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Greek PSB governance

I’ve been hunting for an English language description of the governance of the Greek PSB for a while now. I’ve found part of it:
The government introduced the broadcasting Law 230/1975 which abolished EIRT and, in its place, created Hellenic Radio and Television (ERT). ERT was a limited company whose only shareholder was the Greek […]

Posted 24 May 2007 † Chris § Greece § ERT § PSB ‡ Comments (0)

Observational equivalence

One of the measures of PSB independence I’m looking at is the turn-over rate of PSB directors-general, and specifically whether they often change within six months of a government change. The idea is that, if directors-general are appointed only for two years, or if they know they’ll be fired with a government change, they can’t […]

Posted 22 January 2007 † Chris § pollack § observational equivalence ‡ Comments (0)

Directors-General of European PSBs

Measures of central bank independence have sometimes used the rate of turnover of Central Bank Governors as an indicator of de facto independence (which, it turns out, is reasonably strongly correlated with de jure independence). How does it work for PSBs? The following table gives the average time in post of a number of PSB […]

Posted 23 November 2006 † Chris § nhk § orf § france § australia § japan § finland § nrk § yle § lottizzazione § canada § austria § norway § france televisions § appointments ‡ Comments (0)

RSS feed about the BBC

I’ve only just noticed that the BBC Press Office has an RSS feed for news about the BBC itself. It contains links to notices on appointments and other useful things.
The current items are rather confusing, because many of the ‘appointments’ are either (a) posts which have been re-named as part of Mark Thompson’s re-shuffle; or […]

Posted 10 October 2006 † Chris § BBC § appointments ‡ Comments (0)