Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel

*Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel*
	Last logo of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel
Industry	Administration publique générale (General Public Administration)
Predecessor	National Commission for Communication and Liberties
Founded	17 January 1989
Defunct	31 December 2021
Fate	The CSA was merged with the HADOPI law to create the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication.
Successor	Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication

The Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (French: [kɔ̃sɛj sypeʁjœʁ də lɔdjɔvizɥɛl], lit. 'Superior Audiovisual Council'), abbreviated CSA, was a French institution created in 1989 whose role was to regulate the various electronic media in France, such as radio and television. The creation of the Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle (High Authority for Audiovisual Communication) was a measure founded in the Socialist Party's electoral program of 1981, called 110 Propositions for France.

The CSA replaced the

radios libres

("free radios"), mainly composed of amateurs and NGOs.

The CSA always acted

Al-Manar TV in 2005 because of charges of hate speech; it also claimed that MED TV was close to the Kurdish PKK, on grounds not of "evidences" but of "concording elements".^[1]^[2]

On 24 September 2019, Franck Riester announced that the bill relating to audiovisual communication and cultural sovereignty in the digital age examined by the National Assembly in the first half of 2020 would include the merger of the CSA and HADOPI to form the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique; ARCOM).^[3] The bill is put on hold until 8 April 2022 when it is presented to the Council of Ministers under the name "bill relating to the regulation and protection of access to cultural works in the digital age".^[4] The merger became effective on 1 January 2022.^[5]

Last members

(as of December 2021)^[6]

Roch-Olivier Maistre (president)^[7]
Carole Bienaimé-Besse
Nicolas Curien
Hervé Godechot
Michèle Léridon
Jean-François Mary
Nathalie Sonnac

Pictograms

The following pictograms are proposed to the different TV channels. Channels are responsible for displaying the right pictogram depending on the show and its time of broadcast. Note that –18 can be either non-pornographic (like the movie Ken Park) or pornographic.