Treasury to pay damages to Radio RMF-FM for splitting prohibition

The State Treasury will pay significant damages to RMF-FM radio station as a result of the prohibition by the National Radio and Television Council (KRRiTV) for RMF-FM to split its programming, according to Stanislaw Tyczynski, the station's president. This week, the Council will most probably extend the license of the Krakow-based RMF-FM. The license, however, will not provide the right to broadcast simultaneously both its nationwide program and local programs (i.e. splitting them). In the opinion of lawyers, the Council's refusal to grant RMF this right is a change of the terms for granting the license as specified in the license application form. Moreover, an announcement by the KRRiTV Chairman on November 13 last year stipulated the possibility to apply for such licenses without any limitations on broadcast splitting.(Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 39) M. S.-C.