The Council of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM) has imposed a ban on broadcasting the programme “Collegium 1” on TV Informer for 10 days and “Collegium 2” for 15 days. It has also banned the broadcasting of advertisements on the same television channel for five days, between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. One warning has also been issued to the television station.
Informer editor-in-chief Dragan J. Vučićević said after the REM Council session that the penalties meant that “Collegium” had been banned for a total of 25 days, but that they would have to wait for a legal interpretation.
The 10-day broadcasting ban was imposed for insulting members of the REM Council, while the 15-day ban was imposed over a negative campaign against the Student List.
The warning was issued because pre-election programming had not been properly labelled.
Council President Stevica Smederevac stated that the screening of the documentary film “Statesman” had resulted in several violations of the regulations that broadcasters are required to observe. He said that Informer’s representatives had failed to successfully refute those violations at today’s session, which is why a measure banning advertisements on TV Informer for five days during the evening “slot” was imposed.
Before the vote on this matter, a request by Informer’s legal representatives to have REM Council member Rodoljub Šabić excluded from the vote was rejected.
The Informer team delivered its four-hour presentation before the break.
At the beginning of their presentation, Informer’s representatives once again protested that other journalists from the television station had not been allowed to attend, despite the earlier explanation that only broadcaster representatives and their legal counsel could attend the session.
Nevertheless, it was decided that four more journalists would be admitted to the session, as they had allegedly been accredited to attend.
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