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A consumer association in Milan, the Comitato Difesa Consumatori , sued the Garante per l'Editoria e la Radiodiffusione before the Administrative Tribunal in Rome. The Garante is the administrative body entrusted by law with the task of monitoring the respect by public and private broadcasters of the rules concerning, inter alia, advertising and sponsoring on public and private channels. Some months ago, the Comitato filed a complaint before the Garante seeking its intervention against some advertising practices deemed not to be allowed by the EC `Television without Frontiers' Directive (89/552/EEC)...

The "Law on Radio and Television", often called the Media Law has been accepted by the Hungarian Parliament by a majority of 264 against 31 votes. (21st December 1995.) Of the six parties of the House, only the Smallholders voted against the law, the Christian Democrats did not vote. Supported by four parties (Socialist-s, Free Democrat-s, Hungarian Democratic Forum and Young Democrats), the Government approved and submitted the reframed media law draft to the Parliament on the 16th of November. The bill was based on a six-party consensus, but suddenly the FKGP (Smallholders' Party ) opted out,...

On 26 October 1995, the Minister of the Flemish Community of Belgium responsible for media policies sent a statement to the Flemish Council containing his media policy priorities for the period 1995-1999. The statement mentions an agreement between the Flemish Government and the written press in which the Government agrees to make available on an annual basis BEF 250million in the form of the buying of advertising space, direct aid to newspapers, subsidies to the Press Foundation and investment support. Furthermore, measures will be taken to strengthen Flemish identity, to ensure that the media...

In the Autumn of 1995 the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communication commissioned a strategy report on how to develop national broadcasting, both radio and television, in the digital broadcasting environment. The report was published on 5 January 1996. The report was produced by Mr Jouni Mykkänen, former viceDirector-General of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE), and who recently was nominated as Director of the Finnish Film Foundation. After the August 1995 approval of the frequency bands for terrestrial digital radio broadcasting in the European countries, an unused national radio frequency...

On 27 November 1995 the Independent Television Commission awarded the licence for the new (and probably last) terrestrial television channel, Channel 5. It was awarded to the consortium Channel 5 Broadcasting , composed of MAI, a broadcasting and financial services group; Pearson, the media group which ownes the Financial Times and Warburg Pincus, the US investment bank. The consortium had bid £22,002,000 per year for the licence. Under the Broadcasting Act 1990 the Commission was obliged to award the licence to the highest bidder subject to that bidder meeting a 'quality threshold' based on the...