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Europe’s public broadcasters go from prime time to hard-to-find.

Apathetic teenagers and culture warriors are hobbling venerable state media outlets.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260709-europes-public-broadcasters-go-from-prime-time-to-hard-to-find?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Media #Europe #PublicBroadcasters #PublicServiceBroadcasting #Journalism

#Trump's May 1st order took the form of a directive to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes >$500B each year to #PublicBroadcasters, primarily to local stations. By #statute, ¾ of that money is devoted to #TV, ¼ to #radio.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #Congress #SeparationOfPowers

> Mastodoners also seem to be very tech-savvy (or geeky), and – as an NDR social media manager famously said – "nobody really cares about football."

Hear hear

https://www.ebu.ch/news/2024/03/public-broadcasters-of-europe-lets-all-join-mastodon

#Mastodon #football #PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasters #DW #NDR

Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon!

https://www.ebu.ch/news/2024/03/public-broadcasters-of-europe-lets-all-join-mastodon

#news #newsAgencies #publicBroadcasters #newsMeta

@FediFollows

➡️ @amarchivepub - American Archive of Public Broadcasting

#PublicBroadcasting #PublicBroadcasters

#PublicBroadcasting & #PublicBroadcasters on the Fediverse:

➡️ @beverly_ochieng - Security & media analyst at BBC Monitoring, specialising in Africa

➡️ @ZDF - German public broadcasting network ZDF, founded 1963 (in German)

➡️ @gbhnews - News from PBS/NPR affiliate in Boston MA, USA

➡️ @azpm - PBS & NPR affiliate in Southern Arizona, USA

➡️ @philmeyer - Head of Southern Oregon PBS, USA

➡️ @kcts9 - TV channel & PBS affiliate, Seattle WA, USA

➡️ @BBCRadio4 - BBC Radio 4, UK speech station

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A great article explaining the danger authoritarians, such as AfD pose for media freedom legally, and recommending what can be done to, if not prevent that, at least mitigate the effect

#Germany #MediaFreedom #AfD #FederalStates #PublicBroadcasters

https://verfassungsblog.de/dissolving-diversity/