Im Zuge der jüngsten Skandale steht der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk unter Reformdruck. Der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk muss in den kommenden Jahren ein effektives System der Unternehmensführung installieren und dessen Finanzierung muss überdacht werden. Darüber hinaus müssen...

Eighteen years ago Professor Sir Alan Peacock made radical proposals in a report commissioned by the then Government on the future funding of the BBC. Those proposals involved making subscription to the BBC voluntary but providing a fund that would finance public service broadcasting on a...

According to popular and scholarly belief, video killed the radio star. The golden age of radio, culminating in the 1930s and 1940s, was gone with the rise of television in the 1950s and 1960s. In this Article, we advance the claim that television’s role in the “death” of the radio star...

Free entry into markets with decreasing average costs and differentiated products can result in an inefficient number of firms and suboptimal product variety. Because new firms and products draw their customers in part from existing products, concentration can affect incentives to enter as well...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) in Nigeria recently released an amendment to the 6th edition of the Broadcasting Code, which aimed at increasing local content, generating advertisement revenue and preventing anti-competitive practices in the Nigerian broadcast industry. To this end,...

In theory, free entry can lead to social inefficiency. When new products are substitutes for existing products, the business stolen from incumbents places a wedge between private and social benefits of entry. The business stealing effect can be offset if entry reduces prices or increases...

In the past, the use of a compulsory levy on television sets (a licence fee) to finance the BBC could be justified given the problem of spectrum scarcity and the fact that television signals were a public good (i.e. there was effectively a zero marginal cost of an additional user receiving the...

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...

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...

The British broadcasting system is heavily influenced by public service broadcasting (PSB) concepts and regulation. The debate over PSB has raged for decades and has to varying degrees been based on the proposition that there are myriad market failures in the provision of broadcast television...

The case of SOS Support Public Broadcasting Coalition v South African Broadcasting Corporation SOC Limited (81056/14) [2017] ZAGPJHC 289 deals with the removal of directors of state-owned companies and to the constitutionality and lawfulness of the powers excised by the Minister of...

Broadcasting is in a phase of change, with new technologies and new contestants companies are facing an increased competition. One emerging stream of broadcasting is Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and competitive gaming (eSports) scene is resting upon that technology. On the case of eSports...

The BBC has been financed by a hypothecated tax levied on the use of television sets since 1946. For most of the subsequent period, there has been substantial governmental control of both broadcast content and platforms. The economic arguments for different types of intervention in public...

The FCC has billed 3.5 GHz as the “innovation band,” with the idea that “regulatory adaptability should make the 3.5 GHz band hospitable to a wide variety of users, deployment models, and business cases, including some solutions to market needs not adequately served by our conventional...

Founded in 1922, over the last century the BBC has become Britain's most influential broadcaster. Its programmes have been part of everyday life in the UK and around the world, from Its That Man Again to Life on Earth, Doctor Who, and Eastenders, reflecting social change and reshaping our...

The Concept of “Communications” and “Broadcasting” in the Era of Digital Convergence -- Japan’s Broadcasting System from the Perspective of its Demographics in 2040 -- An Outlook on Broadcasting in 2036 - The state of broadcasting in the UK and Japanese broadcasting policy -- An...

In 2009 the Commission adopted a new Communication on the application of State aid rules to public service broadcasting. The new Broadcasting Communication includes fresh measures and reveals a trend giving Member States a greater role with regard to the compatibility of State aid granted for...

Introduction -- Don't Give the Public What It Wants; Give the Public What it Needs -- Radio Is Good for You! The Rise of Educational Radio -- Carnegie's Lemon? The Birth of NPR -- Washington Verus The Sticks -- Left, Right, or Always Establishment? The Bias Issue, -- Newt [Gingrich] Cometh --...

This book presents an absorbing study of how educational radio, which originated to broadcast weather forecasts to farmers, has become what the Pew Center calls the most trusted source of news for American liberals and a regular in the rogue's gallery of election-year conservative targets. The...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Managing the ABC -- Chapter 3: Funding the ABC -- Chapter 4: What ideas rule? -- Chapter 5: Losing the brand in the Australian media landscape -- Chapter 6: Political influences on the ABC -- Chapter 7: Future options and conclusion.

The paper at hand provides a brief overview of the development of broadcasting as a means of signal transmission in Germany during its emergence (1920-1945), nationwide extension (1946-1980), expansion of satellite andcable broadcasting (1981-1995) and the still ongoing process of digitalisation...

The author explores the relative efficiency implications of Federal Radio Commission regulation under the Radio Act of 1927 and a system of spectrum property rights. He examines the technological efficiency achieved by FRC regulation and compares that outcome with a scenario of property rights...

On March 29, 2016, the FCC initiated its first ever two-sided spectrum auction. The auction closed approximately one year later, having repurposed a total of 84 MHz of spectrum. The "incentive auction" included three primary components: (1) a reverse auction where broadcasters bid on the price...

Evaluation of amenities and benefits of public service broadcasting is crucially important with the accelerated convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications and the increasing heterogeneities of media use by individuals. With the use of the microdata provided from a survey carried out by...

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...

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...

In the third article on this series on British broadcasting policy and modernity we cover the period from 1996 to 2006, when the seventh BBC Charter was in operation. We address the Davies Report, the creation of Ofcom and its first statuatory review of public service broadcasting, Greg Dyke's...

"This book examines the underlying operational principles of radio telescopes and illustrates how signals from the cosmic sources are detected and analyzed. It also expounds on the physics of the celestial objects detected by radio telescopes"--

This paper uses a simple model of duopoly competition to study the market provision of program quality offered by television broadcasters under three different regimes. In regime 1, two broadcasters are financed only with subscription fees (i.e., fee-based or pay TV). In regime 2, the two...

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)....