European Television: Opportunity or Illusion? (PDF)

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: 9/10, Hogeschool Zeeland (Law/Recht), course: European Law, language: English, abstract: With the European Union and the growing importance of Media, it
is quite obvious to think of a European Channel, which could bring
different European cultures, interests and peoples together. As
one can look at this complex topic from many different angles, we
would like to divide our work into three parts in order to make it as
structured and as understandable as possible.
The first part consists of guidelines, regulations and restrictions by
the European Union, discussing the different interest of the
European Union and the individual Member States concerning
media issues.
In the second part we introduce two former European TV projects,
which failed because of several problems, such as cultural
differences.
Finally we focus on ARTE, the Franco-German corporation, which
is an example of cross-cultural communication within Europe by
creating a European cultural channel. We give a short overview
and discuss the difficulties, which can rise because of intercultural
differences.
Throughout the paper we try to get to an answer whether
European TV is an Opportunity or an Illusion?