LMK Anstalt des Öffentlichen Rechts: LMK – we shape media responsibility

The LMK – State Media Authority of Rhine­­­land-Palatinate (“Landeszentrale für Medien und Kom­­­­­­­­­­munikation”) is the re­­gu­­­­­­­la­­­tory authority responsible for media in Rhine­­land-Palatinate. Its role includes licens­­ing private radio and television broad­casters as well as telemedia and internet services and supervising their pro­­gram­­ming. LMK ensures that statu­­­tory re­­gu­­lations concer­­­n­­­ing the private media sec­­tor are met and that media users are provided with a wide va­­­­­­riety of pro­gra­m­­m­­­­­es and media content.

LMK is actively involved in the digi­­tal­­i­s­­­­ation of broadcasting tech­­­­­nology and supports both private broad­­­­­­casting pro­­vi­­d­­ers as well as open chan­­nel television in the transition to the digital world. Rhine­­­­land-­­Palatinate has a state-wide network of open channels, in which citizens can ac­­­­­­tively and independently create and broad­­­­cast television programming. The area of media literacy is a particular focus in de­­signing media responsibility. LMK is in­­volved in numerous projects, co­­op­­er­­­­a­­tion and initiatives at the regional, state, natio­­nal and EU levels, in order to estab­­­­­­lish and provide a contin­­uous net­­work of attract­ive and innova­­tive media choices in prevent­­­­­­­ive youth protection, me­­dia edu­­­­­­­­cation, open channels, all-day schools, safer inter­­net and media pro­­vision. The LMK is a member of the Directors’ Con­­­­­­­fer­­ence of the German Media Authorities.