Ivor
You might try and incorporate the following if you can. Part of a
longer story to be submitted for the 19th, but the conclusion. VLV
might also wish to consider the intervention on behalf of local/
community TV being made in Europe too.
Dave
Devolving Broadcasting, Wireless Broadband and Spectrum Allocation
Ofcom should give consideration to a tiered approach to communication
responsibilities (including broadcasting and wireless broadband)
based on the principles of devolution and subsidiarity (or double-
devolution): state, nation, local.
Under this principle England, Scotland, Wales and NI would have
responsibility for terrestrial communications services for reception
and transmission internally. A third less formal local tier
supervised by broadcasting trusts - comprised of voluntary bodies -
would oversee wireless communications requirements that benefit
primarily the region/city local audience and subscribers. Mobile
phones and other services without geographic focus would be overseen
by a combined representation - transferring responsibility up from
local area, through nation to state.
The devolution and subsidiarity of spectrum management follows
introduction of state-wide public service broadcasting with the as
yet incomplete high-speed broadband network. Each nation would
licence nation scale services including focusing spectrum use to
address any real or perceived state-wide deficit.
The remaining spectrum would address as first priority local area
demand for service.
After state, nation and local public service requirements are
fulfilled surplus spectrum might be leased by the local trusts and
nation agencies to incoming commercial services (of a large but not
state-universal scale and without PSB value). Incoming services would
be licensed according to demand in the nation and locality.
The leasing of spectrum by nations and local areas would provide
revenue to support nation and local services. Satellite services
would continue to operate across frontiers although increasingly
influenced in what they carried by the greater critical mass of
nation and local service this regulatory model would encourage.
The regulatory structure would conform to European principles for
cross border terrestrial and satellite transmission while
transforming - in the light of devolution and subsidiarity - our
understanding of the scope of public service broadcasting by
introducing equity for local civic as well as nation demands.
Institute of Local Television
June 2008
PRESS RELEASE
Release date: 4th June 2008
For immediate release
Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE) welcomes the report of the
European Parliament Committee on Culture on Community Media’s role in
Europe
The Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE) welcomes the vote on the
report promoted by Karin Resetarits (Member of the European
Parliament, Austria, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe –
ALDE), which calls on the European Union to encourage alternative
media in Europe in order to promote pluralism and cultural diversity,
adopted by the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and
Education on 2nd June 2008.
"Alternative media does not result in isolating people, on the
contrary they allow a community to integrate, informing them of their
rights, especially in the area of education and access to public
services but also promotes citizens to take part in active life and
listens to their problems and concerns. This type of media is a
community tool and serves as a cultural and social integration
project", says Karin Resetarits.
The support measures recommended by Mrs Resetarits are mostly of a
technical nature, legal (attribution of frequencies) and financial
(possible financing by the EU and member states). "I hope that when
the European Commission publishes in 2009 their Communication on the
indicators of pluralism in the media, it will take into account our
proposals on alternative and community media which obviously
contributes and promotes pluralism", concluded Mrs Resetarits.
“This initiative is of great importance to our sector and helps
gaining more acknowledgement for the thousands of CM around Europe
and hundreds of thousands active citizens participating in these
media projects.” said Pieter de Wit, president of CMFE, in a first
comment.
For any further information, please contact:
Pieter de Wit, President CMFE, Tel: + 31 24 361222, Mobile+ 31 6
53678990 or
Helmut Peissl, CMFE Board member, Tel: + 43 4238 8705, Mobile: + 43
650 49 48 773
Voting in the European Parliament plenary session is expected to take
place in September 2008.
The English version of the draft report (without the adopted
amendments) can be found at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/
getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-402.919+01+DOC+PDF+V0//
EN&language=EN <http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?
pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-402.919+01+DOC+PDF+V0//
EN&language=EN>
The report builds the KEA-study on ‘The state of Community Media in
the European Union’, September 2007 (available at http://
www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?
file=17791 <http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/
studies/download.do?file=17791> )
* CMFE (Community Media Forum Europe) is a network of policy experts,
organisations and federations which aim to support the role of
Community Media on the European level.
* OLON is the "Organisatie van Lokale Omroepen in Nederland", or in
English: "Dutch Federation of Local Public Broadcasting Organisations”
On 9 Jun 2008, at 14:46, Ivor Gaber wrote:
>
> The Ofcom PSB Review (part 1) ends June 19th. I am coordinating the
> response
> from VLV. If anyone wants to contribute to the VLV response please
> let me
> know asap.
>
> Ivor
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