the representation of violence on Portuguese television, sponsored by the Alta Autoridade para a Comunicaçao Social (High Authority for the Media) and published in March 1999. Violence in entertainment programming is very high in terms of presence (number of programmes which have at least one violent interaction), frequency (average of violent interactions in a given programme) and density (duration of violent interactions in a given programme). Indeed, violence...

Alleged unfair treatment of candidates for the European Parliament placed the High Authority for the Media ( Alta Autoridade para a Comunicação Social) at the centre of a major political controversy in Portugal. On 3 March 1999, the High Authority for the Media stated that the public broadcaster ( Rádiotelevisão Portuguesa, RTP) was not giving equal treatment to candidates for the European Parliament. This deliberation followed a formal complaint by two opposition parties (Social Democratic Party and Popular Party) against RTP following the broadcast of a series of programmes called Conversas de...