The committee on public service broadcasting in Sweden recommends that the name of the television licence fee ‘tv-avgift’ be changed to ‘public-service avgift’ in order not to annoy people when they pay avgifter on their laptops.
Update: the report is now available. Additional elements include VAT payment on the licence fee, with the differencein funds for […]
My interview this morning with Erik Fichtelius started with a misunderstanding: I had implied that he had come from the party press, when in fact he had been a foreign correspondent with Aftonbladet - hardly the same thing. He went further though, and said that I had the wrong outlook on journalism in Sweden: the […]
Former SVT CEO Christina Jutterström has suggested that SR and SVT should be merged, arguing that separate radio and television companies are an anachronism in the modern age. Current SVT CEO Eva Hamilton says it’s a “political question” , which is a polite way of saying that SVT is interested; SR CEO Kerstin Brunnberg rejects […]
Two items connected by disregard for ethics. In Sweden, a TV4 journalist undermines the country’s reputation for probity for accepting bribes to portray favourably a criminal investigation under appeal. According to Le Monde:
Dans la première affaire, le plaignant affirme que le journaliste de TV4 aurait touché 43 500 euros pour diffuser un reportage afin d’aider […]
Despite the awful (brutalist) architecture outside, I spent an enjoyable afternoon being shown around Sveriges Television (SVT) today. The building itself - the TV-hus - is large, with six stages and a large props department. The wisdom of having stages, carpentry and costume teams in what is relatively expensive real estate north of Djurgarden and […]
Establishment of public broadcasters by charters has its upsides and its downsides.
Upsides: it maintains the independence of the broadcaster.
Downsides: I have to read through Sweden’s 1996 Television and Radio Law, the 2007 Licence Agreement, and the Supplement to the Licence Agreement, before finding that none of them contain anything on the governance of SVT.
Thankfully, this […]
I’m currently waiting on the data from Journalist ‘05, a regular (every five years) survey of Swedish journalists, which are as I write being turned into book form by Prof. Kent Asp and colleagues. In the meantime, here are some results from the 2000 survey:
Public
Journalists
SVT Journalists
Left
15
31
33
Social Democrats
32
27
23
Centre
4
3
2
People’s Party
5
14
17
Moderates
25
10
6
Greens
6
10
14
Christian Democrats
13
5
5
Journalists in general are more left-libertarian […]
Eva Hamilton, SVT’s Head of Fiction, was last Friday appointed Director General of the Swedish public broadcaster. With experience in SVT’s News department, she comes to SVT after having worked for Aftonbladet (”independent social democrat”) and Svenska Dagbladet (”independent, conservative”) [Source for these judgements: BBC Media monitoring].
Nordicom Review 1-2/2004 - Publication: “Mass Media, Interpersonal Communication or Personal Experience? Perceptions of Media Effects among Swedish Politicians” - is an interesting article demonstrating that politicians are far more likely than the general population to be believe that the mass media is extremely influential slash decisive in forming people’s political views - something I’ve […]
I’m hoping to include Sveriges Television as one of my cases in my PhD. I had thought that Nordic stoicism might make SVT less interesting than, say, Rai or RTVE. Not if Rapport keeps putting out news like this it won’t be.
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