The draft new media law on TV broadcasting was reviewed and widely discussed at the first conference session, and recommendations for its further improvement against international legal standards were sounded in presence of the member of Oliy Majlis responsible for the development of this law.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Topics to be covered include financial prudence, the UEFA Champions League, league and club strategies, sponsorship, the fan experience, broadcasting, new media, naming rights, and venue management.

BBC: Football finances under spotlight at Soccerex forum

They say plans to move the media into a new ministry would effectively put broadcasting under state control.

BBC: South Korea's President Park warns over deadlock

She said that "we support this Day to emphasize the importance of freedom of expression and free flow of diversified opinions because Media - old and new, print or broadcasting, text-based or visual - have an increasingly important power to boost dynamic and positive change, positive social transformation in the country".

UNESCO: COMMUNICATION & INFORMATION

She dismissed the Democratic United Party's claim that bringing the media into a new Ministry for Planning and Science was a move to control broadcasting.

BBC: South Korea's President Park warns over deadlock

Nearly 200, 000 DirecTV subscribers almost didn't get to watch their beloved New England Patriots play the Super Bowl after DirecTV and Sunbeam Television, media mogul Edmund Ansin's broadcasting company, squabbled over carriage fees.

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"We can't preach the philosophy of the free market and every time something arises which might look a bit uncomfortable, dart around and say we're going to pass a new law to stop it happening, " Howard said in a radio interview with publicly traded media network, Southern Cross Broadcasting.

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