Community television
Community television is a form of
Community
Community television by country
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication is promoting the advocacy with the government in relations to community Television with other organizations since its emergence from 2011. BNNRC has been addressing the Community Television access issue for over a decade, helping to bridge the information gap in Bangladesh
Brazil
In Brazil, in the 1980s, it appeared as a Free TV, also called Street TV, characterized by the production of educational-cultural videos for exhibition in a closed circuit or in public square, as a proposal of the struggles for redemocratization of the country. Today, a community television are operated across by Conditional Access Service (pay-TV), a public concession for free use by nongovernmental entities, in the cable TV system or in the Citizenship Channel (in terrestrial digital TV). There are about 90 TVs. Each television is formed by an association of entities. It is a channel provided for in Brazilian laws: No. 8977/1995 and No. 12485/2011.[1][2]
Canada
Most community channels in
Indonesia
Since late 2002, community television in Indonesia is regulated as Community Broadcasting Institution (Indonesian: Lembaga Penyiaran Komunitas or LPK). One of the oldest local TV channels in Indonesia, Publik Khatulistiwa TV, first originated as a community television before it became a limited company in 2001.
Ireland
Community television is in its infancy in Ireland. Licensing is administered by the
As well as the above, there are also web based channels which are likely to become more dominant in the not too distant future as broadband coverage and quality improves (and as the technologies converge). Examples of these are Teilifis Gaeltacht Muscrai (TGM) based in the rural Irish speaking WestCork Gaeltacht, and Fingal Community TV based in Dublin.
United Kingdom
Probably the longest standing community television service in the UK is Swindon Viewpoint, which is over 40 years old. It claims to operate according to the "core community TV principles of access and accountability", and its board is elected by its public. For a list of other channels, see the related category page.
United States
Public, educational and government access television is a form of
References
- ^ CAMPOS, Maria Alice. (2017) Televisão comunitária e o exercício da liberdade de expressão: uma abordagem no âmbito da CPLP (dissertation by the University Nova de Lisboa)
- ^ CAMPOS & MELO (2017). Anões na terra dos gigantes: A comunicação comunitária televisiva no Brasil. Lisboa: Frenavatec. 165 páginas