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.

scholarly journals The platformisation of public service broadcasting in Germany: The network ‘funk’ and the case of Druck/Skam Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-144
Author(s):  
Sven Stollfuß
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Web Series ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
German Adaptation

This article investigates how platformisation changes the practices of content production and distribution through the case of the web series, Druck (tr. Pressure (2018–), for the public service content network ‘funk’ (ARD and ZDF). An analysis of the German adaptation of the Norwegian television and web series Skam (tr. Shame) (NRK3, 2015–2017) shows how public service broadcasting (PSB) in Germany is changing due to the influence of social media. To reach a younger audience, PSB has to meet them on third-party platforms. Consequently, PSB must provide content that fits the mobile media environment of social media.

scholarly journals ‘It could redefine public service broadcasting in the digital age’

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Ramsey
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Final Approval ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

In November 2015, the BBC Trust gave its final approval for BBC Three to cease broadcasting on television in the United Kingdom and become an online-only entity. The decision is a landmark moment in the history of BBC Television and has significant implications for BBC planning in relation to the continued transition from broadcast television to streaming and download services. In this article, the original proposals for moving BBC Three online are assessed and discussed within the wider context of current BBC policy. It is argued that the rationale used for moving BBC Three online is based on arguments that vary in the extent to which they are backed by evidence. It is also argued that the plans have significant regulatory implications for the future of BBC Television and for the television licence fee in the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals German Public Television, Social Media and Audience Engagement

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Sven Stollfuß
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Television ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Application Systems ◽  
Social Tv ◽  
The Social ◽  
Television Audience

This article discusses how social media affect German public service broadcasting (PSB) in terms of PSB’s efforts to reach younger audiences in the digital age. Since social media play a significant role for younger media users, German PSB is attempting to integrate social media into television (commonly referred to as social TV). Social TV has the ability to develop into fairly integrated multiplatform application systems that are driven by the logic of social media. One example is the content network funk, launched by ARD and ZDF in 2016. The content network’s shows demonstrate a changed television-audience relationship within the social media environment. I will analyze this changed television-audience relationship in terms of the way it addresses audience engagement due to its policy of participation.

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.

H2O: Just Add Branding: Producing High-Quality Children's TV Drama for Multi-Channel Environments

2009 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Ward ◽  
Anna Potter
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Brand Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Business Modelling ◽  
Children's Drama ◽  
Live Action ◽  
Australian Company

This is a case study of the Australian company Jonathan M. Shiff Productions and its ‘tween’ program, action series H2O: Just Add Water. The program has sold in 150 countries including the United States, where it was ‘the first non-American live action to be bought by Nickelodeon in America’ and screens every Sunday night as family entertainment. It is also the highest rating children's drama series on Nickelodeon UK. While Australia's content regulations are important to its production, of critical importance is ZDF Enterprises, the commercial arm of one of Germany's two public service broadcasting channels, and worldwide distributor and production partner for all Jonathan M. Shiff productions. Case studies such as the following provide useful insights into the shape and operations of mediascapes elsewhere, and where our own media environment may be heading. They also offer a glimpse into the way the international market place is organising along forms of cooperation designed to facilitate global distribution of cultural content. A central proposition of this case study is that the structural conditions of multi-channel environments require certain adjustments in form, content and business modelling that have essentially coalesced around the operation of brand management.

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