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OS: Legislative Threat To State Monopoly
The long-standing tight state control over Austria’s television and radio broadcasting appears to be headed for the scrap-heap, following the publication on 19 February of a draft law on radio, cable and satellite broadcasting. Austria has two state-owned terrestrial TV channels, ORF1 and ORF2. Competing cable and satellite broadcasters based in Germany broadcast into Austria, but as yet the rigorously-regulated local media market has seen no private broadcasters from within the country.
