Our regulation is increasingly interactive and iterative hirty years ago, this year, the Law of 30 September 1986, relating to freedom of communication, put the final stop to State monopoly on audiovisual communication. Since its introduction, the new...
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Our regulation is increasingly interactive and iterative hirty years ago, this year, the Law of 30 September 1986, relating to freedom of communication, put the final stop to State monopoly on audiovisual communication. Since its introduction, the new system has always been, and continues to be, based on the affirmation of a single rationale: free assignment to private players of licenses to use frequencies, in © Christophe Calais/CSA exchange for general interest obligations aimed at guaranteeing pluralism, protection of audiences, and dynamic cultural content industries. The objective was to ensure effective audiovisual communication freedom in a context where public domain airwave frequencies—a scarce commodity—were the main means to broadcast radio or television services. The technological environment has dramatically changed since, allowing the rise of multiple audiovisual media broadcasting modes; yet, in 2015, broadcasting operators confirmed their appetite for the off-air platf
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