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On 20 December 2012, the Broadcasting Authority issued to all broadcasting stations its directive on programmes and advertisements to be broadcast during the period 7 January to 9 March 2013. This is because Parliament was dissolved on 7 January 2013 and general elections were held on 9 March 2013. In fact, on that date even local council elections were held. The directive has been tightened up from past directives. For instance, now it included reference not only to news bulletins but even to updates and special editions which were broadcast during the elections campaign period. Not later than...

On 21 November 2012 AGCOM published the results of the survey about the advertising revenues sector in Italy. The aim of the survey has been to analyse the competition structure of the advertising revenues side in the overall Italian communication market, considered separately from the final users side pursuant to the approach generally followed by the competition authorities. The survey has been conducted taking into account both traditional mass media (broadcasting, radio, press, directories, theatrical and outdoor advertising) and on-line advertising. Advertising revenues represent the main...

The “Commission for Monitoring the Use Made of Connected Television”, launched in February 2012 and headed by Emmanuel Gabla, a member of the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA), brings together about 80 professionals in the sector. On 5 December 2012 it reported on the first stage of its work. “It is obviously not a question of aligning regulation of the new services with regulation of audiovisual services. On the other hand, there is no thought of massively deregulating the audiovisual sector,” according to CSA Chairman Michel Boyon. He also said...

On 3 January 2013, in plenary assembly at the end of a process of thorough consideration in conjunction with radio and television companies, journalists, and representatives of social networks, the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) revised its decision to ban specific references to social networks in radio and television broadcasts. It has become a frequent occurrence for channels to refer viewers to the pages devoted to their programmes on social networks such as Facebook, or to invite them to respond with a Tweet. Until now, radio and television broadcasts...

In a ruling of 17 December 2012 (case no. 5 K 1128/11.NW), which is yet to be published, the Verwaltungsgericht Neustadt an der Weinstraße (Neustadt an der Weinstraße Administrative Court - VG) upheld the appeal by the TV broadcaster Sat.1 against a decision of the Landesmedienanstalt Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate media authority - LMK) concerning unlawful product placement. The Kommission für Zulassung und Aufsicht (Licensing and Monitoring Commission - ZAK), a joint body created by the Landesmedienanstalten (regional media authorities) to monitor the media at national level, had found...