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Over 80 participants from the NGO-sector, state institutions, national agencies and other local stakeholders have been participating in public meetings, organised by the Macedonian Broadcasting Council (BC), whose aim is to draft the new five-year National Strategy for Development of the Broadcasting Sector for the period 2013-2017. One of the main tasks of the new strategy is to identify the regulatory directions of the new Law on Audiovisual Services as well as to identify the shortcomings and gaps in the existing legislative acts that indirectly regulate the media sector, like protection of...

The face-off involving the two rival channels Edonys and Deovino, both of which focus on the culture, practices and art of wine, has finally reached a conclusion. In its decision of 11 July 2012, the Conseil d’Etat (France’s highest administrative jurisdiction), to which the matter had been referred by the company Media Place Partners (Edonys), pronounced the cancellation of the convention that the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) had agreed with Deovino. Edonys (“the international vine and wine channel”) had already referred the matter to the Conseil...

An important stage has been reached in the longstanding face-off between the Swiss broadcasting company Société Suisse de Radiodiffusion et Télévision (SSR) and newspaper editors. Although a degree of rapprochement has been reached on a number of issues, two years of negotiations between the public-service broadcaster and the editors have failed to make it possible to reach an agreement on collaboration in the field of the Internet. The Federal Council (Switzerland’s Government) has therefore finally made a decision: the ban on advertising on the SSR’s Internet sites is to be maintained, but the...

Call-in prize shows are programmes in which the broadcaster invites viewers to participate in a prize game by directly dialling premium-rate telephone numbers. In the past, such programmes have been regarded as a type of teleshopping by Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media (Flemish Media Regulator - VRM). The Flemish Broadcasting Act defines teleshopping as “direct offers broadcast to the public with a view to the supply of goods or services, including immovable property, rights and obligations, in return for payment”. According to VRM, these shows should be labelled as teleshopping programmes, because...

On 6 July 2012 the State Duma adopted an amendment to the advertising law that although is laconic may play a critical role for online media in Russia. The amendment is to the 2006 Federal Statute “On Advertising” (see IRIS 2006-4/34). It extends the list of the media where advertising of alcohol products is banned (Art. 21 para. 2) by adding “information-telecommunication network “Internet”. Since 2011 alcohol products in the Federal Statute “On Advertising” include beer or beer products. The amendment means that any placement of alcohol advertising in any form in Runet (Russian segment of Internet)...