Bratislava and Budapest, 21 December 2005 - After almost a decade of highly politicised broadcast media, the Slovak television market has seen tremendous improvements in the past several years. Yet, despite these improvements, further reforms of the public service broadcasters are necessary to ensure their political and economic independence. In the commercial sector, transparency of media ownership needs to be improved, while local television broadcasters require additional support to ensure media diversity. Finally, despite some signs of an increase in quality television programming, both journalists and broadcasters need to take steps to address tabloidisation and promote investigative journalism.

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