Excerpt from report by French news agency AFP
Abidjan, 22 February 2010: Broadcasting by the France 24 television channel was “suspended” in Cote d’Ivoire on Monday [22 February] for “unprofessional treatment of information” about recent “political news” in the country, the Ivorian media regulator announced.
The National Audiovisual Communications Council (CNCA) adopted a “preventative measure” regarding broadcasts by the channel “while awaiting the deliberations of the council”, its chairman Franck Anderson Kouassi told AFP.
The decision taken on Friday came into force this Monday”, he added, explaining the measures in terms of how France 24 had treated recent “political news” without any further explanation.
[Passage omitted: Tension in Cote d'Ivoire has increased with the latest postponement of the presidential election]
(Source: AFP news agency, Paris, in French 1207 gmt 22 Feb 10 via BBC Monitoring)
on Feb 22nd, 2010 at 14:27
I wonder what precisely “suspended” means, since it seems F24 was only available via satellite in Cote d’Ivoire anyway, according to
http://www.france24.com/fr/comment-recevoir-la-chaine
on Feb 24th, 2010 at 17:03
I presume it is picked up off satellite and re-distributed. Reuters reported on 24 February that “The National Council for Audiovisual Communication scrambled France 24’s signal late on Monday and it has not been restored.”