Skopje, 14 March 2024 – Yesterday, a public presentation was held of the Draft-Rulebook on Media Services Accessibility, prepared under the project for “Protecting Freedom of Expression and of the Media in North Macedonia (PRO- FREX)” in the premises of Europe House, in Skopje[…]
Public Hearing Opened on the Draft Guidelines for Amending and Supplementing the Guidelines for Implementing Product Placement Rules
Skopje, 13 March 2024 – At its 9th Session held on 12 March 2024, the Agency Council adopted a Draft Guidelines for Amending and Supplementing the Guidelines for Implementing Product Placement Rules[…]
Public Hearing Opened on the Draft Rulebook on Media Services Accessibility
Skopje, 12 March 2024 – At today’, 9th, Session, the Agency Council adopted a Draft Rulebook on Media Services Accessibility. The need for such an act stemmed from the amendments and supplements to the LAAVMS of July 2023, which turned the provision of programmes accessible to persons with disabilities into an obligation for the radio and television stations and the video-on-demand media services. The latter are obligated to meet this obligation continually and progressively[…]
PRESS RELEASE
Skopje, 4 March 2024 – The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services condemns the extremely vulgar and inappropriate speech in the post of the president of the Levica political party (The Left), Dimitar Apasiev, on Facebook, which referred to Kanal 5 TV[…]
CONDEMNATION OF THE STATEMENT OF THE LEADER OF SDSM
Skopje, February 21, 2024 – The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services strongly condemns the statement of the president of the political party SDSM, Dimitar Kovacevski, with which he accused the media of “selling themselves and even now selling themselves” and putting themselves in the function of a political party[…]
AVMU AND IMC HOLD BILATERAL MEETING
Skopje, 20 February 2024 – Representatives of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services and the Independent Media Commission of the Republic of Kosovo (NKM) held a bilateral meeting today in the Agency’s premises[…]
BROADCASTERS SHOULD ABIDE BY THE ELECTORAL CODE
Skopje, 15 February 2024 – The announcement of Presidential and Parliamentary Elections, scheduled for 24 April and 8 May 2024 have brought into force the provisions of the Electoral Code, also marking the start of the monitoring of media coverage on the part of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services. Until the beginning of the electoral campaign, the monitoring will be focused on nine state-level television programme services, while all other programme services will be monitored based upon complaints[…]
AVMU Expresses Support to the Critical/Analytical Media Voices
Skopje, 26 January 2024 – The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services joins in the efforts of the US Government, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Macedonian Public Broadcaster to support the critical voices reporting on topics that are important to the citizens and will help them make informed decisions[…]
PRESS RELEASE
Skopje, 25 January 2024 – The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services most strongly condemns yesterday’s incident in the Municipality of Chashka, in which the TV crew of Alsat-M TV was prevented from filming the protest against the introduction of an Albanian-language class in local the primary school, as well as from entering the Municipality building[…]
PRESS RELEASE
Skopje, 15 January 2024 – The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services hereby informs the public that, today, it filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Information Society and Administration, as the latter has been continuously violating the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services, thereby jeopardizing the functioning of the entire audiovisual sector[…]