Liechtenstein Broadcasting

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The Liechtensteinische Broadcasting (LRF) is the public broadcasting company in the Principality of Liechtenstein . The public service company based in Triesen was founded in 2004 and operates the radio broadcaster Radio Liechtenstein .

history

The Liechtenstein broadcasting was established following the withdrawal of the private investor Peter Ritter in 2003 by Radio L . After several negotiations, the Liechtenstein government decided on August 23, 2003 to buy up the radio station and continue it according to the model of public broadcasting. It is therefore a state-owned corporation with a public service program mandate. On January 1, 2004, when the station was renamed Radio Liechtenstein , the Liechtenstein broadcasting service was officially launched.

organization

Logo "Radio Liechtenstein"

Radio Liechtenstein itself compares the Liechtenstein broadcasting model with "the model of ORF or SR DRS ", on the basis of which Radio L creates an "identity-building radio program". With an endowment capital of 1.5 million Swiss francs, the company is state-owned. However, while the organization of the LRF and the Broadcasting Act are more in line with the Austrian model, the system of public media funding is comparable to the Swiss “ public service ”.

The law on "Liechtensteinischer Rundfunk" (LRFG) describes Liechtensteinischer Rundfunk (LRF) according to Art. 2 as "an independent public-law corporation with its own legal personality". These include a. the supply and program mandate (Art. 6 and 7), in this context journalistic independence and freedom (Art. 9), public information in crises and emergencies (calls according to Art. 8), the program principles set out in Art. 10, the u. a. Protection of minors, availability and programming relate to the general conditions for advertising (Art. 13-18).

The bodies of the LRF and their tasks are defined in Art. 19–31 LRFG:

  • Board of Directors: Five to seven experts from the fields of media, law, finance and accounting who belong to a media company (including LRF), a local council or state administration, a political party or the media commission.
  • Management: Its members who are not subject to instructions are elected by the board of directors for a four-year term after a public tender and may not belong to a group of people who qualify for the board of directors during their term of office. Your task is the operational management of the LRF within the framework of the legal provisions.
  • Auditor: Is elected by the government "within the meaning of the law on auditors and auditing companies".
  • Public council: five voluntary members who are determined by lottery for five years each. All domestic radio participants aged 16 and over who - roughly summarized - do not belong to any of the groups of people who qualify for the board of directors are eligible to participate in the lottery. The council adopts its own rules of procedure. It designs the program and the end-of-year schemes, and also has an advisory and recommendatory function. Management and executives are accountable and obliged to provide information to him. He is also responsible for the collection and amount of the license fee .

financing

According to Article 37 of the Broadcasting Act, broadcasting is financed from advertising revenue, a state subsidy granted as a grant (“global credit”), broadcasting fees and other income. The board of directors can apply to the government for investments that cannot be financed with LRF funds and, if necessary, finance them from the state budget.

The license fee was abolished in early 1999. The reintroduction has been discussed since then. The state supports the media (not just the LRF) with a maximum of 30 percent of the wage costs and indirectly through training and further education offers. In 2003, the budgeted basic service for all radio services that were still private at the time was 1.5 million Swiss francs . The remaining income consists mainly of advertising and sponsorship.

Since 2004 the annual state contribution for the LRF alone has remained constant at 1.5 million francs. As part of the financial planning for 2014–2017, the government introduced a license fee to the state parliament, but rejected it again in July 2015, which, in addition to the lack of social acceptance, was also justified by the fact that funding through the state contribution had proven to be the more economically sensible model.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Radio L - Portrait. radio.li
  2. ↑ Art. 3 Broadcasting Act, see web link.
  3. ↑ a b Will government reintroduce radio fees? welcome.li, September 5, 2003
  4. ^ Compendium - Cultural policies and trends in Europe. ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Council of Europe / ERICarts, November 2013 (German) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.culturalpolicies.net
  5. ^ Government of Liechtenstein calls for the reintroduction of license fees. ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. radioszene.de, March 24, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radioszene.de
  6. ↑ Report and application by the government to the Landtag of the Principality of Liechtenstein on financial planning for 2014–2017 ( memento of the original from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (No. 69/2013) on October 3, 2013; see. Legal basis ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (llv.li) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.llv.li @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.llv.li
  7. ^ Vaduz: In the long term, no license fee in Liechtenstein. Radio L, July 7, 2015 (in the web archive of April 24, 2016)