Broadcast tv here has both public funded and non public funded tv. Around the time this started showing up, this meant that there was always this battle (and by battle I mean just the non-public constantly trying to argue that the public shouldn't exist). You can more or less figure out what kind of arguments there were, but in recent years, the idea that youtube/twitch exist has been getting around in Portugal. It should be noted that non public tv did have a "We invite a celebrity to shot the shit with us over a round of Sega Rally or Fifa" was on non public tv first in the mid 90's, but shows that actively joked about twitch/youtube were only on public tv, down to a comedy having a twitch parody way more accurate (and arguably funnier) than William Streets's, years before, including a pigeon dating sim years before Hatoful Boyfriend.
It should be also noted that our pandemic era education channel, which was broadcast with public means, was heavily criticized by the libertarian party as "a streaming service hoisted upon you instead of netflix", which is deeply hilarious what with netflix getting worse and a bit dark once you get that they do want to bring Prager shit here.
It is of my crank opinion, that two tv specials done by non public tv (namely SIC) drove the talent and people that could actually talk new media coherently away from it:
The first one was an anniversary special they did where they reflected upon the usage of media thru the years. The last one talked with a family, where they talked about new media usage. The parents were scrolling while on the news, they did callsithenics on the tv, but then they changed to the daughter, who had the initiative of setting on her table a tablet with a paper and some crayons, with an art tutorial for butterflies.
The interviewer started firing questions to her, over and over again, on how she was made by the tablet to draw butterflies, why she didn't go outside to draw butterflies, why was she doing that, would she draw anything other not ordered by the tablet, if she knew that other things existed other than that tablet and the paper, that there were other places to draw butterflies on other than youtube, etc etc etc This wouldn't be so ... Roahl Dahlian if they didn't pass to her brother, who merely watched cartoons and his prompt was "I watch cartoon, I buy toy from cartoon". This is not a judgement on him, its a judgement on the interviewer's brain fried at the concept of following a drawing tutorial or that you could just follow a guide to draw something, something that apparently a 5 year old could understand.
The second one was probably the hammer that hit the spot: Around the same time, a well known radio host heard her child swear and went on a bit of a campaign against it, stating that this was worse than racism and sexual harassment, and got the same tv network to nod along with it. So they ... LIED to a bunch of portuguese youtubers about the propose of the special and they advertised themselves... followed by several annoyed parents trying to argue the worst parts, which they couldn't say "Oh I saw them trying to make my kids spend money on scams" or "Oh, I saw them watching racist shit". Instead, you had deliberation about scary content and the idea that school could be stressful. Not that school objectively sucked, but that school could cause stress. There was this segment where they creatively put a mother, dressed in black with her tied back, on a room that would get darker as in went down, asking her kid if he saw youtube, and the kid was barely on the ground, with the camera peering on the top, her eyes grazing and hoping he wouldn't embarass her and the director saw THIS was a good thing. This ended, with the kid, trying to save face by showing that he liked drawing Sonic OCs and talk with friends and the narrator stating, in the most tense of tones, that a child will become unreliable for the future workforce if you prevent them from watching youtubers as they won't be able to relate to the future and it was easily the worst way I've ever seen someone argue a point in defense to this. There's a bit of soul draining vibe to "A child told me he liked drawing, so I'm going to write a scary note on how this isn't productive enough to capitalism"
No wonder they all got pissed afterwards, and why there's barely no programming for kids on open channel unless you go to the public network.
