Die,duale‘ Rundfunkordnung in der Kritik

Knorr Andreas and Winkler Katja

ORDO. Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 2000, vol. 51, issue 1, 317-354

Abstract: The public broadcasters in Germany are largely exempt from the pressures of competition. Their main source of revenue is the broadcasting fee which must be paid by every person who owns or hires a TV or radio set. What is more, the German Supreme Court has guaranteed their existence for good. This institutional arrangement is deemed necessary to allow them to inform, ‚educate, and entertain‘ the wide public free from political or interest group interference and from financial straits. This paper, however, demonstrates how and why the public broadcasters have spectacularly failed to deliver. Finally, it proposes a radical reform of Germany’s broadcasting policy along the lines of the New Zealand model.

Date: 2000
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