Switching Channels : Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting / Karen Guo, Richard E. Caves.
Caves, Richard E., author.; Guo, Karen, author.
2009
PN1992.3.U5 C34 2005eb
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Title Switching Channels : Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting / Karen Guo, Richard E. Caves.
Author Caves, Richard E., author.
ISBN 9780674029293
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674029293
Published Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2005
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (372 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674029293 doi
Call Number PN1992.3.U5 C34 2005eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 384.55/1/0973
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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