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Government cleavers public broadcaster for political aims
commercial music to fill the radio

The operating agreement between the Danish Culture Ministry and public broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR) was published this week, scaling back the broadcasters radio and TV operations. Earlier this year the government and right-wing populist Dansk Folkeparti (Danish People’s Party) shaved €114 million (DKK 773 million) per year from the DR budget by 2020. Between 375 and 400 jobs will be cut. A further - and larger - round of downsizing will take place in 2021. General director Maria Rorbye Ronn said the concert hall built in 2010 might be sold off.

P6 Beat, P7 Mix and P8 Jazz, digital-only channels launched in 2011, will be closed. DR was an early adopter of digital radio broadcasting, launching about two dozen channels between 2002 and 2007. Most of those have either closed or migrated to the internet. All DR radio channels are distributed on DAB+ networks, which replaced the older DAB platform by 2015. Much of the programming from the alternative radio channels will migrate to podcasts and online platforms. Culture Minister Mette Bock explained that DRs mission must be a cultural institution providing services the commercial market cannot deliver. (See more about media in Denmark here)

The Danish music industry was jolted, saying diversity will be compromised. "I think this is one of the worst cases that has happened to the diverse musical scene in Denmark," said Danish Composers and Writers Association (DJBFA) president Susi Hyldgaard, quoted by Berlingske (September 19). “When you close P6 Beat, P7 Mix and P8 Jazz you remove the only showcase for this type of music.” Jazz Denmark president Eva Frost said “commercial music will come to fill too much of the radio.” Both noted that, aside from the loss of airtime, knowledgable show hosts will also be gone.

In a rebuke to the government action the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) called the cuts “political attempts to drastically narrow and alter the accepted broad remit of public service media,” in a statement (September 20). (See EBU statement here) “There is compelling evidence that market forces alone do not deliver consumers an offer of media services that contribute to the sense of belonging to a nation, region or continent. Rather than being forced back into the second row, the EBU's Executive Board believes that this is the moment for public service media to be firmly positioned in the front row and empowered to fully play their role - in the interests of audiences, performers, writers, producers, innovators and the long-term strength and democratic health of our European continent.”

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