Public Service Broadcasting*

Public service broadcasting in the digital world

Nation Binding: How Public Service Broadcasting Mitigates Political Selective Exposure

Recent research suggests that more and more citizens select news and information that is congruent with their existing political preferences. This increase in political selective exposure (PSE) has allegedly led to an increase in polarization. The vast majority of studies stem from the US case with a particular media and political system. We contend that there are good reasons to believe PSE is...

Regulating Advertising in the Presence of Public Service Broadcasting

Television advertising levels in Europe are regulated according to the “Audiovisual Service Media Directive”, where member states of the European Union usually impose stricter regulation on their Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) channels. The present model evaluates the effects of symmetric and asymmetric regulation of ad levels on competition for viewers and advertisers in a duopoly framework...

Leapfrogging into the market approach: the loss of public service broadcasting for development and nation building

Can public service broadcasting under the pressure of the market approach be saved for development and nation building purposes in developing countries? Within the context of the ongoing debate about the future of public service broadcasting and how to justify it, this paper seeks answers to the above question by first of all describing what the market paradigm or approach to the regulation and...

Maximizing service availability for secure satellite broadcasting

Cryptography is the most suitable technique to protect the access to subscribed value-added services for mobile applications provided through satellite broadcasting (e.g. localization and mobile TV). However, if a temporary loss of signal is experienced by receivers, not only the data streaming is compromised, but also the key management-related messages. Hence, when the signal is received agai...