Discuss this article in the Forum All articles about licenses		INDUSTRY IS ANGRY NORWAY : The Norwegian Media Authority is under attack from the media industry. The radio license decisions has created a virtual radio-riot. By Gine Juel Lundgren Tuesday 17.06.08, 13:11 SBS Radio MD Bente Klemetsdal get reinforcements in her battle against The Norwegian Media Authority. Several editors join ranks with SBS Radio in anger over the license decision handed down by the government body. Stein Gauslaa, Editor-in-Chief at local newspaper Agderposten, says The Norwegian Media Authority (NMA) has not been able to give reasons for the decisions made, reports NA24 Propaganda. “What is local content if it isn’t local verbal content, including news?” he asks. “Is it local content to simply broadcast from a studio locally, playing music and talking for a few hours each day?” adds a provoked Gauslaa. Gauslaa, in addition to being Editor-in-Chief at Agderposten, is also the chairman of the Association of Norwegian Editors. He stresses that his comments are made as an editor of a local newspaper. the Association of Norwegian Editors has not formally discussed this case, but it is commonly known that editors tend to be opposed to the authorities interfering with local media issues. Totally nonsensical Radio 1 Oslo Editor-in-Chief and SBS Radio MD Bente Klemetsdal has previously called the radio license decision totally nonsensical. Radio 1, being the biggest local commercial radio station in Norway, did not get a new license for the next seven years in Oslo and Stavanger. The Norwegian Union of Journalists (NJ) is also upset with the NMA. A letter has been sent to the NMA where NJ demands to see what conditions was the basis of their decision. “We demand that the conditions for the NMA decision be made public,” says chairwoman of NJ, Elin Floberghagen, to the industry publication Journalisten. (NA24)