Abstract
The development of broadcasting law in the Federal Republic of Germany is marked by increasing commercialization and deregulation. In the course of changing economic, political and social frameworks, normative requirements have been retracted or have lost effectiveness. This is particularly true for private broadcasting, which has been licensed since its beginning in the mid-1980s with less stringent requirements than public broadcasting. On the one hand, broadcasting regulators, at least rhetorically, still adhere to the public service concept, but in practice this traditional idea of broadcasting is threatened by economic considerations. Nevertheless, one continues to find a functioning public broadcasting system able to compete with private broadcasters. Both parts of the dual broadcasting system are still bound in a rather dense network of broadcasting regulations.
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