Public service broadcasters around the world are having to fight for their survival. Whether it
be progressive cuts in public funding, constitutional restrictions imposed on national …

Broadcasting began life in competition with newspapers, first with radio in the 1920s and
then again with television in the late 1940s/early 1950s. Its ability to reach mass audiences …

There is a general crisis of public service broadcasting. In France, the main public
broadcaster (TFl) was privatised in the mid-1980s, and the remaining publicly owned …

The purported capacity of the digital age to solve the problem of market failure in the
broadcasting sector was widely expected to further compromise the already fragile status of …

In this thesis, I demonstrate that the degree of political independence that a public service
broadcaster has depends on the degree of legal protection given to it, and on the size of the …

There comes a time when one should recognise that the game is up, at least in any way
which we would recognise, and that the objective circumstances within which the institutions …

Over the years a great deal has been written about the steady demise of public service
broadcasting because of increasing competition from new commercial offerings via cable …

” Sveriges Radio is a vulnerable and fragile construction”, wrote Olof Rydbeck, Director-
General of Sveriges Radio or the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation 1955—1970, in his …

The broadcasting industry remains the last refuge of belief in the virtues of public ownership
and public control. The tradition of the free press, privately owned and independent of …

Public service broadcasters face a severe dilemma. The neoliberals' aim is to weaken the
public service broadcasting sector, by cutting into its audience share with commercial sports …