FORUM FOR FREEDOM OF MEDIA ADVOCATES PERMANENT CONCESSION TO RADIO

RADIO $ 101 ZAGREB, Dec 11 (Hina) - The Forum for the defense of the freedom of the media requested that Zagreb's Radio 101 be granted permanent concession and that after a public announcement on all existent radio frequencies in Zagreb, an open competition be launched for these frequencies, the Forum said at a news conference in the European House in Zagreb on Wednesday. #L# Participants of the recently established Forum could not agree whether members of the Council for Telecommunications, who are responsible for not granting concession to Radio 101, should be asked to resign and left the problem until another meeting. They also could not agree on the means of further work of the Forum, nor whether the Forum should be officially registered or not. According to the chairman of the meeting, Mario Mandaric, the Forum had been established to link different initiatives which had appeared after the decision of the Council for Telecommunications to not grant concession to Radio 101 . Mandaric held that the Forum should continue to exist, the more so because the problem of Radio 101 had not been resolved as the radio had only received a temporary permit to broadcast until 15 January. (hina) lm jn 111722 MET dec 96