Author(s)

François Wakata Bolvine

University of Yaoundé 2, Advanced Scholl of Mass Communication, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Technological innovation strongly impacts the lives of citizens as a whole and is followed by serious consequences on national public policies and on the sector directly concerned. The dynamics of change in the national audio-visual landscape with the public service television engaged in the digital switch-over process is indeed the core of this study. It reveals how innovation has impelled policy-makers to develop a comprehensive strategy, leading to objectives and decisions to completely reshape the national audio-visual landscape with regard to legal, institutional, infrastructural, economic and cultural aspects; and, specifically, public television in its organization, functioning, mission as well as in its uses.

Switch-Over, Technological Innovation, Broadcasting, Public Policies, Public Television, Contents

Bolvine, F. (2017) The Changes in Cameroon’s Public Television in the Advent of Digital Switchover: The Impact of Technological Innovation on Audio-Visual Public Policies. Advances in Journalism and Communication, 5, 1-22. doi: 10.4236/ajc.2017.51001.