Public service companies have too broad an assignment and are far too expensive.
That is the opinion of Rebecca Weidmo Uvell, a bourgeois opinion leader.
- At the same time as they have tried to compete with commercial media, they have also balled out.
You look a lot at viewer numbers and try to do something for everyone, she says before the meeting with Claes Elfsberg.
"Wants to slowly kill public service"
Claes Elfsberg is a former news anchor at SVT and has also worked as the viewers' ombudsman at the same company.
He believes that the public's interest risks gradually decreasing if public service were to shrink and get a narrower assignment.
- Those who want to remove entertainment and sports and such popular things from public service actually want to slowly kill public service.
Changed TV viewing
Rebecca Weidmo Uvell thinks that this reasoning is based on an old way of consuming the media when most people watched tabled television, but that people's habits look different today.
- If, for example, I am interested in culture, I might watch SVT's Babel.
But then you switch and watch a documentary in Tv4 Play.
Do you want to see the whole debate about public service? Watch The Meeting in SVT Play.