BA hearings

Your TV and radio columnist Tanja Cilia (January 13) may have given the impression that hearings of charges issued by the Broadcasting Authority against broadcasting stations, when these are deemed to have breached broadcasting legislation, are regularly postponed to the inconvenience of persons who have been summoned before the Authority. Ms Cilia complains that "if this person turns up, and the hearing is not on, they are required to be present at the postponement, with not one euro-cent of the fine being forgiven as a token of goodwill."

Your readers should know that, in fact, in the course of the current broadcasting season commencing last October, there has been one such postponement, since one of the parties to a complaint had inadvertently not been summoned.