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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: RTBF
		RTBF or Radio télévision belge de la communauté française is the national broadcasting organisation of the government of the French-speaking southern part of Belgium, the counterpart to the Dutch-speaking VRT in the northern part of the country.
		On June 14, 1940 the INR was forced to cease broadcasting as a result of the German invasion.
		RTBF or Radio télévision belge de la communauté française is the publicly-funded broadcaster for the French-speaking southern part of Belgium, the counterpart to the Dutch-speaking VRT in the northern part of the country.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/RTBF (1125 words)

	Public broadcasting
		The original British Broadcasting Corporation, widely trusted even by citizens of the Axis, was widely emulated throughout the former British Empire and later Commonwealth: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Australian Broadcasting Corporation are simple applications of that model.
		While commercial broadcasters often use the word as if it were a category one could observe directly, public broadcasters are forced by their very mandate to justify their use of the word - the BBC at one point claimed it would label no one a "terrorist" as they considered it a political term.
		Public broadcasting sometimes serves simply to put voices or languages on the air that may otherwise be completely ignored, and sometimes due to a lack of voice, obliterated.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/p/pu/public_broadcasting.html (971 words)

	Public broadcasting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Some public broadcasters supplement this with contributions from corporations, which may be granted a limited amount of advertising time in return.
		The original British Broadcasting Corporation, widely trusted even by citizens of the Axis Powers during World War II, was widely emulated throughout the former British Empire and later Commonwealth: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Australian Broadcasting Corporation are simple applications of that model.
		Broadcasting foundations receive time to broadcast their programmes on the television- and radio channels, based on the amount of members.
	public-broadcasting.kiwiki.homeip.net (1589 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Public broadcasting
		Since public broadcasters do not rely on advertising as a source of revenue to the same degree as commerccial broadcasters, this allows public broadcasters to air programs that are less saleable to the mass market, such as public affairs shows, documentaries, and educational programs.
		The model, established in the 1920s, of the British Broadcasting Corporation – an organization widely trusted, even by citizens of the Axis Powers during World War II – was widely emulated throughout Europe, the British Empire, and later the Commonwealth.
		Following World War 2, when regional broadcasters had been merged into one national network by the Nazis to create a powerful means of propaganda, the Allies insisted on a de-centralized, independent structure for German public broadcasting and created regional public broadcasting agencies that, by and large, still exist today.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Public_broadcasting (3253 words)

	International Emmys Judging Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It’s publicly funded by a compulsory tax which you have to pay if you want to have a television in your house anywhere in the United Kingdom.
		But on top of being publicly funded, while totally independent of Government, the BBC is also a public service broadcaster which manages to be more popular than its commercial counterparts, which in turn upsets them.
		Public funding is a privilege which we, rightly, have to justify.
	www.iemmys.tv /GregDykeSpeech.html (2805 words)

	Tony Ball at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival
		Broadcasting was the preserve of the elites, who merely wished to use power for different objectives and in different interests.
		It is that publicly funded broadcasting in an age of spectrum abundance has to work harder than ever to justify itself to the taxpayer.
		For their part, commercial broadcasters argue that much of what the BBC shows is not any kind of antidote to market failure, since they themselves would be happy to run the same programmes.
	www.worldscreen.com /print.php?filename=ball.txt (6211 words)

	UNESCO >> WebWorld \| Communication and Information \| Public Service Broadcasting : A comparative Legal Survey \| ...
		These broadcasters have the potential to ensure that quality programmes covering a wide range of interests, and responding to the needs of all sectors of the population, are broadcast.
		Support for such broadcasters remains strong where they have managed to maintain their independence from government and other influences and where they are able to produce quality programming which complements that provided by the private sector.
		Broadcasting organisations which meet these conditions are frequently referred to as "public service broadcasting organisations" and a set of attributes has come to be associated with them.
	www.unesco.org /webworld/publications/mendel/intro.html (1368 words)

	Sveriges Television at AllExperts
		The Swedish public broadcasting system is in many respects modelled after the one used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Television shares many traits with its British counterpart, the BBC.
		When radio broadcasting was organized in the 1920s it was decided to adopt a model similar to the one of the British Broadcasting Company in the United Kingdom.
		SVT also broadcasts foreign programmes, primarily from the US and the UK, in original language with subtitles, as is the case on other Nordic TV channels.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/sv/sveriges_television.htm (1870 words)

	Public broadcasting at AllExperts
		Since public broadcasters do not rely on advertising as a source of revenue to the same degree as commerccial broadcasters, this allows public broadcasters to air programs that are less saleable to the mass market, such as public affairs shows, documentaries, and educational programs.
		While commercial broadcasters often use the word as if it were a category one could observe directly, public broadcasters are forced by their very mandate to justify their use of the word — the BBC at one point claimed it would label no one a "terrorist" as they considered it a political term.
		In Scandinavia, too, the public broadcasters Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Television in Sweden, NRK in Norway,TVE in Spain, YLE in Finland, and Danmarks Radio in Denmark are basically an application of the model used in Britain, funded by television licence fees and carrying no advertising.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pu/public_broadcasting.htm (3169 words)

	Broadcaster Salaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Broadcasting to curb large salaries for star presenters The BBC has been warned to curb the salaries paid to its star presenters as negotiations continue over a new licence fee for the publicly funded broadcaster.
		Paul and Jan Crouch who head the Trinity Broadcasting Network Crouch has grown TBN into the world’s largest religious broadcaster with more than 1 200 outlets Advocating for Better Salaries and Pay Equity Toolkit The Campaign for America?s Librarians They are teachers without a classroom.
		View Rick Sutcliffe's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines a Baseball Hall of Fame on line exhibit A number of senior journalists and radio presenters have left the state broadcaster citing poor salaries and deteriorating working conditions and more are news contemplating leaving.
	www.head420.com /broadcaster-salaries.htm (278 words)

	RTHK-Producers' Guidelines-contents-2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As such, it recognizes that its primary obligation is to serve the community of Hong Kong, and pledges to reflect the views of all sections of the population.
		RTHK is the broadcaster in the territory with the longest history of operation.
		No doubt the role of the public broadcaster is to offer quality and distinctiveness on top of its traditionally recognized aim to inform, educate and entertain.
	www.rthk.org.hk /about/guide/e2.htm (324 words)

	Children's Policy - Every Child Matters - Green Party
		Fund the scheme jointly by government contribution and an employer levy based on payroll (similar to ACC).
		Work with schools and communities to create a culture that does not tolerate any form of bullying or intimidation and ensure all school and early childhood centres have policies, practices and programmes to create a school culture that is inclusive and supports the elimination of prejudice, racism, bullying and violence.
		Require the Broadcasting Standards Authority to monitor and enforce the TV codes of broadcasting practice on the portrayal of violence, in particular the requirement that channels avoid screening programmes containing gratuitous violence (that which is not justified by the context).
	www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/policy5341.html (3115 words)

	Andrew Coyne - Let the viewers decide - cbcwatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Hence the familiar evils of private broadcasting: the tendency to the lowest common denominator, the indifference to specialized tastes, the monotonous sameness, all in pursuit of the broadest possible audience.
		In theory, a publicly funded broadcaster, without the necessity of courting advertisers, is freed to serve the audience, or rather audiences, in all their diversity.
		Still, it was probably useful to have publicly funded broadcasters, as an alternative to the ad-funded variety, especially in the days when there were only three or four to choose from.
	www.cbcwatch.ca /?q=node/view/1405 (802 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - UK - BBC to end final salary pensions for new entrants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The publicly funded broadcaster also aims to increase the contribution rates 21,000 of its employees have to pay for their pensions.
		The BBC pension fund is one of the country's largest, with over 6.4 billion pounds of assets, split 60 percent in equities, 30 percent in bonds and 10 percent in property.
		She said contributions by staff and the BBC had to rise from 11.5 percent of salaries today to 25 percent to meet the fund's obligations, with the BBC raising its payments to 17 percent from 7.5 percent.
	news.scotsman.com /latest_uk.cfm?id=602302006 (586 words)

	Free Press : Grade named as new BBC chairman
		In contrast, John Beyer, director of Mediawatch-UK, the broadcasting standards watchdog, said he was “dismayed” by the appointment.
		Rival broadcasters such as ITV and Five are likely to seek assurances that his business background will not signal a further increase of the BBC’s commercial operations.
		Mr Grade faces multiple challenges at the broadcaster, where internal morale was badly damaged by the Hutton report into the death of David Kelly.
	www.freepress.net /news/2988 (759 words)

	AKPCEP Articles: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING! by Villager
		That a publicly funded broadcaster should be so bound is probably unavoidable, but it does make a mockery of notions of independence.
		If a publicly funded broadcaster - the BBC - genuinely applied itself to this task, then the anomalous and unjustifiable licence fee would be well worth the money, however much one might baulk at the injustice of such a tax.
		It is the small publishers and broadcasters, whose raison d'être is to fill the void neglected by the BBC and its ilk, to which we must turn for our information and for criticism.
	www.akpcep.com /print.php?id=892 (805 words)

	The Ultimate BBC - American History Information Guide and Reference
		Its domestic programming and broadcasts are funded by levying television licence fees upon the owners of television sets.
		BBC Two was broadcast in colour from 1967, and was joined by BBC One in 1969.
		The principal means of funding the BBC is through the television licence.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/BBC (2651 words)

	Mediaweb:news service, PR service, South African media list and journalists online
		The British Broadcasting Corporation is under fierce political fire for the very reporting that made its name across the globe just as it prepares for a debate over its future.
		Blasted in the past as a leftist elite and threatened with having its funding withdrawn, the BBC is at the centre of a vicious row over a report that claimed Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office "sexed up" a dossier on Iraqi weapons.
		It is both publicly funded and overseen by a board of governors appointed by the state which has often meant that governments have expected more loyalty from it than from its rivals.
	www.mediaweb.co.za /mnews_j_.asp?id=2511 (499 words)

	domain-B : Indian business : companies : BBC pulls up at the YouTube platform
		The move adds weight to the argument that the BBC is moving away from its position as a publicly funded broadcaster and becoming a more commercially focused organisation.
		Despite this, the move adds to the argument that the BBC is moving away from its position as a publicly funded broadcaster and becoming a more commercially focused organisation.
		Considering that premium content is not available at launch, the primary motives for the partnership for the BBC at present are to use the platform as a promotions vehicle rather than as a platform to generate substantial revenue.
	domain-b.com /companies/companies_b/bbc_worldwide/20070309_platform.html (482 words)

	BIPA: British Internet Publishers Alliance
		The BBC's board of governors cannot be trusted to prevent the publicly-funded broadcaster from "sliding into the commercial vortex", the media industry was told in Scotland on Friday night by a leading television executive.
		David Liddiment, director of channels for ITV, the UK's principal commercial broadcaster, used the keynote MacTaggart speech at the Edinburgh television festival to call for the BBC to be independently regulated.
		He rounded on the broadcaster's controllers for chasing ratings, replicating commercial content and marginalising public interest programming.
	www.bipa.co.uk /getArticle.php?ID=38 (397 words)

	Rubberduck Media Lab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		BBC is the national publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom.
		BBC World is the BBC's commercially funded international 24-hour news and information channel broadcasting around the world from its base at BBC Television Centre in London.
		The NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) is Norway's major broadcasting institution with nine radio channels and two TV channels with an approx.
	www.rubberduckmedialab.com /partners.htm (884 words)

	RTBF - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		RTBF or Radio télévision belge de la communauté française is the publicly-funded broadcaster for the French-speaking southern part of Belgium, the counterpart to the Dutch-speaking VRT in the northern part of the country.
		With the law of June 18, 1930 appears the INR (Institut national belge de radiodiffusion), a national society of radio broadcasting with strong intervention from the Belgian State.
		On June 14, 1940 the INR stops the broadcast due to the German invasion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RTBF (424 words)

	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
		The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a national publicly-funded broadcaster based in the United Kingdom, which also has some international services.
		Sometimes affectionately known to local consumers as the "Beeb" or "Auntie", the BBC was for many years the only television and radio provider in the United Kingdom.
		The blast was later attributed to dissident Irish Republican terrorists and it is suggested the BBC Panorama programme which named individuals as participants in the Omagh bomb was the motive.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /BBC (4648 words)

	Newsreader backs call to save TVNZ - Bay of Plenty Times - Feb 15 2006 11:00AM - localnews
		Mr Sherry said he would not be tuning in to TVNZ again until the broadcaster recognised its responsibilities as a public body.
		The group was led by respected broadcaster Ian Johnstone, author James McNeish and the former vice-chancellor of Victoria University, Professor Les Holborow.
		Mr Sherry believed the channel had denied is responsibilities as a public broadcaster for a long time and holds a total disregard for what the public wants to see on their screens.
	www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz /localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3672684&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection= (493 words)

	Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		BRT was only broadcasting Dutch language programs whereas RTBF, the public broadcaster of Wallonia, was only broadcasting French language programs.
		Ketnet and Canvas share a single tv channel, the former broadcasting from noon till the early afternoon, and the latter in the evening and night, the channel formerly known as BRTN TV 2.
		All channels are also broadcast live over the Internet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/VRT (487 words)

	BBC - WikiCG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, also known as the Beeb or Auntie), founded in 1922 as British Broadcasting Company, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world by means of a royal charter.
		It produces programmes and broadcasts on television, radio and the Internet, and the motto of the BBC is Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation.
		Its domestic programming and broadcasts are funded by levying television licence fees upon the owners of television sets.
	www.wikicg.com /wiki/index.php/BBC (649 words)

	ipedia.com: BBC Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Post Office (under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904) was responsible for the issuing of broadcasting licences, but in 1919 it stopped issuing new licences due to the large number of complaints of interference to military communications from the Armed Forces.
		The fees are to ensure that the BBC is sufficiently funded to provide for the British public high quality and diverse media content designed to "educate, inform and entertain" as per the remit of its charter.
		In December of 1967 it became the first regular television channel in Europe to broadcast in colour, using the German PAL system that is still in use today although being gradually superseded by digital systems.
	www.ipedia.com /bbc.html (4566 words)

	exchange4media
		Meanwhile the role of State-funded broadcasters is being re-examined around the world in light of recent developments such as the growth in the number of private broadcasters, satellite and cable technology, digital television and what has come to be known as Convergence Era.
		The State funding gives the Broadcasters the opportunity to be creative and take risks in programming which may not be possible for private broadcasters.
		There is also a need to generate greater public debate within the region about public broadcasting, and to spread awareness among media, policy makers and the viewers and to look at the legal, technical, political and commercial hurdles in strengthening public broadcasting in the region and to learn from the success stories.
	www.exchange4media.com /e4m/hollywood/hollywood.asp (1393 words)

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