Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission

The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) has announced its official website was taken down by hackers on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) decided on Wednesday to block access to nine online sites broadcasting TV programs.

Mantas Martisius, the chairman of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK), says the US Internet giant Google sees no technical possibilities for blocking access to websites that are banned in Lithuania, including the file-sharing site Linkomanija.net.

The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) decided on Wednesday to seek a court order to block an illegal online music streaming service that gives access to over 90,000 Lithuanian and foreign tracks.

The Seimas passed on Friday legislative amendments allowing the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) to suspend TV programs for up to 72 hours without a court order if there is a threat to national security.

The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) has recommended to not change the public information law and not expand the list of restricted information. According to it, current regulations are sufficient in order to rapidly respond to the dissemination of information hostile to the country...

The Seimas accepted on Thursday the resignation of Edmundas Vaitekūnas as chairman of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK).

Edmundas Vaitekūnas is stepping down as chairman of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK), saying that his English is not good enough for the post.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that MG Baltic is an example of oligarchic activity, but there is no legal basis, at least for now, for stripping LNK, a TV channel owned by the business group, of its license.

Amid a parliamentary investigation into business groups' possible influence on political processes, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that he sees no grounds for taking drastic measures against media organizations controlled by large businesses and calls for relying on the media's se...

The Lithuanian Supreme Administrative Court has upheld a one-year ban imposed by the country's media watchdog on the retransmission of the Russian channel RTR Planeta.

Lithuania's Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) on Wednesday imposed a fine of 150,000 euros on the cable operator Init for defying its ban on retransmitting RTR Planeta and other versions of the Russian-language channel.

To avoid sanctions planned in Lithuania, distributors of some Russian TV channels are revising the content of the broadcasts, says Mantas Martišius, vice-chairman of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK).

Defying a one-year suspension imposed by the Lithuanian media watchdog on RTR Planeta, a part of cable TV operators in the country continue to air a different version of the the Russian-language channel.