The emergence of IP interactive multimedia services and the evolution of the traditional audiovisual public service regulatory approach

The emergence of IP multimedia services represents another step towards convergence and implies a series of new challenges for market players and for regulatory bodies. Specifically, the regulation applied to the audiovisual sector must develop from its current situation to a higher level of competition and transparency in converged markets. This article analyses the capability of the current framework to answer these challenges and gives some proposals for its possible transformation, in particular that of the traditional public service, the traditional basis for audiovisual broadcasting regulation.