Abstract
With regard to the broadcasting sector, a distinction is often made between the viewer as a citizen and the viewer as a consumer. The viewer as a consumer resides in the market-based domain. Its interests will be referred to in terms of economic goals, such as choice, price, quality of service and value for money. The viewer as a citizen resides in the public domain where free discussion are taken place and where a shared identity is created. In order to inform the citizens and to create an identity, citizens should have access for free to programmes having social, political and civic assets and values, such as news and sport.
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Keum et al. 2004, 369.
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Freedland and Sciarra 1998, 10–11.
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Harrison and Woods 2007, 7–10.
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Cooper 2003, 13.
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Harrison and Woods 2007, 8.
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Sunstein 2001, 122.
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Harrison and Woods 2007, 7.
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Helberger 2008, 5.
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Richards 2004.
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Harrison and Woods 2007, 9.
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Accenture 2009, 6.
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Born and Prosser 2001, 659 and 7679.
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Harrison and Woods 2007, 7 and 9.
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Harrison and Woods 2007, 7–8.
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Born and Prosser 2001, 672 and 674.
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Harrison and Woods 2007, 7–10.
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For an overview of such studies, see: Keum et. al. 2004, 369–391.
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Born and Prosser 2001, 671.
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Harrison and Woods 2007, 7.
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Ibid. 7.
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Cooper 2003, 14.
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Born and Prosser 2001, 658.
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Lefever, K. (2012). The Public in Its Role as Citizen and Consumer. In: New Media and Sport. ASSER International Sports Law Series. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-873-6_5
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