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Currently in Austria, it is not yet possible for a private television broadcaster to obtain a broadcasting licence. Recently, however, a private commercial Austrian broadcaster, RTS, obtained a non-domestic satellite broadcasting licence in the UK with the intention to start a programme directed to the Austrian public. The April issue of the German monthly magazine INFOSAT reports that RTS is now negotiating with the German sports rights agency ISPR, owner of the broadcasting rights of the Austrian federal football league in order to obtain these rights. If succesful, RTS would start its satellite...

The Austrian Constitutional Court ( Verfassungsgerichtshof) instigated legal review proceedings with its decision of 21 June 1995. This case should make clear whether cable television companies should be allowed to include their own channels in their network and broadcast them. According to current regulations, cable television companies may only simultaneously relay received signals and broadcast cable text. Any cable broadcasting activity that goes beyond this is not provided for under §§ 20 I, 24a and 24b II of the broadcasting Regulation with the exception of cable broadcasting activities...

Following a decision taken on 21 June 1995 the Austrian Constitutional Court Verfassungsgerichtshof (VfGH) instigated constitutionality proceedings to examine the legal basis of regional radio legislation and of the frequency distribution plan which both govern the allocation of regional radio licences. The proceedings were undertaken following complaints from 33 applicants whose licences were refused and who are appealing against the 10 regional radio licences granted at the beginning of the year. In their complaints, the appellants criticise the violation of a number of rights guaranteed under...

From 9 until 12 July 1995 an International Human Rights Tribunal was held in Vienna under the title "50 Years of the 2nd Republic, 50 Years of Gay and Lesbian Repression". 7 senates each dealing with a different field and made up of rotating teams of experts and other prominent members, heard the accusations and evidence given and pronounced their ruling. Freda Meissner-Blau, the candidate for the presidential elections of 1986 (defeated at the time by Kurt Waldheim) and who is the founding party leader of the Greens in Parliament presided over the court accompanied by the publisher of FORUM, Gerhard...

A profound relationship is created between the price paid and the acquisition of an item not only when the acquisition of the item is the only way to obtain a free gift but also when this acquisition is considered to be an obligatory action, or at least the easiest way to obtain the free gift. Newspaper lotteries only exercise a psychological influence upon the general public when they believe the purchase of a second copy of a newspaper to be necessary or even obligatory for participation in the lottery. They thus believe that purchasing the newspaper is the simplest way to take part in the lottery....