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ECRI Report on Bulgaria: Fourth Monitoring Cycle | European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), 2009-02-24
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ECRI conducts country-by-country monitoring work, which analyses the situation in each of the member States regarding racism and intolerance and draws up suggestions and proposals for dealing with the problems identified in a report compiled every five years. This report is on Bulgaria and is among the fourth round reports which were started to be compiled in January 2008. The working methods for the preparation of the reports involve documentary analyses, contact visit in the country concerned, and then a confidential dialogue with the national authorities. The fourth round country-by-country reports focus on implementation and evaluation. They examine the extent to which ECRI’s main recommendations from previous reports have been followed and include an evaluation of policies adopted and measures taken. These reports also contain an analysis of new developments in the country in question.
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Report on the first digital TV switchover - Whitehaven / Copeland, Cumbria | Digital UK, 2008-04
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On 14th November 2007 the analogue terrestrial TV signal in Whitehaven / Copeland, Cumbria was switched off and replaced with digital television. The area became the first in the UK to successfully complete digital TV switchover. The Copeland switchover was accompanied by a comprehensive research programme and a thorough review process to ensure that lessons were captured and can be implemented for future switchovers. This report summarizes the main findings of this programme and also points out some areas that have to be reviewed as the digitalisation process moves forward in other regions.
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The EU Information Society Needs Public Audiovisual Services Online, Independent and Properly Funded | EURO-MEI, 2008-09-12
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Following a meeting of the French inter-union alliance with Commissioner Reding in Brussels, a delegation of media workers from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK went to Paris to express their support to media workers during a meeting at the headquarters of the French public service broadcaster. The delegation together with their French colleagues presented this declaration to the French Minister of Culture and President of the EU Council of Misters of Culture and voiced their support for the position of the inter-union alliance.
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Romania: Submission On Digital Switchover Standards | Article 19, 2008-12-05
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This Submission provides information on international standards relating to the issue of digital switchover. Article 19 welcomes the Romanian authorities’ effort to regulate the digital switchover and digital environment. At the same time, it is essential that this is undertaken in a manner that respects human rights and, in particular, the right to freedom of expression. This Submission is intended as a contribution to the ongoing discussion in Romania on the digital switchover with a view to helping ensure that it is achieved consistently with respect for freedom of expression.
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Report on the Relationship Between Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion | Council of Europe, 2008-10-23
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This report was adopted by the Venice Commission at its 76th Plenary Session on the basis of comments by Mr Louis-Léon Christians (Expert, Belgium), Mr Pieter van Dijk (Member, the Netherlands), Ms Finola Flanagan (Member, Ireland), Ms Hanna Suchocka (Member, Poland). The topics discussed were the international standards regarding the freedom of speech, national legislation on blasphemy, religious insults and inciting religious hatred and the criminal legislation as a basis for interference with freedom of expression.
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Turkish radio broadcasts in The Netherlands: Community Communication or Ethnic Market? | University of Westminster, 2008
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With its multi-channel structure, including independent member-based and non-member-based organizations, the Dutch public broadcasting system is arguably a unique example in Europe for preserving diversity in its media landscape. In the Dutch framework there is a particular attention to minority groups in society, offering several models of participation on different scales. This article, part of a wider research project, examines Turkish radio broadcasts in The Netherlands assessing whether those radio stations and programmes are contributing to a participatory debate and to what extent they are reflecting the characteristics typical of community media. These issues are discussed around a number of axes, analysing the main contradictions occurred in community radio practice in recent years, threats of commercialization and ethnic marketing strategies, the Turkish immigrant’s capacity to exist as a community and the increasing decline of multiculturalism policy in The Netherlands in recent years.
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Final report on concentration and pluralism in the media in the European Union | European Parliament, 2008-07-10
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This is the final report on concentration and pluralism in the media in the European Union drafted by Estonian Socialist Marianne Mikko for the Committee on Culture and Education. The report recognises the decision of the European Commission to entrust determining the reliable and impartial indicators of media pluralism to a consortium of 3 European universities. In addition, this report stresses the need to institute the monitoring and implementation systems based on the indicators thus determined. Media ombudsmen are seen as part of the necessary systems.
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Community Media in Europe | Rundfunk & Telekom Regulierungs (RTR), 2008
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The subject of this study is community media and in the wider sense the “third sector media” in the Netherlands, Ireland, Lower Saxony, Switzerland and
Britain in the light of current discussions at a European level. The study is an exploratory study, and gives an overview of the historical development, the current legal, structural, economic and technical framework for community media, as well as their roles and functions within the respective media landscape. In addition to the aspects of the formal legal anchoring of the sector, indications of social recognition and representation of the sector in immediate media and political practice have also been analysed.
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From Isolation to Consensus: The UK’s Role in the Revision Process of the Television Without Frontiers Directive | University of Westminster, 2007
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This paper analyses the processes by which a UK-based coalition of the government, the media regulator Ofcom, and industry groups organised a sustained lobbying campaign to challenge the proposal to extend the scope of the revised Television Without Frontiers (TVWF) directive to cover ‘non linear’ services (audiovisual services delivered over the internet or mobile phone.). It describes how the coalition mobilised support at national, European and international levels to secure changes in the draft Audiovisual Media Services (AMS) and analyses the reasons why the UK- based coalition was successful in achieving its objectives. The study also integrates material on the role of interest groups which were concerned about the proposed changes in the TVWF directive and works on the EU policy making process.
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10 Years of Community Radio in Austria | Community Media, 2008
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This paper presents the results of a qualitative research project which was initiated by the Austrian Federation of Free Radios (VFRÖ) and financed by the Austrian Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecommunications (RTR). The research started in spring 2007 and aimed at compiling and describing the effects of Austrian Free Radio on plurality and social cohesion. It was also conducted as a pilot study for further, more comprehensive radio research. Twenty-two group interviews with staff and volunteers focused mainly on the production side of Free Radio. Aditionally, multimodal material such as websites, flyers, schedules, broadcasts, network drawings, guest books, e-mails, photos etc. completed the set of data used for the analyses.
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