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On 5 March 1999 the Italian public broadcaster RAI filed a complaint before the authority in charge of monitoring adherence to domestic and European rules on insertion and duration of advertising according to Art. 1 of legge 249 of 1997 ( Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni). RAI argued that the commercial broadcasters R.T.I. (Mediaset group), which controls three national channels, and TMC (Cecchi Gori group), which controls two national channels, should be held responsible for violation of the rules concerning the interruption of programs with commercial advertising, as well as the rules...

Complaints procedures have been brought against both RTL and DSF concerning alleged breaches of advertising regulations. The supervisory Lower Saxony Regional Media Authority ( NLM) made a complaint about the splitting of the screen between rounds of a boxing match shown on RTL. On 27 February 1999, RTL twice split the screen between rounds of a boxing match into a large advertising window and a smaller window showing pictures of the boxing venue. According to previous interpretations of the rule on separation of advertising and programme material, set out in § 7.3.2 of the Agreement between the...

The Independent Television Commission (ITC), the UK regulator of private broadcasting, has fined a cable company £10,000 for breaches of its Rules on the Amount and Scheduling of Advertising in relation to local advertising. The amount of the fine is relatively small compared to some other recent fines levied by the Commission (£2,000,000 in one other recent case) but it does show the importance of financial penalties even in the case of relatively minor breaches. The company, Telewest, had been given a formal warning by the ITC in March 1998 after three incidents when complaints were upheld about...

The Judicial Chamber on Informational Disputes under the President of the Russian Federation has concluded that TV listings cannot be considered as advertising. Russian advertising law states that the amount of advertising in a non-advertising medium shall not be more than 40 percent of total printing space. Anyone violating that limit can be fined. Two cable television companies in the Urals region were publishing listings of their programmes in a general interest local newspaper. In total, advertising information per se and program listings made up 60 percent of the printing space. The Commission...

On 1 September 1992, the Swiss Radio and Television Corporation (SRG) began broadcasting time signals on its original three (and now four) channels after concluding sponsoring agreements with different sponsors. The time signals were broadcast directly before the start of the daily editions of the news, and later also before the start of the information programme " 10 vor 10", depending on the content of the different agreements. The time signal sequence was composed of two elements, the one consisting in a grey band in the lower half of the screen, taking up approximately 1/8 of the screen's surface,...