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TPS, Canal Plus and AB Sat) In France, competition between programme bundles transmitted by digital satellite ( is in full swing. A while ago, Canal Plus questioned whether the public service channels France 2 and France 3 should be able to conclude an exclusive carriage contract with TPS. This time, Canal Plus went to court to ask for an injunction against France 2 broadcasting recorded World Cup football matches on the Superfoot 98 programme. Canal Plus had its case dismissed in a judgement by the Paris Commercial Tribunal on 25 May 1998. Superfoot 98 is a programme in wide-screen (16/9) format...

A decree dated 6 May 1998 amends the descriptions of duties and terms of reference of the public-service television channels France 2 and France 3, in an attempt to close the gap between the legal systems governing private channels and public-service channels, thereby making supervision by the regulatory body, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA) easier. The decree of 6 May covers firstly the relations between France 2 and France 3 and audiovisual producers. In 1997 these producers - through their main professional union, the audiovisual production union ( USPA - Union Syndicale de la...

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...