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The Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting (hereinafter referred to as the Council), as the central administrative authority, issued a  warning to the broadcaster Česká televize for breach of the provisions of Section 31 (3) of Act No. 231/2001 Coll. (Broadcasting Act), an infringement which the operator shall have committed by broadcasting the programme item Václav Moravec's Questions - Part 2 on the CT24 programme at 1.05 p.m. on 22 October 2017. Specialists Tomáš Sedláček and Jan Svejnar, both of whom have long been promoting the adoption of the euro, were invited as guests to participate...

The First Chamber of the Constitutional Court upheld TV Nova's constitutional complaint that a fine from the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting for the "Handbook on What Clothes in the Church" (“Příručka poradí, co do kostela”) report violated TV Nova’s right to freedom of expression. The Constitutional Court annulled the judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court, the judgment of the Municipal Court in Prague and the decision of the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting relating to the violatation of Article 17 (1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (freedom...

The Czech public service broadcaster, Česká televize (ČT), has announced the start of its transition to the DVB-T2 HEVC standard following a delay caused by an amendment to the Electronic Communications Act that only came into force on 2 September 2017. Under the amended timetable, technical preparations are now due to take place between January and March 2018, before the broadcaster can begin using the transition multiplex. By the end of June 2018, 95% of the population will be able to receive the new broadcast standard, and the switch to DVB-T2 HEVC should be complete throughout the Czech Republic...

The Parliament of the Czech Republic voted the amendment to the Act on Electronic Communications. The amendment provides for the simplification of the process of changing mobile operators, and it also defines the rules governing the transition from DVB-T to the new standard DVB-T2. Discussions on the transition to DVB-T2 have been ongoing since 2013, when the government adopted the strategy Digital Czechia v. 2.0 - Road to Digital Economy, followed up by the Strategy of Frequency Spectrum in 2015 and the Strategy of Development of Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting in 2016. The transition to the...

České Radiokomunikace a.s. (CRA) is the Czech provider of television, radio and internet infrastructure. It has launched DVB-T2 broadcasting, enabling 26% of the population to view eleven television channels in the second generation standard of digital television broadcasting. CRA launched the first part of the transitory network for DVB-T2 /HEVC from the Zizkov and Cukrak transmitters in Prague. In the coming months, the network will be extended to other regions, aiming to cover 99% of Czech territory by the spring of 2018. The DVB-T2 network will enable the broadcasting of programmes by commercial...