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With just a few weeks to go before its launch - scheduled for 31 March for the non-pay channels - terrestrially-broadcast digital television is not really looking ready to make its appearance on the French audiovisual scene. On 20 October, the Conseil d'État cancelled six of the twenty-three authorisations the CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - audiovisual regulatory body) had issued to editors of television services intended for terrestrial broadcasting in digital mode (see IRIS 2004-10: 10), which meant it had to start a new call for applications to use the remaining frequencies on 14...

In continuation of the case of Al Manar TV (see IRIS 2005-1: 12), the CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - audiovisual regulatory body) served formal notice on 10 February on the satellite operator Eutelsat to stop broadcasting the television service Sahar 1. The channel is edited by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Company, which is established in Iran; it is not subject to any type of control by another European Union Member State and is broadcast by Eutelsat without being covered by any agreement with the CSA, in violation of Articles 33-1, 43-2 and 43-4 of the Act of 30 September...

The Decree of 17 January 1990, as amended, which lays down the general principles for the broadcasting of cinematographic and audio-visual works by the editors of television services, and the Decree of 28 December 2001 on the contribution of Canal + (terrestrially broadcast analog pay channel) to the development of the production of audio-visual and cinematographic works, has now been amended by two decrees adopted on 23 December 2004. The purpose of these decrees is to take advantage of developments in relations between service editors, and more particularly Canal +, and representatives of the...

More than four years after the adoption of legislation transposing the Television Without Frontiers Directive into the national Audiovisual Communication Act, and almost two years after the opinion issued by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (regulatory authority - CSA) on the draft text submitted to it by the Ministry for Culture and Communication (see IRIS 2003-4: 8), the decree laying down the conditions for assuring the exclusive television broadcasting of events of major importance so that a large section of the public is not deprived of the possibility of following them on a freely accessible...

In the light of the numerous international conflicts that television channels and radio stations cover every day, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (regulatory authority - CSA) adopted on 7 December 2004 a recommendation addressing the repercussions certain international trouble spots could have in France, and calling for particular vigilance in the exercise of editorial responsibility. In doing so, the CSA, as guarantor of the impartiality of information, recalled the need to check the accuracy of the information broadcast or, in the event of uncertainty, to present the information in the...