"As a post-Communist emerging democracy, the Czech Republic has seen a transformation of its society to embrace the recognition and legitimacy of independent broadcast media. Those media include the government-funded public service broadcasters and, of course, the advertising-supported commercial broadcasting sector. What we have yet to see emerge is a community broadcast media sector. A third sector recognized as a legitimate counterpart to the aforementioned public service and commercial operators, fully legal with access to licences and support from the regulator. Recognition is the natural first step in the ultimate establishment of a vibrant community media sector. The process of recognition of the community media concept from community idea, to organized interest, to political policy somehow has not taken hold in the Czech Republic, resulting in a bipolar broadcast media landscape without a community radio component." (Conclusion, page 138)