Broadcasting - commercial and public - is regulated by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.

BBC: Ireland country profile

Singapore's alternative plan is to provide universal cable and 64 channels by 2000 -- all of them subject to Singapore Broadcasting Authority guidelines.

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Tommy Lapid was the correspondent for the Israeli newspaper, Maariv, in London in the 1960s and later the head of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.

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