Workshop Held on Tackling Hate Speech in the Media and on the Online Platforms

Skopje, 21 March 2024 – A workshop was held yesterday, as part of the Twinning Project on Enhancing the Capacities of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services and the Public Service Broadcaster,” on the following topic: “How to Tackle Hate Speech in Audio and Audiovisual Media Services and on the Online Platforms.” The workshop was intended for the members of the Network against Hate Speech in the Media and the employees of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services[…]

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[…]



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