This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television broadcasts. Its main …

from network television shows. Networks fear that availability of their clips on YouTube will depress television viewing …. But unauthorized clips are also free advertising for television shows. As YouTube has grown quickly, major networks have … web distribution on television viewing between 2005 and 2007 using a survey of Penn students on their tendencies to watch …

In "Bowling Alone," Putnam (1995) famously argued that the rise of television may be responsible for social capital …'s decline. I investigate this hypothesis in the context of Indonesian villages. To identify the impact of exposure to television … watching television and listening to radio, is associated with substantially lower levels of participation in social activities …