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The Austrian media sector is currently discussing the plan of Österreichischer Rundfunk (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation - ORF) to launch a new information and culture channel. On 18 May 2011, as part of a prior evaluation, the Kommunikationsbehörde Austria (Austrian Communications Authority - KommAustria) conditionally approved the broadcast of the ORF special interest channel, after which the Austrian competition authority intervened and criticised what it considered to be the inadequacy of the conditions laid down. For the approval of a new special interest channel, Article 4c of the ORF-Gesetz...

On 19 July 2011 the European Commission sent requests for information in the form of letters of formal notice, the first step in the process of an EU infringement procedure, to 20 EU member states. The member states in question, namely Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, have not yet notified to the Commission measures to implement the new EU Telecoms Package, formally adopted after two years of heated negotiations at the end of 2009...

On 9 June 2011 the Court of Justice delivered its judgment in the case between a Greek broadcasting company (Ελεύθερη Τηλεόραση - Eleftheri Tileorasi) and the Greek Εθνικό Συμβούλιο Ραδιοτηλεόρασης (National Council for Radio and Television - ESR) Eleftheri Tileorasi owns and operates a private channel called ‘ALTER CHANNEL’. In November 2003 Eleftheri Tileorasi broadcast a programme that contained a presentation of a cosmetic dental treatment. The programme included shots of before, during and after the treatment. Furthermore, the programme provided information about the efficacy and the costs...

This case concerns a complaint by a broadcasting company regarding a number of decisions by the Cyprus Radio and Television Authority (CRTA) imposing fines on the company for violations of legislation concerning radio and television programmes in its broadcasts and the alleged unfairness of the related domestic proceedings. The breaches found by the CRTA concerned advertisements for children’s toys; the duration of advertising breaks; the placement of sponsors’ names during news programmes; product placement in a comedy series; news programmes that lacked objectivity or contained material...

On 12 May 2011 Högsta Förvaltningsdomstolen (The Supreme Administrative Court) delivered a judgment in a case regarding the placement of commercial breaks in six episodes featuring the famous private investigator Poirot. The TV programmes had appeared on the Swedish nationwide television channel TV4. The key issue in the case was whether the Poirot episodes (eight in total, but only six were subject to scrutiny), each of them about 1,5 hours long, constituted a TV series or movies made for television under the Radio and Televisions Act (RTL). Granskningsnämnden för radio och TV (the Swedish Broadcasting...