TRANSITIONED MEDIA: A TURNING POINT INTO THE DIGITAL REALM, GALI EINAV (ED.) (2010) US: Springer,... more TRANSITIONED MEDIA: A TURNING POINT INTO THE DIGITAL REALM, GALI EINAV (ED.) (2010) US: Springer, 172 pp., ISBN 978-1-4419-6098-6, Hardback, $119.00 DIGITAL RADIO IN EUROPE: TECHNOLOGIES, INDUSTRIES AND CULTURES, BRIAN O’NEILL, MARKO ALA-FOSSI, PER JAUERT, STEPHEN LAX, LARS NYRE AND HELEN SHAW (EDS) (2010) Intellect, Bristol 248 pp., ISBN 978-1-84150-279-3, Hardback, £24.95
In recent years public service broadcasting seems caught in a radicalized dilemma between two obl... more In recent years public service broadcasting seems caught in a radicalized dilemma between two obligations. To serve and preserve national culture and identity has for decades been an essential mandated obligation. At the same time, being a ‘window to the world’ has also been central to the remit. How can PSB handle the challenges of being custodians of diluted national identities amid a variety of heterogeneous cultures on the one hand, and simultaneously acting as explorers of global orientation on the other? The ideal of serving an Enlightenment mission has always been central to the PSB role and function, to its legitimating remit. This mission is a defining strand in the DNA of public service broadcasting and it is still relevant today because many of the cultural issues it was originally instituted to partially address are recurrent and growing uncertainties in light of globalization. Integration and fragmentation is a fundamental contradiction of our day. Although the traditional Enlightenment mission is no longer operable, developing a newly enlightened cultural mission is essential for PSB legitimacy. Thus, cultural dilemmas in public service broadcasting framed the RIPE@2004 conference – Mission, Market and Management: Public Service Broadcasting and the Cultural Commons. The authors in this volume discuss the contemporary relevance of PSB as a culturally obligated and culturally oriented enterprise. They do this from many perspectives and focussed on various dimensions that, taken together, clarify why public service broadcasting is about much more than transmitting content. The issues treated herein speak fundamentally to how broadcasting ought to be socially harnessed, at least in fair measure, to beneficially serve a variety of contemporary cultural demands
ABSTRACT The new competitive environment of radio broadcasting in the Nordic countries consists o... more ABSTRACT The new competitive environment of radio broadcasting in the Nordic countries consists of three sectors: (1) public service radio channels, (2) commercial radio stations and networks, and (3) community radio. Commercial radio represents the latest phase in a long process of transformation that started with decentralization inside the national broadcasting corporations in the 1960s and continued with introduction of noncommercial forms of local and community radio since the late 1970s. In the 1990s, commercial radio represents a hegemonic cultural form whose values and meanings penetrate to all sectors of radio. As a response to commercialization, the public service broadcasting tradition is undergoing a serious rearticulation. In contrast with the radical liberalism of the 1980s, there seems to be a growing political will to safeguard a balanced dualism of noncommercial and commercial forms of broadcasting.
TRANSITIONED MEDIA: A TURNING POINT INTO THE DIGITAL REALM, GALI EINAV (ED.) (2010) US: Springer,... more TRANSITIONED MEDIA: A TURNING POINT INTO THE DIGITAL REALM, GALI EINAV (ED.) (2010) US: Springer, 172 pp., ISBN 978-1-4419-6098-6, Hardback, $119.00 DIGITAL RADIO IN EUROPE: TECHNOLOGIES, INDUSTRIES AND CULTURES, BRIAN O’NEILL, MARKO ALA-FOSSI, PER JAUERT, STEPHEN LAX, LARS NYRE AND HELEN SHAW (EDS) (2010) Intellect, Bristol 248 pp., ISBN 978-1-84150-279-3, Hardback, £24.95
In recent years public service broadcasting seems caught in a radicalized dilemma between two obl... more In recent years public service broadcasting seems caught in a radicalized dilemma between two obligations. To serve and preserve national culture and identity has for decades been an essential mandated obligation. At the same time, being a ‘window to the world’ has also been central to the remit. How can PSB handle the challenges of being custodians of diluted national identities amid a variety of heterogeneous cultures on the one hand, and simultaneously acting as explorers of global orientation on the other? The ideal of serving an Enlightenment mission has always been central to the PSB role and function, to its legitimating remit. This mission is a defining strand in the DNA of public service broadcasting and it is still relevant today because many of the cultural issues it was originally instituted to partially address are recurrent and growing uncertainties in light of globalization. Integration and fragmentation is a fundamental contradiction of our day. Although the traditional Enlightenment mission is no longer operable, developing a newly enlightened cultural mission is essential for PSB legitimacy. Thus, cultural dilemmas in public service broadcasting framed the RIPE@2004 conference – Mission, Market and Management: Public Service Broadcasting and the Cultural Commons. The authors in this volume discuss the contemporary relevance of PSB as a culturally obligated and culturally oriented enterprise. They do this from many perspectives and focussed on various dimensions that, taken together, clarify why public service broadcasting is about much more than transmitting content. The issues treated herein speak fundamentally to how broadcasting ought to be socially harnessed, at least in fair measure, to beneficially serve a variety of contemporary cultural demands
ABSTRACT The new competitive environment of radio broadcasting in the Nordic countries consists o... more ABSTRACT The new competitive environment of radio broadcasting in the Nordic countries consists of three sectors: (1) public service radio channels, (2) commercial radio stations and networks, and (3) community radio. Commercial radio represents the latest phase in a long process of transformation that started with decentralization inside the national broadcasting corporations in the 1960s and continued with introduction of noncommercial forms of local and community radio since the late 1970s. In the 1990s, commercial radio represents a hegemonic cultural form whose values and meanings penetrate to all sectors of radio. As a response to commercialization, the public service broadcasting tradition is undergoing a serious rearticulation. In contrast with the radical liberalism of the 1980s, there seems to be a growing political will to safeguard a balanced dualism of noncommercial and commercial forms of broadcasting.
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