Translation of "Service avancé de diffusion télévisuelle " (French → English) :

advanced television broadcasting service

If the free-access broadcaster of linear television services refuses to accept the acquisition conditions laid down by this authority or by the arbitration authority, the holder of the exclusive rights to the event may broadcast the event in question on a linear television broadcasting service which is not free to access”.

Where a broadcaster of linear television services which makes use of § 1 above has acquired its live-and-in-full transmission rights pursuant to Article 2(a) above, the broadcaster of linear television services that has ceded its exclusive rights pursuant to Article 2(a) is authorised to broadcast the event if it so wishes on a linear television service that is not free to access”.

M. whereas the current provisions of Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2010 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services (Audiovisual Media Services Directive) are based on the principle of technological neutrality; whereas those provisions do not yet reflect ongoing technological convergence; and whereas in particular graduated regulation, which differentiates between television programmes (including webcasting and live streaming) and audiovisual media services on dema ...[+++]nd, will become less important in its existing form, although differently regulated information and communications services are available on one and the same device, including services which do not fall within the scope of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive but of the e-Commerce Directive or, in the case of non-European services, are not covered by any EU media regulations, which both may result in unequal competitive conditions and unacceptable discrepancies in the protection of users and raises fresh questions - regardless of media type - of content access, dissemination method and findability;

Linear services, which constitute the first group, correspond to television broadcasting involving a chronological sequence of programmes. Such services are ‘push’ content, whether the platform is traditional, IPTV or mobile television.