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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...

On 13 december 1995 the Independent Television Commission has issued the latest version of its Code of Advertising Standards and Practice. The new edition contains no departures from the previous version but incorporates amendments and additions adopted during 1994 and 1995. Specifically, the new Code now includes the amendments to rule 18 permitting advertising for the National Lottery and to rules 8 and 9 of Appendix 2 (Financial Advertising), the re-drafted Appendix 3 on Medicines, Treatment-s, Health Claims, Nutrition and Dietary Supplements (adopted in February 1995) and a new Rule 19 permitting...

The interpretation of the concept of broadcasting has been the subject of discussion in Germany for some time (see IRIS-6:9). At the heart of the problem is the treatment of the new media. Broadcasting is defined in Article 2 of the Agreement on Broadcasting between the Federal States in United Germany (RStV) as presentation and dissemination to the general public of performances of any kind in words, sound or pictures using electrical vibrations with a conductor or without a connecting conductor. This raises the problem of the position of multi-media services. In particular there is the question...

A mixed working party comprising members of the Albanian Parliament's Committee for Culture and Mass Media and audiovisual specialists have drawn up preliminary draft legislation on public and private radio and television. Invited by the Albanian Government, the Council of Europe sent a small group of experts to Tirana in November to discuss the draft. It is now expected that the revised version of the draft will shortly be submitted to the Parliament for discussion. It is still possible that the legislation could be adopted before the coming parliamentary elections in the spring. Radiotelevizioni...

In IRIS 1995-9: 9 we announced the adoption of a new law on advertising in the Russian Federation. At that time, the Act was only available in Russian language. An edited text of the law in English language is now available throught the Observatory.