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The Administrative Court in Frankfurt-am-Main recently upheld the decision of the regional Private Broadcasting Authority of Hesse forbidding the private television channel RTL 2 to show the "World Wrestling Federation" programme before 21.00. In so doing, it gave protection of the young priority over the interests of the broadcaster. RTL 2s appeal against this decision was rejected by the Administrative Court of Appeal in Kassel. The court considers showing of the "wrestling programme" in the afternoon (16.00-17.00) a danger to young people. The decision is based on Section 21, sub-section 2,...

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...

The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to review a decision by a lower federal court, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, upholding as constitutional provisions of the 1992 Cable Act, which require cable operators to segregate indecent "access" channel programming onto a separate, "blocked" channel - unless it totally banned indirect material from its system to begin with. A subscriber could receive this channel only by affirmatively asking a cable operator to "unblock" the channel for a particular household. The lower court had held that this was the "least restrictive...