ftm Radio Page - August 22, 2014

Radio concession subject to change
“a possibility”

A court decision seems to have ended a long and contentious dispute in the Czech Republic between the country’s public radio broadcaster and one of its biggest private sector radio operators. Involved also, and significantly, is the BBC World Service (BBC WS). The Supreme Administrative Court ruled that a concession held by a subsidiary of BBC WS could be transferred to French-based broadcaster Lagardère Active Radio International (LARI) without the encumbrance of old concession terms.

Czech public broadcaster Ceske Rozhlas (CR) fought the terms of the transfer saying they were party to the 2006 BBC Radiocom concession as provider of two three-hour daily program blocks. After ownership of the BBC Radiocom concession, FM licenses in Prague and 11 other cities, was transferred to LARI in the spring of 2013 the company said the concession terms, which specified inclusion of CR programming blocks, were “not an obligation, but a possibility.” Media regulator RRTV then fined BBC Radiocom, now part of LARI, for failure to comply with concession terms, which also included broadcasting in Czech and English. And on to the courts it went.

The news-talk station is now called Radio Zet and continues to broadcast BBC WS content. LARI has operated commercial radio channels in the Czech Republic Evropa 2 and Frekvence 1 since the early 1990’s. The BBC World Service operated a Czech language service until 2006.

Culture department to save historic radio tower
“superlative engineering feat”

The Moscow city Department of Cultural Heritage will take over the Shabolovka Radio Tower, known locally as Shukhov Tower and considered a masterpiece by the worldwide architectural community. Property developers wanted the old tower, in considerable disrepair, torn down because, under Moscow zoning rules, a pristine office or housing structure of the same height (160 meters, 525 feet) could be raised. “In rebuilding the tower, the architecture will continue stay in the same place, in the same way and from the same materials,” reported Izvestia (August 18). 

The tower was ordered built by Vladimir Lenin in 1919 and designed by engineer Vladimir Shukhov. Construction was completed in 1922 with 100 kW broadcasts from Communist International commencing. Over time about 40 radio and TV masts were attached to the structure. All but cellphone masts vacated the tower by 2002. (See more about media in Russia here)

Earlier this year the Russian Federation Ministry of Communications and the State Committee for Radio and Television Broadcasting said Shukhov Tower had to be dismantled, citing concerns it might fall down. Big name architects including Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas, Kengo Kuma, Thom Mayne and Elizabeth Diller appealed to President Vladimir Putin to save the tower, “one of the emblems of Moscow, and one of the superlative engineering feats of the twentieth century, still influencing and enriching technical and architectural ideas globally.”

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