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This chapter introduces the context in which public service broadcasters are analysed today. The changing media landscape impacts not only on the mission of public broadcasters and public service media, but also involves their organizational structure, the composition of their managing bodies and their relationship with the political institutions at a state and regional level, namely their governance. The aim of the book is to examine the various structural and organizational solutions of PSB in Europe, namely the European model, during this transitional period. Particular attention is given to the legal terminology and the dialogue between the social sciences. This study uses the legal methodology to study the structure and governance of PSB taking into account both state and (sometimes) regional legislation, constitutional contexts and supranational regulation that requires compliance with a set of common principles.
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By contrast with the democracy of Benjamin Constant, the ancient TV is “passive”, while the modern TV is “active”. See Pavani (2012, p. 12).
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Author’s translation.
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Recommendation R (2012) 1 of the Committee of Ministers on public service media governance, note 1.
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The origin of the semiotic model of audiovisual—formed from the two words “audio” and “visual”—includes everything that is transmitted/perceived through our sight and hearing (through radio and television, cinema, Internet, etc.) and refers to the communication from many to many. It is, therefore, a more complex term than the object of the present analysis, dedicated to a segment of the audiovisual sector.
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As Rodolfo Sacco explains: “even the jurist who seeks a single legal rule, indeed who proceeds from the axiom that there can be only one rule in force, recognizes implicitly that living law contains many different elements such as statutory rules, the formulations of scholars, and the decisions of judges—elements that he keeps separate in his own thinking. […] we will call them, borrowing from phonetics, the “legal formants” (Sacco 1991, p. 22).
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Pavani, G. (2018). Introduction. In: The Structure and Governance of Public Service Broadcasting. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96731-8_1
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