One of the main tasks of the Saxony-Anhalt Media Authority is to teach media skills. Competent use of media and orientation in a dynamically developing media world are regarded as core skills and are among the key skills of everyday and working life, regardless of a person’s age.
Modern media and new communication technologies are changing at ever shorter intervals. At the same time, users can choose from an ever-increasing range of information and entertainment. The new possibilities offered by Web 2.0 to actively provide one’s own content on the Internet also increase the need for orientation, security and protection of one’s own personal rights. Media literacy makes it possible to handle such information responsibly and to process it into one’s own knowledge. In addition, media education work is becoming increasingly important in the area of preventative child and youth media protection as well as in media education and ethics. One of the most important tasks and challenges of this new lifelong learning is the targeted promotion of the ability to actively participate in shaping the newly emerging information and interaction space and not just to consume existing offers.
Medienanstalt Sachsen-Anhalt is the sole authority responsible for the approval, licensing and supervision of private radio and television broadcasters in Saxony-Anhalt. As the Saxony-Anhalt Media Authority, like broadcasting itself, is independent of the state, it is not financed from taxpayers’ money like other authorities, but from a two percent share of the broadcasting fee paid in Saxony-Anhalt.
To the offers until July 2026: MSA-Broschre_1HJ_2026.pdf