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Switching Channels : Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting / / Karen Guo, Richard E. Caves.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (372 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674018785
  • 9780674029293
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 384.55/1/0973 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.3.U5 C34 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE Tv Programs As Creative Goods -- 1. The Market for Broadcast Network Programming -- 2. Syndication -- 3. The Public Broadcasting System -- PART TWO. Switching Channels and Program Quality -- 4. The Squeeze on Broadcasters' Rents -- 5. Cable Networks and Upgraded Cable Programming -- 6. Broadcast Networks, Stations, and Rents -- PART THREE. Bargaining Tables and Media Conglomerates -- 7. Program Supply, Integration, And The Fin-Syn Rules -- 8. Broadcast Stations: Lengthening the Chains -- 9. Cable Networks and Cable Operators: Ownership Links and Carriage Decisions -- Epilogue -- Appendixes. Notes. Selected References. Index -- Appendix A: Determinants of Affiliates' Compensation -- Appendix B: Gains for Chains in Radio -- Notes -- Selected References -- Index
Summary: Media critics invariably disparage the quality of programming produced by the U.S. television industry. But why the industry produces what it does is a question largely unasked. It is this question, at the crux of American popular culture, that Switching Channels explores.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE Tv Programs As Creative Goods -- 1. The Market for Broadcast Network Programming -- 2. Syndication -- 3. The Public Broadcasting System -- PART TWO. Switching Channels and Program Quality -- 4. The Squeeze on Broadcasters' Rents -- 5. Cable Networks and Upgraded Cable Programming -- 6. Broadcast Networks, Stations, and Rents -- PART THREE. Bargaining Tables and Media Conglomerates -- 7. Program Supply, Integration, And The Fin-Syn Rules -- 8. Broadcast Stations: Lengthening the Chains -- 9. Cable Networks and Cable Operators: Ownership Links and Carriage Decisions -- Epilogue -- Appendixes. Notes. Selected References. Index -- Appendix A: Determinants of Affiliates' Compensation -- Appendix B: Gains for Chains in Radio -- Notes -- Selected References -- Index

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Media critics invariably disparage the quality of programming produced by the U.S. television industry. But why the industry produces what it does is a question largely unasked. It is this question, at the crux of American popular culture, that Switching Channels explores.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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