{"id":31366,"date":"2011-12-21T12:43:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T12:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31366"},"modified":"2011-12-21T12:43:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T12:43:38","slug":"hungary-watchdog-takes-away-frequency-from-opposition-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31366","title":{"rendered":"Hungary: Watchdog takes away frequency from opposition radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship : Hungary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Hungary\" target=\"_blank\">Hungary\u2019s<\/a> national media council have <a title=\"Bloomberg : Hungarian Watchdog Takes Away Frequency From Opposition Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-12-21\/hungarian-watchdog-takes-away-frequency-from-opposition-radio.html\" target=\"_blank\">taken the radio frequency<\/a>\u00a0from the country\u2019s largest opposition radio station,\u00a0<a title=\"Open Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.klubradio.hu\/\" rel=\"external\">Klubradio<\/a>. Three frequencies were reassigned by the media council, and Klubradio&#8217;s frequency was awarded to Autoradio Musorszolgaltato Kft. In a statement issued by email yesterday, the watchdog claimed Autoradio bid \u201csignificantly above\u201d the asking price and promised to broadcast more Hungarian music.\u00a0The decision from the national media council has been described as a\u00a0\u201cde facto ban\u201d by Andras Arato,\u00a0Klubradio&#8217;s\u00a0chairman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/11\/hungary-a-lesson-on-how-not-to-regulate-the-press\/\">Read Mike Harris on Hungary&#8217;s alarming new media regulations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary\u2019s national media council have taken the radio frequency\u00a0from the country\u2019s largest opposition radio station,\u00a0Klubradio. Three frequencies were reassigned by the media council, and Klubradio&#8217;s frequency was awarded to Autoradio Musorszolgaltato Kft. In a statement issued by email yesterday, the watchdog claimed Autoradio bid \u201csignificantly above\u201d the asking price and promised to broadcast more Hungarian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[346,7424,1847,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31366"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31376,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31366\/revisions\/31376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}