Council of State to discuss media firm cases against TV licence tender on July 4
Council of State President Nikolaos Sakellariou on Thursday (09/06) named July 4 as the date when the court΄s plenum will discuss cases brought by the largest television stations in the country against the regulatory acts of a licensing tender for television channels having nationwide coverage, which will restrict their number to just four.
In the meantime, the CoS plenum is to discuss a request for the suspension of the licensing submitted by Mega Channel, which raises issues of Community law and constitutionality, on June 17.
The channels that have resorted to the CoS against the planned licensing procedure include Alpha, Antenna, Epsilon TV (E-TV), Mega Channel, Skai, Star Channel and the Television Station Owners Association.