Search results : 1524

On 6 September 2011 the Parliament of the Czech Republic adopted amendments to audiovisual legislation that concern advertising and teleshopping in public television programmes and the funding of Czech cinematography. During the transition period from analogue to digital terrestrial television broadcasting the public broadcaster ČT is allowed to broadcast advertising in the amount of 0.75 percent of the daily broadcasting time in the programme of CT 1 and of 0.5 percent in other programmes. A part of the income from this is reserved for the support of the Czech cinematography sector. With regard...

According to media reports, Österreichischer Rundfunk (Austrian public service broadcaster - ORF) and the Austrian competition authority agreed a compromise on 6 September 2011 in relation to ORF’s culture and information channel (ORF III), and withdrew their respective objections filed with the Bundeskommunikationssenat (Federal Communications Board - BKS) against a decision of the Kommunikationsbehörde Austria (Austrian Communications Authority - KommAustria) of 18 May 2011 (see IRIS 2011-8/12). Under the KommAustria decision, which has therefore entered into force, ORF is prohibited from advertising...

As is now public knowledge, the Austrian Bundeskommunikationssenat (Federal Communications Board - BKS) wrote to the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) on 6 July 2011, withdrawing its reference for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of the Television Without Frontiers Directive (89/552/EEC) after the Publikumsrat (Viewers’ Council) of Österreichischer Rundfunk (Austrian public service broadcaster - ORF) had, in turn, withdrawn the complaint it had filed with the BKS against ORF. The original case before the BKS concerned the depiction of a couple dancing from the left to the centre...

Less than two weeks after the rejection of the proposed Media Act (Zakon o medijih - ZMed - 1; see IRIS 2011-2/38 and 2010-10/39) by the Parliament during the first reading on 15 July 2011, the Ministry of Culture prepared a draft Act on Audiovisual Media Services (Zakon o avdiovizualnih medijskih storitvah - ZAMS), aimed at the transposition of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive into Slovenian legislation. The preparation of ZAMS was urgent due to the pending infringement procedure started this year by the European Commission, as Slovenia has failed to notify any measures for the implementation...

In exercise of the powers conferred by Article 40(3) of the Broadcasting Act, the Prime Minister, after consultation with the Broadcasting Authority, has issued the General Interest Objectives (Television Services) (Selection Criteria) Regulations, 2011, Legal Notice 240 of 2011. These regulations came into force on 21 June 2011 and set out the criteria to be adopted by the Broadcasting Authority in the selection of television services that fulfil a general interest objective. Two categories of general interest objective television services are dealt with: generalist and niche. In so far as generalist...