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Manfred Kops:

Financing and Sustaining Political Will to Support Public Service Broadcasting,

Köln, im Dez. 1999, ISBN 3-934156-10-X

II + 20 S., Schutzgebühr 1,50 €

 

Table of Contents:

1. The Idea of Public Service Broadcasting 1.1. Public Service Broadcasting as Nongovernmental Public Broadcasting 1.2. Public Service Broadcasting as Noncommercial Broadcasting 1.3. The Increasing Value of Public Service Broadcasting in a Globalising World Economy

2. Principles of Financing Public Service Broadcasting
2.1. The Interdependencies between the Socio-Political Functions of Public Service Broadcasting and the Kind of Public Service Broadcasting Revenues
2.2. Independence from Governments: Nongovernmental Public Control and Nongovernmental Public Financing
2.3. Independence from the Market: Noncommercial Control and Noncommercial Financing
2.4. License Fees as the Most Appropriate Kind of Public Revenue for Public Service Broadcasting

3. Sustaining Political Will to Support Public Service Broadcasting
3.1. High Programme Quality and Cost Effectiveness as Preconditions for the Political Will to Support Public Service Broadcasting
3.2. Political Independence as a Precondition for the Political Will to Support Public Service Broadcasting
3.3. Independence from Commercial Targets and Contents as a Precondition for the Political Will to Support Public Service Broadcasting