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Summary:
This book, based on the most up-to-date statistics and ad hoc studies, presents an in-depth analysis of the TV channels' markets for information, and more specifically EU information, both from the supply and demand sides. It pays particular attention to the pan-European news channels and the national parliamentary channels and examines their role in contributing to a more participatory democracy. Its aim is to investigate what could be done by EU decision-makers to help develop an audiovisual European public space.
Table of Contents:
- PART I - A Panorama of the EU Televisions' Landscape and the Supply of Televised EU Information
- Chapter 1: An overview of the global European TV landscape
- The economic situation in EU TV companies
- The TV signal transmission landscape
- The quest for audience
- The specificity of 'regional' television stations with a national reach
- Chapter 2: The supply of "news" market in the TV landscape
- What is "news"?
- News channels
- The share of news in viewer preferences
- EU issues in news and information programmes
- Chapter 3: International and pan-European (PETV) news channels
- The state of play: main characteristics and audiences
- International news TV versus national generalist TV
- Channel by channel review
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4: News and information on Internet Protocol TV (IP-TV)
- The state and the evolution of the penetration of broadband technologies
- The digital divide and its evolution up to 2013
- The demand for news on the Internet
- IP-TV – a cost analysis
- Conclusions of Part I
- PART II - The Demand for Television Information and Information on the EU
- Chapter 1: The global use of media and TV by EU citizens
- Television and media consumption
- Watching television news: a favourite pastime
- The limits of TV news as a knowledge-building medium
- Chapter 2: Television and EU information
- EU knowledge of EU citizens
- Effective and desired use of the media to receive EU information
- EU referenda campaigns and media's consumption in France and the Netherlands
- Chapter 3: Analysis of TV consumption behaviour
- The reasons for the use of the TV or the Internet media
- The news selection mechanisms
- The news-processing mechanisms
- Conclusions
- Chapter 4: The EU citizens' demand for EU audiovisual information programmes
- Citizens' concerns and their views of the EU
- Perceptions of the information on offer
- The quantity deficit
- The quality deficit
- Viewers' behaviour and expectations
- Synthesis of the results in terms of type of EU programmes
- Conclusions of Part II
- PART III: EU and non-EU Parliamentary Channels
- Introduction: Parliamentary channels: the state of play
- Parliamentary TV channels: a growing reality
- Political orientation
- Economic aspects
- Reasons for creating parliamentary channels
- Impact and audience
- Chapter 1: Non-EU parliamentary channels
- The US experience: C-SPAN
- A brief description
- The C-SPAN mission
- Distribution and audience
- The impact of C-SPAN on citizens and the institutions
- Economic aspects
- The Canadian experience: CPAC
- A brief description
- The CPAC mission and programming
- Distribution and audience
- Economic aspects
- Conclusions
- Chapter 2: EU-25 parliamentary channels and audiovisual services
- A brief overview of parliamentary channels and audiovisual services
- Current situation
- Financial aspects, transmission modes and audience
- Projects for the future
- Description of some parliamentary television channels
- La chaîne parlementaire (France)
- Vouli Tileorasi (Greece)
- BBC Parliament (UK)
- PHOENIX (Germany)
- TVP3 (Poland)
- DK4 (Denmark)
- Chapter 3: Survey of current and potential coverage of EU affairs by parliamentary channels
- State and prospects for coverage of EU affairs
- Expectations vis-à-vis the EU institutions
- Reactions to different cooperation/collaboration possibilities
- Reactions to the creation of an independent EP channel like C-SPAN
- Conclusions of Part III
- Parliamentary channels: a widespread and growing reality
- The three main models
- Risks and opportunities of the new information technologies
- The keys to success
- General Conclusions and Cost Estimates for Feasible Audiovisual Solutions
- Main findings
- Four potential models for an EU information policy
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