%0 Book Section
%T Introduction - The Relevance of Public Service Media in Europe
publisher Routledge 
%D 2015
%U 978-1-138-01785-6 (hbk)
%U 978-1-138-02068-9 (pbk)
%U 978-1-315-72229-0 (ebk)
%@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/101392
%X For decades Public Service Media (PSM) have been the basis of European broadcasting, a pillar of all democratic broadcast models in the Western world and an essential actor to promoting national audiovisual diversity, pluralism and multi-platform leadership. Many authors have theorized about these and other factors concerning PSM in Europe, spanning Tracey (1998), Syvertsen (1992, 2003), Syvertsen and Hallvard (2008), Jakubowicz (2008), Humphreys (1996, 2008, and 2009), and more recently Lowe (2010), Lowe and Edelvold Berg (2013), Lowe and Martin (2014) and Picard and Siciliani (2013). Having been called ‘the pillar of Europeism that unifies all states and nations’ (Lohmus 2013/14), it is an undeniable fact that PSM are an issue that has caught the attention of authors and academics.
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