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"Chapter 1 argues that, nevertheless, for most people, most of the time, their immediate locality is very important. Here social change and political decisions become real; it is in actual localities that people function as citizens. A local public sphere is therefore vital to democracy, however far ... short of the conditions for Habermas’s ‘ideal speech’ it falls. From this follows the thread that runs through the rest of the book: to what extent can the local media in the contemporary UK contribute to this ‘space’? Chapter 2 explains the organizational and financial architecture of the regional press. Still profitable, still popular, how is the industry dealing with the proliferation of competing media platforms and convergence of technologies? The editorial strategies developed to accommodate these pressures in the context of wider social and economic change is considered in Chapter 3, which concludes with a case study of Birmingham and its newspapers. Faced with an increasing diversity, what techniques are used to ‘imagine’ the community? Does attempting to address everyone push human interest topics into the foreground at the expense of information and debate? Chapter 4 reviews the rapidly changing regulatory framework for regional broadcasting. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is being cast as the main player, but it is questionable whether it can devote extensive additional resources to news-gathering, given that its status and funding is legitimated by its nationwide responsibilities. Regional news on television is very popular with audiences, but they are not wholly satisfied with it. Chapter 5 argues that current analogue television regions and a ‘family audience’ together produce an interpretive frame in which the affective and subjective is bound to edge out content useful to the public as citizens. Only the BBC provides an adequate local radio news service, but its potential is limited by the target audience. The nations of the UK, the subject of Chapter 6, vividly demonstrate that every aspect of media, ownership, regulation and content is highly politicized. A case study of S4C illustrates both the importance of, and difficulties in sustaining, public service broadcasting. Chapter 7 opens with a review of the vital place that local media still occupy in journalism’s mythology. Many regional journalists take special pride in their work, despite deteriorated conditions, inadequate pay levels, and increasing concerns about whether the work-force, whether in print or broadcast, is properly diverse in all its meanings. Finally, Chapter 8 considers the future of both publicly funded and commercial regional media as new communications technologies drive potentially dramatic changes in audience behaviour and sources of revenue. It concludes that, if inclusive citizenship is to be sustained, blogs, citizen journalism and community media are, as yet, no substitute for conventional media forms." (introduction, page 2-3) more

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Coronelismo televisivo em Natal

Maria Érica de Oliveira Lima, João Carlos Araújo de Vasconcelos

[authors] (2007), 11 pp.

"A pesquisa analisa a relação entre os grupos políticos e emissoras de TV em Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, uma vez que todas as emissoras comerciais abertas estão ligadas a algum grupo político. Com esse intuito, observou-se o resultado das eleições realizadas desde 1987, ano de fundação da p ... more

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Evaluation Report on Medienhilfe Network Projects in Macedonia and Kosovo

Mark Thompson

Zürich: medienhilfe (mh) (2006), 17 pp.

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Cartografia audiovisual brasileira de 2005: Um estudo quali-quantitativo de TV e cinema

Cosette Castro

São Paulo: Fundação Padre Urbano Thiesen (2006), 556 pp.

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Perspectivas de desarrollo de la televisión local en el Peru

Christina Poser, Andreas Ende, Janosch Dietrich

Lima: ASA-Programm (2005), 45 pp.

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Seitenwechsel: Eine Studie zu der Frage, was offene Kanäle den Menschen geben

Sabine Gieschler, Carl Wolfgang Müller

München: kopaed (2005), 365 pp.

"In den wenigen Forschungsberichten, die bislang verfügbar sind, ist so gut wie nichts nachzulesen über die Hintergründe und die Motive der Nutzer, die in den Offenen Kanälen ihr Programm gestalten. Noch weniger ist zu erfahren über das, was diese aktiven Nutzer bei der Fernseharbeit lernen kö ... more

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Canales de televisión local en Chile

Santiago de Chile: Consejo Nacional de Televisión (CNTV) (2004), 81 pp.

"Este informe expone los principales hallazgos de un estudio de seguimiento al fenómeno de la Televisión Local en Chile. El objetivo es describir las características, evolución y patrones de funcionamiento de este proceso. En el estudio se utilizaron metodologías cualitativas y cuantitativas. L ... more

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Report on Regional Public Television in Europe: Albania, Belgium, Bosnia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden

Lugano: Instituto Media e Giornalismo, Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione, Università della Svizzera Italiana (2004), 131 pp.

"What follows from the analysis of the surveyed cases is a high level of variety of public television activity on the regional level. This clearly depends on the size and population of different countries, on the central and local administrative organization, on the level of linguistic homogeneity a ... nd from a series of historical, political and cultural factors. For this reason is difficult to talk of variable models of public regional television. In reality, however, there is an important factor of comparison, which allows us to subdivide the surveyed cases in two large categories how we did in the first step report: the statute of regional television centres in terms of independence or organic dependence on the national television companies. In Bosnia, Denmark, Greece, Netherland, Portugal, Russia and Serbia there are public regional television centres independent from national television companies. In Albania, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Ireland and Slovenia there are regional centres, which constitute an organic and integrated part of the national television companies. Where regional public televisions are independent in some cases they broadcast only to the regional population as in Denmark, Portugal, Netherland, Finland, Russia, in other cases they broadcast at national level as in Belgium and Greece. Where regional public televisions are local branch of national companies in some case they produce only for regional transmissions as in Albania and Finland, in other cases they produce also for national public television channels as in Czech Republic and Sweden. In the case of Portugal, regional television centres are independent companies, owned in part by national public television, and they produce programs also for the international public channel to reach the “diaspora” of regional population. A second factor of comparison concerns the relationship between the regional television centres and the regional political, cultural, and social context. In some cases the relationship is important as in Bosnia, Portugal, Belgium, Russia, Serbia in other are not evident as in Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland. A third factor of comparison concern the extension of regional broadcasting activities. In some cases the regional activity is limited to some daily news broadcasted in a window inside the national programs as in Finland and Ireland, in other cases it concern a more or less wide range of programs of various genres as in Netherlands, Denmark, Russia, Portugal. In correspondence to that dimension there are differences of the economic resources at disposal of each regional television." (Introduction, page 2-3) more

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The New Communications Landscape: Demystifying Media Globalization

Georgette Wang, Jan Servaes, Anura Goonasekera (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2000), xvi, 343 pp.

"The innovative and rapid growth of communication satellites and computer mediated technologies in the late 1980s and early 1990s, combined with the deregulation of national broadcasting, led many media commentators to assume that the age of national media had been lost. But what has become clear is ... more

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La democratización de los medios: Radiotelevisión comunitaria. Segundo congreso de radio y televisiones locales, públicas y alternativas

Manuel Chaparro Escudero

Sevilla: EMA-RTV (1999), 322 pp.

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La televisión económica: Financiación, estrategias y mercados

Enrique Bustamante

Barcelona: Gedisa (1999), 220 pp.

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A televisão na era da globalização: Comunicações apresentadas ao XX Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, realizado em Santos, SP, de 3 a 7 set. 1997

Sérgio Mattos (org.)

Salvador de Bahia; São Paulo: Edições Ianamá; Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (1999), 176 pp.

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La televisión local. Andalucía: La nueva comunicación

José A. Navarro Moreno

Madrid: Fragua (1999), 319 pp.

El libro presenta un estudio sobre la televisión local andaluza empezando por un analisis teorico de la descentralización de televisión. Plantea que es necesario establecer la televisión local como nuevo medio de comunicación. Partiendo de alli se enfoca los temas del proceso legislativo de la ... more

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Der offene Kanal Kassel und seine Zuschauer: Eine Studie zur Rezeption

Angelika Jaenicke, Michael Fingerling

München: kopaed (1999), 314 pp.

"Der Erfolg eines Offenen Kanals bemisst sich danach, wie viele Menschen ihn dazu benutzen, ihr Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung wahrzunehmen. Dennoch ist immer wieder eine der ersten Fragen, die an Träger und Organisatoren von Offenen Kanälen gerichtet werden, die nach der Einschaltquote. Diese ... more

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Televisión de proximidad en Europa: Experiencias de decentralización en la era digital

Miguel de Moragas Spà, Carmelo Garitaonandía, Bernat Lopéz (eds.)

Barcelona: Universitat Jaume I (1999), 428 pp.

El libro examina los modelos y las políticas de descentralisación que han sustentado el desarrollo de la 'televisión de proximidad' en cada uno de los países de la UE. El analysis esta centrado en el marco legal, la estructura y la financición, las estrategias de programación y el uso de lengu ... more

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Die Fernseh-Station: Ein Leitfaden für das Lokal- und Regionalfernsehen

Robert Sturm, Jürgen Zirbik

Konstanz: UVK Medien (1998), 488 pp.

"Nach der rasanten Entwicklung lokaler Hörfunksender (vgl. hierzu den Band "Die Radio-Station" derselben Autoren) in den letzten zehn Jahren entstehen nun zahlreiche lokale und regionale Fernsehsender. In unternehmerischer und programmatischer Hinsicht zeigen sich dabei Parallelen: Zum Teil sind di ... more

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Local Journalism and Local Media: Making the Local News

Bob Franklin (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (1998), xxii, 311 pp.

"The local media - local newspapers and radio, regional television, cable television and local news on the internet - represents a diverse and rapidly-changing sector of the British media landscape. Bringing together media academics, local journalists and other media professionals, this text present ... more