Towards a Market in Broadcasting [electronic resource] : Communications Policy in the UK and Germany /
Potschka, C.author.
A comparative analysis of the evolution ofUK and German broadcasting policies, adding to the developing area of comparative research on media and communications policy. The book focuses on processes of marketization and liberalization as they have affected policy-making, national regulatory frameworks and media structures.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Introduction, Theory and Methodology; 1 Introduction; Primary and secondary data; Structure of the book; 2 Theorizing Broadcasting Marketization; The fate of PSB; Market, state, regulation and communications policy; Analytical frameworks; 3 The Logic of Comparison; Similarities and differences; Four theories of the press; Comparing media systems; The choice of comparative dimension; Part II: Developments and Transitions in British Broadcasting
4 From the Origins of Broadcasting to the Post-war Period (1920-45)The world of wireless; The BBC: from company to corporation; The turn towards centralization; Summary and conclusion; 5 Welfare State and Broadcasting Duopoly (1945-55); Towards the post-war social democratic consensus; The Beveridge Committee; The struggle for commercial broadcasting; ITV and the broadcasting duopoly; Summary and conclusion; 6 Social Democratic Consensus and BBC2 (1955-64); ITV expansion; Competition; The Pilkington Committee; Summary and conclusion; 7 A Changing Society (1964-79)
The heyday of public broadcasting: ITV and regional cultureBroadcasting and politics in the 1960s; The Annan Committee; Summary and conclusion; 8 The Turn to Market-Driven Politics (1979-90); The economics of freedom and Channel 4; DBS; Broadband cable; The Peacock Committee; Broadcasting reform: the shift to the commercial sector; Summary and conclusion; 9 From Broadcasting to Communications Policy (1990-2003); The franchise auction and Channel 3 consolidation; Producer choice and global competition; A framework for digital broadcasting; Communications policy under New Labour
Summary and conclusion10 Ofcom, Public Value and Beyond (2003 onwards); Ofcom: legal basis and development; The commercial sector and ITV; The BBC in the digital century and public value; Summary and conclusion; Part III: Developments and Transitions in German Broadcasting; 11 From the Origins of Broadcasting to the Post-war Period (1920-45); Early broadcasting, government and the press; Expansion and decentralization; Recentralization; Summary and conclusion; 12 From Partial Sovereignty towards Independence (1945-55); The post-war media in the four occupation zones
NDR and WDR foundation: the origins of proportional representationARD foundation and the commencement of television; Summary and conclusion; 13 Federal Government vs. Länder: The Battle for Broadcasting (1955-69); Adenauer and the media; The First Broadcasting Judgement; ZDF foundation and the start of Third Channels; The post-Adenauer era: broadcasting and the press during the 1960s; Summary and conclusion; 14 From Public Oligopoly to Commercial Competition (1970-82); Federal Government and the Berlin press vs. the public broadcasting oligopoly
Politics and broadcasting in Bavaria and the NDR Länder
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A comparative analysis of the evolution ofUK and German broadcasting policies, adding to the developing area of comparative research on media and communications policy. The book focuses on processes of marketization and liberalization as they have affected policy-making, national regulatory frameworks and media structures.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures—History.
Communication.
Political economy.
Sociology.
Screen Studies.
Film History.
Media and Communication.
Media Studies.
International Political Economy.
Media Research.