"ente público" in English

Will governments then be able to provide unlimited funding for public service broadcasting?

For example, it is very difficult for public broadcasting to survive in an increasingly commercialised environment.

And would this not then put public service broadcasting in an entirely anomalous position with regard to European competition rules?

In principle, it is also possible - and this is an internal matter for Spain - for other public bodies to provide this cofinancing.

Public service broadcasting must be protected, but this need not imply that commercial broadcasting cannot also develop.

Could government funding be used to give public service broadcasting an advantage in launching new services and breaking into new markets?

The problem is that if this game is to be freely accessible, can it only be made accessible by a public company or could a private TV company do so too?

The problem is that if this game is to be freely accessible, can it only be made accessible by a public company or could a private TV company do so too?

If the Member States want to apply the right to operate public companies, then they would be well advised to begin by defining what that public purpose is in the first place.

Likewise, you go to a television company today and every journalist asks whether journalism has a future. Can my son still become an editor or head of department in a public television company?

On an entirely different subject, but in the same context, I am concerned at the Dutch proposals to include a protocol on public service broadcasting in the Amsterdam Treaty.

Once the protocol has been adopted, could commercial radio and television complain to the Commission if they think that public service broadcasting is being given preferential treatment?

Fourthly, the provision of universal services is not the sole preserve of public service broadcasting, and it is perfectly possible for some of its tasks to be entrusted to private companies.