Covid-19 and public service media: Impact of the pandemic on public television in Europe | Zendy

José Miguel Túñez López | Zendy; Martín Vaz-Álvarez | Zendy; César Fieiras Ceide | Zendy

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Covid-19 and public service media: Impact of the pandemic on public television in Europe

Author(s) -

José Miguel Túñez López,

Martín Vaz-Álvarez,

César Fieiras Ceide

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

el profesional de la informacion

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.698

H-Index - 28

eISSN - 1699-2407

pISSN - 1386-6710

DOI - 10.3145/epi.2020.sep.18

Subject(s) - public broadcasting , european union , journalism , public service , political science , pandemic , covid-19 , service (business) , broadcasting (networking) , public relations , business , advertising , marketing , medicine , international trade , computer network , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , computer science

This article analyses the response of European Public Service Media to the crisis caused by Covid-19, especially the impact of the pandemic on Europe's major public broadcasters, with a particular focus on technical and professional constraints, alterations in audience volume and habits, production strategies, type of broadcast content and journalists' routines The research is based on public information from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and 19 in-depth, structured interviews with a convenience sample of innovation and strategy managers from public broadcasters in Austria (ORF), Belgium (VRT and RTBF), Denmark (DR), Finland (YLE), France (France TV), Germany (ARD and ZDF), Great Britain (BBC), Ireland (RTE), Italy (RAI), Netherlands (NPO), Portugal (RTP), Spain (RIVE), Sweden (SV7), Switzerland (RTS) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) The results indicate that the corporate projection of PSM was increased by emphasising their role as essential services and their defence of the values that characterise them The pandemic forced the adaptation of programme production from technical standards to an emotional approach, accelerating a formal hybridisation with native online contents Dependence on software grew and newsmaking processes were altered towards 'remote journalism' Changes are drawn that may be maintained in the future

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