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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...

After long and difficult negotiations between the public broadcasting organisation VRT and the Flemish Government, a new agreement has been reached on the specific rules and conditions for the allocation of public finances to the VRT. According to Articles 15-17 of the Flemish Broadcasting Act, such an agreement between the VRT and the Flemish Government is necessary for each new period of five years. The new executive agreement will replace the agreement for 1997-2001. The agreement emphasises the "mission statement" of the VRT, as formulated in the Flemish Broadcasting Act (Article 8), with...

By an Act of 6 July 2001, the Flemish Parliament has abrogated the provisions in the Flemish Broadcasting Act guaranteeing the direct access of political parties to public broadcasting. According to Article 27ter and 27quater of the Broadcasting Act 1995 (as amended) and a Decree of the Flemish Government of 15 October 1999, every political party represented in the Flemish Parliament was guaranteed access to public radio and television (VRT) to broadcast their political messages on a regular basis. The VRT was obliged to broadcast programmes produced by the political parties for two ten-minute...