Hot Topic - Ukraine Media

Order Is a State Of Mind, Friction Adds Sparks, Gravity Adds Necessity - November 18, 2019
Media regulators give priority to order over disruption. This makes for nice meetings as the constituencies, too, like order, usually for their own needs. Things at rest, though, tend to fall apart. But inertia, as students of physics learn, relates to friction and gravity. Sometimes intervention is the only solution. Cue John Bercow./

Monochrome Telecom Exits Colorful Broadcast Group - October 29, 2019
As the Soviet bloc crumbled in Eastern Europe great opportunity opened. Western investors, many with broadcasting and publishing experience, seized the chance as old state structures vanished. They brought money and talent. Success was at hand. Things changed. In the last decade or so, many of these investors walked away. Some ran. Most, now, are gone. The tales are illuminating.

TV Is All That Matters - October 1, 2019
Disregard, please, the dire warnings of intertwined social and mobile media spinning a web around television and strangling it. Technology people or advertising people or advertising technology people plant most of this. TV will remain the leading mass media around the globe for a few more years, at least until the next climate event. People really don’t like interacting, particularly with bots. It’s what they do for work or what passes for work. People like to be amused or, at least, distracted. The TV people know this.

Television Is Filled With Interesting People - July 29, 2019
Television still has everyone’s attention. Around the world, people are totally engrossed in whatever TV has to offer. Some tell social scientists that watching television is the happiest time of their day. The advertising people know this. Others are learning.

Reporting On Elections Widely Observed - March 29, 2019
The disinformation stove-pot is piping hot. Every election is a new opportunity. There is both popular and political pressure to turn down the heat. Activist writers posing as journalists have always added fuel to flames. The result is to be expected.

Reform Bogged Down, Experts Called - August 7, 2015
Forming a new public broadcasting system from old State institutions is never as simple as passing a law and changing the letterhead. All European public broadcasters have, in their own way, made that transition. But time entrenches all institutions and change is never easy.