BCC to monitor media broadcasters according to different methodology

The Broadcasting Coordination Council (BCC) Friday unanimously adopted its new broadcast media monitoring methodology for the election campaign preceding the early legislative elections, Info-Prim Neo reports. BCC chairman Gheorghe Gorincioi said the methodology recently was discussed with national and local broadcasters and civil society representatives during a round table. “We have received only positive feed-back during the debates on this important document both from the civil society organizations and the broadcasters,” he stressed. Dinu Ciocan, the head of the BCC’s Monitoring Unit, said that the media monitoring methodology was designed by the Council of Europe experts Mr Richard Carver (Media Oxford Research, Great Britain) and Mr Marek Mracka (MEMO98, Slovakia) in accordance with the European standards and Moldovan legislation. “The document lays out several different methodologies, since the various legal obligations of broadcasters require different types of monitoring. The BCC needs the methodology for monitoring the Moldovan broadcast media for compliance with various legal obligations,” she stated. The new methodology was worked out in the framework of the Joint European Union and Council of Europe “Democracy Support Program in Moldova”, which has a budget of € 4 000 000 and will be completed in June 2011.