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1 Economic situation of the public broadcasting sector in the European Union Andr Lange Head of Department for Information on Markets and Financing European Audiovisual Observatory Public investment in culture and communications A Key Challenge for Europe Institute for Media Economics Fondazione Rosselli European Parliament, Brussels, 22 November 2011 Slide 2 2 THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY Who we are a public service body operating within the legal framework of the Council of Europe financed by 37 European member states and the European Union Mission to increase transparency through providing information about the European audiovisual sector: TV, Cinema, Video, On-Demand AV services What we do collect and prepare key facts & figures covering our 36 member states follow relevant legal developments on the national as well as pan-European level Slide 3 3 DatabasesPublications OUR SERVICES LUMIERE (lumiere.obs.coe.int) on annual film admissions to films released in Europe 1 KORDA (korda.obs.coe.int) on public funding programmes for the audiovisual sector in Europe 2 MAVISE (mavise.obs.coe.int) on TV channels and companies in Europe 3 IRIS MERLIN (merlin.obs.coe.int) legal information relevant to the audiovisual sector 4 Slide 4 RADIO-TV REVENUES IN THE EU (2005-2010) EUR million Source : European Audiovisual Observatory on Screen Digest, WARC and OBS data 23 340 21 621 Slide 5 YEARLY AVERAGE RATE OF GROWTH OF THE RADIO-TV REVENUES IN THE EU (2005-2009) Source : European Audiovisual Observatory Slide 6 EVOLUTION OF RADIO-TV REVENUES IN THE EU (2005-2010) Source : European Audiovisual Observatory Slide 7 RADIO-TV REVENUES EXPENSES BY INHABITANT in EUR (2009) Source : European Audiovisual Observatory Slide 8 PUBLIC SECTOR : 32.6 BILLIONS OF REVENUES IN 2009 OF WHICH 24 BILLIONS EUR OF PUBLIC FUNDING (73.7 %) Source : European Audiovisual Observatory 8 Slide 9 REVENUES OF THE RADIO-TV PUBLIC SECTOR IN 5 BIG COUNTRIES (2009) Source : European Audiovisual Observatory 9 Slide 10 PROFIT MARGIN OF THE VARIOUS FAMILY OF BROADCASTERS IN THE EU (2005-2009) (in %) Source : European Audiovisual Observatory Slide 11 GROWTH OF OPERATING REVENUES REVENUES OF THE MAIN PUBLIC BROADCASTERS (2010/2009) (in %) Source : European Audiovisual Observatory Slide 12 TV audience market share (%) Share of public funding in the revenues of public The size of the bubble indicate the volume of the revenuesbroadcasters of the public broadcasters(%) TV audience market share (%) Share of public funding in the revenues of public The size of the bubble indicate the volume of the revenuesbroadcasters of the public broadcasters(%) Audience market share Share of public funding RELATION BETWEEN SHARE OF PUBLIC FUINDING OF THE PUBLIC BROADCASTERS AND TV AUDIENCE MARKET SHARE (2009) Source : European Audiovisual Observatory Slide 13 FOR MORE DETAILS MAVISE database : http://mavise.obs.coe.int Yearbook of the European Audiovisual Observatory andre.lange@coe.int