With the title “Securing frequencies, protecting culture,” 130 people listened to a panel at this year’s “Future of Festivals” in Berlin. The dominant topic was the hunger for frequencies by mobile communication (IMT) and the military. SOS representative Jochen Zenthöfer emphasized that the frequency situation for culture is constantly worsening. Enough is enough with the…

Digital terrestrial television (DTT) is becoming increasingly popular in Germany, with usage rising sharply thanks to renewed growth in mobile viewing. According to a new study from Kantar commissioned by DTT platform operator Media Broadcast, 18% of German households – equivalent to 7.3 million homes – now watch television using the country’s DVB-T2 network. This…

In keeping with traditions that looked long gone, the French Parliament rose to the challenge of spearheading the fight for shielding the so-called “cultural spectrum” from the ambitions of other sectors, notably the mobile industry. More precisely, the European affairs Committee has just adopted a proposition of European resolution whose single article sounds like an…

https://open.overheid.nl/documenten/e67f906a-1324-4ea8-b136-4a0a92f2a3eb/file Wider Spectrum Group , SRF study (page 30) and German alliance (page 37) mentioned “Terrestrial broadcasting is the backbone of the European audiovisual industry and of European content production and exposition, which is still financed by more than 74% by broadcasters,” says the Wider Spectrum group, [Fn 16] an advocacy organisation backed by the…

Our leaders are feeling more compelled by the day to turn the EU – often referred to as “the world’s unique peace project – into a military alliance. Since this existential U-turn has yet to dawn upon most Europeans, it is not too early to try and draw some consequences, more specifically on culture as…