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On 31 August 1998, the Hungarian National Radio and Television Board (NRTB) submitted its 1997 Report to Parliament required by the Act I of 1996 on Radio and Television (Media Law). The 51-page Report consists of an introduction and the following five chapters: 1. Accomplishment of the dual media system according to the media act; 2. The economic condition of the establishment of the dual media system and the situation of the media market; 3. The technical condition of the formulation of the dual media system; 4. The institutional system of control; 5. The situation in the fields of communicational...

Under the Advertising Act, which came into force on 1 September last year, the advertising of alcohol and tobacco products, previously prohibited, is now legal for the first time - although the media had widely ignored the ban, even before the new act took effect. In its introductory section, the act defines "advertising" (Section 2 g); and goes on to prohibit advertising which offends against personal honour, incites violence or conduct harmful to the environment, endangers public safety or exploits fear (Section 4). Advertising aimed at minors must not interfere with their physical, moral or...

Canal Plus, a French pay-TV broadcaster, has a registered broadcasting company in Poland and has invested a considerable amount of capital into the Polish audiovisual industry. HBO is an international pay-TV film channel which belongs to Time Warner Entertainment Company (USA) and is currently not a registered broadcasting company in Poland. As a result, HBO's activities are not governed by Polish law. HBO is transmitting HBO Polska's film programme to Polish cable operators via satellite AMOS1. The programme is transmitted to AMOS1 through a terrestrial space and telecommunications system which...

On 30 June 1997, the Hungarian National Radio and Television Board (NRTB) awarded two national terrestrial licenses to the Hungarian-Swedish MTM-SBS and the Luxembourg-based German-Hungarian-American company, CLT-Ufa's MAGYAR RTL (see IRIS 1997-9: 14). The IRISZ TV proposal, submitted by the First Hungarian Commercial Television Stock Co. (the company behind IRISZ TV), majority-owned by the US based Central European Media Enterprises, lost its bid. On 4 July 1997, IRISZ TV filed a law suit against NRTB asking the Economic Department of the Budapest Court to annul the Board's decision and to instruct...

The Hungarian national radio and television council issued its first two private television licences on 30 June 1997, both on a nationwide basis. In accordance with the conditions of Act I of 1986 on radio and television broadcasting (see IRIS 1996-3: 15 and IRIS 1996-10: 15) and the regulations contained in Act XVI of 1991 on concession, the procedure for attesting approval was finalised by issuing licences to the German-Hungarian-American company MTM-SBS and to a consortium headed by CLT-ufa under the name of MAGYAR RTL. The authorisations to offer programme services are both valid for 10 years...