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The Minister-Presidents of the Länder agreed to increase broadcasting licence fees for the 2009-2012 period in early March 2008 (see IRIS 2008-2: 10). Based on the proposal of the Kommission zur Ermittlung des Finanzbedarfs der Rundfunkanstalten (Committee for the establishment of broadcasters' financial needs - KEF) and consultations with the Landesmedienanstalten (Land media authorities), the TV licence fee will rise by EUR 0.95 to EUR 17.98. The Land media authorities will again receive a share of the increase. As a result, the essential provisions of the 11. Rundfunkänderungsstaatsvertrag (11th...

On 5 March, the Bundesbeauftragte für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Minister for Culture and Media - BKM) tabled a preliminary draft amendment to the Filmförderungsgesetz (Film Support Act – FFG) (see IRIS 2004-1: 10 and IRIS 2003-5: 14). The amendment was drafted following a round table meeting held in December 2007 between representatives of the film industry (associations of producers, cinemas, distributors and authors), Bundestag members, representatives of the Länder , the Filmförderungsanstalt (Film Support Institute) and regional film support bodies, who attended at the invitation...

In a ruling of 15 February 2008, the Verwaltungsgericht Neustadt (Neustadt Administrative Court) upheld the decision of the Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation Rheinland Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate State Media and Communications Agency - LMK), according to which the live programme " Jetzt geht’s um die Eier – Die große Promi-Oster-Show ", broadcast on 8 April 2006 on Sat.1, had violated the ban on surreptitious advertising, set out in Art. 1 para. 2 of the Landesmediengesetz (Land media act) in connection with Art. 7 para. 6 sentence 1 of the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (Inter-State Broadcasting...

In a ruling of 12 March 2008, the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court - BVerfG ) explained its position concerning whether, and to what extent, political parties may own shares in private broadcasting companies. As part of judicial review proceedings instigated at the request of 232 members of the Bundestag, the court declared a provision of the Hessian Privatrundfunkgesetz (Private Broadcasting Act - HPRG ) to be unconstitutional. The provision states that broadcasting licences may not be granted to political parties or voter groups, nor to companies and organisations in which...

The regional media authorities in Germany have begun awarding the Mobile 3.0 consortium licences to set up and operate a platform for broadcasting mobile television in the DVB-H standard. After the relevant orders had been issued by the regional media authorities in Saxony and Lower Saxony at the end of January, most of the other authorities gave the green light in February for the joint venture between Neva Media GmbH and MFD Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland GmbH, thus implementing a recommendation made by the Conference of Regional Media Authorities at its meeting on 15 January 2008. In Bavaria,...