Tag: Broadcasting authority
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PBS urges urgent Court hearing on PN’s objection to budget information ads
The Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) has filed a motion in the First Hall of the Civil Court, requesting an urgent hearing on the Nationalist Party’s (PN) objection to government budget information ads. The PN claims that a promotional spot aired on 27th to introduce budget themes was politically biased and, therefore, inappropriate for broadcast. PBS…
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There are surveys made by people and then there are actual statistics counted by neutral and accurate software
The Broadcasting Authority has released its latest viewership survey. We have once again been listed as a broadcasting entity for aduiovisual content. I find this categorisation strange since we have only very little of audiovisual content of our own. Note, that I am not complaining about this. Instead of seeing such an oversight as a…
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Historically, the Broadcasting Authority never employed individuals associated with political parties
The Broadcasting Authority has consistently and throughout the years applied a rule of not employing individuals associated with any political party. Various individuals from different political parties confirmed to me that in the past, they had their applications rejected by the Broadcasting Authority for their association with a political party. The Broadcasting Authority seems to…
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I love Norman Lowell and hate Jews: I work as Secretary of the Broadcasting Authority
I’ve just confirmed that this is the same person. Adriano Spiteri, the Broadcasting Authority Secretary who is hounding RTK over a highly irregular fine for refusing to broadcast an interview with Norman Lowell, has an online account on Twitter (X.com) where he shares his racist and fascist fantasies. As one would expect, he also likes…
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What audiovisual content?
I don’t understand why the Broadcasting Authority listed me under audiovisual content in their survey of 20123 given that I have barely produced any audiovisual content in 2023. Strangely, I am not listed in the news section along with the other news sites. In 2023, this website received 511,214 unique visitors and 3,156,605 views. Mark…
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Drop your doubts about Malta becoming a one-Party dictatorial state: we are slowly getting there
I do not understand how and why the Broadcasting Authority could issue this nonsensical directive other than by explaining that Malta is slowly becoming a one-party dictatorship and people in authority are thinking accordingly. Basically, the Broadcasting Authority is fining RTK for comments made by one of its radio show hosts, Andrew Azzopardi, who called…
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The Broadcasting Authority says reporting on NuxellinaLeaks was in the public interest
The Broadcasting Authority has just argued that reporting on the contents of the chats between Rosianne Cutajar and Yorgen Fenech was in the public interest. This is the first official decision by an independent and public entity that basically, justifies the publication of these chats irrespective of the court order. You can read the full…
