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Public service broadcasting in South East Europe: an overview October 2010

Public service broadcasting in South East Europe: an overview October 2010. By Oliver Vujovic. Public vs. private. Today a situation different than in 50´ of last century, when state TV / radio developed in all countries. Since 90´ in last century in most countries in SEE state to public RTV

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Public service broadcasting in South East Europe: an overview October 2010

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  1. Public service broadcasting in South East Europe: an overviewOctober 2010 By Oliver Vujovic Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  2. Public vs. private • Today a situation different than in 50´ of last century, when state TV / radio developed in all countries. • Since 90´ in last century in most countries in SEE state to public RTV • Private (commercial media) in all countries since 90´ of last century. • Private channels are very often more popular than public • Public RTV still vital role in promoting freedom of information, but must accept the private media as competition and partner ! Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  3. Why PBS in SEE? • Education of the population • Important for democratic development (Democracy is still a process going on in all countries) • Taking care about quality values. • Resolving conflict situations by promoting conflict resolution, peace building and reconciliation (former YU after 2000 –still slowly) Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  4. PBS – some questions 1 • Shopping channels broadcasting in free time – is it acceptable? • Reality shows – can it / should it be in public TV? • Quality of programmes for national minorities –often political propaganda / state propaganda for minorities, and not a programme by minorities. • Not much space for sexual / religion diversities (main religion leading) / women – gender topics Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  5. PBS – some questions 2 • Still strong influence of politicians (in most countries is „normal“: new government new chiefs – CEO, editors, etc...) • Internet of PBS – PBS webpages with news and archives competition to commercial webpages – how fare can it go ? Similar about PBS over mobile phones and production of CDs/ DVDs. Commercial companies see it as not fair competition – as PBS for radio and TV – not internet, mobile phones, CDs / DVDs production. Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  6. PBS – some questions 3 • Why private TV channels have sometimes more the public role (education, culture, documentaries – quality programme) than PBS? • No direct state funding - as it would allegedly endanger the independence of PBS • We need more cross border cooperation of PBS – still not lot of reportages about daily life in the neighbouring country. • Regulation of advertising – different from country to country – in some max. minutes per hour, in some how children / minorities /crimes / clear age of viewers presented – in some not. Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  7. PBS – some questions 4 • Should calls over / advertising for 0900 phone numbers with profit to some private partners be acceptable? • Problem: broadcasting lotto / bingo etc in PBS • Should PBS be more involved in campaigns for general good (health – anti-smoking, anti-cancer, blood donation, anti-alphabets) • Still not enough programmes for persons wih hearing problems (only in payment in some countries – like RoM / FYROM exempt from payment of the broadcasting fee. The households with a blind person whose vision is impaired over 90% or families with a person whose hearing is impaired with an intensity of over 60 decibels ) – this is with modern technological equipment possible! Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  8. Important: • The importance that the EBU and its Members protect editorial independence and press freedom • More EBU projects that make good PR for EBU – like Eurovision Song Contest  + regional cooperation stronger (joint TV and radio shows) Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  9. Finances 1 • Basic question: today are commercial TV and radio channels, pay-TV, cable, satellite, foreign TV / radio channels, internet / mobile and DVDs – the right for PBS to receive exclusive the fees has been questioned from different institutions. But all agree: 1. Important are stabile financial sources for PBS 2. Financial sources should secure independency of PBS – no political control of PBS over finances 3. Financing PBS is not a solidarity – it is a need. • Some ideas of a new name: instead of public broadcasting license fee • Important: public funding needs to be independent from the political whims and the economic demands of the moment, if we want to have credible PBS Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  10. Finances 2 • obligatory subscription (TV / radio licence fee) directly over  subsidiary company 4OK if collecting is more „to inform instead of control „ . Problem: licence inspectors who target households that have no licence are seen as an invasion of privacy • obligatory  subscription (TV / radio licence fee) over electricity bill4OK, but more as pressure feeling to users + problems with electricity companies + commission to electricity company + even the dead pay the licence fee (since graveyards pay electricity bills) or if a person has more electro-meters – each pay. • obligatory (TV / radio licence fee) over phone bill 4OK, but more pressure as pressure feeling to users + problems with phone companies + commission to phone company + what is if no phone, but a TV / radio? • budget4problem  budget revisions (no stable, hard forecasting for business plan ) + easy state control Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  11. Finances – some countries (annual amount) 1 Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  12. Finances – some countries (annual amount) 2 Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  13. Finances – some countries (annual amount) 3 Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  14. Employees • Still more employees than needed in many PBS – problem PBS often a place for secured working place. • Often many employees with no regular contracts –lot of freelancers (cheaper, but not happy staff) Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  15. Digitalisation in South East Europe • Still in some countries very slowly (Serbia, Greece) Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  16. SEEMO activities for PBS • PBS conference in Slovenia 2008 – maybe again together with EBU 2011 ? • The Ljubljana Recommendations on Public Broadcasting by SEEMO (see www.seemo.org) • Roma Media Days – for better PB for Roma minority / using PB for education of Roma minority • Other events also for PBS (like Investigative Journalism Days) Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  17. More SEEMO South East and Central Europe Media Handbook • + DeScripto magazine Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

  18. THANKS ! Oliver Vujovic Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General

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