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Refine your search| IRIS 2012-3:1/30 [RO] OTV Sanctioned again for Breaching Electoral Campaigns Rules | |
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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... |
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| IRIS 2012-3:1/27 [KG] Law on PBC Adopted by Parliament | |
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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... |
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| IRIS 2012-3:1/21 [FR] CSA Classifies Advertising Spot as Political Advertising | |
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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... |
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| IRIS 2012-3:1/10 [BE] Flemish Public Broadcaster Infringes Commercial Communication Provision | |
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On 19 December 2011, Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media (Flemish Media Regulator - VRM) decided that the public broadcaster VRT infringed the rules on commercial communication (Art. 53 Mediadecreet (Flemish Broadcasting Act)) when referring to Jupiler Pro League (the Belgian national football league) during the sports programme Extra Time. Every Monday evening, the programme Extra Time is broadcast on Canvas, a channel of the Flemish public broadcaster. Usually, this programme contains an analysis of each match day of Jupiler Pro League. However, on 10 October 2011, this programme was exceptionally... |
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| IRIS 2012-3:1/8 [AT] Act on Transparency of Media Cooperation Announced | |
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On 27 December 2011, the Austrian Federal Gazette announced the 125. Bundesgesetz (125th Federal Act - MedKF-TG) enacting a Bundesverfassungsgesetz über die Transparenz von Medienkooperationen und Werbeaufträgen und Förderungen an Medieninhaber eines periodischen Mediums (Federal Constitutional Act on the transparency of media cooperation, advertising orders and support for owners of periodical media) and amending the KommAustria-Gesetz (KommAustria Act). The MedKF-TG is particularly aimed at creating greater transparency in media announcements by the government or other public bodies. To this... |