Special reports on New Technologies
The pace of change with respect to new technologies – especially digitalisation – has been particularly marked. To monitor developments in this field, EUMAP and NMP will publish a set of special reports on the impact of new technologies and services.
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. Since then, there have been significant developments with respect to many of the areas monitored in many countries. The pace of change with respect to new technologies – and especially digitalisation – has been particularly marked.
This pace has spurred an important ongoing debate about the impact of digitalisation on viewing figures and quality programming. A fragmentation of the audience is anticipated, which could completely change the broadcasting landscape.
To monitor the rapid pace of developments in this field in particular, EUMAP will publish not just a set of general country updates of its monitoring on Television across Europe, but also a set of special reports on New Technologies. These will significantly expand on the information on new technologies contained in the first series of reports, to take account of recent developments especially in the field of digitalisation, and are based on a new methodology.
Each country report will be published here as PDF file as soon as it is completed.
Estimated publication date: Spring 2009.
An international overview of the Special reports on New Technologies will be published following the completion of the full set of country reports.
