Riding the wave: public service television in the multi-platform era

Abstract

The future of public service broadcasting (PSB) has been debated over the last 25 years, generally in anticipation of its demise (Murdock, 2004: 1;Tracey, 1998), which has been variously envisaged as institutional withering driven by excessive populism or elitism, elimination in the marketplace from commercial competition, or privatization/commercialization by neoliberal governments. Yet, while public broadcasters continue to struggle for funding and audience in the fragmenting marketplace, it is clear the system has survived the market liberal reforms of the late 20th century; around the world, they continue to register considerable public support (

Era digital y televisión autonómica: un estudio comparativo de las plataformas web, aplicaciones móviles y redes sociales de TV3 y BBC One

“…Siapera (2004: 169) opina, sobre la relación entre operadores y nuevos medios, que "incluso con la posibilidad de que (...) [la televisión] colonice satisfactoriamente internet, el resultado será una combinación o convergencia, no solo de formas de distribución (en la visión de la industria)" sino también de tipos de audiencia. Debrett (2009) afirma que existen tres cambios tecnológicos que hay que abordar cuando hablamos de nuevos medios y convergencia: la TDT, la web 2.0 y las plataformas móviles. Para este autor, la tecnología ha supuesto un salto importante desde los medios tradicionales hasta los medios integrados en el nuevo entorno digital.…”

Public Service News on the Web

“…Across national settings, public service broadcasting remits demand daily production of socially relevant news (e.g. Debrett, 2009 for recent discussion). Especially in countries with strong public service broadcasting systems like in Northern Europe (Moe and Syvertsen, 2009), this task has been transferred to the Web.…”

From rhetorics to practice: implementation of technological innovation within Spanish public service media

“…As they are not constrained by economic (profit) results and/or other market interests, public media have been "flag-ships" of innovation and they have contributed to the deployment of new technologies and to the creation of new contents and formats (Debrett, 2009).…”

“…tence (Jacka, 2003) or its unlikely future (Tracey, 1998), most of them are in favour of an active role of these broadcasters (Brevini, 2010;Debrett, 2009;Suárez Candel, 2012), as reflected in specific case studies (Van den Bulck, 2008;Whittle, 2004), including Spain (Bonet, Fernández-Quijada, & Ribes, 2011;Prado & Fernández, 2006), the home country of the organisations analysed in this study.…”