The Palgrave Handbook of European Media Policy

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: European Media Policy as a Complex Maze of Actors, Regulatory Instruments and Interests....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Analyzing European Media Policy: Stakeholders and Advocacy Coalitions....Pages 19-35
Convergence, Co-evolution and Complexity in European Communications Policy....Pages 36-53
Identity and Diversity in European Media Policy: Crisis Changes Everything(?)....Pages 54-69
Old and New Issues in Media Economics....Pages 70-95
Between Economic Objectives and Public Remit: Positive and Negative Integration in European Media Policy....Pages 96-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Genesis and Rationales for European Intervention in Media....Pages 113-127
Focal Points of European Media Policy from Inception till Present: Plus Ça change?....Pages 128-142
Another People: Communication Policy and the Europe of Citizens....Pages 143-171
Television, Cohesion and the EU....Pages 172-186
The Cultural Facet of the EU Media Policy: Matching Rhetoric to Reality?....Pages 187-201
Here Comes the Revolution — the European Digital Agenda....Pages 202-217
The ECJ as Agenda Setter in European Audiovisual Media Policy....Pages 218-238
Small States and European Media Policy....Pages 239-253
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Convergence and the Diversity of European Television Systems....Pages 257-296
The Television Without Frontiers Directive....Pages 297-311
Audiovisual Media Services 3.0: (Re)defining the Scope of European Broadcasting Law in a Converging and Connected Media Environment....Pages 312-328
The Best Defense is a Good Offense: Putting the European in European-Level Film Support....Pages 329-344
Of High Hopes and High Deficit: An Overview of Europe’s HDTV Policy and Reflections: Towards the Future of HDTV....Pages 345-359
Radio Spectrum Policy in the EU: Concepts, Trends, Issues....Pages 360-381
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
‘Are You Sure/That We Are Awake?’: European Media Policy and Copyright....Pages 382-401
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
The Reasons for Intervention through Competition Policy....Pages 405-425
European State-Aid Control and PSB: Competition Policy Clashing or Matching with Public Interest Objectives?....Pages 426-441
The Impact of EU Competition Policy on the Sale of Sports Media Rights: Trends and Developments at the National Level....Pages 442-460
Pluralism, Media Mergers and European Merger Control....Pages 461-475
Front Matter....Pages 477-477
Trade versus Culture: The Policy of Cultural Exception and the WTO....Pages 479-492
European Media Policy and Cultural Diversity at the International Level: The EU’s Role in Fostering the Implementation of the 2005 UNESCO Convention....Pages 493-508
Mainstreaming Culture in EU External Relations through Protocols on Cultural Cooperation: Fostering or Faltering Cultural Diversity?....Pages 509-525
The European Audiovisual Policy Goes Abroad: The Case of Inter-regional Cooperation with Mercosur....Pages 526-541
Back Matter....Pages 542-552