From Mirko Galić‘s review!
“Dealing with the entire issue of the media, as the author couple Kovačić-Šantić did, is above all a courageous move. Croatia needs it, first of all, its journalism, media actors, and politics itself.
Even today, there are deficits, professional on the side of the media, and democratic, on the side of politics, ie the government. In a comparative analysis of the establishment of a media network, the authors presented, very documentary and convincingly, how Croatia between Scylla and Charybdis from a monopoly of vessels to pluralism, from a directed order to a creative mess, from disorderly legislation to an orderly legal system, from institutional gaps in rule of institutions.
Who wants to follow how Croatia harmonized the opportunities opened by new technologies with the democratic standards of developed countries, how the explosion of new media in a narrow and limited space was accompanied by new state regulations, how the role of money grew and the power of government and politics fell, will find many answers and even more questions about what happened and what else can happen. “
The book chapters are:
- The Age of Media Pirates (1988-1995)
- Adoption of the first Telecommunications Act 1994
- Giving out concessions to the first media
- Establishment of TV Mreže and CCN
- Forum 21
- The first private national media (Nova TV, Narodni and Otvoreni Radio)
- The creation of the web portal
- The regulation of copyright
- Grupo affair
- The Case of Radio 101
- Development of TV content distribution
- Development of radio, radio networks and media services
- Privatization of HTV 3,and OIV formation
- New law on el. media 2003
- The arrival of RTL on the Croatian market
- Establishment of HAKOM (Telecommunications, Agency)
- From the Telecommunications Council to the Electronic Media Council
- Development of local and cable television
- Fund for media pluralism
- Digital TV broadcasting
- Legislative solutions from 2009
- Battle for viewership (NOVA, RTL HRT)
- Strengthening of the web portals
- Crisis and the media
- The impact of Social Networks and the development of SVOD and OTT
- Digital radio DAB +
- New 25 years – a look at the future
Language: Croatian