The events jostle in the audiovisual world French-speaking belgian. While the government of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels is ready to adopt Thursday a new decree to reform the rules on audiovisual media services (SMA) and to reduce the possibilities of access to the RTBF at the pub, a third major surface. We learn that RTL will have a plan to help and sign at the same time his “return” in Belgium. Since the two are related.
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Legally, in fact, the three tv channels of the group (RTL-TVI, Plug and Club) are luxembourg and since January 1, 2006, the date on which RTL has stopped issuing under belgian licence. This means that its strings are beyond the control of CSA in belgium (the regulator of the audiovisual sector) and tighter legislation which prevails in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. A situation denounced from the first by the CSA, which sees it as a source of distortion of competition on the market and a maneuver to bypass contrary to the european legislation, since the bulk of the editorial decisions are taken in Brussels.
