Hybridisation of Slovene Public Broadcasting: From National Community towards Commercial Nationalism

2013 ◽  
Vol 146 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zala Volčič ◽  
Melita Zajc

Public broadcasting institutions have existed as central and publicly funded national institutions, providing services in the public interest. The coincidence of technological, political and economic circumstances in the last 20 years or so, however, has challenged their monopoly position. Technological developments – specifically digitalisation – have expanded spectrum availability. In some cases, public television has been commercialised, privatised or marginalised by the introduction of commercial channels. This article focuses on a specific case study of the Slovene public broadcaster. It addresses the fate of public service television in the digital and post-communist era, tracing the transformation from state broadcasters to the era of digital delivery, audience fragmentation and commercial nationalism. It explores, on the one hand, the way in which public service broadcasters have embraced and capitalised on new forms of digital distribution and, on the other, how they continue to embrace national(istic) and commercial imperatives.

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-51
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Węglińska ◽  
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Łukasz Szurmiński ◽  
Maria Wąsicka-Sroczyńska ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott William Baird

Public broadcasting is traditionally thought to be an essential element to public spheres. This paper charts how this relationship is formed, and then demonstrates how it is threatened in the Canadian context. Canada’s public broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, has digital policies like Strategy 2020: A Space for Us All which suggests CBC is pivoting away from its relationship with the public sphere, and in some ways weakening the Canadian public sphere. Accordingly, this paper looks at the claims charged about this policy, particularly from Taylor (2016), and considers how it and similar digital policies affect the CBC as an element of the Canadian public sphere. While the paper finds CBC digital policies benefit the public sphere, the majority put into action hinder CBC’s relationship to the Canadian public sphere. Overall, this MRP highlights the importance of considering the philosophy of the public sphere when developing public media policy.


2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hatim El Sghiar ◽  
Leen d’Haenens

Public Television and Identification: Flemish citizens with Moroccan and Turkish backgrounds. Evidence from family research Public Television and Identification: Flemish citizens with Moroccan and Turkish backgrounds. Evidence from family research This article outlines how the Flemish public broadcaster VRT is perceived by 25 in-depth interviewed families with Moroccan and Turkish backgrounds. Our analysis shows that, compared to other channels, VRT is perceived of great value when it comes to current affairs, children’s programs and news, but not fiction. Indispensable elements of identification within the de facto diversified Flemish social context are lacking, according to our informants. Criticisms voiced by our informants do not always result from ‘ethnic’ or ‘religious’ identifications. Especially subaltern groups (non-believers, young people, women) do not feel represented. Criticisms bear on the definition of functional quality as provided in the public-service contract: language use, perceived quality, the extent to which the program supply is (not or hardly) meeting their needs. Consequently, a wider approach, applying both the diversity charter and the public-service contract to minority audiences, is being advocated.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 302-318
Author(s):  
Gizeli Costa Bertollo Menezes ◽  
Francisco Gilson Rebouças Porto Junior ◽  
Yuri Vinicius Silva ◽  
José Lopes da Cruz Filho ◽  
Kécia Garcia Ferreira

A proposta deste artigo é compreender melhor o sistema público de televisão em Portugal e no Brasil, especificamente as emissoras RTP1 e TV Brasil. Embora os dois países sejam marcados por fortes ligações históricas, culturais e linguísticas, se distanciam no que diz respeito a radiodifusão pública. Enquanto em Portugal a televisão já nasce sob o domínio estatal, que posteriormente vai se moldando aos princípios do serviço público, no Brasil chega pelas mãos da iniciativa privada, que por quase duas décadas dominou de forma exclusiva o cenário televisivo, imprimindo seu modelo no país.   PALAVRAS CHAVE: Televisão; Brasil; Portugal; TV pública; História.     ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to better understand the public television system in Portugal and Brazil, specifically the RTP1 and TV Brazil broadcasters. Although the two countries are marked by strong historical, cultural and linguistic connections, they are distant in relation to public broadcasting. While in Portugal, television is born under state domination, which later is shaping the principles of public service, in Brazil comes through the hands of private initiative, which for almost two decades dominated the television scene exclusively, printing its model in the country.   KEYWORDS: Television; Brazil; Portugal; Public TV; Story.     RESUMEN El propósito de este trabajo es comprender mejor el sistema público de televisión en Portugal y Brasil, específicamente en las emisoras de televisión RTP 1 y Brasil. Aunque los dos países están marcados por fuertes vínculos históricos, culturales y lingüísticos, se distancian en lo que se refiere a la radiodifusión pública. Mientras que en Portugal la televisión nace bajo dominio del Estado, que posteriormente dar forma a los principios de servicio público en Brasil llega a manos de la empresa privada, que desde hace casi dos décadas dominaron exclusivamente el panorama de la televisión mediante la impresión de su modelo en el país .   PALABRAS CLAVES: Televisión; Brasil; Portugal; TV pública; Historia.


2016 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 245-265
Author(s):  
Sara Pereira ◽  
Jairo Faria ◽  
Clarisse Pessôa

Is Media Literacy a dimension of the Public Service of the Media? Does public service television, in Portugal and in Brazil, contemplate Media Education in their policies and grids? Taking these questions as a departure and debating point, we have used sixteen editions of the ombudsman programmes of the public broadcasting companies of Brazil (Empresa Brasil de Comunicação – EBC) and Portugal (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal – RTP) as analysis corpus. In order to examine O Público na TV (The Public on TV) from EBC and A Voz do Cidadão (The Citizen’s Voice) from RTP, we have used a set of analysis categories which will allow, among other aspects, to understand the contribution of these programmes to the promotion of Media Literacy of the societies where they are broadcast and of the public they will reach. Generally speaking, the results show that, by developing a role of mediation with the public/audiences, the Ombudsman plays an important role as a Literacy Agent for the Media towards those audiences, even though that role could be reinforced and could express, in a more direct and clear form, the objective of Media Literacy.


Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen-del-Rocío Monedero-Morales

In the search of television models wich emit contents of quality, the public local television is a platform inimitable and indispensable since it is the local communication of public character the one that facilitates the access from the civil society to the medias like contribution to the democratization of the society. It is since of develop it exists the possibility that these medias become tools that reduce the social differences among collective minority, between the rural means and the metropolitan areas, etc. Also, is necessary that the citizenship enjoys a bigger level of information on the politics that carry out their administrators and these of knowing the restlessness of their administered. In the Spanish case, the sector of local television has been forced to be autoregulated and it has ended up subjected to the interests of the big communication groups but in the case of municipal televisions the obligation exists of lending a service to the citizen, sacrificing, if was necessary, the commercial profitability. The concept of nearness applied to television has to do with the idea that between the TV station and its receivers a scenario of shared experiences exists, sew that, in definitive, it will be reflected in the contents of the programming. The main concretion of this pact of nearness, or complicity between the audience and the TV station, is the preferable attention that these televisions pay to the relative informative contents to the own reference territory, an attention that goes beyond the classic telediarios (the news) and that it extends toward other goods, as the reports, the interviews, the gatherings, the debates, the talk-shows, the documentary, the magazines of present time, etc. On the other hand, the receivers reward this nearness with a high audience level. For it the communication will consist of several interrelated parts and it will approach the following points: - The description of the local talkative phenomenon in the case of public television. - To distinguish between the different production types and the varied type of programs. - To analyze the structure, the operation and the programming of the TV stations, as well as the execution of the function of public service, to diagnose the state of health of this phenomenon. - To study of what way the democracy conceptions are interrelated, nearness, public service and communication to base the field from the communication to the service of the citizen'. - Also, they will intend a group of alternative and prospective valuations that allow to carry out a talkative practice of nearness to the service of the citizenship. En la búsqueda de modelos televisivos que emitan contenidos de calidad, la televisión local pública es una plataforma inigualable e indispensable ya que es la comunicación local de carácter público la que facilita el acceso de la sociedad civil a los medios como contribución a la democratización de la sociedad. Se debe de potenciar ya que existe la posibilidad de que estos medios se conviertan en herramientas que reduzcan las diferencias sociales entre colectivos minoritarios, entre el medio rural y las áreas metropolitanas, etc. Además, es necesario que la ciudadanía goce de un mayor nivel de información sobre la política que llevan a cabo sus administradores y éstos de conocer las inquietudes de sus administrados. En el caso español, el sector de la televisión local se ha visto obligado a autorregularse y ha acabado sometido a los intereses de los grandes grupos de comunicación pero en el caso de las televisiones municipales existe la obligación de prestar un servicio al ciudadano, sacrificando, si fuese necesario, la rentabilidad comercial. El concepto de proximidad aplicado a la televisión tiene que ver con la idea de que entre la emisora y sus receptores existe un escenario de experiencias compartidas, cosa que, en definitiva, se verá reflejada en los contenidos de la programación. La principal concreción de este pacto de proximidad, o complicidad entre la audiencia y la emisora, es la atención preferente que estas televisiones prestan a los contenidos informativos relativos al propio territorio de referencia, una atención que va más allá de los telediarios clásicos (las noticias) y que se extiende hacia otros géneros, como los reportajes, las entrevistas, las tertulias, los debates, los talk-shows , los documentales, los magazines de actualidad, etc. Por su parte, los receptores premian esta proximidad con un elevado nivel de audiencia. Por ello la comunicación constará de varias partes interrelacionadas y abordará los siguientes puntos: - La descripción del fenómeno comunicativo local en el caso de la televisión pública. - Distinguir entre los distintos tipos de producción y la variada tipología de programas. - Analizar la estructura, el funcionamiento y la programación de las emisoras, así como el cumplimiento de la función de servicio público, para diagnosticar el estado de salud de este fenómeno. - Estudiar de qué modo se interrelacionan las concepciones de democracia, proximidad, servicio público y comunicación para fundamentar el campo de la «comunicación al servicio del ciudadano». - Además, se propondrán un conjunto de alternativas y valoraciones prospectivas que permitan llevar a cabo una práctica comunicativa de proximidad al servicio de la ciudadanía.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Weronika Świerczyńska-Głownia

The article is the result of many years’ studies in the functioning of the public service broadcaster in Poland, i.e. Telewizja Polska SA (TVP SA). The subject of the study is an analysis of two areas of operation of TVP SA: the process of change in programming, and distribution of the programme offerin the period from 1992 to 2015. The starting point of the analysis was the adoption of assumptions concerning the changes in the process of content distribution and the development of new programme forms and changes in the manner of consumption of the media (multi-screening).


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott William Baird

Public broadcasting is traditionally thought to be an essential element to public spheres. This paper charts how this relationship is formed, and then demonstrates how it is threatened in the Canadian context. Canada’s public broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, has digital policies like Strategy 2020: A Space for Us All which suggests CBC is pivoting away from its relationship with the public sphere, and in some ways weakening the Canadian public sphere. Accordingly, this paper looks at the claims charged about this policy, particularly from Taylor (2016), and considers how it and similar digital policies affect the CBC as an element of the Canadian public sphere. While the paper finds CBC digital policies benefit the public sphere, the majority put into action hinder CBC’s relationship to the Canadian public sphere. Overall, this MRP highlights the importance of considering the philosophy of the public sphere when developing public media policy.


2021 ◽  
pp. 174276652110239
Author(s):  
Rasha Allam

The Egyptian public broadcaster, newly named the National Media Council (NMC), has been under pressure to undergo comprehensive restructuring. Many changes have taken place recently to enable this transformation. Through analysing financial reports, evaluating the new regulatory framework and conducting in-depth interviews, this study examines the likelihood of the NMC adapting to the recent changes and the extent to which the new regulatory framework promotes a public service system suggesting a model for implementation. Findings show that the NMC must respond to four main challenges: lack of strategic vision and identity, a centralized regime power structure, an acute financial deficit, and a weak digital presence. Interviewees evaluated the new regulatory framework as inexhaustive with an intention to maintain grip on power. Interviewees proposed an integrated decentralized model that combines the public service mission with private partnership.


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