Legal, Financial and Administrative Issues

This publication summarizes discussions of SAARC sub regional meeting on public service broadcasting, which was organized by AIBD, under the auspices of UNESCO. The meeting was an integral part of an on-going European and Asian Dialogue on Public Service Broadcasting, which was initiated in November 1999 in Manila.

Date of Publication : July, 2001
Pages: ix+ 95 pages
Price: On request
Published by: AIBD

Contents:

Preface
Opening Speeches
Legislative and Regulatory Framework
International and National Laws/Toby Mendel
Legal Aspects of PSB in Sri Lanka/Chandana Prematilake
Issues of Finance and Administration
Financing Public Service Broadcasting Systems/Dr. Manfred Kops
The Experience of Sri Lanka/C.N.W. Dissanayake
The Experience of Nepal/Shailendra Raj Sharma
The Experience of Pakistan/Anwar Mahmood
The Experience of Bangladesh/M.I. Choudhury
The ITN Experience/Newton Gunaratne
Looking to the Future
Models of PSB/Reinhard Keune
Public Service Broadcasting:
Creative, credible and less cumbersome/Arne Fjortoft
Media in Change: Where do we go from here?/Rainer Welzel
Using PSB for Education/Wijayananda Jayaweera
PSB in Sri Lanka: Where are we headed?/D.E.W. Gunasekera
Future Developments in Technology/Rainer Welzel
Future Development of Public Service Broadcasting/Petko Kanchev

Ms. Sucharita Eashwar is formerly Vice-President of
AMARC (World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters)
and has been involved in policy advocacy and on media and
telecom issues and editing a journal on communication and
development. She is currently working with a Bangalore-based
information technology company. She may be contacted at:
Sucharita.Eashwar@TRIGYN.com

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