TITLE:
The Changes in Cameroon’s Public Television in the Advent of Digital Switchover: The Impact of Technological Innovation on Audio-Visual Public Policies
AUTHORS:
François Wakata Bolvine
KEYWORDS:
Switch-Over, Technological Innovation, Broadcasting, Public Policies, Public Television, Contents
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Journalism and Communication,
Vol.5 No.1,
February
15,
2017
ABSTRACT: Technological innovation strongly impacts the lives of citizens as a whole and is followed by serious consequences on national public policies and on the sector directly concerned. The dynamics of change in the national audio-visual landscape with the public service television engaged in the digital switch-over process is indeed the core of this study. It reveals how innovation has impelled policy-makers to develop a comprehensive strategy, leading to objectives and decisions to completely reshape the national audio-visual landscape with regard to legal, institutional, infrastructural, economic and cultural aspects; and, specifically, public television in its organization, functioning, mission as well as in its uses.