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Ofcom, the UK Communications Regulator, has issued guidance on whether the holders of broadcasting licences need separate licences for different feeds (versions) of a service, for example feeds broadcast in different territories. In particular, the document concerns feeds where the programmes are almost identical but in different languages, feeds where the editorial content is almost identical but advertisements are different or differently scheduled or where editorial content of each feed is different. The Communications Act 2003 defines ‘programmes’ in a way which includes advertisements (s....

The arrival of the Internet on the television screen has been a source of much debate for some months already. In the United States, Google has launched a Google TV box and has joined forces with Sony for connecting it directly to television sets. Similarly, Apple TV - hosted in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg - offers exclusive access to films and series distributed on iTunes, while Eurosport is working with Panasonic to broadcast sports events on catch-up TV. At present the television channels obtain authorisation to broadcast from the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory...

The Act of 5 March 2009 provides for the total abolition of advertising on public-sector television channels starting on 30 November 2011, the final date for switching from analog to digital television. And yet the Government announced in September 2010 that it was setting up a two-year moratorium, until January 2014, before abolition (see IRIS 2010-9/25). This was incorporated in the draft national budget for 2011, which was only adopted after a number of twists and turns. On 17 November 2010 the National Assembly voted in favour of the definitive maintenance of daytime advertising on France Télévisions’...

It has taken the Government a few weeks to revise its text after receiving a negative opinion from the CSA on 27 September on its draft decree on audiovisual media services (AVMSD) (see IRIS 2010-10/31). The Decree, incorporating a number of the suggestions made by the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA), was published in the Journal Officiel on 14 November 2010. Adopted in application of the Act of 5 March 2009 transposing the AVMS Directive into French law, the Decree lays down three sets of rules: the arrangements for the scheme for AVMS contributing to the...

At its meeting on 28 October 2010, the Spanish National Competition Commission (CNC) approved the merger between TV channels Telecinco and Cuatro subject to the commitments given by Mediaset’s channel last 19 October 2010 by stating that they have addressed the competition concerns identified. On 28 April 2010 Telecinco had reported to the CNC its planned acquisition of Cuatro. This concentration had been previously subject to a referral by the European Commission, which considered that the CNC was the authority best placed to carry out the analysis. The CNC Council decided on 30 June 2010 to move...