Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-19-815924-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Public broadcasting is the single most important social, cultural, and journalistic institution of the twentieth century. In the past fifteen years it has been assaulted politically, ideologically, technologically, and is everywhere in retreat. This book considers the idea of public service broadcasting and examines in detail the assault made upon it with specific emphasis on global developments and events in the United Kingdom, Japan, Europe, and the United States.

Michael Tracey argues that public service broadcasting has been a vital and democratically significant institution now experiencing a terminal decline brought about by changes in political, economic, and technological circumstances. Based on years of research and extensive contact with leading public broadcasters around the world the author examines the idea of public service broadcasting and how for the most part it has vainly (and often ineffectually) struggled to survive in recent years.

The author concludes that public broadcasting is, as was once said of Weimar, a corpse on leave. Its likely disappearance constitutes an indication of a real and deep-seated crisis within liberal democracy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tracey, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Presse & Journalismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Radio- und Fernsehindustrie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medienphilosophie, Medienethik, Medienrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Grafikdesign, Kommunikationsdesign
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I

- 1: Public Service Broadcasting

- 2: Principles of Public Service

- 3: The Deconstruction of Public Service Broadcasting

- Part II

- 4: Reinventing the BBC in the 1950s

- 5: The BBC and Funding

- 6: Conquerors, Culture, and Communication: The Foundation of Post-war Japanese Broadcasting

- 7: The Making of an Institution: The Rebirth of NHK

- 8: Conquerors, Culture, and Communication: The Intellectual Roots of Post-war German Broadcasting

- 9: Conquerors, Culture, and Communication: The Creation of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk

- Part III

- 10: Video Kombat and Highway Building

- 11: The New Television in Britain

- 12: Broadcasting and New Technologies: The Case of Japan

- 13: A Stricken Place: The Condition of American Public Television

- Part IV

- 14: The Ceremony of Innocence: The Condition of Public Service Broadcasting

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Tracey is Professor and Director of the Center for Mass Media Research at the University of Boulder, Colorado.