Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Communications
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cable television
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Oversight of Cable TV
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Communications
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cable television
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cable television
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Cable TV
Author: Robert W. Crandall
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815706960
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
In 1984, Congress simultaneously eliminated state-local regulation of cable television rates and banned telephone companies from offering cable service in their own franchise areas. Five years later, the General Accounting Office discovered that basic cable rates had risen more than four times as rapidly as the overall consumer price level since rate deregulation. As a result, Congress began to move to reimpose cable rate regulation once again, finally succeeding (over President Bush's veto) in 1992. In this book, Robert Crandall and Harold Furchtgott-Roth examine the case of reregulating cable television and find that viewers gained far more than they lost during the brief deregulatory era because cable services expanded so rapidly in the deregulated environment. Moreover, they show that new technologies, such as direct-broadcast satellites, are likely to provide considerable market discipline for cable operators in the next few years, weakening any case for rate regulation. Given regulation's history of impeding innovation, they conclude that economic welfare is more likely to be enhanced by policies aimed at encouraging new entry into video services than by rate regulation.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815706960
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
In 1984, Congress simultaneously eliminated state-local regulation of cable television rates and banned telephone companies from offering cable service in their own franchise areas. Five years later, the General Accounting Office discovered that basic cable rates had risen more than four times as rapidly as the overall consumer price level since rate deregulation. As a result, Congress began to move to reimpose cable rate regulation once again, finally succeeding (over President Bush's veto) in 1992. In this book, Robert Crandall and Harold Furchtgott-Roth examine the case of reregulating cable television and find that viewers gained far more than they lost during the brief deregulatory era because cable services expanded so rapidly in the deregulated environment. Moreover, they show that new technologies, such as direct-broadcast satellites, are likely to provide considerable market discipline for cable operators in the next few years, weakening any case for rate regulation. Given regulation's history of impeding innovation, they conclude that economic welfare is more likely to be enhanced by policies aimed at encouraging new entry into video services than by rate regulation.
Cable Television Regulation Oversight
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cable television
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cable television
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Television and the Public Interest
Author: Jay G Blumler
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Explores the achievements of European broadcasting and attempts to assess the potential for maintaining its public function in changing circumstances. It also surveys the different values which European media systems have sought to protect.
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Explores the achievements of European broadcasting and attempts to assess the potential for maintaining its public function in changing circumstances. It also surveys the different values which European media systems have sought to protect.
Oversight of the Copyright Act of 1976 (Cable Television)
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Unpredictable Certainty
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309060362
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
This book contains a key component of the NII 2000 project of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, a set of white papers that contributed to and complements the project's final report, The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure Through 2000, which was published in the spring of 1996. That report was disseminated widely and was well received by its sponsors and a variety of audiences in government, industry, and academia. Constraints on staff time and availability delayed the publication of these white papers, which offer details on a number of issues and positions relating to the deployment of information infrastructure.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309060362
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
This book contains a key component of the NII 2000 project of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, a set of white papers that contributed to and complements the project's final report, The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure Through 2000, which was published in the spring of 1996. That report was disseminated widely and was well received by its sponsors and a variety of audiences in government, industry, and academia. Constraints on staff time and availability delayed the publication of these white papers, which offer details on a number of issues and positions relating to the deployment of information infrastructure.
Blue Skies
Author: Patrick Parsons
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592137067
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Cable television is arguably the dominant mass media technology in the U.S. today. Blue Skies traces its history in detail, depicting the important events and people that shaped its development, from the precursors of cable TV in the 1920s and '30s to the first community antenna systems in the 1950s, and from the creation of the national satellite-distributed cable networks in the 1970s to the current incarnation of "info-structure" that dominates our lives. Author Patrick Parsons also considers the ways that economics, public perception, public policy, entrepreneurial personalities, the social construction of the possibilities of cable, and simple chance all influenced the development of cable TV. Since the 1960s, one of the pervasive visions of "cable" has been of a ubiquitous, flexible, interactive communications system capable of providing news, information, entertainment, diverse local programming, and even social services. That set of utopian hopes became known as the "Blue Sky" vision of cable television, from which the book takes its title. Thoroughly documented and carefully researched, yet lively, occasionally humorous, and consistently insightful, Blue Skies is the genealogy of our media society.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592137067
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Cable television is arguably the dominant mass media technology in the U.S. today. Blue Skies traces its history in detail, depicting the important events and people that shaped its development, from the precursors of cable TV in the 1920s and '30s to the first community antenna systems in the 1950s, and from the creation of the national satellite-distributed cable networks in the 1970s to the current incarnation of "info-structure" that dominates our lives. Author Patrick Parsons also considers the ways that economics, public perception, public policy, entrepreneurial personalities, the social construction of the possibilities of cable, and simple chance all influenced the development of cable TV. Since the 1960s, one of the pervasive visions of "cable" has been of a ubiquitous, flexible, interactive communications system capable of providing news, information, entertainment, diverse local programming, and even social services. That set of utopian hopes became known as the "Blue Sky" vision of cable television, from which the book takes its title. Thoroughly documented and carefully researched, yet lively, occasionally humorous, and consistently insightful, Blue Skies is the genealogy of our media society.
S. 1422, the Federal Communications Commission Satellite Carrier Oversight Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Advertising to Children on TV
Author: Barrie Gunter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135626308
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Concern is growing about the effectiveness of television advertising regulation in the light of technological developments in the media. The current rapid growth of TV platforms in terrestrial, sattelite, and cable formats will soon move into digital transmission. These all offer opportunities for greater commercialization through advertising on media that have not previously been exploited. In democratic societies, there is a tension between freedom of speech rights and the harm that might be done to children through commercial messages. This book explores all of these issues and looks to the future in considering how effective codes of practice and regulation will develop.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135626308
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Concern is growing about the effectiveness of television advertising regulation in the light of technological developments in the media. The current rapid growth of TV platforms in terrestrial, sattelite, and cable formats will soon move into digital transmission. These all offer opportunities for greater commercialization through advertising on media that have not previously been exploited. In democratic societies, there is a tension between freedom of speech rights and the harm that might be done to children through commercial messages. This book explores all of these issues and looks to the future in considering how effective codes of practice and regulation will develop.
Cable Visions
Author: Sarah Banet-Weiser
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814799493
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Looks beyond broadcasting's mainstream, toward cable's alternatives, to critically consider the capacity of commercial media to serve the public interest. This work offers an overview of the industry's history and regulatory trends, case studies of cable newcomers aimed at niche markets, and analyses of programming forms introduced by cable TV.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814799493
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Looks beyond broadcasting's mainstream, toward cable's alternatives, to critically consider the capacity of commercial media to serve the public interest. This work offers an overview of the industry's history and regulatory trends, case studies of cable newcomers aimed at niche markets, and analyses of programming forms introduced by cable TV.