'Distinctiveness' and programme diversity in public broadcasting revisited: A seven-country comparison

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International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI:10.1386/macp_00002_1

Jonathan Hendrickx, T. Raats, Heritiana Ranaivoson, M. Opgenhaffen

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Abstract In the past decade, public service broadcasters have been confronted with major shifts affecting their remit, portfolio and financing. Heavily fuelled by cutbacks and increasing competition, discussions on 'distinctiveness' have resurfaced again and stand central in many policy discussions on the legitimacy of public service broadcasting. This article critically contextualizes discussions on distinctiveness within broader scholarly work on genre and genre diversity in public service broadcasting. It presents the findings of a comparative, quantitative study of the programming schedule of seven public broadcasters (Flanders, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Portugal and the United Kingdom). The article addresses how discussions on distinctiveness tap into broader discussions on genre diversity and the amount of entertainment in public service broadcasting programming, how we can assess and compare the diversity of genre programming across different broadcasters, and to what extent high levels of specific genres such as entertainment can be linked to other performance indicators of the selected public broadcasters. The article provides a consistent comparison of genre outputs, based on an original database made of a large set of countries and a high, representative number of programmes and applies a consistent set of indexes to assess not only the share of entertainment but also the diversity of the programming. The underlying question to this article is to what extent genre is still valuable to measure performance and legitimacy of public service broadcasting, considering difficulties of measuring 'genre' as proxy for public service media's (PSM) effectiveness.

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重新审视公共广播的“独特性”和节目多样性:一个七国比较

摘要在过去的十年里，公共服务广播公司面临着影响其职权范围、投资组合和融资的重大转变。在削减开支和竞争加剧的严重推动下，关于“独特性”的讨论再次浮出水面，并成为许多关于公共服务广播合法性的政策讨论的核心。本文批判性地将公共服务广播中关于类型和类型多样性的更广泛学术著作中关于独特性的讨论置于背景之中。它介绍了对七个公共广播公司（佛兰德斯、芬兰、德国、匈牙利、冰岛、葡萄牙和联合王国）的节目安排进行的比较定量研究的结果。这篇文章阐述了关于独特性的讨论如何利用关于公共服务广播节目中类型多样性和娱乐量的更广泛讨论，我们如何评估和比较不同广播公司类型节目的多样性，以及诸如娱乐之类的高水平的特定类型在多大程度上可以与所选公共广播公司的其他表现指标相关联。这篇文章根据一个由大量国家和大量具有代表性的节目组成的原始数据库，对类型产出进行了一致的比较，并采用了一套一致的指数，不仅评估了娱乐的份额，还评估了节目的多样性。本文的根本问题是，考虑到难以衡量“类型”作为公共服务媒体（PSM）有效性的代表，类型在多大程度上仍然有价值来衡量公共服务广播的表现和合法性。

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (MCP) is a peer-reviewed journal aiming at analysing social and cultural communication processes with an interdisciplinary approach. MCP pays attention to contemporary issues striving to encourage academic responses to pressing world events, offering policy-oriented thinking. The content focus is critical, in-depth analysis and engaged research of the intersections of communication and media studies, sociology, politics, economics, and cultural studies with the aim of keeping academic analysis in dialogue with the practical world of communications, culture and politics. The journal publishes theoretical and empirical contributions from a wide and diverse community of researchers, and from any methodological and epistemological approach.