Tom Evens
Biographic Data
| ID | 183864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Evens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Evens |
| SIGNATURE | EVENS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7274-7432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Develop, Regulate and Switch-Off
This article examines the transition from analogue (FM) to digital radio (DAB+) in Europe, focusing on policy frameworks designed to address coordination problems that impede DAB+ market development. Furthermore, it analyses the regulatory implications of multiplex licensing, and elaborates on the social and economic complexities of a potential FM switch-off. It argues that successful digital radio development requires strong, government-led inte…
The Platformisation of Sports Broadcasting
Using Belgium’s top-tier domestic football competition, the Pro League, as a case study, this article analyses the impact of platformisation on the structure of the sports broadcasting value chain and identifies a parallel process of streamification and broadcastification. Based on semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, the article illustrates that sports media rights can be seen as the latest front in the streaming wars. It highlights…
Public service media and sport in the age of platforms
In Europe and beyond, coverage of sporting events and competitions has long been a highly valued part of the programming mix offered by public service media. For PSM, sport (and particularly live sports coverage) provides a way to bring communities and/or the nation together, as well to reach audiences that are otherwise often under-served by PSM, such as lower-income groups. However, over the last decade or so, the ability of PSM organisations t…
Influencer culture and the changing face of sport and media
This crosscurrent explores how influencer culture, shaped by Generation Z and Alpha’s distinct media practices, is reshaping the commercial and cultural foundations of sport. Through recent empirical cases, we argue that a paradigmatic shift is underway in the sport–media nexus, wherein content untethered from elite athleticism can generate immense audiences and commercial outcomes by privileging personality, virality and platform-native entertai…
The FM radio switch-off and the need for sustainable and inclusive digital radio policy
AI Divides in Newsrooms? How Journalists in the Low Countries Use and Perceive Generative AI
Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) is seen as a catalyst for a new era in journalism: AI-supported journalism. Its ability to automate and enhance traditional journalistic tasks offers potential for more efficient news reporting. This study aims to map the current use of genAI and assess its adoption potential among journalists. An online survey (N = 286) was conducted in Belgium and the Netherlands to explore how journalists use and perc…
Extending the quadruple articulation framework to study media use moments
Unlock a better life
Instagram has become a primary platform via which life coaches establish a relationship with potential clients and advertise their professional services. In this study, we draw from Bourdieu’s work on taste and capital to unravel how life coaches capitalize on the affordances of Instagram to generate legitimacy and credibility for their profession. Drawing from a one-month observation of 1,650 posts collected from 20 Instagram profiles of life co…
Technological affordances of video streaming platforms
This article investigates to what extent technological affordances are associated with people's preference for video streaming platforms over traditional television services. Such affordances refer to properties of these platforms (including personalized recommendations and easy-to-navigate interfaces) that provoke certain uses of the technology and satisfy social and psychological needs. Based on a quantitative study of 25–50-year-olds in Belgiu…
Generation Stream
This article aims to unravel modes of audiovisual consumption of teenagers (13–17-year-olds) in the era of connected viewing. Based on a mixed-method design the research seeks to unpack the complex interplay between four increasingly varying articulations that each shape the overall meaning and nature of audiovisual consumption: platform, screen, content and context. In the era of almost infinite media choice, the results demonstrate that teenage…
Social Media Entertainment
Review of: Social Media Entertainment: The New Intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley , Stuart Cunningham and David Craig (2019) New York: New York University Press, 368 pp., ISBN 978-1-47984-689-4, p/bk, $30.00
Applying contextual integrity to digital contact tracing and automated triage for hospitals during Covid-19
If you can't beat them, be them
Faced with heavy competition of global subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) streaming services, along with increased pressure on fi nancing and distribution of domestic content, legacy media players are increasingly exploring the potential of local SVOD services as domestic alternatives to global platforms such as Netflix and Disney+, often in collaboration with other European broadcasters and/or distributors.This article presents an in-depth case…
Platform policies in the European Union
This article examines which platform policies the European Commission has developed over the last couple of years and whether its policies are taking into account the differences in platform power. We first identify the main structures of platform power. Secondly, we confront the European Commission’s policies affecting media and communication platforms with those structures. Thirdly, we discuss whether what the European Commission is doing will …
Regulating digital platform power
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DAB+ as a systemic innovation
Radio is on the brink of a digital wave brought about by the introduction of digital audio broadcasting (DAB+). Despite market success in a few European countries, there remains little evidence of industry support and consumer demand. By means of a stakeholder analysis, the article identifies the main stakeholders in the implementation of digital radio in the region of Flanders, to recognise tensions between public and private interests and to di…
Platform Power and Policy in Transforming Television Markets
Media Economics and Transformation in a Digital Europe
Business models under pressureIn contemporary media and communications industries, competition is intensifying following an explosion of digital content and platforms, on-going globalisation and market fragmentation, and constantly changing media consumer preferences and habits.Despite the growing concentration of ownership (i.e., more media are in the hands of a few groups), the total amount of media outlets in Europe continues to grow, and crea…
Sports viewership goes down
Challenges for sustaining local audio-visual ecosystems
Various trends, both technological and economic in nature, have led to a shift in the financing and production of serial television fiction (principally television drama and episodic comedy), resulting in pressure on existing financing of TV fiction. These pressures prove especially difficult for small nations and regions, being characterized by restricted markets, a limited number of active players, and barriers for export and scale. For media p…
The next big match
Using examples from a number of different European countries, this article analyses the increasingly prominent position of traditional telecommunications companies, such as British Telecom (UK), Deutsche Telekom (Germany), France Telecom/Orange (France) and Telefonica (Spain), in the contemporary sports media rights market. The first part of the article examines the commercial strategies of telecommunications operators and highlights how their ac…
VRM symposium on vertical integration and its impact on TV value chains
The Informal Media Economy
The regulation of television sports broadcasting
Based on seven different sports broadcasting markets (Australia, Brazil, Italy, India, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States), this article provides a comparative analysis of the regulation of television sports broadcasting. The article examines how contrasting perspectives on television and sport – economic and sociocultural – have been reflected in two main approaches to the regulation of sports broadcasting, namely competition law…
Broadcast Yourself
This article focuses on the practice of self-tracking of physical activity data and sharing it via social networking sites. The use of wearable technology devices and the latest smartphones with built-in GPS tracking technology - capturing the speed, distance and duration of physical activities such as running and cycling - is a striking example of the trend towards quantifying sports performances. The study explores the determinants and motivati…
Watching the Football Game
In Europe, heavy competition between broadcasters for sports broadcasting rights and consumer’s attention has raised policy questions concerning both competition and content issues. Exclusivity of sports broadcasting rights may foreclose new media markets and deprive the public access to major sports coverage. This interdisciplinary article is at the crossroad of media, economic, and regulatory studies, and it aims at providing a more holistic an…
If you can't beat them, be them
Faced with heavy competition of global subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) streaming services, along with increased pressure on fi nancing and distribution of domestic content, legacy media players are increasingly exploring the potential of local SVOD services as domestic alternatives to global platforms such as Netflix and Disney+, often in collaboration with other European broadcasters and/or distributors.This article presents an in-depth case…
Balancing Public and Private Value for the Digital Television Era
As the digital switchover is the result of the dynamic interplay between economic, social and political interests, this article reflects on the role of all stakeholders involved in the switch to digital television services. It aims to discuss the trade-off between public and private policy interests focussing on strategies for preparing the transition process and the digital take-off as well as on future opportunities that become available in the…
Archives in motion
Influencer culture and the changing face of sport and media
This crosscurrent explores how influencer culture, shaped by Generation Z and Alpha’s distinct media practices, is reshaping the commercial and cultural foundations of sport. Through recent empirical cases, we argue that a paradigmatic shift is underway in the sport–media nexus, wherein content untethered from elite athleticism can generate immense audiences and commercial outcomes by privileging personality, virality and platform-native entertai…
Broadcast Yourself
This article focuses on the practice of self-tracking of physical activity data and sharing it via social networking sites. The use of wearable technology devices and the latest smartphones with built-in GPS tracking technology - capturing the speed, distance and duration of physical activities such as running and cycling - is a striking example of the trend towards quantifying sports performances. The study explores the determinants and motivati…
Attracting the un-served audience
Digital television services not only provide promise for interactive services, but also for long tail-based business models in terms of tailor-made content. As the share of culture in total linear television programming is diminishing owing to the supremacy of audience rating concerns, digital television services could act as an alternative gateway to deliver culture to a wider audience. This article presents the results of a market pilot study u…
Technological affordances of video streaming platforms
This article investigates to what extent technological affordances are associated with people's preference for video streaming platforms over traditional television services. Such affordances refer to properties of these platforms (including personalized recommendations and easy-to-navigate interfaces) that provoke certain uses of the technology and satisfy social and psychological needs. Based on a quantitative study of 25–50-year-olds in Belgiu…
Platform policies in the European Union
This article examines which platform policies the European Commission has developed over the last couple of years and whether its policies are taking into account the differences in platform power. We first identify the main structures of platform power. Secondly, we confront the European Commission’s policies affecting media and communication platforms with those structures. Thirdly, we discuss whether what the European Commission is doing will …
Regulating digital platform power
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The regulation of television sports broadcasting
Based on seven different sports broadcasting markets (Australia, Brazil, Italy, India, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States), this article provides a comparative analysis of the regulation of television sports broadcasting. The article examines how contrasting perspectives on television and sport – economic and sociocultural – have been reflected in two main approaches to the regulation of sports broadcasting, namely competition law…
From hero to zero
In this article, we analyze to what degree a situation of ruinous competition or commercialism affects the economic viability of local radio in Flanders and its duty to supply societal diversity. By examining evidence from both quantitative and qualitative survey approaches, we found that many idealistic, non-commercial stations were pushed out of the market by the rise of large-scale networks and that the overall financial performance of these s…
Extending the quadruple articulation framework to study media use moments
Applying contextual integrity to digital contact tracing and automated triage for hospitals during Covid-19
DAB+ as a systemic innovation
Radio is on the brink of a digital wave brought about by the introduction of digital audio broadcasting (DAB+). Despite market success in a few European countries, there remains little evidence of industry support and consumer demand. By means of a stakeholder analysis, the article identifies the main stakeholders in the implementation of digital radio in the region of Flanders, to recognise tensions between public and private interests and to di…
Sports viewership goes down
Local radio in Europe
Need for a cohesive radio policyConsidering its contribution to the promotion of media diversity and democracy, noncommercial local radio is gradually being recognized and funded as third tier media by an increasing number of European countries.After 30 years of campaigning for institutional support and funding, community media have finally found their place in European media policy (Jiménez and Scifo, 2010).Despite these promising policy and reg…
Messengers of Divinity in Nuerland Nuer Prophets
From hero to zero
In this article, we analyze to what degree a situation of ruinous competition or commercialism affects the economic viability of local radio in Flanders and its duty to supply societal diversity. By examining evidence from both quantitative and qualitative survey approaches, we found that many idealistic, non-commercial stations were pushed out of the market by the rise of large-scale networks and that the overall financial performance of these s…
Value Networks and Changing Business Models for the Digital Television Industry
Industry architecture and business models in the broadcastingindustry are being increasingly transformed by digitization and conver-gence. While technology and policy have lowered entry barriers for new competitors in today’s media ecosystem, incumbents are deploying strategies for preserving market power and reinventing bottlenecks. Thisarticle analyzes the impact of digitization on industry architectures and emphasizes one of most obvious strat…
Training school for early-stage researchers, Lisbon, Portugal
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Attracting the un-served audience
Digital television services not only provide promise for interactive services, but also for long tail-based business models in terms of tailor-made content. As the share of culture in total linear television programming is diminishing owing to the supremacy of audience rating concerns, digital television services could act as an alternative gateway to deliver culture to a wider audience. This article presents the results of a market pilot study u…
Balancing Public and Private Value for the Digital Television Era
As the digital switchover is the result of the dynamic interplay between economic, social and political interests, this article reflects on the role of all stakeholders involved in the switch to digital television services. It aims to discuss the trade-off between public and private policy interests focussing on strategies for preparing the transition process and the digital take-off as well as on future opportunities that become available in the…
Watching the Football Game
In Europe, heavy competition between broadcasters for sports broadcasting rights and consumer’s attention has raised policy questions concerning both competition and content issues. Exclusivity of sports broadcasting rights may foreclose new media markets and deprive the public access to major sports coverage. This interdisciplinary article is at the crossroad of media, economic, and regulatory studies, and it aims at providing a more holistic an…
Archives in motion
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No big deal!? Live Nation's impact on the Belgian festival market
The live music and festival industries are undergoing globalization challenges similar to other creative industries, but the impact of global live music promoters on local markets seems to be flying under the radar of scholarly attention. To open up debate on the impact of global live music promoters on local popular music festival markets, this article seeks to conduct an exploratory study including empirical data on this matter. As Live Nation,…
Mobile television in Italy
Several years ago, the mobile and audio-visual industry was betting on Digital Video Broadcasting – Handheld (DVB-H) and mobile television as the newest growth opportunity. But today, commercial deployments are scarce and end-user adoption is below expectations. This article focuses on developments within the Italian market, known as the best developed market for mobile television services in Europe. Making a case study analysis, the article aims…
Local radio in Europe
Need for a cohesive radio policyConsidering its contribution to the promotion of media diversity and democracy, noncommercial local radio is gradually being recognized and funded as third tier media by an increasing number of European countries.After 30 years of campaigning for institutional support and funding, community media have finally found their place in European media policy (Jiménez and Scifo, 2010).Despite these promising policy and reg…
Dynamics of the Media and Content Industries, Brussels, 25–26 October 2012
Disruptive innovation in the ICT industries, Brussels, 22–25 June 2014
Reflections on the European Media Management Association Conference, Bournemouth, UK, 12–15 June 2013
Co-opetition of TV broadcasters in online video markets
This article focuses on TV broadcasters adopting co-opetition strategies for launching online video services. It is claimed that the emergence of online video platforms like YouTube and Netflix is driving TV broadcasters to collaborate with their closest competitors to reduce costs and reach the necessary scale in the global marketplace. The article sheds light on online video platforms that were developed following a co-opetition strategy (Hulu …
VRM symposium on vertical integration and its impact on TV value chains
The Informal Media Economy
The regulation of television sports broadcasting
Based on seven different sports broadcasting markets (Australia, Brazil, Italy, India, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States), this article provides a comparative analysis of the regulation of television sports broadcasting. The article examines how contrasting perspectives on television and sport – economic and sociocultural – have been reflected in two main approaches to the regulation of sports broadcasting, namely competition law…
Broadcast Yourself
This article focuses on the practice of self-tracking of physical activity data and sharing it via social networking sites. The use of wearable technology devices and the latest smartphones with built-in GPS tracking technology - capturing the speed, distance and duration of physical activities such as running and cycling - is a striking example of the trend towards quantifying sports performances. The study explores the determinants and motivati…
Challenges for sustaining local audio-visual ecosystems
Various trends, both technological and economic in nature, have led to a shift in the financing and production of serial television fiction (principally television drama and episodic comedy), resulting in pressure on existing financing of TV fiction. These pressures prove especially difficult for small nations and regions, being characterized by restricted markets, a limited number of active players, and barriers for export and scale. For media p…
The next big match
Using examples from a number of different European countries, this article analyses the increasingly prominent position of traditional telecommunications companies, such as British Telecom (UK), Deutsche Telekom (Germany), France Telecom/Orange (France) and Telefonica (Spain), in the contemporary sports media rights market. The first part of the article examines the commercial strategies of telecommunications operators and highlights how their ac…
Sports viewership goes down
Platform Power and Policy in Transforming Television Markets
Media Economics and Transformation in a Digital Europe
Business models under pressureIn contemporary media and communications industries, competition is intensifying following an explosion of digital content and platforms, on-going globalisation and market fragmentation, and constantly changing media consumer preferences and habits.Despite the growing concentration of ownership (i.e., more media are in the hands of a few groups), the total amount of media outlets in Europe continues to grow, and crea…
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