The Tuscany Region is looking for local television and radio stations to broadcast institutional formats and multimedia and videojournalistic services on the council’s activities. Two decrees have been published in recent days and you have until June 3rd, twenty days from the publication of the notice, to participate by expressing your interest. News on events, projects, opportunities, services, activities and results achieved will be disseminated via television (digital terrestrial) and radio (over the air).
The objective of the notice is to establish a list, lasting four years, from which to draw in order to stipulate any agreements in the future. Broadcasters based in Tuscany and registered in the Roc, the register of communications operators, will be able to participate. Among the requirements – particularly dear to the Tuscany Press Association, a journalists’ union which had requested an intervention in support of local information – there is the presence in the workforce of journalists regularly employed with a category contract (Fnsi, Aeranti Corallo, Frt ) and regular contributions (at least four full-time journalists or equivalent for television, two for radio) and self-produced daily local information strips equal to at least two and a half hours a day, during the daytime, in the last twelve months.
The objective of the presidency of the Tuscany Region is to support and strengthen local information in this way: for the union it is important that this happens by hiring journalists, creating jobs and respecting contracts. Checks on the requirements may be repeated annually.
Among the other obligations for televisions, there is adherence to the self-regulation codes on the protection of minors on television, on broadcasts of commentary on sporting events and on teleshopping, astrology and fortune telling services, lottery predictions, superenalotto, lotteries and similar games.
Read the two public notices:
Public notice for the identification of over-the-air radio broadcasters based in Tuscany
Notice for the dissemination of formats and journalistic services relating to the institutional activity of the Regional Council
Public notice for the identification of digital terrestrial television broadcasters based in Tuscany
Notice for the dissemination of institutional formats and multimedia and video journalist services relating to the institutional activity of the Regional Council
