Evolution Towards Public Service Media - Workshop and Conference

Workshop: From Public Service Broadcasting to Public Service Media: Avoiding Public Service. ‘Anything’ Scenarios and Grasping ‘Digital’ Opportunities

Program:
10:00 - From PSB to PSM: Main trends, challenges and opportunities
Firstly, what does the evolution from public service broadcasting to public service media actually mean?
Are public broadcasters indeed public service media providers and do they have a ‘natural’ claim to public service delivery in online markets? And how should governments regulate this? Are public value tests ‘good’ instruments in this regard?

12:30 - Lunch

13:30 - PSM will be networked or won’t be: Models of collaboration
Secondly, should public broadcasters cooperate more with other players in the public, but also commercial domain? Should and can one evolve to models of open collaboration? What are problems in terms of the public service remit, legal issues like anti-trust, efficiency, transparency, etc.?

15:00 - Coffee break

15:15 - Money matters: Main trends, challenges and opportunities regarding funding
Thirdly, how (much) should governments fund public broadcasters? What have been trends around Europe in this regard? Is a fully publicly subsidized or license fee funded model to be preferred over dual funding? Is commercial communication the only conceivable form of commercial funding or are payments by the public in some circumstances acceptable as well?

All sessions include a time slot for discussion.

Participants: Maximum 30 (free admittance, registration required to psbworkshop@gmail.com)


Public Conference: Public Service Media in a Small Country with a Global Culture

Program:
17:30: Welcome Note
17:40: Presentation by Eng. Beato Teixeira, Member of the Board of RTP

18:00: Presentation by Prof. Dr. Karen Donders, Lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, iMinds-SMIT

18:20: Q&A starting panel:
(Discussants to be confirmed)

Moderator: Prof. Dr. A. Pimenta Alves (FEUP/INESC Porto)

19:30: Drinks

Organised by: INESC Porto, RTP, FEUP – Prof. Dr. A. Pimenta Alves (FEUP/INESC Porto), Vânia Gonçalves (FEUP/iMinds-SMIT, VUB)
With support of: Doctoral Program in Digital Media

Short Bio
Karen Donders lectures in European media and information society policies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and is a guest lecturer at the Universiteit Antwerpen in Belgium. She is a senior  researcher and project leader with the centre for Studies on Media Information and Telecommunication (SMIT). She specialises in European media policy, competition policy and its effects on the media sector, public service broadcasting and private television. She is author of Public Service Media and Policy in Europe (Palgrave, 2011), co-editor of Private Television in Western Europe (Palgrave, 2013) and of Rethinking European Media and Communications Policies (VUBpress, 2009) and has published widely in international journals including Convergence, Journal of Media Law, Journal of Electronic Governance and Info.