Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel
The Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) is a French institution, created in 1989, whose role is to regulate the various electronic media in France, such as radio and television, including through eventual censorship. For example, it was the CSA that asked the French government to forbid Al-Manar TV in 2005 because of charges of hate speech; it also claimed that MED TV was close to the Kurdish PKK, on grounds not of "evidences" but of "concording elements".[1][2] The creation of the Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle was a measure found in the Socialist Party's electoral program of 1981, called 110 Propositions for France.
The CSA replaced the Commission Nationale de la Communication et des Libertés (CNCL), which itself replaced the Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle, created in 1982 to supervise the attribution of radio frequencies to the private radio sector, which was judged better than allowing the anarchic creation of the radios libres ("free radios"), mainly composed of amateurs and NGOs.
Current members
(as of January 2013)
- Olivier Schrameck (president)
- Françoise Laborde
- Christine Kelly
- Emmanuel Gabla
- Francine Mariani-Ducray
- Nicolas About
- Patrice Gélinet
- Memona Hintermann
- Sylvie Pierre-Brossolette
Pictograms
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Discouraged to persons under 10
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Discouraged to persons under 12
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Forbidden to persons under 16
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Forbidden to persons under 18
See also
References
- ↑ Les Kurdes privés de leur télé, L'Humanité, 23 February 2004 (French)
- ↑ Medya TV CEO Denies Links with PKK, Clandestine Radio, 25 February 2004 (English)