The economics of television in a digital world

Report

This report explores the economic factors underlying television and the policy arguments that emanate from them in the all-digital television world and reveals where differing perspectives and debates take place among economists and economic policy analysts and the roots of those differences. The report shows how technological and policy changes have altered the television market and created submarkets during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the different economic bases of licence-fee,...

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Authors: Barwise, P; Picard, R

• Alternative title: what economics tells us for future policy debates
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Not peer reviewed
• Publisher: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Publisher's website
• Series: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Reports
• Place of publication: http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/publications/risj-reports.html
• Publication date: 2012-01-01
• Language: English
• Keywords: broadcasting; television; internet; advertising; media economics; digital convergence
• Subjects: News media,journalism,publishing; Media and Public Policy; Internet and everyday life