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On 4 April, the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (French audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) announced its decision on 141 applications from radio stations wishing to change holder and category without going through the procedure for calling for applications. In 1989 the CSA decided on five categories of radio station (A: services provided by associations; B: independent local, regional and themed services; C: local services broadcasting the programme of a nationwide themed network in addition to a local interest programme; D: nationwide themed services; E: nationwide general-interest services)...

Following the breakdown of negotiations between the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (French audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) and cable operators offering digital transmission on the reasonably-priced delivery of free terrestrially broadcast digital television channels (the “aerial service”) in buildings with cable, the CSA has now issued a recommendation on the subject. The purpose of Article 34-1 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (as amended) is to ensure that homes in blocks of flats that are no longer connected to an aerial but to a cable distribution network are able to receive the...

In a decision adopted on 13 March, the Conseil d’État rejected the appeal brought by the television channel Télé Monte-Carlo and its advertising agency claiming, on the grounds of the principle of equality, cancellation of paragraph I of Article 1 of the decree of 7 October 2003 amending Article 8 of the decree of 27 March 1992. These provisions prohibit advertising for books except on television services that are exclusively distributed by cable or broadcast by satellite. In the present case, the television channel broadcasts its programmes partly unencrypted in analog mode in south-west France...

The European Commission has approved, on the basis of the EC State aid rules, the core aspects of the support mechanisms for cinematographic and audiovisual works notified by France. These mechanisms pertain to all stages in the lifecycle of a work and can be grouped in the following categories: support for the production of theatrical short- and feature films (including by way of tax credits); support for the distribution of films; support for cinema theatres; support for the production of television films; support for the video industry and specific financing mechanisms. In particular, the Commission...

On 31 January 2006, the audiovisual Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (regulatory body - CSA) fined Skyrock radio EUR 50,000 for broadcasting comments likely to cause offence to listeners under the age of 16. Under Article 15 of the Act, as amended, of 30 September 1986, the CSA has a duty to “ensure the protection of children and young people”, and it was on this basis that the CSA sent a recommendation to radio stations on 10 February 2004 prohibiting them from broadcasting programmes likely to cause offence to listeners under the age of 16 between 6 am and 10.30 pm. Skyrock broadcasts a phone-in...