Medietilsynet
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Medietilsynet, or the Norwegian Media Authority, is a Norwegian administrative agency under the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs charged with various tasks relating to broadcasting, newspapers and films.
The Authority's tasks include
- rating movies
- enforcing rules on content, advertising and sponsorship for broadcast media; handling license applications for local broadcast media
- handling applications for newspaper production grants, including non-leading newspapers, minority language newspapers and sami newspapers
- overseeing and intervening against the acquisition of media ownership (either prohibiting the acquisition or merger, or allowing an acquisition on such conditions as the Authority sets, including ordering the divestment of other media ownership interests)
The agency was established January 1, 2005 by merging three already existing government agencies:
- Statens filmtilsyn (usually just Filmtilsynet, the Norwegian Board of Film Classification), which was in charge of rating movies.
- Eierskapstilsynet (the Norwegian Media Ownership Authority), which oversaw media ownership.
- Statens medieforvaltning (abbreviated SMF, the Mass Media Authority), which had tasks related to broadcasting and newspapers.
The new Medietilsynet was located in Fredrikstad 20. March 2006, where the Mass Media Authority already was located.
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Film ratings database
- The Media Directory Who owns what in Norwegian media
