Category: Public Broadcasting

  • The public broadcasting license fee and public value

    If this public service test is taken really seriously, we may be in for quite a few nice, and rather revealing, disputes. Ideally, it would mean that private media companies could stop any public-sector programme merely by proving that they are willing and able to provide it in a better way.

  • Digital road signs for German public television

    Participants from the private sector could not entirely conceal a certain envy of the German public broadcasting system. Both commercial TV groups grudgingly admitted to being with their paid-for video offerings nowhere near Internet viewing figures like that of ZDF.