Digital Audiovisual Media: Video on Demand, some necessary regulations
VoD represents a challenge to nations’ regulatory capacity. How can one identify the main purpose of each service? How to share the economic performance of...
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Six Years of Chile’s Community Radio Law
The aim of the new regulation for community radio was to respond to important social demands for such services so as to improve operating conditions....
Venezuela: Suspension of the LOTEL reform
Academics, journalists and representatives of university media outlets have expressed concern about the extent of reforms to the Organic Telecommunications Law, which opposition deputies who...
The digital TV transition: Latin America may lose the opportunity to move towards a more diverse and plural media system
Various countries in the region are losing an opportunity to promote pluralism and diversity through the transition to digital TV, according to the 2016 Regional...
Thirteen points regarding the upcoming tender for TV frequencies in Mexico
This is the second tender process called by the Federal Telecommunications Institute (FTI). In 2015 the body made an invitation to tender for two national...
Finally more free-to-air TV channels for Colombia
Colombia faces the opening up of its television market. The peace process with the FARC being conducted by President Santos’ government is also relevant to...
Public communications under attack in Brazil
The interim government attempts to silence dissenting voices in the public media and threatens to change a law to end the public media outlets of...
The decline of digital terrestrial television in Argentina
DTT will continue in Argentina but without the driving force of the State. The three pillars that guided its development were the deployment of infrastructure,...
Inter-American Court: State Regulations Designed to Protect Pluralism Are “Legitimate and Urgent”
*Gustavo Gómez Germano Español|Portuguese The ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of Marcel Granier et al (RCTV) vs Venezuela1 can...
Finally, Something New Under the Sun!
Notes on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Ruling on the RCTV Case...
The Ruling in Favor of RCTV Does Not Lead to Licensing in Perpetuity
The IACHR upheld standards of plurality and diversity in broadcasting....
“I have no doubt that the Constitutional Chamber lacked the bravery to stand up to the power of the commercial media oligopolies in El Salvador.”
Interview with Oscar Pérez, President-Director of Fundación Comunicándonos and representative of the Citizen Board for the Human Right to Communication....