Report on the Conditions of Public Service Broadcasting

Padovani, Cinzia; Tracey, Michael

doi:10.1177/1527476402250677

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“…Mazzoleni and Vigevani, 2005;Padovani and Tracey, 2003). These two widely perceived weaknesses of RAI as a public service broadcasting organization have different origin and explanation.…”

Section: Towards the Marginalization Of Rai?mentioning

confidence: 92%

Italian Television in the Multichannel Age

D’Arma

2010

Convergence

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It is only in the last few years that multichannel television has really made inroads in Italy. This article assesses the nature and extent of change that has taken place in Italian television in the move from a handful of terrestrial channels to hundreds of digital channels. It considers emerging trends in terms of ownership, revenue models, programming and consumption. It is argued that Italian television has undergone substantial change in recent years, the rise of News Corporation's Sky Italia and the growing centrality of pay-TV to the economics of the industry being the main novelties. However, there are also important elements of continuity. Mediaset and RAI's established terrestrial channels remain the only truly mass-audience media in Italy. Judging from current viewing patterns and in light of regulatory conditions and economic considerations, they are likely to remain so even in the all-digital scenario of the near future. In the longer term, however, fundamental change may also occur at this level, the analysis pointing in particular to the risk for public broadcaster RAI to become increasingly marginal in future, given the political and economic constraints it currently faces.

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“…Mazzoleni and Vigevani, 2005;Padovani and Tracey, 2003). These two widely perceived weaknesses of RAI as a public service broadcasting organization have different origin and explanation.…”

Section: Towards the Marginalization Of Rai?mentioning

confidence: 92%

Italian Television in the Multichannel Age

D’Arma

2010

Convergence

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“…In addition, the accelerated development of various technological innovations and applications has reshaped media use and audience habits (Ursell, 2001) and ensured media competition. Media competition can take place in many institutional forms: a) television vs. radio (Browne, 1992); b) private/commercial TV broadcasts vs. state/public television broadcasts (Statham, 1996;Padovani & Tracey, 2003;Oates & Roselle, 2000;Wheeler, 2004;Lund & Berg, 2009); c) private vs. public journalism in the same sector (radio broadcasting for example, Purdey, 2000); d) broadcast networks vs. cable and satellite TV (Jaramillo, 2002;Born, 2003); e) competition between local TV stations (Fowler, Hale & Olsen, 2009); f) competition between new digital online media and traditional media (Chalaby & Segell, 1999;Dimmick, Kline & Stafford, 2000;Moe, 2008;Trappel, 2008); g) industrial competition between global television program producers in the entertainment industry (Hoskins & McFadyen, 2004) and h) competition among telecommunications firms (Collins, 1998;Kim, 2009).…”

Section: Media Competitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promotion culture and on-air promotion timing

Moshe¹

2020

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Ongoing changes in the media landscape have led to ever-increasing levels of competition for viewers' attention and awareness. The profit to be gained by capturing the viewer's attention is automatically balanced by other players' failure to do so. Thus, nowadays consumer culture is engaged in consumption of a time interval rather than in consumption of a product per se. The following article portrays three features of on-air promotion time: zerosum time, timeless time and the pro-future track. Zero-sum time refers to the sense of dichotomous time perception distinguishing 'In' (i.e., a viewer watching the program) vs. 'Out' (i.e., a viewer who prefers to watch something else); Timeless time relates to time as a flow being temporarily interrupted by on-air promos designed to generate anticipation; The profuture track is a deterministic path (even though sometimes masquerading as free choice) by which on-air promo culture tends to denote the future as the preferred time choice. These time motives symbolize the intensifying struggle for power taking place within and between "old" vs. "new" media industries especially in the current era which the "here and now" declines "the future".

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“…Local content averaged about 36% in the two years (2010 and 2011) reviewed in this study. Foreign content dominates the schedules, as elsewhere in Africa and other parts of the world (Havens, 2007;Murdock & Golding, 1973;Padovani & Tracey, 2003;Straubhaar, 2007;Thussu, 1998). The data from the document analysis shows that the Botswana Government has had a more technological determinist approach to broadcasting consistent with the modernisation paradigm.…”

Section: Programmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Globally, the future of public television is a hotly debated issue, especially in the developed media markets of Europe (D'Arma, 2009;McQuail, 2005), Australia and New Zealand (Flew & Harrington, 2010;Pearce, 2000), and Canada (Padovani & Tracey, 2003;Peke, 1998).…”

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Television in Botswana: Development and Policy Perspectives

Mosanako¹

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Although numerous scholars across the world have sought to explore the relevance of television for development purposes in various national settings, there is a dearth of literature on the use of television for development in the Botswana context. A national television service, Botswana Television (Btv) was introduced in 2000 by the Botswana Government.However, Btv's role in national development has received limited research attention. This study examines the role of television in national development in Botswana. In addition, the study explores the factors that influence the performance of television in a developing country context, with a view to suggest issues for consideration in media policy in Botswana to improve the performance of the Btv. This analysis of Btv was conducted through a qualitative research methodology that comprised document analysis, schedule analysis, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions. This combination of methods provides data that contributes to a more holistic knowledge of media and development in Botswana. Various documents about Btv and media in Botswana were reviewed to establish the media policy issues relating to television broadcasting in Botswana. The schedule analysis, which was a unique method applied in this study, involved reviewing samples of Btv schedules from 2010 and 2011 to examine Btv's program output, specifically, the content related to Botswana's national development priorities. In-depth interviews with 37 participants provided significant insights into the origins, role, and structure of Btv, as well as the socio-economic and political factors that influence the service. Focus group discussions were employed to explore audience perceptions of Btv programs.The study illustrates that the role of television in national development in Botswana is mostly consistent with the role of the media advocated by the modernisation theory of

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Report on the Conditions of Public Service Broadcasting

Cited by 18 publications

References 6 publications

Italian Television in the Multichannel Age

Italian Television in the Multichannel Age

Promotion culture and on-air promotion timing

Television in Botswana: Development and Policy Perspectives

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