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Don’t blame the independent producers --- Michael Hedges July 23, 2007 The agonized whinging from BBC critics, honorably not other broadcasters, bemoan the lost days when broadcasters produced everything they aired. That system ended sometime in the last century. That day came when one general director after another asked that very important – and so very ‘80’s – question: What business are we in? |
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Mix Culture and Economics, Then Half-Bake --- Michael Hedges - October 12, 2006 The bomb shell that was DG Info Commissioner Reding’s first draft revising of the parchment era Television Without Frontiers directive a year ago still spews its’ sparks. European media rules, it seemed, will be platform neutral. The sub-text, of course, was to bring on-line media in line with all the broad EU level rules, enforced or not, that make European media the unique creature it is. |
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Raging At And For Ownership Rules --- Michael Hedges March 25, 2013 - Follow on Twitter Long accepted economic theory holds that actors in specific market sectors seek to consolidate, as those sectors mature, in search of economies of scale. Consolidation is self-limiting, though, because monopolies are inefficient. The media sector, it's often argued, is different, not like airlines, oil, banks or pizzas. |
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Radio license dispute condemned by US Congress --- Michael Hedges December 11, 2009 - Follow on Twitter The dispute over national radio license renewals in Hungary, with suspected political intrigue, has spilled over to the United States Congress. Political and media watchers in Hungary have been surprised by international expressions of concern after US-based broadcaster Emmis International and Austrian investment fund Accession Mezzanine Capital lost license renewal applications. While both firms pursue legal remedies the political heat on the Hungarian government is rising. |
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Adaptation Is Not Transformation --- Michael Hedges May 29, 2017 - Follow on Twitter Revising media rules from the depths of the last century for today's digital consumer preferences challenges the best and brightest legal minds. There is great and valuable logic in adapting what has gone before, not to forget warm fuzzy comfort. But rule makers are inevitably frustrated when the world changes before the ink dries on their latest remedy. A linear process disintegrates in complexity. |
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