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MediaFaro News Digest

The EU will provide €5.5 million in emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat.

The European Union has agreed to provide emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the Trump administration stopped grants to the pro-democracy media outlet.

Its corporate headquarters are in Washington but its journalistic base is in the Czech Republic, which has been leading the EU drive to find funds.

mediafaro.org/article/20250520

Euronews · The EU will provide €5.5 million in emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat.By Gavin Blackburn
#RadioFreeEurope#EU#Europe
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David Cantrell 🏏

Fifteen years ago when I was working on #iPlayer at the #BBC we talked about when #broadcasting would be obsolete. I now watch hardly any broadcast video content, and that which I do I rarely consume live, I record it for viewing at my convenience. I listen to lots of radio but even that I take in the form of #podcasts. But my team didn't think about competition in the production side of things at all.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2eny

BBC NewsHow can traditional British television survive the US streamersSenior figures in the UK TV industry are contemplating how best to secure its future
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The FCC is quietly contemplating a fundamental restructuring of all broadcasting in the United States, via a new DRM-based standard for digital television equipment, enforced by a private “security authority” with control over licensing, encryption, and compliance. This move is confusingly called the “ATSC Transition” (ATSC is the digital TV standard the US switched to in 2009 – the “transition” here is to ATSC 3.0, a new version with built-in DRM).

The “ATSC Transition” is championed by the National Association of Broadcasters, who want to effectively privatize the public airwaves, allowing broadcasters to encrypt over-the-air programming, meaning that you will only be able to receive those encrypted shows if you buy a new TV with built-in DRM keys. It’s a tax on American TV viewers, forcing you to buy a new TV so you can continue to access a public resource you already own.

This may not strike you as a big deal. Lots of us have given up on broadcast and get all our TV over the internet. But millions of American still rely heavily or exclusively on broadcast television for everything from news to education to simple entertainment."

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/fcc-

Electronic Frontier Foundation · The FCC Must Reject Efforts to Lock Up Public AirwavesPresident Trump’s attack on public broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there’s a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing—one that will take away Americans’ right to unencumbered access to our publicly owned airwaves. The FCC is quietly...
#USA#Trump#FCC
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PrivacyDigest

The #FCC Must Reject Efforts to Lock Up Public #Airwaves

President Trump’s attack on public #broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there’s a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing—one that will take away Americans’ right to unencumbered access to our publicly owned airwaves.
#trump #publicbroadcasting #pbs #npr

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/fcc-

Electronic Frontier Foundation · The FCC Must Reject Efforts to Lock Up Public AirwavesPresident Trump’s attack on public broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there’s a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing—one that will take away Americans’ right to unencumbered access to our publicly owned airwaves. The FCC is quietly...
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The BBC is the heart of the UK’s media system. Yet despite the BBC being publicly funded, the public have no control over how it works.

Politicians have too much power to pressure the BBC, and it is struggling to compete against global streaming services and social media companies. Without radical reform, the BBC faces a bleak future of dwindling audiences and the loss of public trust.

By the end of 2027 the government is required to renew the BBC’s Royal Charter, which will set the terms of how the BBC operates for the next decade. The Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said she supports mutualising the BBC, with new structures for “genuine public representation and participation”.

This briefing explains how to transform the BBC into a new kind of institution: a public service mutual. Mutual organisations are run for the benefit of their members, and members are actively and directly involved in its operations.

As a public service mutual, the BBC will belong to all of us by right. We will all become BBC members — active and direct participants in its mission to inform, educate, entertain and connect.

Democratic mutualisation of the BBC requires that all members have two new powers, which together secure public representation and participation:"

common-wealth.org/publications

www.common-wealth.orgOur Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age | Briefing | Common WealthThe upcoming BBC Charter Review is an opportunity to transform the BBC into a public service mutual, founded on a genuinely democratic relationship with the public.
#UK#Broadcasting#Media
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“A #Coalition government would divert more than 10% of annual government funding for #CreativeAustralia to a single cultural project and unspecified broadcasting programs if elected at Saturday’s federal election.

In the Coalition’s #PolicyCostings, released on Thursday, the “safe, sustainable and connected communities” section contained a pledge to “#redirect” $33.2m of Creative Australia’s annual #funding of $312m “to #MelbourneJewishArtsQuarter and supporting #broadcasting”.

The quarter is a planned new centre celebrating Jewish #arts, #culture, #food and #shopping in #Elsternwick in #Melbourne.”

Entitlement. Since the LNP has no policy, the funding could be more than the stated 10%.

#AusPol / #Liberal / #LNP / #LiberalNational / #ClaireChandler <theguardian.com/australia-news>

The Guardian · Coalition to cut 10% of Creative Australia funding to divert to Melbourne Jewish Arts QuarterBy Kelly Burke
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MediaFaro News Digest

Georgia's main independent TV channel closes.

The clampdown on Georgian media is accelerating.

Starting Thursday, 1 May, the opposition-aligned television channel Mtavari will cease broadcasting amid Tbilisi's growing rapprochement with Moscow and persecution of opponents by the pro-Russian governing party, Georgian Dream.

mediafaro.org/article/20250501

Le Monde · Georgia's main independent TV channel closes.By Emmanuel Grynszpan
#Georgia#Media#TV
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