The Structure and Governance of Public Service Broadcasting

Pavani, Giorgia

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96731-8

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“…Furthermore, both PSBs operate under a management agreement with their respective governments and contain some commitment to diversity in their PSB remit, although this varies between the two regions. Like many PSBs throughout Europe, RTÉ and Flemish PSB are modelled on the mission and remits of the cultural model of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which according to Pavani (2018), has been the basis of a series of pan-European PSB standards. Similarly, as Tom Mills (2016) argues, since the 1990s, the BBC has become more integrated into the media market.…”

Section: National Social and Cultural Contexts Of Psb And Lgbt+ Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public service broadcasting and the emergence of LGBT+ visibility: A comparative perspective on Ireland and Flanders

Kerrigan

Vanlee

2020

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Public Service Broadcasting in Europe and its centrality to cultural diversity has been established in relation to race, multiculturalism and gender, but LGBT+ sexual identity remains relatively absent from research. This article aims to address this gap by fostering a historical approach to examine the ways in which LGBT+ identities emerged on Public Service Broadcasting within Western Europe, specifically in Ireland and Flanders during the 1950s–1990s. Through a small-scale comparative case study analysis between these two regions, this article contends that the emergence of LGBT+ visibility is intrinsically linked to Public Service Broadcasting in both landscapes. Specifically, the article argues that this emergence shares two distinct structural qualities in the emergence of this LGBT+ visibility. First, the comparison points to the ways in which Public Service Broadcasting production cultures incorporated external expertise regarding LGBT+ diversity, presenting itself as a practical operationalisation of the social responsibility of publicly funded media in both regions. Second, later parallels in the introduction of LGBT+ characters to television fiction series illustrate how Public Service Broadcasting responded to various forms of competition from international and commercial broadcasters, engendering particular implications for the visibility of same-sex desire. While contributing to historical treatments of LGBT+ visibility familiar within Queer Media Studies, this article goes against the Anglo-American dominance of the field by examining more local contexts outside the US/UK centric paradigm, diversifying the contexts in which Queer Media Studies research takes place.

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Section: National Social and Cultural Contexts Of Psb And Lgbt+ Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%