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In October, the Electronic Media Council issued a Public Call to express interest for digital experimental broadcasting of radio channels in a terrestrial network. The subject of the Public Call is the right to broadcast radio programmes temporary experimentally in DAB+ technology in a single coverage area with 2.16 million inhabitants as potential listeners. The area includes the city of Zagreb and the county of Zagreb, the Krapina-Zagorje County, the Varaždin County and the Međimurje County, as well as parts of the Karlovac County, the Sisak-Moslavina County, the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County...

The council of the Croatian Competition Agency (AZTN) has unanimously refused to approve the sale of the national commercial broadcaster Nova TV to Slovenia Broadband, a subsidiary of Unity Media. The competition watchdog explained that the sale would infringe the country’s Electronic Communications Act and threaten pluralism in the media. Its objection was mainly based on the fact that Unity Media already owned Total TV, a leading provider of telecommunications services in Croatia. The commercial broadcaster Nova TV is owned by Central European Media Enterprises Limited (CME), a listed holding...

According to Article 22 of the Act on Audiovisual Activities and at the proposal of the Croatian Audiovisual Council, the Minister of Culture has adopted the National Programme for the Promotion of Audiovisual Creativity for the period 2017 to 2021. The National Programme establishes the scope and manner of promoting audiovisual activities, as well as complementary and other activities, and of promoting audiovisual culture and creativity significant for the development of the Croatian culture. Furthermore, the programme provides for activities related to participation in EU programmes and other...

The Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries, HAKOM, based in Zagreb, has published a recommendation on the minimum technical requirements for DVB-T2 reception. The recommendation was developed as part of cooperation between HAKOM, the Croatian Agency for Electronic Media, network and multiplex operators, public and private TV broadcasters and representatives of the academic community. HAKOM also announced that migration from DVB-T to DVB-T2 transmission in Croatia would begin in 2019. Receivers that met the minimum requirements set out in the recommendation would be marked with a special...

After concluding consultations with stakeholders and the interested public, the Council for Electronic Media on 8 September 2016 adopted Recommendations for the protection of children and the safe use of electronic media. The document stems from the obligation of developed societies to provide children and adolescents with conditions that enable them to achieve their full potential. The role of institutions is to help systematically parents and others who take care of children in their daily efforts to provide a secure, supportive and healthy environment for the development of children and young...