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- Title
Media in Catalan, Basque, and Galician Languages: Under the Pressure of Public Aid.
- Authors
Zabaleta, Iñaki; Xamardo, Nikolas; Fernandez, Itxaso; Urrutia, Santi; Pavia, Carme Ferré; Gutiérrez, Arantza
- Abstract
Social and private minority language media ownership, in general, needs some sort of public aid to balance their annual budgets because the regular income sources (advertising, sales in print press) are oftentimes insufficient. Thus, in this paper, we investigate the current public aid structure of monolingual (⩾ 70% of content in own language) media in Catalan, Basque and Galician languages, as well as the strategic issues created by those policies of public funding. The communities of these three European autochthonous languages live mainly in Spain and France, and the number of speakers are quite high, bigger than that of some European countries: 7.5 million Catalan, 2.5 million and 0.8 million Basque and speakers. This study could be framed in the area of media economics, with a comparative research approach, since three minority languages and communities are compared. Scholarly research on the media economics of minority languages is very modest, at least when referring to the Europe of autochthonous minority languages; therefore, this paper can expand this area of investigation and offer updated data. Questionnaires and field interviews to media directors and financial managers were carried out. Annual balance sheets and reports were gathered and an appropriate and stratified sample of media outlets was built so that results could reasonably be generalized to the total media universe. The years under analysis were 2009 and 2010. The major findings of the paper will provide: (1) the actual public funding policy, as well as the institutions that provide financial support; (2) the distribution of public aid according to the variables of media type and ownership; and (3) the opinion and judgment media managers have about the sufficiency / insufficiency of the aids, and their most urgent funding needs.
- Subjects
GALICIAN language; SOCIAL media; FINANCIAL management; MONOLINGUALISM; COMPARATIVE studies
- Publication
Global Studies Journal, 2013, Vol 5, Issue 3, p57
- ISSN
1835-4432
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18848/1835-4432/CGP/v05i03/40855