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During the programme ‘Kill the Clip’ on TMF, a Flemish commercial broadcaster, 5 video clips are broadcast. During these video clips the following banner is shown: ‘Keep the clip…Kill the clip’ ‘You decide SMS KILL or KEEP to 3373 (EUR 0,60/SMS)’. Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media (Flemish Media Regulator - VRM.) had to examine whether such a service should be labeled as teleshopping. Art. 2, 45° Mediadecreet (Flemish Broadcasting Act) defines teleshopping as “direct offers broadcast to the public with a view to the supply of goods or services, including immovable property, rights and obligations,...

In recent times the National Council of Radio and Television (NCRT) has been significantly more active in monitoring broadcasting content of television stations and taking relevant decisions. So, in February 2012, the NCRT banned the broadcasting of an advertising spot of a mobile company, deeming it as a spot “that promotes a behaviour that endangers the normal health and psychic development of children.” The mobile company appealed this decision before the Council of Complaints at the NCRT. Both the Council and the psychologists' reports said that the spot contained elements that might foster...

On 19 January 2012 the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) again sanctioned the commercial tabloid television station OTV for interrupting its programme for 10 minutes on 20 January 2012 at 19.00 local time, and for broadcasting only the announcement of the sanction. The trigger for the sanction was electoral advertising broadcast outside the electoral campaign period in favour of the political party Partidul Poporului - Dan Diaconescu (PP-DD, People’s Party - Dan Diaconescu) founded by the owner of the station: Dan Diaconescu (see inter alia IRIS...

The Statute “On Public TV and Radio Broadcasting Corporation of the Kyrgyz Republic” (Об Общественной телерадиовещательной корпорации Кыргызской Республики) was adopted by Zhogorku Kenesh (the Parliament) on 18 November 2011, signed into law by President Almaz Atambaev on 21 December 2011, and entered into force on 10 January 2012. It replaces the Decree “On establishing the Public TV and Radio Broadcasting Corporation of the Kyrgyz Republic” adopted on 30 April 2010 by the then Provisional Government (see IRIS 2010-6:1/36). The new Statute has five chapters and 29 articles and follows the governmental...

On 13 January 2012 the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) announced that it had instructed the digital TV channel Direct Star to stop broadcasting a disputed advertisement, on the basis of Article 14 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (as amended) and the provisions of the first paragraph of Article L. 52-1 of the Electoral Code prohibiting political advertising. The CSA had noted that a message in favour of the Parti Contre le Cancer had been broadcast on the channel over a period of about ten days last October. The spot featured a famous professor of medicine...