Public Service Broadcasting as Cultural Industry

Value Transformation in the Finnish Market-Place

Bibliographic Data

ID7513651
AuthorsGregory Ferrell Lowe (0000-0003-2910-0876, corresponding author), Ari Alm
Year1997
Volume12
Issue2
Pages169-191
Publication date1997-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0267-3231 • E-ISSN: 1460-3705
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0267323197012002002
OpenAlexW2092833776
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited5

Value transformation in Finland's public service broadcasting company, Yleisradio Oy (YLE), is analysed as a professional market connected with political, popular and open markets. Innovative change in creative tension with traditional continuity informs a transformation dynamic. Prior to the 1990s continuity was a dominant force, but rapid change is characteristic today. The 1994 administrative restructuring was an organizational response to the 1993 Act on YLE, which was formulated in response to increasing media competition viewed as a potential threat to Finnish national culture. The interplay of political policy, organization structure and broadcasting practice indicates a tightly bundled set of concerns that highlight the dialectical, reflexive character of value transformation — a process that arbitrates the need for change with the need for continuity across a multiplicity of antagonistically cooperative markets. The authors conclude that the results explicitly reframe Finnish public service broadcasting as a culture industry

Advertising · Broadcasting (networking · Business · Cognitive reframing · Dialectic · Political science · Politics · Public broadcasting · Public relations · Public service · Restructuring · Sociology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Media Studies and Communication · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Law

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