Skopje, 12.09.2017 – The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services conducted regular programme and administrative supervision over the work of the First Programming Service of Makedonska Radiotelevizija (Macedonian Radio and Television) – MRT1,
concerning several legal provisions. The administrative supervision referred to the obligations to publish an Impressum, information available to the users and the law on the broadcaster’s identification.
The programme supervision covered the obligations concerning the music quota in the Macedonian language and the languages of the ethnic communities that do not constitute the majority in the RM, as well as the quota for originally made programme in the Macedonian language or the languages of the non-majority communities in the RM, the use of language in its programme, the rules for broadcasting audiovisual commercial communications, product placement, sponsorship and minors’ protection.
The supervision indicated that the First Programming Service of the Macedonian Radio and Television – MRT1 – had observed all the relevant legal provisions.
The supervision reports are available at the links below:
Administrative supervision over MRT1 – Article 14 of the Law on Media; Article 51, Paragraph 1, and Article 97 of the Law on AAVMS
Programme supervision over MRT 1 – Article 50, Paragraph 3, of the Law on AAVMS
Programme supervision over MRT 1 – Article 92, Paragraphs 4 and 6 of the Law on AAVMS