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By its decision of 15 February 2002, the Vlaams Commissariaat voor de Media (Flemish Media Authority) has decided to recognise the SBS-broadcasting station VT4 as a Flemish broadcasting organisation. From 1 March 2002, VT4 will operate under the Flemish Broadcasting Act 1995. VT4's licence from the Independent Television Commission (ITC) in the United Kingdom also ceased to be valid on 1 March 2002. Until recently, VT4, as a British broadcaster with its programmes targeting the Flemish Community, was operating with an ITC licence in accordance with the UK Broadcasting Act. Since February 1995,...

Local television developed considerably in the French-speaking part of Belgium in the Seventies. A decree on audiovisual matters was adopted in July 1987, laying down a framework of regulations for local broadcasters. The Belgian authorities wanted to alter this decree in order to define the public-service mission of local television stations. The Government of the French-Speaking Community intended granting local television in the French-Speaking Community financial support amounting to a total of 3 270 000 euros for their public-service mission. Before the final vote on the new decree, it was...

Since 6 October 2001, the French-speaking Community of Belgium has had a new private television channel available to it. RTL-TVI, the former Luxembourg channel that became Belgian in 1986, and its little sister Club RTL have now been joined by AB 3. This is AB 3 as in "Antenne belge 3", whose French-sounding name was preferred to YTV (Youth Television), which had originally been chosen to indicate the main target of the new channel (15-35 year olds). But also AB 3 as in the French AB Group, which acquired an important share in the capital of the new channel (originally totally Belgian-owned) during...

Although in Belgium the individual Communities (French-, Flemish- and German-speaking) are in theory responsible for audiovisual matters, the Brussels region is an exception, as the Communities' decrees only apply there in respect of those institutions exclusively connected with a particular Community (eg radio or television channels broadcasting exclusively in either French or Flemish). In contrast, other institutions (as would be the case of a television channel broadcasting in another language, and as is the case of operators of cable networks which are by definition multilingual) do not fall...

In a judgment of 20 September 2001, the Brussels civil court banned a television programme of the commercial television station RTL-TVI. The film was a reconstruction of a hostage-taking and escape attempt by a prisoner, Peter C., who was sentenced to death some 20 years ago, but whose sentence was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment (forced labour). The failed escape attempt by Peter C. took place in 1984 and the RTL-TVI programme contained some authentic images from that time, along with images of reconstructed scenes played out by actors, with the main actor bearing a strong resemblance...