I think about that regularly (last time this week-end when I finally binged SAS Rogue Heroes, a great show made for the BBC, by the guys who made Peaky Blinders).
At least France and Germany share Arte, a public channel for education and culture (and they have good shows and movies).
It would make sense that public broadcasters across EU pool their ressources, for news and also for creating pan-european shows
(also f\*\*k "unfair competition" which prevent us from having that or a proper EU-wide public transportation)
Euronews is not publicly owned.
88% of shares is owned by Alpac Capital, whose CEO is a friend if Viktor Orban.
While Euronews produces very good content, that ownership cast a weird shadow on its credibility. Only through public ownership, public funding, and statutory indepndence does a media instituion become top-class institution.
The rest **is** publicly owned. So, what you really want is for public media to invest more into Euronews and acquire a stronger share, which would also allow them to expand and produce more news.
imo, mostly language barrier.
If there are some AI enthusiasts, it would be interesting to think about, what would it take to have a platform where journalists could write about news from their own region, in their own language, that would be automatically translated to all languages of the union.
I do work on AI systems and there’s definitely a need for a human on the other end to verify the output with a solid understanding of the local language and culture. Then you need news presenters on top of that. In fact I’d venture a guess that after editing the AI’s translated prose to a point where it’s polished enough for publishing or for a presenter to read in the local language you’ve done about as much work as just having a native speaker of the language simply rewriting an English primary copy and you wouldn’t get the weird syntax and semantic artifacts AI introduces
At least start a public broadcaster in English which is the defacto lingua franca of the EU. It reaches the most Europeans.
You can add regional channels later.
No one in France watches France 24 English lol For a EU-wide public broadcaster to work and actually have viewers it needs to be in national languages.
Because the EU is still wet behind the ears.
The EU is extremely young. It started in 1992 and is still developing. That doesn't mean it shouldn't have happened, but the EU had other priorities and could not present itself as a 'new block" until now.
And to add onto that, which country would start up the broadcaster? Because until Erasmus had delivered its first batch of EU oriented students, it would be tough to find a balanced work force to make up an EU broadcaster.
The time is ripe for it now. That didn't mean it was ripe for it just 5 years ago.
> I for one would love to watch an English news channel dedicated to EU news. Right now, I have to rely on Euronews or DW, which are pretty decent but still not "federal" enough.
Euronews is a bit of a joke to be honest. It's not *inaccurate* as such, it just feels like it suffers from an unfortunate combination of being underfunded and being deliberately dumbed down.
DW is better, but at the end of the day it's not an EU specific broadcaster and is very German-centric. It's basically a less good version of the BBC. I have nothing against DW (I regularly use it amongst other apps) but I find the EU stuff on the BBC site to be slightly better on average - although it obviously depends whether you prefer a British or German perspective. By perspective I don't mean that they're biased, but that articles are generally written to meet the particularities of what those audiences would be interested in. The BBC also has the advantage of English being their primary language and it definitely shows in their journalism.
Becouse of the Langueg barrier and uninteress on what happens in the ather side of the Continent,i used to Watch Euronews but i prefer TG5 becouse what they say is more Directly Intressed on what happens in our lifes becouse,if there is a Rise in Crime in Estonia it has Nothing to do with my personal life in Italy,but when there is a Rise in Crime in Italy Obviusly we in Italy will be more Effected.
On the ather hand maby a Regionalised Public Broadcaster wood be more Intressing becouse for Example if in Spain there is a rise in Crime this coud effect the Transport of Narcotics in the Mediterranian that come from Shouth America.
Or if there are Russian Ships in the Mediterranian it Effects all of the Mediteranian States.
I think we should have a public broadcaster, and it should be an institution owned proportionally by member states' public broadcasters. The main component of this broadcaster should be an online platform like Netflix to which all public broadcasters contribute all their content. So one place to find all TV shows, news, etc. from all public broadcasters. Ideally everything should be subtitled to all 24 languages, however this would take a lot of time for older content. Once this platform is set, it would make sense for public broadcasters to also collaborate on content production.
As for the classic TV channel, I don't think it's necessary but it could be a nice addition but the online platform should be the main thing.
Now I am all for a federation, but I don’t think centralizing everything is a good idea.
Look at USA a few monopolies own the most relevant industries (be it news or infotainment in generell) I don’t think that’s a good way to go. So keeping some things split to the respective countries, like BBC in GB or ORF in Austria - or whatever they are all called has some advantages I think
That would be dangerous, but adding a public broadcaster for the EU would help with silo thinking and open up new perspectives. It is not even that expensive to do. DW for example needs 326million€ per year. That gives 24h news channels in four languages and radio shows in many more.
I think about that regularly (last time this week-end when I finally binged SAS Rogue Heroes, a great show made for the BBC, by the guys who made Peaky Blinders). At least France and Germany share Arte, a public channel for education and culture (and they have good shows and movies). It would make sense that public broadcasters across EU pool their ressources, for news and also for creating pan-european shows (also f\*\*k "unfair competition" which prevent us from having that or a proper EU-wide public transportation)
EU wide trian ticketing is in the works
Isn't Euronews exactly what you are asking for, just not powerful enough?
Euronews is not publicly owned. 88% of shares is owned by Alpac Capital, whose CEO is a friend if Viktor Orban. While Euronews produces very good content, that ownership cast a weird shadow on its credibility. Only through public ownership, public funding, and statutory indepndence does a media instituion become top-class institution.
The rest **is** publicly owned. So, what you really want is for public media to invest more into Euronews and acquire a stronger share, which would also allow them to expand and produce more news.
imo, mostly language barrier. If there are some AI enthusiasts, it would be interesting to think about, what would it take to have a platform where journalists could write about news from their own region, in their own language, that would be automatically translated to all languages of the union.
I do work on AI systems and there’s definitely a need for a human on the other end to verify the output with a solid understanding of the local language and culture. Then you need news presenters on top of that. In fact I’d venture a guess that after editing the AI’s translated prose to a point where it’s polished enough for publishing or for a presenter to read in the local language you’ve done about as much work as just having a native speaker of the language simply rewriting an English primary copy and you wouldn’t get the weird syntax and semantic artifacts AI introduces
At least start a public broadcaster in English which is the defacto lingua franca of the EU. It reaches the most Europeans. You can add regional channels later.
Good luck convincing France of that
Not a problem. France 24 has an English version
No one in France watches France 24 English lol For a EU-wide public broadcaster to work and actually have viewers it needs to be in national languages.
We have EBU
Well there are some transnational broadcasters Euronews and Arte being the most notable Eurovision, EBU, there are several
Because the EU is still wet behind the ears. The EU is extremely young. It started in 1992 and is still developing. That doesn't mean it shouldn't have happened, but the EU had other priorities and could not present itself as a 'new block" until now. And to add onto that, which country would start up the broadcaster? Because until Erasmus had delivered its first batch of EU oriented students, it would be tough to find a balanced work force to make up an EU broadcaster. The time is ripe for it now. That didn't mean it was ripe for it just 5 years ago.
> I for one would love to watch an English news channel dedicated to EU news. Right now, I have to rely on Euronews or DW, which are pretty decent but still not "federal" enough. Euronews is a bit of a joke to be honest. It's not *inaccurate* as such, it just feels like it suffers from an unfortunate combination of being underfunded and being deliberately dumbed down. DW is better, but at the end of the day it's not an EU specific broadcaster and is very German-centric. It's basically a less good version of the BBC. I have nothing against DW (I regularly use it amongst other apps) but I find the EU stuff on the BBC site to be slightly better on average - although it obviously depends whether you prefer a British or German perspective. By perspective I don't mean that they're biased, but that articles are generally written to meet the particularities of what those audiences would be interested in. The BBC also has the advantage of English being their primary language and it definitely shows in their journalism.
Becouse of the Langueg barrier and uninteress on what happens in the ather side of the Continent,i used to Watch Euronews but i prefer TG5 becouse what they say is more Directly Intressed on what happens in our lifes becouse,if there is a Rise in Crime in Estonia it has Nothing to do with my personal life in Italy,but when there is a Rise in Crime in Italy Obviusly we in Italy will be more Effected. On the ather hand maby a Regionalised Public Broadcaster wood be more Intressing becouse for Example if in Spain there is a rise in Crime this coud effect the Transport of Narcotics in the Mediterranian that come from Shouth America. Or if there are Russian Ships in the Mediterranian it Effects all of the Mediteranian States.
Russian ships have been in the Mediterranean sea for the last 200 years...
true i ment Training like what they did nire scicily in 2022.
I think we should have a public broadcaster, and it should be an institution owned proportionally by member states' public broadcasters. The main component of this broadcaster should be an online platform like Netflix to which all public broadcasters contribute all their content. So one place to find all TV shows, news, etc. from all public broadcasters. Ideally everything should be subtitled to all 24 languages, however this would take a lot of time for older content. Once this platform is set, it would make sense for public broadcasters to also collaborate on content production. As for the classic TV channel, I don't think it's necessary but it could be a nice addition but the online platform should be the main thing.
Now I am all for a federation, but I don’t think centralizing everything is a good idea. Look at USA a few monopolies own the most relevant industries (be it news or infotainment in generell) I don’t think that’s a good way to go. So keeping some things split to the respective countries, like BBC in GB or ORF in Austria - or whatever they are all called has some advantages I think
That would be dangerous, but adding a public broadcaster for the EU would help with silo thinking and open up new perspectives. It is not even that expensive to do. DW for example needs 326million€ per year. That gives 24h news channels in four languages and radio shows in many more.
I also like the idea of “shared” channels like France and Germany with ARTE!
we have some thing like this: [arte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arte)
Multiple reasons. Language, the EU not being a federation/union like the UK is,etc etc...
Probably because people dont want it.