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Broadcasting Policy: The Perfect Storm — A Review of Broadcasting Policies in Selected Countries

Susan Deer in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Garry Neil

August 2007

Around the world, new tech­nolo­gies are chang­ing broad­cast­ing and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions. As con­sumers inte­grate these tech­nolo­gies into their lives, some gov­ern­ments have begun to adapt­their Broad­cast­ing and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions reg­u­la­tions; oth­ers rec­og­nize the cur­rent leg­isla­tive frame­work is out­dated, but have not yet devel­oped a new reg­u­la­tory struc­ture. Thus, reg­u­la­to­ryregimes for the Broad­cast­ing and the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions sec­tors are in a state of flux. The Euro­pean Com­mis­sion and Australia’s Depart­ment of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gyand the Arts, have launched processes to incor­po­rate the Inter­net into their leg­is­la­tion and to relax lim­its on for­eign and cross­media own­er­ship. With the increas­ingly global nature of the­sesec­tors, other coun­tries, includ­ing Canada, may need to fol­low the lead of these major trad­ing part­ners. This paper analy­ses broad­cast­ing pol­icy from a broad inter­na­tional per­spec­tive, with a spe­cific focus on Europe and Australia.

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