Die öffentliche Diskussion macht die Notwendigkeit und Relevanz einer Reform des dualen Mediensystems deutlich. Daher haben die Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland GmbH und die ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE WIK-Consult mit einer Untersuchung beauftragt, wie das bestehende System vor dem Hintergrund sich...

Over-the-top media firms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu are transforming the coopetition relationship among media firms in the broadcasting market and the structure of the broadcasting industry. New entrants like OTT media firms kept using various coopetition strategies including...

Over-the-top media firms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu are transforming the coopetition relationship among media firms in the broadcasting market and the structure of the broadcasting industry. New entrants like OTT media firms kept using various coopetition strategies including...

This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a two-sided market framework. We use a unique dataset on the French broadcast television market including audience, prices, and quantities of advertising of twenty-one TV channels...

Increased competition for viewers' time is threatening the viability of public-service broadcasters (PSBs) around the world. Changing regulations regarding advertising minutes might increase revenues, but little is known about the structure of advertising demand. To address this problem, we...

The excessive debt of the Spanish economy in the last few year raises the issue of efffciency in the management of public resources. Within this context, this research measures the technical effciency of regional public service broadcasters (PSBs) in Spain using data envelopment analysis (DEA)....

This paper investigates how spectrum policy affects the diffusion of innovation in the telecommunications sector, and is part of a general discussion on expanding spectrum policy aims to address sector innovativeness. We argue that innovation can be analytically depicted not only as the...

The TV industry has evolved into a multi-sided market in recent years, with distribution platforms increasingly occupying a central position in the market. Whereas until recently their business models resembled that of utility providers, distributors start playing a multi-sided role, liaising...

Im Jahr 2010 wurde eine Reform des Finanzierungsmodells für den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk beschlossen. Mit Wirkung zum 01.01.2013 trat der Rundfunkbeitragsstaatsvertrag (RBStV) in Kraft, der die bisherige geräteabhängige Rundfunkgebühr durch einen geräteunabhängigen Beitrag ersetzt....

Der Rundfunkbeitrag soll die öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunkfinanzierung sicherstellen. Doch schon ein Jahr nach seiner Einführung zeigt sich, dass er zu ungerechtfertigt stärkeren Belastungen von Unternehmen und Kommunen führt. Zudem ist der Rundfunkbeitrag nicht verfassungskonform...

A welfare-maximizing Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) broadcasts both information-type and show-type content if (i) the information consumption of TV viewers generates external benefits for society by improving the ability of voters to control politicians and (ii) the marginal external benefits...

Der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk stößt in seiner gewachsenen Dimension und reformierten Finanzierungsform auf zunehmende Akzeptanzprobleme. Im Unterschied zu den privaten finanzieren sich die öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanbieter vorwiegend über Zwangsentgelte, also Rundfunkgebühren...

Television advertising levels in Europe are regulated according to the "Audiovisual Service Media Directive" where member states of the European Union usually impose stricter regulation on their Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) channels. The present model evaluates the effects of symmetric and...