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The Digital Television Revolution

Origins to Outcomes

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Michael Starks

    1. University of Oxford, UK

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business (GMPB)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Michael Starks
      Pages 1-10

  3. Birth and Development

    1. The Impetus for Digital Television

      • Michael Starks
      Pages 13-31

    2. The Digital Terrestrial Pioneers

      • Michael Starks
      Pages 32-54

    3. The UK’s Digital Transition

      • Michael Starks
      Pages 55-74

    4. Europe’s Coordinated Timetable

      • Michael Starks
      Pages 75-93

    5. The Wider Global Picture

      • Michael Starks
      Pages 94-112

  4. Shaping the Outcomes

    1. How to Switch Off Analogue TV

      • Michael Starks
      Pages 115-134

    2. Converged Communications

      • Michael Starks
      Pages 135-157

    3. Cross-Media Regulation?

      • Michael Starks
      Pages 158-179

    4. Public Service Digital Media

      • Michael Starks
      Pages 180-201

    5. The Democratic Dividend

      • Michael Starks
      Pages 202-220

    6. In Conclusion

      • Michael Starks
      Pages 221-225

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 226-247
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About this book

This account of the global switch to digital television, from its origins to its emerging outcomes, provides an understanding of how digital television is converging with the Internet. It pictures a future in which the democratic role of the media, freedom of expression and democratic participation can be enhanced.

Reviews

"Starks presents a persuasive argument that with the right amount of citizen awareness and political management, there is clear opportunity to create a new and better order of television." - Gregory Taylor, International Journal of Digital Television

"The Digital Television Revolution is at its most valuable in the clarity of its historical account: the careful selection of detail and the analysis of the meaning of every twist and turn of digital history's early development..." - Michael Allen, Critical Studies in Television

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Oxford, UK

    Michael Starks

About the author

Michael Starks is an associate of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University, UK. He managed the Government-led UK Digital TV Project from 2002 to 2004, planning the nation's digital switchover strategy. Earlier he directed much of the BBC's work on digital television and was the founder Chairman of the UK Digital TV Group. He is the author of Switching to Digital Television: UK Public Policy and the Market (2007) and the founding editor of the International Journal of Digital Television.



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