Media Ownership and Concentration in Switzerland

The press, digital transition and small markets. Preliminary note

“…Ces difficultés structurelles affectent le paysage médiatique des petits pays. Plusieurs auteurs y observent une plus forte concentration de la propriété des médias (Badillo & Bourgeois, 2015 ;Tremblay, 2015). Picard (1988) a montré que la propriété des journaux se concentre à mesure que la taille du marché diminue.…”

Sounds without borders: Exploring the cross-national expansion of commercial European Radio Groups

“…The public monopoly system prevailed until the deregulation starting from the 1970s, and especially in the 1980s and 1990s, which allowed the emergence of commercial radio stations. For instance, the first commercial radio stations were launched in the United Kingdom in 1973 (Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), 2017), and in Italy in 1977; in France, commercial radio and TV were allowed in 1981, 1 and local commercial radio stations were allowed in Switzerland in 1983 (Badillo and Bourgeois, 2016). First commercial local radio stations began broadcasting in Finland in 1985; national commercial radio was allowed in Iceland in 1986 and advertising was allowed in community and local radio in 1988 in Denmark and Norway (national, in 1993) (Hujanen and Jauert, 1998).…”