TY - JOUR
T1 - Financing Public Service Broadcasting
T2 - A Comparative Perspective
AU - Berg, Christian Edelvold
AU - Lund, Anker Brink
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Recently several European countries have abolished the traditional public service licence fee system, replacing it with direct public funding. But except for Iceland, the Nordic countries have not followed suit. The article discusses this development within a comparative framework of Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) financing regimes in Europe, concluding that Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden may still be considered conventional, licence fee PSB countries, but with some interesting differences in relation to competitive and market oriented alternatives of resource provision
AB - Recently several European countries have abolished the traditional public service licence fee system, replacing it with direct public funding. But except for Iceland, the Nordic countries have not followed suit. The article discusses this development within a comparative framework of Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) financing regimes in Europe, concluding that Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden may still be considered conventional, licence fee PSB countries, but with some interesting differences in relation to competitive and market oriented alternatives of resource provision
KW - Licence Fee
KW - Media Statistics
KW - Public Service
KW - Media Regulation
KW - Media Subsidies
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 7
EP - 21
JO - Journal of Media Business Studies
JF - Journal of Media Business Studies
SN - 1652-2354
IS - 1
ER -