46. “Programme” means a set of sounds or moving images with or without sound independent in
terms of content and structure usually constituting an individual item within an established programme
schedule or catalogue and whose form and content correspond to the form and content of radio and/or
television programmes (feature-length films, sports or other events, situation comedies, documentaries,
children’s programmes, original drama, announcements, audiovisual commercial communications, talk
shows, news programmes, etc.).
47. “Programme schedule” means an advance plan of radio or television programmes to be
broadcast usually published in the media specifying the names of programmes and their broadcasting time.
48. “Radio frequency (channel)” means a radio frequency band necessary for the transmission of at
least one radio or television programme.
49. “Radio programme” means a set of programmes broadcast by a radio broadcaster disseminated
to the public by electronic communications networks.
50. “Broadcasting of radio programmes” means a media service provided by a broadcaster of
radio programmes for simultaneous listening to programmes on the basis of a programme schedule.
51. “Broadcaster of radio programmes” means a provider of radio programme broadcasting
services who has the editorial responsibility for the selection of the content of radio programmes and for its
organisation in a radio programme schedule and who creates and produces radio programmes and/or parts of
programmes and transmits them to the public or allows another person to transmit them unaltered to the
public.
52. “Radio station” means a technical complex comprised of radio transmitters together with
antennae and other technical equipment intended for broadcasting, re-broadcasting or transmitting radio
programmes.
53. “Editorial responsibility” means responsibility falling on the producer and/or disseminator of
public information, with the exception of the re-broadcaster, for the exercise of control over the production
of public information for the public, preparing it for dissemination and dissemination of such information as
well as over the selection of programmes and over their organisation in a chronological order in a
programme schedule and/or over the presentation of programmes in a catalogue.
54. “Regional newspaper” means a newspaper at least 90% of whose circulation is distributed
within the territory of a single county of the Republic of Lithuania.
55. “Regional programme broadcaster” means a broadcaster of radio or television programmes
whose programme broadcast by a terrestrial television or radio network is received within a territory which is
inhabited by less than 60% of residents of the Republic of Lithuania.
56. “Advertising” means information disseminated in any form and by any means in the interests of
an advertiser or for self-promotional purposes, except for television advertising, relating to a person’s
economic, commercial, financial or professional activities which promotes the purchase of goods or use of
services, including the purchase of immovable property and the takeover of property rights and obligations.
57. “Sponsorship” means any contribution made by a person not engaged in the broadcasting of
radio programmes and/or providing audiovisual media services and/or in the production of audiovisual or
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