{"id":97235,"date":"2014-02-21T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T13:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=97235"},"modified":"2014-02-21T15:13:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T13:13:53","slug":"icasa-readies-for-fair-election-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/97235-icasa-readies-for-fair-election-broadcasts.html","title":{"rendered":"Icasa readies for fair election broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (<a title=\"Icasa\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/462443-Independent-Communications-Authority-of-South-Africa-%28ICASA%29\">Icasa<\/a>) announced that it has published its final regulations on party election broadcasts, political advertisements, and the equitable treatment of political parties by broadcasting licensees.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator said that these regulations will support fair and equitable treatment of contesting political parties by broadcasting service licensees.<\/p>\n<p>The regulations\u2019 aim is to prescribe a framework and guidelines under which Party Election Broadcasts (PEBs) and Political Adverts (PAs) shall be conducted and carried by broadcasting service licensees during the 2014 national and provincial government elections.<\/p>\n<p>The process which will be followed is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Icasa will receive the final list of contesting political parties from the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in due course;<\/li>\n<li>Upon receipt of the list, the Authority will invite contesting political party representatives to a briefing session to allocate the PEB slots in accordance with the Formula as outlined in the Regulations on Party Election Broadcasts, Political Parties by Broadcasting Licensees;<\/li>\n<li>The public broadcaster and other broadcasting service Licensees who have indicated interest in transmitting PEBs will also be invited;<\/li>\n<li>The Council of ICASA will proclaim the Election Broadcast Period; and<\/li>\n<li>The Authority will therefore publish the PEB schedule in the government gazette within 2 days of the allocation of slots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Icasa said that it will ensure extensive monitoring of election coverage in terms of the regulations and licence conditions of broadcasters.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Icasa<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/96885-did-icasa-roll-over.html\"><strong>Did Icasa roll over?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/96585-telkoms-big-score.html\"><strong>Telkom\u2019s big score<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/96821-mtns-r286-million-gift-from-icasa.html\"><strong>MTN\u2019s R286 million gift from Icasa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icasa published its final regulations on party election broadcasts, political advertisements, and the equitable treatment of political parties by broadcasting licensees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":77458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,23735,533],"class_list":["post-97235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-elections-2014","tag-icasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}