Reforming public service broadcasters (PSBs) is a popular activity for European politicians.
In the past five years, PSBs in Austria, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, the UK and Finland …

Public service broadcasting (PSB) in its traditional form is the product of a long gone era.
Social, technological, ideological and cultural change has altered the entire context within …

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 …

Abstract Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) has a long tradition in Western Europe. In
general, West European countries considered broadcasting a public service, not a …

Television broadcasting throughout Europe has historically been heavily regulated by the
state to ensure public policy objectives are met. For public service broadcasters this has …

New responsibility and accountability mechanisms for public broadcasters (PSB), such as
the broadcast assesmentrecently introduced in the Netherlands, are meant to modernize the …

Both European politics and public broadcasting are in the middle of a process of reinventing
the concept of public service broadcasting and to reconsider to what extent the existing …

Europe is marked by a great diversity in public service broadcasting culture which is a result
of the different political, economic, cultural and social realities in different European …

Research on public service broadcasting (PSB) is, as a rule, centred on the idea that the
institutions are in a state of crisis. In this article, I argue that the public broadcasters are …

Strange, but true: while in Africa PSB is regarded as “an institution belonging to the
past”(Kivikuru, 2006: 7), in Europe after years of uncertainty the future of public service …