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 …

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 …

In the 1980s the future of public service broadcasting in Britain was called into doubt.
Technological developments in cable, satellite and digital technologies were, it was argued …

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 …

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 …

This paper considers the debate in the UK and Germany about the continued justification for
publicly funded public service broadcasting in an apparently converging media and …

Public service broadcasting is being threatened across the world. Its future is threatened by
new technologies and by governments eager to privatise public sector institutions. Rejecting …

Few will deny that public service broadcasting? broadcasting that is controlled neither by the
state nor by private media corporations? is an essential ingredient in modern democracy …

Predictions the future of public service media institutions in Australia and elsewhere usually
and necessarily include discussions of digital media, participatory culture and globalisation …

Perhapswe aU knowwhat we meanby'public servicebroadcasting'. However, conceptsthat
aretakenforgrantedoftenprovetroublesome. For what one person may believe a term to …