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In June 2010 News Corporation offered to purchase the remaining 60.9% of shares which it did not already own in BSkyB, the leading British and Irish pay-TV operator. This bid has been considered on competition grounds by the European Commission and on public interest grounds relating to media plurality by the UK authorities. The European Commission cleared the proposed acquisition on competition grounds. It found that it would result in only a small increment on BSkyB’s existing share of the market for the supply of basic pay-TV channels and that the parties have only a small combined market share...

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) fined on 4 and 9 November 2010 several Romanian commercial TV stations and issued public warnings for others due to the violation of audiovisual laws with regard to the media coverage of sensitive cases and to the observance of advertising rules (see inter alia IRIS 2010-10/38, IRIS 2010-8/42, IRIS 2010-7/33, IRIS 2010-1/38). Pro TV and Antena 1 were imposed a fine of RON 20,000 (EUR 4,650) each, Kanal D of RON 5,000 (EUR 1,165), Antena 2 and OTV received public warnings because of breaches of the Audiovisual...

On 18 October 2010 the amendments of the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public came into force. These are mainly related to the transposition and implementation of the Audiovisual Media Service Directive. The adopted amendments stipulate some changes in the scope of the activities of the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania. The amended Law envisages that, as before, it will be the Radio and Television Commission’s prerogative to grant licences for broadcasting and re-broadcasting activities as well as to control the licensed activities. However, the Licensing Rules, which determine...

Through the recent adoption of Presidential Decree 109/05.11.2010, Directive 2007/65/EC (currently the codifying Directive 2010/13/EC) was incorporated into the Greek legal order. The provisions of the Decree generally follow the flexible EU framework concerning both television broadcasts and on-demand services. However, the Greek legislator has established stricter rules on several issues relating to the protection of viewers, especially minors. First of all, a general rule applicable to all media, linear or not, is established, dictating respect for the personality, in the broader sense, of the...

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....