Article by Manfred Kops about long-term Development of the Media Landscape in Germany published

In Volume 2/2014 of the magazine "Medienwirtschaft" an article by Manfred Kops was published: "Media in Germany between Market, State and Civil Society. Results of a long-term Observation for the Years between 1950 and 2020". The author gives in a compressed manner insights to a study, which primary goal was to develope a method which enables to describe and to compare media landscapes.

Threfore the study uses the influence of the market, the state and the civil society on media as a feature. This influence is determined for the different forms of media and the different value gradations of the media value chains and subsequently condensed in a weighted average for the whole media landscape. Therefore the study uses the influence of the market, the state and the civil society on media as a feature. This influence is determined for the different forms of media and the different value gradations of the media value chains and subsequently condensed in a weighted average for the whole media landscape.The main findings are 1st: a relatively high level of distance from the state of the media during the whole observation period; 2nd: an over time increasing number of forms of media ("Differentiation" of media), and 3rd: an over time increasing influence of the market on all forms of media ("commercialization" of media).
A graphic depiction respectively a video animation of the results can be found here.
The methodology, detailed results and media-political conclusions can be found in working paper No. 300 in the series of Working Papers of the Institute for Broadcasting Economics.