"We selected ten post-communist countries for this research. Eight of them are located on the Balkan Peninsula, from a geographical point of view. We added Romania and Slovenia for historical reasons. The main aim of research is to provide a model of the media system in each of them. We are interest
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ed in the political, societal, economic and technological situation, journalistic standards and media accountability. The important thing is to know how media systems evolve in each country, under the influence of political institutions and external stakeholders. We examined how political, media, economic and social systems co-work or influence each other and how they affect each other." (Publisher description)
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"Both media organizations and the organization of media in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been profoundly affected by ethnocentrism, political clientelism, the withdrawal of international donors, and the financial crisis. As a result, the country’s march towards digitization has been protracted and u
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neven. Nevertheless, there have been recent signs of progress, with the installation of digital transmitters developing apace in 2012. Advances in the rest of Europe have put pressure on authorities to get their act together and the new deadline of 2014 for analog television switch-off may yet be achievable. This report proposes a series of compelling policy recommendations aimed at catalyzing the digitization process, improving the function of public service broadcasting, and enhancing the stability and independence of both media markets and the regulatory institutions that oversee them. These include a call for new legislation on media ownership; ensuring efficient work of the Digital Terrestrial Television Forum with a view to expediting switch-over; a new system of funding for the Press Council; a range of measures to protect the autonomy of the Communications Regulatory Agency; and greater coordination between public broadcasters and adherence to their mandates." (Website Open Society Foundations)
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"One of the purposes of this paper is to examine the issue of reform and creation of a sustainable public broadcasting system of Bosnia-Herzegovina from the aspect of exercise of ethnic rights and equality of each of the B-H constituent peoples and citizens, but also to point to other elements - leg
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islative framework and existence of political willingness for its change, efficiency of the system (funding, human resources), complementarities of programming of public broadcasters within the broadcasting system, challenges imposed by competition of commercial televisions, as well as the pending convergent, multichannel and digital environment - without which a public television system for all citizens of a country cannot be imagined. Therefore, this paper aims to enrich the current discussion on PSB so that solutions based on facts can be made which have a chance of long-term success. The study findings support wide-spread opinion that RTRS is an almost exclusively Serb national television and that RTVFB-H is a dominantly Bosniak television. On the other hand, the research revealed significant participation of Croats in the RTVFB-H news program and dismiss the qualification that this TV station is an exclusively Bosniak broadcaster. Besides, this paper presents and interprets various data on financial, staffing and organizational aspects of the public broadcasters, exposing a lot of inconsistent solutions that are applied today, and proposing measures for overcoming them." (Executive summary)
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