Focus On: The future of the Czech Republic’s public media
Big changes are coming to public media in the Czech Republic, from significant budget cuts to planned amendments of the public media act.
Czech Republic: Independence of public broadcasters must be insulated against future attacks
Joint statement calling on the Czech Government to live up to its promises to strengthen the independence of public broadcasters ahead of its EU presidency.
Das Tschechische Fernsehen (Česká Televize) in Gefahr
Die ‘Global Task Force for public media’ (GTF) ist tief besorgt über die jüngsten Entwicklungen in Tschechien, die die Unabhängigkeit des Tschechischen Fernsehens (Česká Televize, CT) und seine maßgebliche Rolle für die Demokratie des Landes zu untergraben drohen.
PMA condemns attempts to undermine the independence of Czech TV
The Public Media Alliance endorses statements by the Global Task Force for public media, EBU and MFRR against the politicisation of Czech public broadcaster.
Threats to media independence continue across Central Europe
“Backslide”. This seems to be the word most used to describe what’s happening to public broadcasting and independent media in parts of central Europe.