Public Service Media and Policy in Europe

Donders, Karen

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“…Nevertheless, empirical research of most issued decisions and in-depth assessment of the actual and practical outcome of decisions in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom show that state aid control has so far not marginalised public broadcasting (Donders 2012). It has, on the contrary, in many MS furthered a better definition of the public task and an increased focus on public value.…”

Section: Case 3: Competition Policiesmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Of course, the Amsterdam Protocol, which recognises the importance of public broadcasting for democratic societies while at the same time assigning competencies over public broadcasting policy to the MS level, has also ensured that state aid control has not overly adversely affected public broadcasting policies. Above all these are still designed at the national level, leaving it up to the MS whether to take public service objectives of diversity and pluralism seriously or not (Donders 2012).…”

Section: Case 3: Competition Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Leading by Example? European Union Implementation of Cultural Diversity in Internal and External Audiovisual Policies

Pauwels¹,

Loisen

2016

Javnost - The Public

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This article aims to assess how the European Union (EU) deals with cultural diversity in the audiovisual sector in both its policy discourse and practice. The underlying question guiding the analysis is whether the EU commits to implementing policies to enhance cultural diversity. A first part gives an overview of the concept's development in time and in response to a specific political and economic context. The second part addresses implementation of the concept in the EU's internal market project and its external trade relations by means of an analysis of four distinct policy areas: the evolution of the main underlying regulatory framework; European support programmes for the audiovisual sector; competition policies targeting the sector; and dealing with the audiovisual sector in external trade relations. On the basis of this analysis, we aim to evaluate in a final concluding part the coherence of the overall EU approach and the prospects and pitfalls for increased cultural diversity in the audiovisual sector in Europe. We argue that the strong focus of the EU on cultural diversity in its discourse has led to some steps of policy implementation which generates a fledgling positive, albeit fragile and imperfect, dynamic for cultural diversity.

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Section: Case 3: Competition Policiesmentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Case 3: Competition Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leading by Example? European Union Implementation of Cultural Diversity in Internal and External Audiovisual Policies

Pauwels¹,

Loisen

2016

Javnost - The Public

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“…As Tracey (1995, 126) stated: "the public interest does not disappear because we have broadband cable". In fact, as indicated earlier, spectrum scarcity was never the most important reason for introducing PSB; political motivations were much more important in both the establishment and the abolishment of PSB monopolies (Donders 2012). Second, there are still many instances of market failure in the media sector.…”

Section: Arguing Against De-centralising Psmmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Many will agree that there is no ultimate PSM model which exists in reality (Donders 2012). Likewise, there is no ultimate model for de-centralised public service.…”

Section: Ideas Intentions and Implementation Of De-centralised Psm Mmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The desire to emancipate citizens in (and for) democratic societies and, probably even more so, political power maximisation aspirations also explain the set-up of public broadcasting monopolies. Also, the telecommunications sector, deemed a natural monopoly, was already organised in a similar fashion (Donders 2012).…”

Section: Institutionalised Psm Versus Programme-based Psmmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From Public Service Media Organisations to De-centralised Public Service for the Media Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Opportunities and Disadvantages

Donders¹,

Raats²

2015

Javnost - The Public

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Ideas on plurality and competition in public broadcasting delivery have re-surfaced in discussions on the future of public surface media (PSM) on regular occasions in different geographical settings since the 1980s. This article analyses several of the debates on distributed public service, critically evaluating whether governments across Europe would indeed be "better off" should they choose a distributed and de-centralised model of public service media. The article, firstly, investigates which arguments have been made in order to make the case for a distributed PSM model. On the basis of these insights, a typology of different forms of distributed public service delivery is then developed. Setting out from this typology, policy plans and actual practices of de-centralised PSM are being analysed. Findings in the four case studies (the United Kingdom, Flanders, the Netherlands, and New Zealand) are based on a combination of secondary literature, a qualitative document analysis, desk research and semi-structured expert interviews. The article concludes that distributed public service is as much a normative idea as the centralised public broadcasting project, that distributed public service as a policy solution lacks a clearly defined policy problem and, moreover, that there is, given the variety of media systems, not one distributed model that would fit all.

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Digitization and Media Policy Research

Donders¹,

Audenhove

2019

The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research

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Public Service Media and Policy in Europe

Cited by 89 publications

References 39 publications

Leading by Example? European Union Implementation of Cultural Diversity in Internal and External Audiovisual Policies

Leading by Example? European Union Implementation of Cultural Diversity in Internal and External Audiovisual Policies

From Public Service Media Organisations to De-centralised Public Service for the Media Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Opportunities and Disadvantages

Digitization and Media Policy Research

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