A mediapark in Brussels? The media industry and its regional dynamics

Komorowski, Marlen; Wiard, Victor; Derinöz, Sabri; Picone, Ike; Domingo, David; Patriarche, Geoffroy

doi:10.4000/brussels.1938

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“…Elsewhere in Brussels, there are plans for the development of ‘a creative and vibrant new Brussels district for an innovative media ecosystem’ (Mediapark.brussels 2020 ) which will include office space, housing, and leisure facilities, anchored by new headquarters for both Belgian public broadcasters, VRT and RTBF. But as Komorowski et al ( 2018 ) suggest in their overall analysis of the project, “the success of government-driven clusters is not guaranteed.” Both the British and Belgian initiatives use publicly funded media organizations as central tenants of these predominantly commercial sites in order to leverage potential gains. The benefits of scale to the surrounding creative ecosystem and the accumulated knowledge, expertise, and resources which PSM organizations contain are leveraged by a range of neighboring bodies.…”

Section: Shaping the Marketmentioning

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Public Service Media Interventions: Risk and the Market

Rodríguez-Castro

Noonan

Ramsey

2021

Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business

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This chapter explores the relationship between Public Service Media (PSM) and the market through the lens of risk. Instead of approaching PSM’s market impact from a crowding-out perspective, we focus on how these organizations contribute to creating, shaping, and sustaining markets. We identify two key areas of risk that PSM organizations are actively negotiating and/or as part of a change to their remit and responsibilities: first, in creating and sustaining a supply base of indigenous content, and second, in contributing to innovation capacity. Whilst we don’t argue that all PSM organizations are engaging in these equally, or even delivering effectively on these agendas, we want to highlight the important contribution that PSM makes to creative economies and to economic and cultural activity within nation states more generally. The chapter concludes by arguing that by undermining the scale and funding of PSM their capacity to assume that risk is weakening, and that this will have implications for the entire marketplace.

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Section: Shaping the Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%