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Week ending May 11, 2013
Auf Einladung des VPRT haben beim „Medientreffpunkt Mitteldeutschland 2013“ Vertreter von Sendernetzbetreibern, Regulierern, Radiosendern und Wissenschaft die Liberalisierung des Sendernetzbetriebes diskutiert. „Die UKW-Verbreitung als entscheidender Weg, unsere Programme zu den Hörern zu bringen, verursacht Kosten von bis zu 40 Prozent in den Etats der Radiosender“, so Hans-Jürgen Kratz, Geschäftsführer von Antenne Thüringen und Mitglied im Radiovorstand beim VPRT. „Die fehlende Auswahl bei den Dienstleistern sowie jährliche Preiserhöhungen ohne Verhandlungsmöglichkeiten beim derzeit faktischen Monopolisten halten diesen Kostenblock beständig hoch“, erklärt er weiter.
Die im Telekommunikationsgesetz (TKG) festgeschriebene Möglichkeit einer Marktliberalisierung ab 2016 macht den Sendern Hoffnung, bei der Verbreitung zukünftig die Preisspirale zu durchbrechen. Wenn Radiosender ab dem 1. Januar 2016 ihren Sendernetzbetreiber auswählen können, müssen Ländergesetze geändert und die Probleme um den Betrieb der Senderstandorte gelöst werden. „Die Mediengesetzgebung muss jetzt überall angepasst werden, um das mit der TKG-Novelle geänderte Verfahren zu regeln“, erklärt Martin Deitenbeck, Geschäftsführer der SLM und Vorsitzender der Technischen Konferenz der Landesmedienanstalten.
Aber auch potenzielle neue Marktteilnehmer sehen Hürden: „Wir betreiben in Österreich Sendernetze und wollen in den deutschen Markt eintreten“, erklärt Frank Schulz vom österreichischen Sendernetzbetreiber ORS. „Das Verfahren ist kompliziert und Handeln ist jetzt nötig, wir brauchen Investitionssicherheit, um am 1. Januar 2016 mit dem Sendernetzbetrieb zu beginnen. Die technische Ausstattung müssten wir 2015 installieren und wollen daher schon Mitte 2014 mit den Veranstaltern Verträge schließen.“ Die Relevanz der bestehenden Senderstandorte erläuterte Sebastian Schweda vom Europäischen Institut für Medienrecht: „Geeignete Standorte in exponierter Lage sind nicht leicht zu finden. Ein Neubau im Außenbereich ist rechtlich kaum mehr möglich und finanziell kaum darstellbar.“
„Im Rahmen des Wettbewerbs müssen Lösungen für den Standortzugang und die Antennenmitbenutzung gefunden werden“, so Sebastian Artymiak, Leiter Medientechnologie beim VPRT und Moderator des Panels, „dabei hoffen wir auch auf die Ergebnisse aus der aktuellen Marktanalyse der Bundesnetzagentur zum Sendernetzbetrieb.“
The International Press Institute and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) today welcomed the passage of seminal legislation in Mexico designed to combat the almost complete impunity in cases of crimes committed against the country’s journalists.
The changes to the Federal Code on Penal Procedure, among other statutes – all of which entered into force last Thursday, World Press Freedom Day – put into practice a constitutional reform from last summer granting the federal government the power to prosecute crimes against freedom of expression. Previously, under Mexico’s federal structure, this responsibility lay primarily with state and local authorities, who have dramatically failed to protect the Mexican press from violent attacks.
IPI and WAN-IFRA, travelled to Mexico this February to urge legislators to approve this so-called “secondary legislation” (i.e. complementary to the constitutional reform), as part of both organisations’ focus on improving journalist safety in Mexico. Ultimately, both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies passed the measure by unanimous vote.
“The passage of this legislation marks a milestone in the collaborative effort to protect and promote press freedom and journalist safety in Mexico,” IPI Deputy Director Anthony Mills said. “Mexico’s Congress has sent a strong signal that those who seek to harm journalists and thereby silence an entire nation will be met with the full force of the law.”
“Mexico’s legislators have now done their job, but the real work has only just begun: The federal government and the Office of the General Prosecutor must now ensure that the Federal Special Prosecutor for Crimes against Freedom of Expression has the resources and funds to do her job. IPI will be carefully monitoring the prosecutor’s work and we will not be satisfied until the killers of journalists are behind bars.”
Prior to these changes to federal law, the Office of the Special Prosecutor was caught in an absurd situation in that it essentially lacked the legal standing to do the job it was created to do. The current prosecutor, Laura Borbolla, told IPI and WAN-IFRA in Mexico City in February that in at least 40 cases her office had collected enough information to justify the arrest of a suspect, but that each time the evidence had been brought to a federal judge, the case was declined due to a lack of jurisdiction. Since its creation in 2006, the Office has achieved just one conviction.
“Now that the Special Prosecutor has been given the legal tools to act, we expect nothing less than immediate and thorough investigations on the killings of journalists”, said Larry Kilman, WAN-IFRA’s deputy CEO. “We must not forget that, since the creation of the first Special Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes Against Journalists by the federal government in 2006, more than 50 media professionals have been murdered. Convictions for the killers of journalists are long overdue from this Office. It’s time to put an end to such impunity.”
The reform to Article 73 of the Mexican Constitution does not make crimes against the media a federal offence per se, but rather empowers the federal government to prosecute such crimes under conditions now established by the secondary legislation.
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