scholarly journals Slow Television

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roel Puijk
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Regional Office ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Cross Media ◽  
Cruise Ships ◽  
Live Broadcast ◽  
Popular Engagement ◽  
Southern Norway

Abstract Public-service broadcasters are compelled to seek innovative ways to fulfil their publicservice functions in an increasingly competitive environment. The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) has been experimenting with new programme formats and cross-media concepts. The concept of slow television was developed by the regional office in Bergen. On July 16, 2011, they started a five-day live broadcast from one of the cruise ships that sailed up the Norwegian coast from Bergen in southern Norway to Kirkenes near the Russian border. The broadcast was a huge success. I take this programme as a case study and provide an analysis from the perspective of innovation within public-service broadcasting. The article addresses the following questions: 1) In what way was the programme innovative? 2) How was the programme accepted and produced? 3) What accounts for the success of the broadcast in terms of number of viewers and popular engagement?

scholarly journals New digital realities and old public service broadcasting models – the case of public access and participation in Singapore’s televisual landscape

2017 ◽  
Vol 170 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-114
Author(s):  
Tania Lim ◽  
Azad Bali ◽  
Marcus Moo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Media System ◽  
Media Services ◽  
National Media

Does public service broadcasting (PSB), with its 20th-century state-controlled and state-funded structure, still have a role to play in increasing access, public participation and a strong national media system in today’s globalising East Asia? This article, by taking Singapore as a case study, examines why and how traditional PSB media players have been forced to change their institutional and transactional responses to the ‘shocks’ of digitisation. In particular, it examines how the rise of Web 2.0, with its de-territorialised media services and social media, challenges PSB’s relevance as trends towards universal access, a greater participatory culture and active audiences render PSB content increasingly anachronistic.

scholarly journals Public Service Broadcasting as a Modern Project: A Case Study of Early Public-Affairs Television in Canada

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hogarth
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
North American ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Modern Project ◽  
Long Form

Abstract: This study of public-affairs programs suggests that Canadian television hardly functioned as a modern disciplinary apparatus in its initial years. In the early 1950s, Canadian broadcasters sought to stake out and strategize a "middle ground" between U.K. (information) and U.S. (entertainment) TV, featuring public-affairs programs that Canadians would actually choose to watch in a more or less competitive North American broadcast market. However, newsmagazines and traditional long-form documentaries consistently violated the early pedagogical protocols of Canadian television and thus call into question conventional notions of public-service broadcasting.These shows and the controversies they generated should make us rethink Eurocentric theories about public-service broadcasting as a quintessential disciplinary machine. Résumé: Cette étude sur les émissions d'affaires publiques suggère que la télévision canadienne ne fonctionnait guère comme appareil disciplinaire moderne pendant ses premières années. Au début des années cinquante, la radiodiffusion canadienne chercha une position intermédiaire stratégique entre celle des Britanniques (axée sur l'information) et celle des Américains (axée sur le divertissement), mettant l'accent sur une programmation d'affaires publiques qui intéresserait véritablement les téléspectateurs canadiens dans un marché de la radiodiffusion nord-américain passablement concurrentiel. Cependant, à l'époque, les téléreportages et les documentaires traditionnels à long métrage négligèrent les protocoles pédagogiques de la télévision canadienne et mirent ainsi en question les notions conventionnelles de la radiodiffusion du service public. Ces émissions et la controverse qu'elles suscitèrent devraient nous faire repenser les théories eurocentriques qui envisagent la radiodiffusion publique comme modèle de machine disciplinaire.

scholarly journals The datafication of Public Service Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (69) ◽  
pp. 090-115
Author(s):  
Jannick Kirk Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Key Performance Indicators ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Path Dependencies ◽  
Demand Service

Historically, public service broadcasting had no quantifiable knowledge aboutaudiences, nor a great interest in knowing them. Today, the competitive logic of themedia markets encourage public service media (PSM) organizations to increasedatafication. In this paper we examine how a PSM organization interprets the classicpublic service obligations of creating societal cohesion and diversity in the newworld of key performance indicators, business rules and algorithmic parameters.The paper presents a case study of the implementation of a personalization systemfor the video on demand service of the Danish PSM ‘DR’. Our empirical findings,based on longitudinal in-depth interviewing, indicate a long and difficult processof datafication of PSM, shaped by both the organizational path dependencies ofbroadcasting production and the expectations of public service broadcasting.

scholarly journals Exploring Cross-Media Audience Practices in Two Cases of Public Service Media in Estonia and Finland

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Nanì ◽  
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Cross Media ◽  
Dynamic Switching ◽  
Production Practices

AbstractStemming from the concept of active audiences and from Henry Jenkins’ (2006) idea of participatory culture as the driving force behind the transformation of public service broadcasting into agencies of public service media (Bardoel, Ferrell Lowe 2007), this empirical study explores the attitude and behaviour of the audiences of two crossmedia projects, produced by the public service media of Finland (YLE) and Estonia (ERR). This empirical study aims to explore the behaviour, wants and needs of the audiences of cross-media productions and to shed some light on the conditions that support the dynamic switching of the engagement with cross-media. The study’s results suggest that audiences are neither passive nor active, but switch from one mode to another. The findings demonstrate that audience dynamism is circumstantial and cannot be assumed. Thus, thinking about active audiences and participation as the lymph of public service media becomes problematic, especially when broadcasters seek generalised production practices. This work demonstrates how television networks in general cannot be participatory, and instead, how cross-media can work as a vehicle of micro participation through small acts of audience engagement (Kleut et al. 2017).

scholarly journals Digital First!

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Oranit Klein Shagrir
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Political Pressure ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting

KAN, the new Israeli public service broadcasting corporation, was established in 2015 to replace the declining, 40-year-old, PSB. This unique situation constitutes an intriguing case study for exploring several interrelated academic and professional contemporary interrelated discussions: transforming PSB organisations into public service media and adapting their public mission to the digital age; political pressure on PSM organisations and their struggle for independence; and PSM's legitimacy in a challenging media environment. This paper identifies the strategies employed by KAN to manufacture legitimacy and consolidate the organisation's existence solely via online outlets, and the relation of these strategies to core PSM values.

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