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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 ...
Coming up: Television in Kosovo
- Photo: Helmut Oelkes, used under CC license.
12 June 2008
The Media Program and EUMAP are preparing a major new report on broadcasting in Kosovo. Kosovo has a unique experience of media development. As well as giving an account of this experience, the report will analyse current television policy and regulation, assessing the level and quality of independence that have been achieved by Kosovo's broadcasters.
Authored by Vjollca Krasniqi, the report will make recommendations to the government, regulatory bodies, media professionals and activists, and also to the international community. More...
TV across Europe
Lithuania report launched: time to change regulation
Vilnius, 6 June 2008
Today in Vilnius, the launch took place of the Lithuania report from the TV across Europe: Follow-up Reports 2008 series. The event was attended by representatives of the main stakeholders, including regulators, Parliament, the Government, media and universities. More...
TV across Europe
Macedonia report released: the extraordinary decline of public service broadcasting
3 Jun, 2008
The new report on Macedonia, in the series TV across Europe: Follow-up Reports 2008, charts the extraordinary decline of public service broadcasting. Despite a drawn-out and costly restructuring, Macedonian Radio-Television (MRT) is still paralysed by crisis in the areas of financing, personnel and programming.
Commercial television, meanwhile, dominates the ratings with schedules that neither get close to public service standards, nor stimulate quality local production. Yet, ironically, parliament has at long last adopted legislation that brings the country into line with international standards on regulatory independence and public service broadcasting. More...
TV across Europe
Poland report released: broadcasting at crucial point
22 May, 2008
EUMAP and NMP announce the launch of another report in the series, TV across Europe: Follow-up Reports 2008. The report on Poland offers a detailed analysis of the Polish electronic media, which have reached a crucial moment of their development. More...
Projects
New study on Public Service Broadcasting in multiethnic states
16 May, 2008
The publication Divided They Fall: Public service broadcasting in multiethnic states was launched at the Mediacentar in Sarajevo on 15 May.
The publication, which covers Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Macedonia and Belgium, is part of a comparative research project into broadcasting models and practices in multiethnic societies.
Public service broadcasting should support cultural pluralism and diversity, and the media rights of minority groups. But can it ever help to convert ethnic division into ethnic difference? More...
TV across Europe
Romania report launched: media moguls dominate sector in decline
Bucharest, 19 May 2008: Romanian report slams politicisation
Romanian public service television continues to face serious difficulties and be under the strict control of political power. More...
14 May 2008
On 19 May 2008, the Romanian Center for Independent Journalism (CJI) and the Open Society Institute present the report on Romania in the series of TV across Europe: Follow-up Reports 2008. The report is now translated in Romanian as well.
The hopes that the 2004 elections and the end of Social Democratic rule would boost media independence, the report concludes, have been disappointed. More...
TV across Europe
Italy report released: after non-reforms, all eyes on Berlusconi
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.
COMING UP: Report on the state of broadcasting in Montenegro More...
NEW: First media reports published about the TV across Europe Follow-up Reports 2008 More...
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
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...
