DocuWatch Digital Television

From 1996 until the end of 2006, the Institute published the journal „DocuWatch Digitales Fernsehen – eine Sichtung ausgewählter Dokumente und wissenschaftlicher Studien“ (Docuwatch Digital Television – a Survey of selected Documents and Research Studies). Issue 4/2006 marks the last appearance of „Docu-Watch“ for the time being, as the financial support for the series has ceased. The editorial team at the Hans Bredow Institute is currently assessing various concepts as to how in future information on new developments can continue to be made available to researchers and other parties active in this area.

For „DocuWatch Digitales Fernsehen”, the Hans Bredow Institute was commissioned by the ALM (Association of States Media Authorities in the Federal Republic of Germany) to survey documents from regulating authorities, from within Germany and from foreign as well supranational organisations and the research area and to produce summaries, which were focussed on the questions relevant to the states’ media authorities. Central to this were documents from the USA, Canada, Great Britain and France alongside internal German institutions. In conjunction, the research literature collected at the Institute was assessed.