Empirical research about the effects of vertical integration in cable television suggests that in spite of differences in the economic architectures of cable and Internet broadband, integrated ISPs have economic incentives in some realistic circumstances to favor vertically integrated content...

This paper models the development of market structure in industries which are characterized by upstream economies of scale in the distribution of differentiated products to retail firms having local monopoly power within separate geographic areas. Examples are cable television and other mass...

Using data for 320 radio stations operating in the 50 largest Arbitron Metro Radio Markets during 2004 that offered at least some programming in one or more of 19 different foreign languages, we find strongly positive statistical relationships between the size of foreign language populations in...