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In applying Article 25 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (loi relative à la liberté de communication) amended by the Act of 1 February 1994, which introduced the obligation for radio and audiovisual broadcasting companies to comply with quotas for broadcasting songs in French, the CSA (Conseil Supérieur de l'audiovisuel - the national radio and television supervisory body) proposed on 21 June 1994 that the company operating the Fun Radio station should amend its agreement in order to comply with the statutory provisions. In reply to the CSA, the radio station expressed reservations about these new...

Virtually no films are produced nowadays without investment by encrypted or unencrypted television channels. The risk is that the cinema is forced to submit to the demands of television. In order to preserve everything that makes the cinema the "seventh art", Decrees in 1990 and 1995 established the conditions for the independence of film producers as regards the television channels. These Decrees have been considered insufficient, and draft amendments have been submitted to the CSA (Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel - the French media authority) for its opinion. The CSA considered that the independence...

On 8 February 1994, the television news on the channel TF1 broadcast a report by Mr Bernard Volker on the explosion of a shell on 5 February 1994 on the market in Sarajevo which caused the death of 68 people. The reporter said that, according to official UNPROFOR sources, the shell had been fired from the Bosnian lines and not from the Serbian lines. Considering this information to be false, and that the reporter and the channel had failed to meet their obligation to provide the public with exact, honest information, the association TV Carton Jaune, an association whose aim is to represent the...

Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), although still in its experimental stage, will necessarily grow. The EBU, aware of this trend, has set up an internal organisation named World DAB. In France, digital radio is doing its utmost to attract listeners. The legal framework is the Law of 10 April 1996 on experimentation in the field of information technology and services (loi du 10 avril 1996 relative aux expérimentations dans le domaine des technologies et services de l'information) and the Law of 30 September 1986 on the freedom of communication (loi du 30 septembre 1986 relative à la liberté de communication)....

In a decision of 7 January 1998 the French broadcasting supervisory body ( Conseil supérieur de l'Audiovisuel - CSA) has presented the new arrangements for its internal organisation and the tasks these involve. The CSA now has six departments: the audio-visual operators department, responsible for radio, television and cable authorisations and agreements; the new programmes department, which is to check that the obligations required of broadcasters regarding programming and production are complied with; the technical and new communications technologies department which will monitor the use of frequencies...