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Cyprus Media
The press was another major player in Greek Cypriot
politics.
There were ten Greek-language and one English language
daily papers
for a population of 500,000 (see
table 22, Appendix). The
television was government-owned. In 1989 President
Vassiliou
proposed a press law, aimed at setting guidelines and a
professional code of ethics and at stimulating greater
competition
by allowing private radio stations (thus ending the
monopoly of the
Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation). An early version of a
comprehensive press bill passed the parliament and in 1990
was
under review for further revisions, to address criticisms
that in
its original form it set too many regulations. In
mid-1990,
parliament approved and the president signed legislation
to make
municipalities, companies, and individuals eligible to
establish
private radio stations. A new relationship with the Greek
media,
allowing Cypriot television to broadcast Greek programs,
was
established in 1990, although it was seen as threatening
to the
financially weak Cyprus Broadcast Corporation.
Data as of January 1991
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