Skopje, 1 August 2018 – The Agency conducted regular programme supervision over Kanal 8 TV, Kocani LD TV, Svet TV and Zdravkin TV, concerning their fulfillment of the legal obligations pertaining minors’ protection, the rules on airing commercial communications, quizzes and other forms of prize-giving programme, as well as the use of value-added telephone services, tele-voting and lottery games.
The supervision found that, on 4 July 2018, Zdravkin TV from Veles had aired several feature programmes without displaying the signal for minors’ protection throughout the broadcast, while the cinematographic movie “Venus and Vegas” had been aired at an inappropriate time of the day.
The Agency also conducted regular administrative supervision over the same television stations regarding their obligations to publish an Impressum, information that should be made available to the users, and the broadcaster’s identification. Disregard for the obligation to publish an Impressum was detected in the case of Kanal 8 TV, while Svet TV, Kocani LD TV and Zdravkin TV were found to have violated the requirement to publish information that should be made available to the users.
The respective supervision reports are available at the links given below:
TV Kanal 8 – (Article 50, Para 3; Articles 53, 54, 55, 98, 99, 100 and 101; Article 52, Article 93 and Article 94 of the LAAVMS) – 31.07.2018
TV Kanal 8 – (Article 14 of the Media Law; Article 51, Para 1, and Article 97 of LAAVMS) – 31.07.2018
TV Kocani LD – (Article 50, Para 3; Articles 53, 54, 55, 98, 99, 100 and 101; Article 52, Article 93 and Article 94 of the LAAVMS) – 31.07.2018
TV Kocani LD – (Article 14 of the Media Law; Article 51, Para 1, and Article 97 of LAAVMS) – 31.07.2018
TV Svet – (Article 50, Para 3; Articles 53, 54, 55, 98, 99, 100 and 101; Article 52, Article 93 and Article 94 of the LAAVMS) – 31.07.2018
TV Svet – (Article 14 of the Media Law; Article 51, Para 1, and Article 97 of LAAVMS) – 31.07.2018
TV Zdravkin – (Article 50, Para 3; Articles 53, 54, 55, 98, 99, 100 and 101; Article 52, Article 93 and Article 94 of the LAAVMS) – 31.07.2018
TV Zdravkin – (Article 14 of the Media Law; Article 51, Para 1, and Article 97 of LAAVMS) – 31.07.2018