Debate: Quality TV – across European borders
“Television Without Frontiers” is the cornerstone of European television policy, aimed at cultural diversity while protecting young people from overly violent or pornographic imagery and preventing us all from an overload of advertising.
Television is a successful industry in Europe, creating jobs, innovation and growth, and this is recognized within those EU rules.
Broadcasters can attract greater audiences and viewers can profit from a bigger choice of channels while enjoying protection in some key areas.
The rules want to make sure that European public interest is maintained on television and that you, as a European citizen, have a right to reply to what is reported on television. Programmes which might “seriously impair’ the development of minors are forbidden.
And it’s not just the content of television programmes themselves that have rules, also the frequency of television advertising. No TV channel is allowed to broadcast more than 12 minutes of advertisement an hour, and this differentiates European television from many US channels for instance.
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