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At the start of the new sports season the issue of television sports rights is currently on the public agenda: competition by broadcasters and television service providers for the acquisition of transmission rights is affecting prices and access by the public. Today's fragmented offer requires households to invest in multiple subscriptions in order to follow live sport events. On the other hand, a monopoly that existed before 2007 allowed the football federation to attribute exclusively, and almost eternally, transmission rights to one broadcaster. Decisions by the Commission for the Protection...

The Republic of Cyprus switched over to digital television transmission on 1 July 2011 and all broadcasters ceased their analogue transmissions. According to the Office of the Commissioner for Electronic Communications and Postal Services, the operation was successful thanks to the close co-operation of public services, broadcasters and digital networks operators. A period of concurrent digital and analogue transmissions that lasted for several months allowed all actors to adapt and provided a smooth passage to the new era. The procedure for the digital switch-over essentially started in 2007 and...

On 19 July 2011 the European Commission sent requests for information in the form of letters of formal notice, the first step in the process of an EU infringement procedure, to 20 EU member states. The member states in question, namely Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, have not yet notified to the Commission measures to implement the new EU Telecoms Package, formally adopted after two years of heated negotiations at the end of 2009...

This case concerns a complaint by a broadcasting company regarding a number of decisions by the Cyprus Radio and Television Authority (CRTA) imposing fines on the company for violations of legislation concerning radio and television programmes in its broadcasts and the alleged unfairness of the related domestic proceedings. The breaches found by the CRTA concerned advertisements for children’s toys; the duration of advertising breaks; the placement of sponsors’ names during news programmes; product placement in a comedy series; news programmes that lacked objectivity or contained material...

The Republic of Cyprus is only days away from the digital switch-over on 1 July 2011 and is completing all necessary measures for a smooth transfer. Amendments of the Act on Radio and Television Stations L. 7(I)/1998 (Ο περί Ραδιοφωνικών και Τηλεοπτικών Σταθμών Νόμος), voted on by the House of Representatives in mid-April, providing for the procedures that radio and television organisations should follow in order to continue operation in the new environment. The amendments adopted were of a much narrower scope than those proposed in the draft Law (see IRIS 2011-5/11); in view of the urgent need...