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On 8 June 2000, the Oberlandesgericht Stuttgart (Stuttgart Regional Court of Appeal - OLG) rejected an appeal against a decision by the Landgericht Stuttgart (Stuttgart District Court - LG). The LG Stuttgart had rejected the applicant's claim that the defendant should be obliged to broadcast a reply. The OLG upheld this decision with particular reference to the fact that the reply had not been sent to the defendant immediately. Section 10.3.3 of the SWR-Staatsvertrag (SWR State Agreement), on which the right of reply was founded, stipulates that a demand for a reply to be broadcast need only be...

In a judgement of 28 August 2000, the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Federal Administrative Court - BVerwG) dismissed complaints against the decision taken by the Oberverwaltungsgericht der Freien Hansestadt Bremen (Bremen Higher Administrative Court - OVG) on 14 September 1999, in which it decided not to revise cable allocation regulations in Bremen. The Bremen OVG had upheld the regulations and practice of cable allocation in Bremen after a complaint was lodged by a private cable network operator (see IRIS 2000-1: 9). The BVerwG based its decision primarily on the fact that the complaints did not...

On 12 September 2000 the Commission of the European Communities sent to the Federal Republic of Germany a reasoned opinion concerning discrimination in the issue of broadcasting licences in Rheinland-Pfalz. On 17 August 1999 the Commission had drawn up a letter of complaint on this subject, to which the Federal Republic of Germany had replied on 8 October 1999. The case concerned the granting of the third regional terrestrial radio licence to broadcaster Rockland Radio, which is partly owned by the holder of the other two licences, RPR. One company which failed to win the licence was Eurostar,...

Private TV broadcaster SAT.1 and the Länder (State) of Bremen and Lower Saxony are planning to step up their co-operation in the field of film production. Under an agreement that was largely negotiated at the beginning of August, three films are to be produced over the next three years at an overall cost of up to DEM 9 million, two-thirds of which will be provided by SAT.1 and one-third by the two Länder. The main aim of the agreement is to boost the number of contracts awarded to production companies based in the Länder concerned. An investigation into whether and how regional laws on film subsidies...

The Hessen state authority for commercial broadcasting (LPR Hessen), which is responsible for monitoring the programmes of private broadcaster RTL-2, has complained that an episode of the TV show Big Brother contained illegal surreptitious advertising. On 16 May 2000, an episode of the controversial TV programme Big Brother, in which several volunteers are confined in a building cut off from the outside world and monitored round the clock by cameras and microphones (see IRIS 2000-3: 7), showed these people building a model railway. The manufacturer's name, which appeared in unusually large characters...