The Broadcasting Coordination Council (BCC) calls on the regulatory bodies to immediately solve the situation created in the broadcasting sector. The BCC refers to the company StarNet, which is accused of not meeting the conditions of the authorization issued by the Council.

The BCC sent a communiqué to IPN Agency, saying that StarNnet SRL in 2010 asked for an authorization for retransmitting the IP TV cable service with 25 TV channels for TV-Box studio. In February 2011, the company was allowed to extend in Ungheni town and a new offer of program services was approved, with 83 channels. Owing to repeated violations, including the broadcast of 113 channels in the absence of required documents, the BCC withdrew the authorization of StarNet on October 24, 2011.

StarNet challenged the decision to withdraw its license in court and won the case. In 2013, after it won the case and got back the authorization, Starnet asked withdrawing its authorization. Instead, a new legal entity - TV-Box SRL – obtained a broadcast license for the studio with the same name, for Chisinau and Balti, with a list of 63 TV channels, and for Ungheni, with a list of 64 TV channels. “Consequently, by saying, in a news conference on May 29, that studio TV-Box retransmits 151 channels, the company’s representatives admitted that they violate the conditions of the authorization,” it is said in the communiqué.

The BCC says the Moldovan legislation provides that a distributor can retransmit TV channels on Moldova’s territory only based on a retransmission authorization, issued by the BCC, and the technical incense, with the consent of the producers of  programs that are to be retransmitted.