Os donos do espaço: Estudo das estruturas regulatórias da televisão aberta no âmbito da Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP)

Abstract

The dissertation identifies the regulatory structures of free-to-air (FTA) television – broadcast via radio waves, free reception – in Portuguese-speaking countries: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe, Timor East. It then analyzes the powers of the regulatory agencies of television, according to the legislation of each country in the period between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2012, and the way in which they are organized. The study then compares the financial and administrative autonomy of the regulatory authorities in relation to the political powers in which the state is organized and their ability to deliberate and impose sanctions, based on the analysis of legal norms. The proposed research is aligned with the perspective of Political Economy of Communication, in dialogue with approximate theoretical. Thus, the research identifies five agencies with legal duties to monitor the televised content: Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social (Regulatory Authority for the Media – Portugal); Conselho Superior da Comunicação Social (Superior Council for Social Communication – Mozambique); Conselho Nacional de Comunicação Social (National Council for Social Communication – GuineaBissau); Conselho Nacional de Comunicação Social (National Council for Social Communication – Angola); Conselho Superior de Imprensa (Superior Council Press – Sao Tome and Principe). The work demonstrates that the Portuguese model of regulation of television has a range deeper than the other countries, bearing in mind that the regulatory activity refers to any content transmitted – information, entertainment and advertising – and that the entity responsible for this monitoring works in conjunction with two other agencies, a their dedicated to the control of the ownership concentration in the media and the other with targeted surveillance to aspects of the transport signal. It also demonstrates the existence of regulatory bodies in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, whose legal powers are given specifically on the informative content, and that the entities of Angola and Sao Tome and Principe have reduced range, merely warn about violations practiced. Finally, the dissertation finds that two other countries, Cape Verde and East Timor, have not yet created monitoring entities the content of television, although this initiative is already established in law and / or in official documents, and the eighth country investigated, Brazil, is the only one not to have even forecast implementation monitoring of the television content.