The commercial television channels want to prolong their contracts with the media authority before their expiry, Magyar Nemzet has been informed. The cause of the haste can be that the commercial channels are afraid of a change of government in 2006. The national commercial televisions received their concession in July 1997 and this concession can be prolonged once for five years. The contract of TV 2 and RTL Klub expires in July, 2007 and the media law prescribes that the demand for a prolongation should be submitted to the media authority 14 months prior to expiry so the request is too early. Until March 2008 the media authority (ORTT) works in the present form, delegated by the parliamentary parties. Annamária Szalai, member of the media authority (Fidesz) said the media law should be modified anyhow because the financial situation of the authority itself was collapsing.
Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó
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