Television across Europe: Follow-up Reports 2008 Italy/La televisione in Europa: Rapporto di aggiornamento 2008 Italia [antikvár]

PREFACE Preface Télévision across Europe: Follow-up Reports 2008 is a monitoring project of EUMAP (EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program) at the Open Society Institute and of the Media Program at the Open Society Foundation. The project updates and builds on the outcome of the original Télévision across Europe: régulation, policy and independence monitoring reports released in October 2005, which covered 20 countries. The 2005 reports concluded that the pivotai role of télévision in supporting democracy in Europe was under threat. It showed that public service broadcasters were being forced to compromise quality to compete with commercial channels, and that many of them depended on Governments or political parties. Moreover, ever-larger concentrations were developing in the commercial sector, often with clear political affiliations. These developments jeopardised broadcasting pluralism and diversity, with the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe most acutely at risk. The original Télévision across Europe project and its linked advocacy activities ended in June 2006. Since then, the Media Program has funded a number of follow-up projects, carried out by partner organisations in selected countries, aimed at promoting and building on the reports' findings and conclusions. There have been significant developments in many of the countries covered in the 2005 reports, with respect to many of the areas monitored. Launched in London in March 2008, Télévision across Europe: Follow-up Reports 2008 monitors these developments in nine of the twenty countries that were originally monitored: Albania; Bulgaria; the Czech Republic; Italy; Lithuania; Poland; the Republic of Macedonia; Romania and Slovakia. These countries were selected because of the continuing significant changes in their broadcasting landscape. Télévision across Europe: Follow-up Reports 2008 maps the main changes in broadcasting législation, policy and market over the past three years and assesses the progress — or lack of — that these countries have made in improving the independence and pluralism of their broadcasting. As with the original 2005 reports, these updates are addressed to policy makers, civil society activists and academics alike, as a contribution to bringing about change where it is needed. The nine country reports were drafted by local experts with the support of partner NGOs. All country reports are based on the same methodology, thus allowing for a comparative analysis. OSI and OSF assume final responsibility for their content. eu monitoring and advocacy program (eumap) media program