Abstract
Given that access to information seems unlimited in the digital landscape, some authors argue that broadcasting regulation is something from the past. According to them, spectrum scarcity and one-way selection of information at the level of broadcasters can no longer be upheld in the future as the premise for the regulation of the media sector. Moreover, they even proposed to leave the regulation of the broadcasting market to competition law. However, this should be nuanced, because the empowerment of the viewer and the change in behaviour is overestimated. Given that the replacement of old media by new media is not always followed immediately by the substitution of old media practices by new media habits, it would be too dangerous to conclude that the raison d’être of media regulation has disappeared.
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Hutchins and Rowe 2009, 356.
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Szymanski 2006, 430.
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Sportcal.com 2008.
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Jakubowicz 2009, 17.
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Standing Committee on Environment, Communications and the Arts 2009, 11.
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Reding 2006.
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Evens et al. 2010.
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Mansell 1999, 156.
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Levy 2001, 138.
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Ungerer 2005a, 4.
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Ungerer 2005b, 3.
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Donders 2010.
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Ariño2004a, 101.
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Council of Europe 1999, Recommendation No. R (99) 1 on measures to promote media pluralism.
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Dermot 1997, 603.
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Donders and Evens 2010..
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ICRI et al. 2009a, 8.
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Ariño 2007, 116.
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OECD2007, 5–6 & 35.
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See e.g.: ICRI et al. 2009bb, 17.
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Castells Castells 2009, 55 & 58.
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ICRI et al. 2009a, 9.
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Verhulst 2007, 115 &121–122.
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van Eijk 2006, 2.
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Recital 22 of the AVMS Directive.
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Lievens 2010, 78.
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Keen 2007, 15.
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ICRI et. al. 2009b, 10.
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Keen 2007, 15 & 17.
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Visiongain 2008, 44.
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de Dorlodot 2010.
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Ofcom 2010a, para 4.9.
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Gluck and Sales 2008, 46.
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Woolard 2010.
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Dejonghe 2010.
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Laven 1998, 7.
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Dejonghe 2010.
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Gripsrud 2004, 216.
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Tay and Turner 2010, 31.
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Foster 2007, para 7.3.20.
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Ofcom 2010b, 102–103.
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Chelsea 2012.
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Schuurman and De Marez 2010.
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The Economist 2010.
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Berte et al. 2010.
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ACT 2009, 10.
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Helberger 2008, 13.
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ICRI et. al. 2009b, 17.
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Helberger 2008, 3.
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Lefever, K. (2012). Changing Sports/Media Complex and Its Impact on the Regulatory Process of the Broadcasting Sector. 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_6
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