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This website is dedicated to monitoring and debating television policy, regulation and independence. Over time, mediapolicy.org will grow into a full journal covering television policy and standards from various angles, in Europe and beyond. More ...

TV across Europe

TV across Europe Follow-up Reports 2008: Italy report launched

6 May, 2008

EUMAP and NMP announce the launch of another report in the series, TV across Europe: Follow-up Reports 2008. The country report on Italy is especially topical in light of Silvio Berlusconi's election victory of 14 April. More...

TV across Europe

TV across Europe Follow-up Reports 2008: First four country reports released

8 Apr, 2008

Following the publication of the original set of 'TV Across Europe' reports on 20 countries in 2005, EUMAP and NMP now announce the launch of the first four reports of the TV across Europe: Follow-up Reports 2008 project.

These four country reports provide an update of developments in Albania, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Romania.

The TV across Europe: Follow-up Reports 2008 cover nine countries. The remaining five reports, about the Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovakia will follow within the next six weeks. An international overview of the TV Across Europe Follow-up Reports 2008 will be published in June 2008. More ...

Projects

Upcoming: Research on PSB in divided and multiethnic communities

26 Feb, 2008

The first part of a comparative project on public broadcasting systems in divided, multicultural societies, coordinated by the Mediacentar Sarajevo, will be launched in Sarajevo on 15 May 2008. The research covers Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Macedonia and Belgium. It considers the legal framework, financing, editorial and employment policies of public service broadcasters in divided and multiethnic societies. Public service broadcasting in such societies is expected not only to promote more tolerant relations between ethno-cultural groups, but also to meet the cultural needs of different groups in the same country. More...

Projects

Slovenia: Far from being a media market

25 Feb, 2008

Although Slovenia is otherwise one of the most advanced new members of the EU, it can hardly boast a competitive media market, and many journalists in the country have become little more than the servants of particular interests. These are some of the chief findings of a new study on the role of the State in the Slovenian media industry, written by Sandra Bašić-Hrvatin and Brankica Petković.

A glance at the patterns of advertising hints at the friendships between media outlets and various political and business circles. Companies tightly linked with various political interests do not advertise in outlets that are known for their critical stance towards the Government, write Bašić-Hrvatin and Petković. Part of the ongoing Media Watch project run by the Slovenian Peace Institute, this study analyses media ownership, regulation and the journalistic profession in the course of assessing the political interests that influence media coverage. More...

TV across Europe

TV Across Europe: Follow-up Reports 2008

1 Feb, 2008

The original set of 'TV Across Europe' reports on 20 countries was released between October 2005 and May 2006, and covered developments up until the summer of 2005. They have become a reference in many countries, being widely used in universities and by policy makers.

Since then, however, there have been major changes in the audiovisual field in many countries, involving significant developments with respect to many of the areas monitored.

EUMAP will therefore publish a set of nine general country updates of its monitoring on Television across Europe, to cover key developments since the release of the original set of reports. Estimated publication date: Spring-Summer 2008. More ...

Projects

Special Reports on Digital Broadcasting

18 Jan, 2008

The pace of change with respect to new technologies – especially digitalisation – has been particularly marked. To monitor developments in this field, EUMAP will publish a set of special reports on the impact of new technologies and services.

These will significantly expand on the information on new technologies contained in the first series of Television across Europe reports. Each country update will be published here as soon as it is completed. An international overview will be published when the set of country reports is complete. Estimated publication date: Spring 2009. More...

Advocacy

Advocacy on the Television across Europe (2005) reports

4 Apr, 2008

Making use of the new data and findings of the 2005 Television across Europe monitoring reports, the Open Society Institute carried out advocacy to promote the reports' recommendations and follow-up initiatives to implement them. Over the past three years, it presented several contributions to international organisations and events. More...