Media systems and crises: the signal stopping of the 'Horizont' Program on the Bulgarian National Radio on September 13, 2019 Cover Image

Медийни системи и кризи: спирането на сигнала на програма "Хоризонт" на Българското национално радио на 13 септември 2019 г.
Media systems and crises: the signal stopping of the 'Horizont' Program on the Bulgarian National Radio on September 13, 2019

Author(s): Victoria Petrova
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Education, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Music, History of Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Political Sciences, Civil Society, Governance, Public Administration, Public Law, Communication studies, Sociology, Comparative history, History of ideas, Social history, Sociology of Art, EU-Legislation, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption, History of Art, Administrative Law
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: BNR; Law on Radio and Television; post-communist countries; democracy; freedom of speech

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the imperfections of the Bulgarian media system, which periodically manifest as media crises. The research method used is a case study. The case, which is described and placed in a media and political context, is related to the suspended broadcast of the "Horizon" program on the Bulgarian National Radio on September 13, 2019. The analysis is based on the documents collected in Vyara Angelova's book "#Who stopped BNR", normative acts issued by Bulgarian and European institutions, scientific and media publications on the subject. The conclusions reached by the research are that the media system in Bulgaria is in an unfinished process of transformation. A specific feature of the media environment is that partial elements characteristic of free societies are noticeable. But the factors that dominate bring the Bulgarian media system closer to the authoritarian model defined by Fred Siebert, Wilbur Schramm, and Theodore Peterson.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 50-65
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bulgarian